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by gnopgnip 4y ago
I think the endgame will be like music licensing, with a max royalty set by the government with a short exclusivity period. This is why smaller companies like deezer and tidal can compete with Apple Music, YouTube music, Spotify and still h
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Contempt of court can lead to jail time in civil cases when you have the ability to but refuse to pay
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It is also one of the highest fare recovery systems
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Health insurance customers are price sensitive
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But if all schools have to start later, employers will need to work around that
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Google voice has a poor shaken stir implementation that only blocks the most egregious spam calls and sms and does not let users choose to be more strict. It also does not support blocking phone numbers by pattern/prefix.
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It isn't illegal retaliation to fire an employee that is the victim of a scam though
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Many businesses can't discriminate based on set classes, but they broadly aren't required to take on all customers
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Do similar laws apply to any businesses besides public utilities?
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If externalities are being priced in, overall costs would go down. They are only cheap now because someone else pays that cost
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He posted the soundtrack from the game to youtube and got a real DMCA takedown notice. Then he created fake email accounts similar to the those used by the lawfirm bungie hired and started sending out fake notices
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Having higher priced tiers works the other way, more people subscribe because it seems like a good value
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The cheapest iphones are solid. The cheapest android phones are crap. On the higher end they are more comparable.
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Home prices are set by the market, not just by affordability. If home prices dropped 50%, very very few homeowners with rates in the ~5% range would be willing to sell even if they could afford to do so without bankruptcy.
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About 90% of residential owner occupied mortgages are fixed rate. Investors are more likely to go with an arm
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You can claim a state or country doesn’t have jurisdiction, but if consumers are harmed the courts see it differently
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Most backup products track changes at the block level instead of file level these days
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Warranty covers those. You get the charging network
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But what if crypto.com would be the largest and only crypto exchange, 400m to grow faster and push out competitors is worth it
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Cost of goods are deductible against sales. But unsold inventory is not. So effectively it is taxed as business profit.
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Luna-ust was paying ~40% in yield. People thought it was safer than it really was because of how much others had invested, because of the technology. Because of ads, sometimes from people they trust
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They are replacing the payphones with LinkNYC kiosks that include a phone that makes free US calls
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Something like 60% of homeowners would come out ahead financially with an ARM. You can save tens of thousands of dollars in interest before the rates adjust. Many people sell or refinance before the rates adjust, or soon after. The rate ear
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Detroit is a shrinking city, and has been for 70 years. Cities can really only afford to maintain everything if they keep growing, staying flat isn't enough either. A lot of people don't care about a pedestrian bridge. A lot of po
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You don’t get to just decide that regulation doesn’t apply. The SEC can decide to regulate you, for offering a security or fraudulent statement later for instance
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NY currently greatly restricts how health insurers can discriminate on price based on age to the point that age basically isn't a factor. But most states allow for a ~3x price difference based on age. The other state with a similar rul
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Money transmitters are still subject to Reg E and oversight. The truth is these same things happen with regular bank accounts. If you bounce some checks, or you have a "risky" business even without any chargebacks, the bank will a
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The economy is not a zero sum game. With a different distribution of resources people can have greater access to education, to work, better health, and a more efficient economy overall. Are you familiar with the brainteaser use to illustrat
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When art or other property is stolen often collecting from the thief is not possible, there are two innocents, the most recent purchaser and the original owner. The common law principle is that a buyer cannot pass on a greater title to prev
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You are participating in the housing market by both owning and renting

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