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That's an overly simplistic situation. Maybe the bottler bottles for multiple companies. Maybe Coca Cola could redesign their own bottles to target specialized bottle-filling machines, and Coca Cola would have enough volume to use al
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> Would stronger (and enforced) anti trust laws be a solution? Stronger employee control and delayed decision-making would be a solution. To take a spin at it: - Any business that merges would be subject to two binding votes (x+2 &
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Companies also acquire and merge to vertically integrate.
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Spoiler alert? :P
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> The [Chinese] military is very firmly under Party control. The point about the military-industrial complex capturing politicians isn't about control, but rather excess procurement. On the one hand, China has a long way to reach
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An interesting observation is that China is following the exact same economic/international-relations path the US did. 1. Become a global economic superpower (US 1910s, 20s) 2. ??? (US 1930s, 40s) 3. Military-industrial complex emerges
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It seems unlikely that omnipotent 3 letter agencies have been the cause of African strife for the last 30 years. Economics does. Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa have decent economies, and they've followed the same path as many other d
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> corrupt To quantify the statement, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Corruption_Barometer
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That if one is trying to reverse offshoring of manufacturing, one needs to make it in companies' best economic interests. Make it more profitable (or at least net neutral) to manufacture onshore or nearshore. A key start to it would pr
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I think it's important to draw distinctions as to the entity with authority to make a change. In the Chinese system, that's the market but always capped by political and CCP decisions, if they deign to care. In the American system
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Source to the systemic contrary? If GE decides it wants to build widgets in another country, GE does.
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> then [the US and other western countries] monopolized 'the internet' with their own government-anointed unprofitable big tech monopolies How did the government anoint Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook?
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> America did it to itself. Corporations outsourced manufacturing to China, because American corporations are independent from the US government and profit-motivated.
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I too support our proletariat whale and dolphin brethren. Why should the richest humans sail on personal gilded craft?! Down with yachts! The hour of revolution is at hand!
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For systemically-important tech firms? There should definitely be a government inspector general empowered to poke around. SolarWinds was a sophisticated operation, but there are a ton of security orgs for very important companies that are
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I was talking with a Bahraini acquaintance who was an admirer of Iran, debating various electoral systems. Him: "Iran is a democracy." Me: "Not fully, because the Guardian Council reserves the right to decide who can run.&quo
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Being tradable on public markets means being listed on an exchange as a public security. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/listedsecurity.asp Fidelity is not listed. This isn't an edge case: they're p
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Pt 10 link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebagb6zxZuU If you're in the business of making content and advertising yourself... I could see how buying a burnt mansion would be compelling. At the end of the day, my perspe
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Not much use tapping encrypted packets, which is why it terminates connections when able.
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To unify the point that GP was making, it's dangerous to let publicly transparent funds take slices of a private company, as their valuation announcements give them control. In reality, at this scale, I'm not sure if there's
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I avoid the Apple ecosystem for 3 reasons. 1 - The inevitable conclusion of Apple's walled garden is that once they fail to demonstrate organic revenue growth, they will begin converting their platform control into revenue, at the expe
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Absent the stock sale, how long would it have taken you to afford an iPod with only surplus funds? (i.e. saving $166 euros more, sacrificing nothing else) And what would you value the music listening happiness of that timespan at? Maybe it
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The real issue with subscriptions is that it makes it hard/impossible to demonstrate revenue growth from a static userbase. It's fine for steady state / going concern financing. But no public or pre-IPO company wants to loo
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_Investments#Ownersh... >> The founding Johnson family, individually and through various trusts, owns stock representing a 49% voting interest in FMR, and have signed agre
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To me, the spirit of National Geographic magazine was carried forward into their Adventure magazine, which was sadly under-advertised. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Adventur... It ran from 1999
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So, the OpenAI model?
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> Sounds like a cop-out. Sounds like due diligence.
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> Why make the client go read a bunch of information piles to re-assemble Humpty Dumpty every goddamn time they want to view the homepage? Correct me if I'm wrong, but originally it was because "servers" had order-of cli
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> It's a good concept, it just needs a champion big enough to build a standard process that is elegant and painless and then onboard the largest news sources to kick-start the ecosystem. Like some sort of HTTP 402 response? https
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"stock and market investments" vs other uses of money (e.g. loans) is a difficult distinction Presumably this would just look like deposit banks only ever... what? Buying US government debt?

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