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by graeme 2y ago
If the profits went back to Apple HQ directly they would serve to raise the share price and allow stock buybacks and stock based compensation for employees. Same as they do now. You may not like a tech company succeeding at exports and havi
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That's a great point. I checked into this, and if and when the profits are repatriated they indeed only show up in the capital account, not the current account. However, in practice even if not repatriated those exports show up in the
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Someone calculated the formula used. They divided the trade deficit of each country by total trade of each country and assumed that was all a tariff. So for example Indonesia and the US traded $28 billion. The US has a 17.9 billion trade de
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I don't know if you mean steroids specifically or also testosterone, but exogenous testosterone actually does raise muscle mass. So it's fundamentally different from the creatine mechanism above. For example: https://pm
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This kind of cynicism just encourages inaction. First, it frames the problem as only that of the powerful. But largely, opinion polls are against the kind of action that would be useful. Nuclear, for example, is the only baseload tech we cu
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I don't think it is. The moderation guidelines explicitly say there can be site weightings. I think it's likely there is a negative site weighting on Daring Fireball and multiple other sites. My guess would be it was algorithmic
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He cited the mod guidelines, which include: >Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action. It's very plausible t
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Thanks for the correction! I'd edit my original comment if I could; it certainly makes the point stronger. If creating Markdown doesn't make you a technologist, what does?
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Thanks in turn for the thoughtful reply. I still hold to my own view, but you've dramatically raised the quality of argument I'd have to make to give a satisfying reply. Which is what I think Hacker News should aspire to. My inter
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I doubt you intended it, but your comment actually exemplifies why a lot of his articles likely get flagged and downranked. The comment is contentious, and also asserts that it is per se impossible for someone to disagree with the EU's
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It's certainly possible there's a backend flag on the site. But from the comments I see on Reddit, I suspect there may be a simpler explanation: a lot of people for some reason really dislike John Gruber and view him as someone wh
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A number of administration officials have supported taking over Canada. Kristi Noem went to a library that straddles the border and repeatedly stepped back and forth, saying "51st state" every time she stepped into Canada: https:
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This is correct, at present about 2% of people support taking over Canada by military force. But the thing is there's a playbook. Even in Russia they didn't start by saying "We are going to start a formal war against internat
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This is one of the guiding documents of the current administration. https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...
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The full quote extends that to adderal. To be clear he said the wellness farms would be for those who want to go, and he's describing a massive undertaking that you'd see coming before it was implemented. But he was definitely tal
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I think the most likely case is users are less likely to flag those stories. Or, they're less likely to generate discussion that causes those stories to get flagged.
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Other stories make it too. Any stories on this topic often exit the frontpage due to how the algorithm works around political topics. This one about deportations to veneuzuela got flagged, but was on the frontpage: https://news.y
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Could you expand on where the April 20th date comes from?
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The 2016 polling margin was off by about 2%. Mattered immensely for who won, but it's a myth that the polls were massively wrong about public opinion. They were highly accurate!
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None at present to my knowledge. The French Rafale is the only western jet fighter without any US components.
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How Trump's '51st State' Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious(nytimes.com)
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>He didn't refuse! He was there at the White House to sign the agreement! Then Trump and Vance kicked him out without offering him the chance to sign it! You skipped over this portion. He didn't refuse.
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This is downvoted but for those outside the US it's actually true. Or more specifically once the new admin began acting erratically. For instance, in Canada he has repudiated a trade agreement he himself negotiated in his first term an
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India and Pakistan both have the bomb.
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We need some way of quantifying crypto flows other than market cap. With a stock, the market cap makes sense as an overall net present value of cashflows that would accrue to someone who owned 100% of the shares. And companies really are so
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Wordpress allowed those in the community to use WP. It's an incredibly common naming feature in the ecosystem. They also said Wordpress Hosting and Managed Wordpress. Automattic filed for trademarks for those but lost, so those also we
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It's possible OP is not from the US. Most places in the OECD aren't as dangerous as US cities. But, when you are in a city and see >razor wire and electrified fences around properties That is a sure sign that LOCALS see dangers
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May well be but in this case it would be a two way clever Hans which is very promising.
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That sounds like a bubble. What are rents like? A property bubble generally involves asset values rising past what rents support.
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You know that's a fair objection. My sample is small and I didn't know the tailor when younger. In the other cases I couldn't know how skilled they were in their native language when they spoke it.

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