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by arbuge 6y ago
You can just turn the ads off in one small geography and/or for a short time. Seems to me the potential benefits far outweigh the risks here. If your organization can't see that, then you have bigger problems.
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by arbuge 6y ago
That theory can easily be tested by turning off the ads in question and seeing what actually happens. Can always turn them on again later if needed.
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by arbuge 6y ago
> If we assume the market is efficiently pricing these assets (like AirBnB's IPO) then it could very well be that the actual value of a fiat dollar has dropped dramatically Note that many other assets such as energy, financial, and
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by arbuge 6y ago
Perhaps, but remember that many of those who have been infected were asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, leading them to dismiss their symptoms. Given that these people would have no idea that they were infected, they would be just as incli
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by arbuge 6y ago
I spent 30 minutes last night trying to figure out why my Amazon smart plug wasn't working. Very frustrating. Then I remembered seeing a news article earlier in the day about an AWS outage and connected the dots.
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by arbuge 6y ago
For sure. I definitely make no claim to originality here - indeed the disagreement I encountered about something I assumed was common knowledge was what left an impression on me.
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by arbuge 6y ago
> Among this powerful elite which include all Central Committee members and provincial standing committee members, the share of women has gone up from a dismal 7.6% to a still-dismal 8.4% from the 18th CC to the 19th CC. Among the post-
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by arbuge 6y ago
> Amazon, in contrast, has played on a much higher difficulty setting from the beginning, selling and shipping physical items, with all of the marginal costs that entails. If anything the company has doubled down on the physical world, i
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by arbuge 6y ago
This is part of a larger group: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary 137k+ games for many software platforms including the ones for MS_DOS.
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by arbuge 6y ago
> and she's terrified about what happens in Q2 2021, when leases will start terminating en masse. I thought the general expectation, or at least the hope, is that that's about when things start to go back to normal.
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by arbuge 6y ago
$2B gone in 6 months must be something of a record for burn rate. A starting investment of that size probably qualifies it for a record in the fat (as distinct from lean) startup size category as well.
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by arbuge 6y ago
I think these concerns would be addressed by adding a single word to the title. "Some", at the beginning.
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by arbuge 6y ago
Offices are going to make it. The day will come when they're close to full occupancy again in my opinion. Until then, the demand for square feet paradoxically won't be any less. If you're rotating in half the workforce at a t
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by arbuge 6y ago
This could be one of their lies too if so.
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by arbuge 6y ago
No. Banning TikTok at most suggests that the current US administration no longer believes in a global internet. That administration might be out of office as soon as January 2021. Edit: Comment submitted before title was changed. Title was
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by arbuge 6y ago
The catch is that treatment must be administered in time. It's a fast-moving disease. Those stats vary a lot depending on how late medical intervention is.
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by arbuge 6y ago
Of note: as of last October, if a PayPal merchant refunds a customer for any reason, PayPal is no longer refunding their payment processing fee. The merchant will need to refund that to the customer at their own expense to grant the custome
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by arbuge 6y ago
Did you read the article? Do you work for Amazon perhaps? Amazon is not the only ecommerce company in existence. The article clearly states in its 3rd paragraph that packages (not junk mail) from other senders are being delayed in favor of
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by arbuge 6y ago
Even though he's active again now, which is great, I suspect the one about curiosity and the dead cats* will remain forever my favorite. This one on the other hand, might be oddly prescient in hindsight: https://www.pinteres
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Curta(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arbuge 6y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 6y ago
I use a free desktop edition of Quickbooks from 2007 or so to keep my businesses' books. It's clunky but it works and there's no subscription fee.
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by arbuge 6y ago
But if you ship it, will they come? For the author, yes, perhaps. He appears to have a sufficiently large following to help with this. For the rest of us, finding a way to reach an audience willing to pay will likely remain the biggest prob
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by arbuge 6y ago
Consumers love Big Oil. They haven't stopped filling up at gas stations or buying plastic products last time I checked. You may think you're going green if you're buying a Tesla, but you might want to learn more about the amo
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by arbuge 6y ago
They know very well that the kind of people who read these filings are not the same kind of people eagerly buying their stock at this point.
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Rule of Three (Economics)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arbuge 6y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 6y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by arbuge 6y ago
I learned Locomotive Basic on a CPC464, then moved up to a PCW8256 before transitioning to a PC1512. Those were the days :)
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by arbuge 6y ago
How do you think that will change things this time around exactly?
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Still waiting for Chapters (a bookstore in Canada) to start sending me reading good reading recommendations. OTOH, I am still waiting for Amazon to make the ads which appear on my Kindle lock screen have even a modicum of relevance to
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by arbuge 7y ago
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth... sooner or later, that debt is paid."

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