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bogomipz
3y ago
Isn't the scale proportional though as Elon has 6 companies and Taylor has only 1? Fascinatingly Taylor Swift has convinced her fans to rebuy re-recorded versions of all of her earlier albums. Not just one album either. So far it has
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bogomipz
3y ago
>"But I do think there's been nothing but recklessness in terms of what has already been accomplished." Could you elaborate on this? Specifically which accomplishment(s) you consider to be reckless.
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3y ago
That actor is not a celebrity though. In fact she is practically anonymous. She was not hired to raise the visibility of the product or lend it credibility via her celebrity. A large majority of people in the US would be quite familiar with
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bogomipz
3y ago
Honestly it sounds like you've drunk the kool-aid.
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3y ago
>"The problem lies in the fact that there's no one single definition of who "the customer" is ..." From the post that we are commenting on here: >"... show that company executives, including former CEO Je
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3y ago
Which is in interesting because Amazon's "Leadership Principles" a are well-known and well-publicized part of Amazon's culture. Number 1 on that list is of course "Customer Obsession", which states: >"C
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3y ago
The statistic for companies that successfully emerge from Chapter 11 is pretty low. It's less than 10%.[1] [1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4472388-what-is-chapter-11-...
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3y ago
I am curious has anyone subscribed to codecrafters.io and if so what was your impression of the service?
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3y ago
Can anyone speculate on the timing? If it's something more than coincidence what could it be?
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3y ago
Or you know you could also just put a sign on the door. However that wouldn't have generated the publicity that announcing it on Instagram has so obviously(and calculatedly) created.
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3y ago
> As it posted in an Instagram Story earlier this week: “We love food and drink photos (clearly) … but the TikToks and Instagram photoshoots have gotten a bit out of control for us." The influencer culture had gotten so unbearable t
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3y ago
>"Ever wondered how these “small group of extremists” came about holding the entire country hostage? That’s because US nation state apparatus decided to overthrow democratically elected government there for their own interests."
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3y ago
No they have not. There is the odd book and author that are quality but it seems to be the exception. You can almost always guarantee: The formatting is atrocious. You will regularly get blurry and illegible images for things like terminal
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4y ago
>"On the one hand, airports need to make money ..." Commercial airports in the US are owned by a local, state or regional public entity.[1] They need to be self-sustaining and break even but they don't need to be profitabl
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4y ago
The article states: >"Tesla says there are "two types of camera recordings that are eligible to be transmitted from your vehicle to Tesla: Safety Event and Fleet Learning camera recordings." The Safety Event recordings las
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4y ago
There's nothing euphemistic about it at all. It bizarre to me that you seem to be going out of your way for specific word selection but then you go on to use those words incorrectly. It makes for confusing reading which is where my ori
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bogomipz
4y ago
I'm sorry but "the natives"? That's a hollow cliche. What does that mean? Just native New Yorkers? Because it's a city of transplants and immigrants. Tense relations between citizens and NYPD is not new. See Amodou
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4y ago
Even if taken as a general "sense of loss" what did they lose? They didn't lose anything. They weren't "defunded", there was no structural reform or consents decrees. The protests stopped and it went back to bu
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4y ago
"Revanchist"? What territory did they ever posses and lose? What exactly would be the revanche here?
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4y ago
"Revanchist"? What territory did they ever posses and lose? What would be the revanche?
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4y ago
Are you referring to the scene where Sy Richardson admonishes them before giving them their methadone doses? That's a methadone clinic not not a pharmacy and he's a public health/social worker.
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4y ago
>"And after that banking rules became a lot stricter to reduce the risk of this happening again." Except that Dodd-Frank legislation was continuously chipped away at, ultimately resulting in the 2018 "Economic Growth, Regu
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4y ago
>"It's extremely unlikely anyone, anywhere, would be at risk of losing any deposits - insured or uninsured - in this day and age in the US regardless of the FDIC's 'new' position." When IndyMac Bank failed i
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4y ago
If your payroll plus all other outgoing expenses was greater than $250K then no you would not be able to "make payroll just fine." This is simple math. Arguing against basic math is absurd.
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4y ago
I'm not sure how you reconcile acknowledging the reality of companies not being able to make payroll for two weeks and also calling it a "canard" in back to back sentences. A "fake canard" would be a double negative
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4y ago
None of SVB, First Republic or Signature were retail banks either they were commercial banks. Regardless nowhere have I seen it reported that the current sequence of events is somehow a "retail banking crisis". It's amusing t
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4y ago
I provided numerous points that show how the events of the last two weeks are of significance but it seems you want to cherry pick just one. At any rate, all four of those banks were rescued. The FDIC arranging for a healthy bank to take ov
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4y ago
>"Did they need to? It's not clear anyone would have lost anything at all because depositors are senior to equity and bond holders." Do you realize how many tech companies used SVB as their primary banking facility? There
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>"The q4 numbers came in showing the US economy was still expanding and now those same papers are telling me we're in a banking crisis on the basis of like two and a half banks, with SVB and CS both being fully rescued." W
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4y ago
No, this is not correct. The term "Fed Rate" is not correct or meaningful either. There are two different things - the Fed Funds Rate and the Discount Rate(also known as the Discount Window.) The Fed Funds Rate is "the rate&q
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