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6y ago
This is looking back with rose colored glasses. It costs more than 3-5% to handle cash, both on the merchant side and the customers.
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6y ago
You are a 30-45 min drive away from a city with a hospital, movie theater, full size grocery store with cheaper prices etc. Most people will drive to a bigger city 1-4+ times a month
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6y ago
It creates artificial scarcity for a digital product
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6y ago
A significant portion of the loss of generation was due to destabilization of the grid due to poor timing of the rolling brownouts.
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gnopgnip
6y ago
Cancelling a card and not paying a bill doesn't mean you no longer owe the underlying debt. A real company like the NYT will still pursue collecting the debt
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6y ago
Antitrust regulation isn't just about monopolies, it is about the cost to entry and the harm to consumers
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gnopgnip
6y ago
Hopefully the people that created this before can create a digital first solution. Ikea notably was using 100% renders for the products in the catalog, they could make that process interactive
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6y ago
This isn't true anymore. The laws was changed, prop 65 warnings are required to have the specific chemicals listed. There are penalties if this is not done.
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6y ago
There have been some important changes to the law in the last few years. Coffee doesn't have a prop 65 label.
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6y ago
There have been significant changes to the law in the last few years. The chemical that causes cancer needs to be listed on the label. A lot of products that never should have had these labels don't have them anymore.
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6y ago
Apple has a gross revenue of $1.9 million per employee. Paying 150k is generally only a small fraction of the value they create and Apple could afford to pay more, and at the same time a better offer than anywhere else for many
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6y ago
The difference there is Amazon is not creating copies like you would with software
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6y ago
Hosting your own email is pretty easy to get started, but without continuous work you will have problems getting good deliverability, and balancing blocking almost all spam without filtering out wanted email is tricky too
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6y ago
They won't have zero value after 10 years. But depending on how much the battery wears out, and how much tech and costs advance during that time it could make sense to put in a replacement battery with better than OEM performance. This
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6y ago
You should get a consult with an employment attorney in the state where your job was located, and ask if you were terminated unlawfully, what your options are, and what the realistic outcome is. If you are a 1099 independent contractor, bro
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6y ago
The GDPR doesn't prohibit photographers from taking photos of people in public places and posting them on the internet. The GDPR doesn't directly include photographs as protected information, unless the are attached or connected t
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6y ago
This is not true in most of the world. Unless you are using their likeness to advertise a commercial product, you don't need the subjects permission to publish it on the internet, sell the photo, upload it etc. And the parents do conse
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6y ago
The person who took the photo owns the photo in most of the world. You don't need the permission of everyone you take a picture of to upload it to facebook
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6y ago
It wasn't a covid relief bill, it was the yearly appropriations bill that included covid relief. It also included an update to the Intelligence Authorization act. It doesn't require anyone to provide a report on everything they kn
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6y ago
Autonomous cars still need to have adequate following distance. Without that one small problem turns into a 10+ car pileup.
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6y ago
Most voters do support universal healthcare, Medicare for all, and single payer, and since 2016 support has grown significantly. https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer... More recent polls show sl
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6y ago
If you are at an in network provider, the provider is required to accept the insurance negotiated rate and not pursue the patient. If your insurance denies the bill, the provider can't pursue the patient. In many states surprise billin
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6y ago
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/... 118. I have a client that is in Iran to visit a relative. Do I need to restrict the account? Answer No. As long as you are satisfied that the client
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6y ago
If a user runs afoul of policy, the action was not arbitrarily discriminatory.
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6y ago
Github is not outside US jurisdiction, and is required to enforce these laws even if the client is in Europe. They could be sanctioned by OFAC if they don't
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6y ago
The entire economy of Germany
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6y ago
The congressional approval rating has been between 10 and 30% for the last 8 years, and over this same time the re-election rates of incumbent congressional reps is 89% or higher. People are largely happy with their own congress members, an
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6y ago
In many countries work visas only last for a limited number of years, if you don't get married, you need to leave or you will be deported.
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6y ago
Not in CA
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6y ago
The authors conclusion is not reflective of the SEC findings. >certain Robinhood orders lost a total of approximately $34.1 million in price improvement compared to the price improvement they would have received had they been placed at c
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