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Too small and it's not worth the paperwork. Plus, you run into regulatory problems once you exceed 500 investors or so.
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Hyper-inflation, definitely. But hyperinflation is a whole other ballgame that we are not even close to right now.
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You talk as if Jobs brought us innovation that never would have arrived without him. In reality, he was able to get it to us a year or two earlier and maybe with a little more style. Being slightly earlier to market and with a little more s
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You can own something without pettiness and employing someone does not give you total control over that employee. In my mind, a feudal Lord is someone who wants everyone to know and acknowledge they are in charge and demands exacting obedie
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And then even if they do watch your video, your topic of choice will strongly affect your revenue per view. For example, a personal finance channel makes a lot more per view that say, a channel about thrift store finds.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Are you running bit locker to encrypt the hard drive on this system? I have a pretty powerful desktop with two nvme drives in raid 0 striping and it was very fast at first, booting with windows 11. But has become significantly slower due to
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I think most honest economists would tell you that economists have never been very good at predicting the future. They can do a pretty good job of explaining the why of the past and how markets work, but there are too many factors, either k
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While money supply is one of the factors, most economists don't seem to think it is the largest factor nor the most important. The world supply chain is still catching up from covid shutdowns. The auto industry is a perfect example of
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No, inflation is not the same thing as increasing the money supply. Increasing the money supply is one of the many things that can cause inflation. But to thing it is the only factor is overly simplistic, sort of Laffer-curve-esque. In that
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I think the $600/week unemployment boost was really a catalyst for a lot of this too. It finally gave so many low wage workers just a minute to breathe and reflect and not worry about their next paycheck. And those few weeks of breathi
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I'm not aware of them buying any individual stocks recently. They did, however buy several (like GM) during the 2008 recession.
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My guess is that it's the small to mid-sized businesses that end up being the easiest targets. Many don't have all the same record keeping or auditing practices. I've read about scammers just sending random invoices to small
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It didn't ring alarm bells because people were aware that he was placing "test orders". They just weren't aware that he was not in fact cancelling said orders.
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That is not true. All executives are standard, W2 employees. They may have special employment contract provisions, but irs rules would not allow the executive of a company to be a contractor.
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This seems to be china's approach, plenty of masking and social distancing and lock downs still. And yet it has failed to stop the virus. It is notable that china's traditional vaccine has been less effective than the mRNA and the
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This is just conjecture. The vaccines were a huge success at preventing severe illness and saved millions of lives. Many people working in hospital environments wore N95 masks, gowns, and face shields. You might as well just say that vaccin
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That is an oversimplified solution. Access to masks was only a small part of the problem. Many people were simply unwilling to wear them. Access to N95 or kn95 masks became quite available within a few months of the shortages and people con
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While I don't doubt there are some legitimate arguments against specific vaccines, for the most part, the anti-vaccine rhetoric that has become more prevalent of late is not based on expert good faith argument or even valid science at
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You say it would be ludicrous for banks to be able to recall debt based on their assessment of the value, but it isn't far off from normal lending practices for commercial real estate where the bank can just decide that your property h
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I think it was subject to the buying syndicate's approval. For example, my reading was that the Saudi investors put up additional cash before the sale knowing that they would be getting a payout of a similar value when the buyout went
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Shareholders are usually legally entitled to quarterly or year end financials at a minimum, even for private companies. Though I don't know if any such reports are available yet to investors.
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I remember in a corporate finance class in college, we did a lot of calculations comparing prepayment to net 30, net 90 terms, etc. The game is to maximize cash flow, though in the end, it doesn't make a lot of difference except in ver
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Quite a bit of the tax code is vague like this. Until they decide to go after them and case law sets a precedent.
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It is clear that the message in almost all that mask communication was that masks actually do work, but please save them for medical personnel... here are a few weak reasons why they probably won't help you that much anyway. And compar
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In most cases it was. But the 15 seconds that would get distilled down for the short cable news attention spans didn't usually include it.
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$10 Billion is not just a few scammers. That is an unfathomably huge industry.
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Does that also make those moments more memorable? I don't have any experience in it, but seems like an interesting possibility that when things seem to slow down you remember them better. Or maybe you remember them even less?
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I'd say you have about as much control over your career trajectory as you do your home life (arguably more control over how your home life turns out). And I agree that memory is fickle and weird but I think there is a reason you so rar
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That's still considered a luxury moving experience by most. Most people rent a U-Haul for a few hundred dollars and have maybe a few hundred more dollars in gas and hotels.
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One avenue that chatGPT has, and I'm not sure if it is being utilized at all yet, would be the ability to feed it the unimaginably huge body of information locked behind copyrighted textbooks, books, academic papers and other pay walle

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