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by avalys 5y ago
Can you provide any examples of a high-profile company, ultimately shown to be dishonest, where the early investors were able to “cash out” before this dishonesty became known?
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by avalys 5y ago
“Someone did a bad thing on the internet!” yawn “Someone did a bad thing on Facebook!” Call the Washington Post!
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by avalys 5y ago
People “want” the free content and services that this advertising has been paying for. And the actual consequences of Apple’s decision for users and small businesses that rely on efficient advertising to connect with users will take time to
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by avalys 5y ago
Obviously Facebook should not do something illegal to protect Zuckerberg. However, if there is a legally permitted action that Facebook can take to protect him personally, and only Facebook can take it, I don't see the problem with the
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by avalys 5y ago
I was being sarcastic.
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by avalys 5y ago
FB's valuation is currently around $1T. Shareholders should be pretty happy with what Zuck has done with FB's business and this seems sufficient to justify protecting him from what would have been a major personal distraction. But
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by avalys 5y ago
The accusation seems to be that Instagram is "harming" children in the same way that teen fashion magazines "harmed" children before social media. But, evil Big Tech is involved instead of "Teen Vogue", so of c
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by avalys 5y ago
“tax-free fuel” is not a subsidy.
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by avalys 5y ago
I have not only never shared a "spomenik photo", I have never seen one before this moment. Nevertheless I read the article and am left puzzled. "Yet not only in Croatia, but in France, the USA, Britain, real, open fascism – f
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by avalys 5y ago
Yes, this is called “people who enjoy cooking”.
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by avalys 5y ago
Ok, and the government is going to do what with them? The point is to raise tax revenue.
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by avalys 5y ago
Most of the “ultra-wealthy” have their wealth in the form of stock in public companies. This is certainly true for the examples she lists. If they’re all going to have to sell 2% of their holdings each year to pay for this wealth tax, who a
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by avalys 5y ago
To be fair though, we do have property taxes, and many middle-class families have a substantial fraction of their net worth tied up in their house and other real property.
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by avalys 5y ago
"The COVID vaccines were rushed through the approval process and have more health risks than the government will admit." "Ivermectin makes you immune to COVID and will prevent you from spreading the disease to others if you
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by avalys 5y ago
Facebook is in a no-win situation here. Regardless of what action they take, they are either accused of suppressing free exchange of ideas or of permitting the exchange of dangerous ideas.
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by avalys 5y ago
How would you define "social media"?
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by avalys 5y ago
Yes - actually I had just finished editing my post to say that. For me at least I think it would have made a major difference. You are absolutely correct - I still sometimes kick myself over stupid decisions I made as a freshman and sophomo
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by avalys 5y ago
I skipped 7th grade. I was also young for my grade as it was, with a summer birthday that meant I was in the youngest cohort just past the cutoff. This had absolutely zero effect on me in high school and I got great grades and did some nota
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by avalys 5y ago
So, the truth is exactly what everyone thinks it is?
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by avalys 5y ago
Why does everything you dislike need to be illegal? No one is forcing you to buy these things.
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by avalys 5y ago
The title is accurate, but it would be better written as: Coinbase CEO: “Some sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently”
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by avalys 5y ago
What’s being reported is that there is a single video which is mislabeled. For all we know, they did test for this, and believed there was no issue. AI models are deterministic in a purely technical sense, but practically speaking, they are
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by avalys 5y ago
> as opposed to 30% sitting unused in hoarders' warehouses not helping anyone. Having 70% of the supplies in the field and 30% sitting in a warehouse, appearing for sale, but outside anyone's budget, is not an efficient use of
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by avalys 5y ago
What will you do if the manufacturer increases the MSRP because demand exceeds supply? Report them for price gouging?
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by avalys 5y ago
It's interesting how much better the experience is reading a PDF online than an article on a "modern" website. The PDF loads quickly - nearly instantaneously. Nevertheless it also has a loading bar which accurately reflects l
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by avalys 5y ago
The authors of the study just made up these words.
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by avalys 5y ago
That's nice. Now, tell me, how many misdemeanor thefts has the San Francisco County DA actually prosecuted since he's been in office?
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by avalys 5y ago
"No one has died yet" is true until it's suddenly not. If the penalty for doing this was a modest slap on the wrist, that would be a completely ineffective deterrent for an activity that is very easy to get away with and hard
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by avalys 5y ago
I also experienced tinnitus about two days after the second Pfizer dose. I had always had very mild tinnitus, noticeable only with specific attention in quiet rooms, and this was a clear increase that was noticeable in normal situations. I
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by avalys 5y ago
They did make the world a better place, winning the Cold War dealt a huge blow to totalitarian communist ideology everywhere and many free societies replaced the old Soviet States.

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