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by chadash 4y ago
When you sell to a big chain, they don't necessarily put the products in every store. I have a friend in the food business and when he was getting started, the big chains would put his product in a small number of stores to see how the
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by chadash 4y ago
> how would you call the upward trend of flu shots given each year then? I guess I'd say that's significant as well? I don't need to analyze the numbers in much depth to see that there's an upward trend in people ge
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by chadash 4y ago
In the second article that you cite, it says "once changes in the size and the age structure of the population are neutralized, a downward trend of influenza mortality appears". i.e. adjusted for population size, influenza deaths
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by chadash 4y ago
> Honestly, if someone showed up with a gap in their resume and claimed that they were doing start-up, open source, etc. for an interview, I'd dig deep into that hard. As a counterpoint, I probably wouldn't dig into this too
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by chadash 4y ago
Something tells me that there isn't anyone in the bail bonds business who can put up $250M (or would be willing to if they did).
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by chadash 4y ago
But people complain about this too. No one seriously talks about not treating people in the ER with gun wounds, but Obamacare explicitly introduced the mandate that you get insurance or pay a penalty to address this very issue. Everyone is
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by chadash 4y ago
Yeah, but they can't just go there and arrest him. Right now, the US and the bahamas seem to be in dispute over where to hold the bankruptcy. So there's some territorial beef. It's entirely in the hands of the Bahamas to arre
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by chadash 4y ago
This ignores the parent comment. Whether or not members of the democratic party want to throw him in jail is irrelevant since they are not able to so long as he is in a different country. If he can convince the bahamas not to prosecute, not
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by chadash 4y ago
Top 10 articles from the front page of nytimes.com right now: * E.U. Settles on Russian Oil Price Cap After Fraught Talks * A phony climate foundation in Germany helped Russia complete Nord Stream 2 after U.S. sanctions threatened to derail
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by chadash 4y ago
Because Harvard gets not-for-profit status and the associated tax breaks, despite having a $51B endowment that keeps growing. I think it's fair game to ask what our public policy should be for providing tax breaks to schools that horde
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by chadash 4y ago
The bar for defamation in the United States is very high. You have to prove not only that the statement was a lie, but also that the writer either knew that it was false or had reckless disregard for obtaining the truth. Libel suits happen
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by chadash 4y ago
I have interviewed many “senior” candidates who can’t do simple coding exercises. I think that starting out with a simple exercise like that weeds out a ton of people without putting undue burden on the good developers.
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by chadash 4y ago
I'm sure he meant this tongue in cheek, but dollars are ultimately backed and propped up by the US government. Sure, no currency is worth anything if it's literally controlled entirely by one person. There are plenty of cryptocurr
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by chadash 4y ago
This is a bit clickbaity. The article says: "robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD.&quot
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by chadash 4y ago
The NBA has extreme requirements. You can be an incredibly talented athlete and not be in the NBA. If you bring have what it takes you are out. At Google, or any large company, there are plenty of people who for various reasons just aren’t
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by chadash 4y ago
I think that this cuts both ways to some extent. The references case is about not awarding government contracts based on a company’s not agreeing to not boycott Israel. To be clear, no one is arguing that companies can’t boycott Israel. The
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by chadash 4y ago
Say that a company is called The White Power Group and is known to spew what most would consider hate speech. They bid to provide government offices with toilet paper. Should the government be allowed to turn them down?
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by chadash 4y ago
When you are the size of Google I’m not sure how to tell managers across the company to assess poor performers and _not_ have it leak to the press. It’s not like this is a company press release.
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by chadash 4y ago
Oh wow, I guess they have relaxed in recent years. When I visited as a youth, it was a white tie affair, with a tail coat and steel reinforced top hat required for men.
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by chadash 4y ago
I think a typical hedge fund won't accept less than $100k. For a lot of brand-name funds, the minimum is $1M or higher. Many of them won't accept new investors at all, or when they do, it's for very large amounts of money. Fo
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by chadash 4y ago
There’s another reason. Hedge funds don’t want your $2,000-20,000.
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by chadash 4y ago
> Elon's MO is burning a ton of cash that his competitors aren't willing to do in order to be first in some space. That doesn't take talent. He's had failures before. But this line seems unfair. He was neither the fir
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by chadash 4y ago
He was talking about money, but I think meant wealth based on the context of his response to the OP. They are almost interchangeable, but not in this context. > Unsold stock should not be quantified until the moment it is sold. I don&#x2
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by chadash 4y ago
> There would be a buyer willing to absorb all of it at some level, but it's likely at a level far lower than the current market cap. For crypto, no one would want to buy the entirety of bitcoin, because it basically has no value
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by chadash 4y ago
Yes, $10 has "magically" disappeared. Consider this case. I buy a used car from you for $10000. You now have $10,000 and I have a car worth $10,000 (let's assume that i got a fair price and would be able to resell it for that
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by chadash 4y ago
I would say that bitcoin has extrinsic value. The value it has is because people agree it has value. Imagine I started a blockchain using the exact same code as bitcoin and called it Bitcoin9890812894. It would have the same functionality a
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by chadash 4y ago
Yeah, but the "money" is irrelevant. 99% of their buying power (which in a simple sense is what people usually mean when they say wealth) went away.
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by chadash 4y ago
No, the wealth actually is gone. For example, bitcoin has a market cap of $320B. At its peak it was worth about four times that. Did $960B just disappear? Basically, yes. The coin has no intrinsic value (in the way that a can of corn does
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by chadash 4y ago
Yes, he has committed to give most of his wealth. And he has also already given a bunch of his wealth.
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by chadash 4y ago
Yeah, but once it's in a donor advised fund, it can't come out. No, it doesn't have to be spent right away but at some point it needs to be given away. It's not like you can just put money in a DAF and take it back out w

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