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by asr 7y ago
Manufacturers often pay stores for space on the end cap. http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/retail/raleys.php As far as I know, "Amazon's choice" is not an advertisement/suppliers can't bid
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by asr 7y ago
Monopolization requires anticompetitive conduct. To prove this, intent evidence is often helpful. For example, in the recent Qualcomm case the judge cited evidence that Qualcomm executives knew their business model created antitrust risk.
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by asr 7y ago
Starting with the recent EU decisions is probably a good bet. There are three fines the EU imposed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#EU...
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by asr 7y ago
I just double-checked and you are right! Filed Jan. 17, 2019. Apologies. For some reason I thought it was filed a few days after Trump became president, but I was mis-remembering.
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by asr 7y ago
Very interesting I had not seen this. Note there are five ftc commissioners. Christine Wilson is one of three republicans. She is unfortunately the one who seems the most trumpian. She misleadingly quotes a filing her own agency made in
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by asr 7y ago
This is a tangent, but FYI, there is a DRM'd Keurig case, and it is still going! https://www.pbwt.com/antitrust-update-blog/in-long-awaited-o... The judge essentially paused the case for four years while he ruled
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by asr 7y ago
Broadly speaking, I agree with you, but, FYI, diplomatic status is not just for "diplomats." US government lawyers travel on diplomatic passports for official business (eg depositions in other countries). And all lawyers are &quot
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by asr 7y ago
There is lots of debate on here about whether or not Apple is right to remove these apps and whether, on balance, Apple should allow apps to use MDM/VPN features "for good" or whether Apple is right to lock down those feature
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by asr 7y ago
This article is conflating two separate things: Apple said it should pay less for Qualcomm’s PATENTS. It always liked and never really said bad things about Qualcomm’s MODEMS. Patents != modems. Also, the article quotes “Adam Mossoff, a la
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by asr 8y ago
If you like that, I would also read Chapter 1 of Bernstein's Four Pillars of Investing . Bernstein's books are all more or less re-writes of the same book multiple times in an attempt to make the Bogle/indexing idea approac
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by asr 8y ago
Obviously Google treats "foo" as a placeholder and returns these stories whenever it thinks the user might be interested in a story about a conflict.
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by asr 8y ago
What you have described -- a provider who does not try to collect the patient responsibility portion of a bill -- is actually insurance fraud (because the provider has told the insurer the total price for the procedure is $42k, when the pro
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by asr 8y ago
I've never seen anyone cite convincing evidence that there was a real problem with students declaring bankruptcy to get out of their loans.[0] On the other hand, having our bankruptcy system not apply to a meaningful portion of U.S. le
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by asr 8y ago
The SEC does not enforce the antitrust laws. Do you mean the DOJ? If you are going to take unsubstantiated potshots at government agencies you would sound more credible if you at least picked the right agencies. * * * On the substantive qu
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by asr 8y ago
It's worth noting that in Europe things like this are illegal: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/overview/index_en.... . So the idea that it would just be too hard to make this illegal (which I
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by asr 8y ago
Defined benefit plans have large drawbacks (risk to the firm, risk to retirees if the plan fails, etc.), but there is zero evidence they were born of a desire to kick the can down the road. They simply came first (at the time, as far as I&#
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by asr 8y ago
Yeah, I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but your facts are wrong because you haven't really internalized the fact that lawyers are a medieval guild. The reason you see "this is not legal advice" on posts by lawyers
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by asr 8y ago
No, until now, you were not allowed to fork just because you agreed not to install Google apps on that phone -- you were only allowed to fork if you didn't want to install Google apps on any phone you made . So, for example, Samsung
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by asr 8y ago
This is not right. The EU only outlaws monopolies which do illegal things, just like the US: "Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position ... shall be prohibited...." https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by asr 8y ago
I can make exactly the same point in reverse: "It's the manufacturer's phone. If Google doesn't want to offer its OS on terms that comply with EU competition law, it's free to go the Apple route and simply build all
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by asr 8y ago
> anyone is welcome to fork This is wrong. One of the three major pieces of this case is the allegation that Google has hindered those who wish to fork by preventing them from making phones with any of the major phone OEMs: "In pa
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by asr 8y ago
Upvoted because you are correct that I didn't watch the video (and I usually hate commenters who don't look at the linked content so I get you). But I can't just start watching videos at work... and I posted my comment under
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by asr 8y ago
This article says that Techspot has obtained the 9900 (without being bound by an NDA, as others are), and that Intel is releasing misleading results while other reviewers are bound by an NDA, but that Techspot is not going to show their o
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by asr 8y ago
Ah yes, I'm sure the whole thing would have worked politically if only they'd also tried to set up a system in which rich parents paid poor parents in order to get better start times. Conveniently, this would also mean that the s
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by asr 8y ago
Note that this is not merely theoretical, or unique to the internet: https://m.dw.com/en/eu-to-reactivate-blocking-statute-agains...
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by asr 8y ago
Well, this judge would decide that motion, so it seems like he's told them they would be wasting their time. The realistic options are (1) file for a say ASAP with an eye toward asking the court of appeals to grant the stay after this
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by asr 8y ago
Average or median, the more fundamental problem is that this number is just wrong. Wedding industry statistics are spin from wedding-industry-affiliated companies, who have a tremendous incentive to convince you that it's normal to sp
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by asr 8y ago
I don't quite get what you are talking about -- Elizabeth Holmes was charged with fraud: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-charges-theranos-and-founde... Others may be charged in the future, I assume. Is your compl
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by asr 8y ago
This has been interesting to chew on. Let me say that if there are actually delays, obviously those impose other costs (as a sister post explains here) and so the cost-benefit calculation may come out differently. But your original post w
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by asr 8y ago
I agree with your point, but strongly disagree with your example. You think DC should be running the risk of accidents which kill riders because of trains that lurch into stations? Loss of life is a massive cost, even if only economic fac

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