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by btian 9y ago
EU doesn't think Amazon.com is a monopoly. That's also why Apple has no problem bundling Safari in their OS.
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Airlines will kill to get another 10% in margin.
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They sold the stake. Toyota sold too.
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by btian 9y ago
Age: 27 State: CA NW: ~1M USD
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DOJ used the same procedure. Investigations were carried out by Jones Day (VW's law firm), paid by VW. Don't be surprised when you get the same results.
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What is an "executive"? If a sales executive considered executive? If a person has 5 reports, is he/she an executive? It's impossible to be wrong to call everyone working in a company "executive", and both VW a
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by btian 9y ago
Oliver Schmidt is a low level manager in the Detroit office. Not what would come to people's mind when "executive" is mentioned. But I'm sure VW wants you to think their high level executives are being punished.
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Updating to say "top executives". They have no trouble charging engineers and low level managers, but then it stops. It's not my cynicism because it happened so many times. DOJ has no trouble charging a Goldman Sachs trader,
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No. Nothing will happen to top executives. There's a lot of insight as to why from "The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives"
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I don't know Amazon's plans but what you're saying don't make much sense to me. If Amazon wants to target low end grocery retail, why do they acquire Whole Foods? It makes business sense for them to let WFM stay high end
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That gives me even more confidence the story is correct.
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As a California driver, I always have to monitor motorcycles that are lane splitting and give them space when I see one. So there is always something to do.
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The news is about execution, not euthanasia. Brand value is important for large companies. If I were the CEO of a pharma company, I want my drugs to be associated with health, not death. I bet bullet companies won't mind at all if pris
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by btian 9y ago
If you can get the same salary in Montana then you should move there. Are you disputing that wages are higher in Bay Area than rest of the country?
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More Pros - Drive to work in your Tesla - Free gourmet food at work - A lot of Whole Foods Market to shop at - Being rich AF
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It's fuel cell, not EV.
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Is there a good reason why they're not using Russian registrars? Do you honestly think Apple will allow Nazi apps in their app store? I don't see why Google would want to damage the brand by supporting Nazis.
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In the conservative circle, this is considered a "crusade" against "conservative values". That's why you see tweets from the likes of Kellyanne Conway. Conservative Googlers have been leaking people's names and
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Definitely unusual. Most female executives are above average in terms of height too - Sheryl Sandberg, Ruth Porat, Susan Wojcicki, Marissa Mayer are all 5'8"+
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Mazda is a small company. They don't have the kind of R&D budget to make EVs.
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Generics mean the active ingredients are the same. Your sister's condition probably reacted to some inactive ingredients. Generic may work better just as brand name may work better in that case.
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0-60 in 9s makes it an instant no-go for me. I love the acceleration from my Model S.
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Every car is plagued with issues in the first model year. They will fix the problems, and investors will understand.
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He runs a $100B a year business. You think he has time for every little detail? If you read page 24, he said it's not unusual for people to be paid $100M. Do you expect him to remember all the people and amounts paid?
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If you work for a "normal" company, your company's lawyer will spend a day or so prepping you for deposition before the actual thing. And the deposition is very tiring.
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Jetbrains is actually based in St. Petersburg, and has 600+ employees.
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Why is that interesting? Companies should hire more people until marginal profit per new hire is $0 to maximize profits. And that number says nothing about marginal profits.
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GCP has proprietary machine learning accelerator hardware that you can't buy.
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There's eBay to sell their shit. There was a shortage of everything when I was a kid (not in US), so having everything in abundance is a huge plus for me.
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Progressive is something like income tax. If you earn more than $X, you will pay more than base rate on what's more than $X. Like US tax brackets - 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, and 39.6%. Atlassian pricing is the inverse of that, if t

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