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by flexie 8y ago
And this is where the main issue is. Local newspapers, local advertising companies, global search companies that could have been; all of them are competing with Google on vastly unfair terms. Google is not paying tax. The others have to.
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Goes into the EU budget as is the principle with fines (vs damages). And when you think of it, it would cost a lot to identify and distribute $130M on the millions of customers harmed during many years and their combined losses are likely m
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I like your point, but terrorism and war is conflating. I wouldn't want to ignore a terrorist that we know hides in Syria, and that we believe to be dangerous. That could be our moment of hesitating to kill Bin Laden. And unlike Bill C
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In the best of worlds, we could catch the bad guys in a net, put pink, fluffy handcuffs on them while we talk with them gently, get to know them and understand why they did what they did. Then we could hug, and we would become friends, and
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As a non-US citizen, I find it a terrible thought that somehow it should be morally better (or more legal) to kill non-US citizens than US citizens. The only concern should be whether they are proven to be dangerous terrorists, not what the
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It's not a ruling. It's an administrative decision. And it's not dangerous. It has nothing to do with trade wars. Even insinuating that this is somehow a corrupt decision that takes aim at American companies is just way off.
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It may very well be trillions. After all Google has above 90 percent share of search in Europe. But it doesn't mean they shouldn't follow the rules.
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The EU is not using Google or any other company as a piggy bank. Google is doing business in the European Union making tens of billions of dollars and they should follow the rules, just like their European, American and Asian competitors. I
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No, he is very likely going to be sued.
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Musk is one of the most impressive entrepreneurs of our time. But he is also just human. Sometimes "totally fucked up" as you put it is the way we react, even when we shouldn't. Musk could have chosen to ignore calls for help
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It's unworthy and completely wrong reaction, but it is understandable given the diver's prior attacks on him. Not that it's an excuse.
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First, Tesla is not running out of cash. Tesla has a very attractive margin on every car it sells (and now it produces 7,000 of them weekly). The only reason they are losing money is large spending on R&D, SG&A, and in production ca
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I hindsight those would be right things to do. But again: Maybe the kids went in there and the coach just followed with them. We assume that he was in charge, but we don't know. We don't know if he encouraged them to go in, or whe
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Calling for prison without knowing much is very harsh. We don't know if the coach led them in or if he just followed them. We don't know how far in they went initially. Maybe they just went a bit inside the cave and then increasin
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by flexie 8y ago
Did Warren Buffet really know more hardship than today's young billionaires? His father - one of the few college educated of his time - was already a stockbroker when Warren Buffet was a kid, and a member of the US Congress when Warren
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by flexie 8y ago
Indeed. I find the ignorance about the European labor market amazing. Not only do most Europeans get our 4-6 weeks of paid vacation. We also don't subtract any sick days from vacation days as is common in the US. We also get paid while
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I live in the poorest country in Europe (Bulgaria) and virtually everyone below 50 has a smartphone. The original iPhone was priced at $499 for 4GB, $599 for 8GB.
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The standard model 3 that you refer to, which has a range of 350 km can barely be considered a long range EV, and it is actually not being produced yet. Tesla has only produced the more expensive version with a 510 km range. Renault Zoe has
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by flexie 8y ago
Those are just European figures, just 3 brands, and just the existing numbers. In 2006, the market for smart phones was tiny. A couple of years later, people paid 3 times more for a phone than they ever thought they would. Yes, $500 for a p
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More than 70M cars are produced worldwide every year. The 3 large German producers, Mercedes, Audi and BMW, are producing around 6M cars, of which many are priced similarly or more expensive than Model 3. That's just to mention some of
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by flexie 8y ago
Indeed. The only thing that holds Tesla down is whether they can scale production fast enough not to let others in. Forget about finance by now. They are not going bankrupt. Production cycles in cars are at least 3 years. So the traditional
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When you read through the announcement and you realize that this is a company that even if it doubled it's current production rate it would still have orders for the close to a year's production, then you have got to pause and be
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I am not sure what it going on here. How does it relate to crypto?
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If you live in an area where housing costs are high, most other cost is likely also higher (tax, food, daycare, school, etc.).
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GDPR requires those organisations to appoint a DPO, not to hire anyone new. It's like when you designate Ben to answer the phone after 5PM, Lisa to water the plants and the last guy to leave the office to turn off the light and close t
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It’s not permitted to post the full text here. And worse if it’s done systematically on all articles from NYT. I find that usually a google search on keywords provides free articles on exactly the same subject: https://www.google
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I do think a lot of those tweets are a work of fiction, quite original and influential. And unlike a lot of Nobel worthy literature they are also quite entertaining and reach a wide audience. So it's not entirely impossible that he mig
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Unlike the Nobel laureates in literature and sciences, the peace prize is not awarded by the Swedish Academy (in Stockholm). It's awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee (in Oslo).
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So while Bush junior invaded Iraq and overturned Saddam Hussein because he wrongly thought they had weapons of mass destruction, his father, Bush senior, rightly thought so 13 years earlier but still decided to help Saddam Hussein.
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That’s like saying Apple didn’t transform the cell phone industry but only led the industry by 2-3 years before Android followed. Or that Apple didn’t innovate because they merely used known technologies like phones, batteries, and touch sc

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