jVinc

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So they basically just used user feedback to sort their existing catalog into two catagories letting the upper one increase their prices. Makes sense. You were able to find some killer deals with extremely nice places that where waay underp
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Looking at the current programming language space, it honestly doesn't look like the Python 2/3 issue hit them that hard in the long run. And while it wasn't popular it might have been the right way forwards. Python is one of
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> Tesla didn't confirm the car was running Autopilot at the time of the crash" That essentially means that it was. If it wasn't they would have denied it and released data. > but its manual does warn that the system is
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Purely on the theoretical and speculative level lets go through this. Consider that someone wants to "cash out" their tether. They put it up for sale at 1 USD. Now either the people behind tether buy it at 1$, or it goes to someon
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Wouldn't that be the point of the whole thing?
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"The results support the idea that a tendency to avoid individuals who mistreat others is one of the things that make humans different from other species." The researchers desperately need to take a night out in town and observer
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"Like the author, I consider Siri (and most other vocal assistants that I’ve never used, but am just prejudiced against) to be garbage: unworkable, and a flawed user interface paradigm (I'm of the command line and late-nineties-st
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The title and layman interpretations is wrong. Being dominant is not illegal. Being a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing dominance or abusing a monopoly position is illegal.
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"Planning for potential acquisition exits also includes having bonus pools for key employees (which include founders and current executives) that align their incentives with company stakeholders to achieve value upon an exit." Tha
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"Why are banks having anything to say on what an individual can or can't do with his/her own money?" If they intend to do anything in the crypto world, any employees who invest prior are acting on insider information. Ev
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"It was surprising how little flak he got for it." Indeed. The very same democrats who mock Trump supporters for not denouncing him when he said "Grab them by the pussy" did not denounce Obama when he literally sent auto
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From TFA: "At that time Williams, on behalf of Twitter, acknowledged the confusion which likely would arise from the use of TWITTER in the marketplace, as well as instances of actual confusion which already had arisen." It doesn&#
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They started with a small screw-up. (Favoring the widow in order to close an investment account). Then let on with a slightly larger screw-up (Favoring the children in order to get back at the widow for closing that account). Then made the
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I'm sure if you would be of a differing oppinion if you were a competitor suffering from attempted DDOS attacks, or bashful campaigns. Or if you were just someone who though his product was great going along with it on the promis of ge
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What's weird about that? On average men outrank woman in professional tennis, that doesn't make it weird that Serena Williams would utterly destroy me and most men on the courts 10 out 10 times. Single points aren't anti-poin
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I like the math and theory on this. But really why would someone who's making millions on the status quo risk tanking the market for a one time gain? Seems unlikely.
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crypto-currency is not about scarcity of numbers its about proof of work. Bitcoin started with relatively little computation power and has now scaled to where more power is spent than a small country uses in the mining operation... Its unfe
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They don't generate dollars from scratch. If content creators are converting to dollars they need to pay out, those dollars need to come from somewhere.
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I'm on a keto diet, lost 2 kg over 2 months but was already quite fit. Didn't feel much different. I truly believe that all the "keto changed everything about my life!" hype is basically just overweight people loosing we
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Might have something to do with countries cutting the subsidies for electric cars. I know in Denmark the price of a Tesla is set to more than double in the next years as they normalice registration taxes which were previously omitted on ele
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You need one more team member. Go out into the start-up community, go to pitch meetings events etc, and find that person.
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This is the very first time I've heard about snapchat spectacles, and I frequently use snapchat... Yea, they failed pretty horribly at doing PR.
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The main point here is that they acquired a license for the software with explicit purpose reverse engineering the language, even though the license forbid that. If they had "just" implemented a clone without getting a licence fro