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by dasudasu 6y ago
They do already have other Amazon brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_brands For instance, Goodthreads is one step above Amazon Essentials for clothing.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Ebay isn't that bad either for cheap Chinese products. Lots of direct Chinese sellers.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
In many sub-fields of physics, authorship is alphabetical.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
It's not true to say they necessarily don't use any of the services. The US still defend its citizens abroad, and might evacuate you in case some disaster happens, do hostage rescue using the full power of its military and intelli
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by dasudasu 6y ago
"And now here is the secret code phrase to show this is legitimate: [...]" Not sure how you inform people about benefits without giving a link, if the intranet isn’t easy to navigate, short of including everything in the email all
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by dasudasu 6y ago
It’s not a tech issue. You can target anyone that’s part of a disaggregated network and broadcasts it. That’s true for torrents, TOR nodes, or blockchains.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
You do still hear about hidden cameras however. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-...
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by dasudasu 6y ago
> never believed in the concept at all New generations come and go. Nobody is born with pre-existing notions of what is right or not, including free speech. It's not a surprise that some values are replaced with others on a per gen
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by dasudasu 6y ago
No. A company that doesn't grow but has positive cash flow is still worth something. You can view a stock as a bond with a coupon rate that is not fixed and doesn't have to be paid back to you immediately if the company thinks it
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Yep. Service providers didn't ramp up their investments at all into telecom equipment providers during covid, which is impressive. They just had good capacity that was never fully used. They're going slowly on the whole 5G thing n
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by dasudasu 6y ago
The etymology is the same in English. To convolve : to roll together : writhe. Convolution : a form or shape that is folded in curved or tortuous windings.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Not sure why you would even mention publicly traded companies for your point. Now the actual stock market, comprised of millions of individual investors, is propping up those market capitalizations. The VC delivered them to their IPO, and t
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by dasudasu 6y ago
How are we supposed to fund new capital-intensive ventures otherwise? The government just subsidizes everything at the taxpayers' expense? (Welcome to Canada and Europe.) The government just picks winners in advance? (Welcome to the PR
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by dasudasu 6y ago
They approach a bank, or issue some bonds, and it goes something like: "Lend us 1 billion to acquire this company. We'll pay the interest from the operating income. It will also be secured against the assets of the company."
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by dasudasu 6y ago
I was reading the latest earnings call transcript of this HFT firm Virtu Financial the other day, and it does appear to be that way. >So there is a back and forth here and all of the other players that we compete with, they are also eco
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by dasudasu 6y ago
"In the long term we are all dead" so why would it even matter if over 2100 years your perfect 5% compounding hasn't happened as expected? No place on earth experienced nothing short of complete societal overhaul in that span
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by dasudasu 6y ago
>In reality, they have it backward—prestige follows excellence. Exposure to prestige can't make you successful any more than spending time around rich people can make you wealthy. Exposure to "prestige" and by proxy expo
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by dasudasu 6y ago
As a reviewer, it’s when you see one of those papers where the impact is not so clear, and at best is extremely incremental or just a slightly different take on something that has already been done. You can tell a grad student spent a lot o
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Humanities tend to have much lower stipends such that it needs to be supplemented with tons of teaching assistantships.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Fits right in with their social credit idea. I don't think it's even a veiled reference.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Savvy investors include non-dilutive clauses when they know money needs to be raised, but good luck trying to negotiate this as an employee. It’s also not too bad if the dilution occurs at increasingly higher share valuations and help compo
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by dasudasu 6y ago
I doubt they knew he would make a blog post with this many details. But still, good will can get around through word of mouth.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Humans might have been eating a lot more meat in the past when they were hunter-gatherers: it's just that their entire existence was centered around getting that food. Look at Inuits and how little plant based food they consumed.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
These insurance companies are not stupid. The incentives don't align perfectly. They can also just hike the price of the insurance policy and pass along the cost to the consumer. Much less trouble than taking on the mob. If the problem
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by dasudasu 6y ago
This is exactly why regulations such as professional engineering licenses were put into place. You don’t want someone with that mentality building a bridge.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
The argument being made is that this wild speculation is enabled by the money laundering. If you know laundering will keep happening with impunity and that the whole thing is tacitly approved and backstopped by the Canadian government, then
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Asset inflation, probably, which is what many people agreed happened in the last decade.
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by dasudasu 6y ago
Consider that trillions in new money were created out of thin air and that bond yields crashed. The discount rate for equities just got massively re-evaluated. Also, only select sectors that were already overweighted by indices are up signi
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by dasudasu 6y ago
With two parties divided along ideological left-right lines, it’s expected that a majority won’t be switching side too often in their lifetime. The opposite would be ideologically weak parties doing a form of clientelism that would change a
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by dasudasu 6y ago
So the customer set up an IT service with multiple servers to sync with yours so that both can sync to the ledger? How does that work in practice? Is someone also monitoring that nobody is doing a 50% attack? Are both parties present when s

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