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by jljljl 11y ago
How exactly do you judge a malinvestment if you don't measure its effects?
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USA didn't sell at a profit. But the loss was $10.5B to save (according to the article) 1.2M jobs, and saved $34.5B in tax losses. Even if you ignore the saved tax income, thats less than $9,000 per job saved. So the bailout was probab
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GM Buys Sidecar's Assets as It Preps Its Own Ride-Hailing Service(fortune.com)
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That would make it quite difficult to retrieve the book at the bottom of the stack.
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Flowchart programming would let you zoom out and parse the program flow visually, something that's not always easy to do when reading a textual implementation. You're exchanging density at a detail level with being able to visuali
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Doesn't the federal government continue to cover 90% of the costs beyond 2020? That's still a pretty huge increase in funding.
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Oops, misread the original post.
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USD 16,100 once you account for PPP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
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Did I miss it, or does this article not make clear what they _are_ planning on doing to offset the increased cost? Are they switching to cheaper ingredients or reducing portion sizes? Closing locations that underperform? Reducing hiring? Or
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Economic Cost of Destroying the Death Star(popsci.com)
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Firefox to Remove Tab Groups and Complete Themes(pcworld.com)
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What if your junk includes proprietary or classified technology? What if your nation state at one point put something into orbit that violated a treaty? I'm sure there are a few reasons that relevant parties might not be totally cool w
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"and supervising attorneys"
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I think the point is: If Twitter had remained open, it would have been easy for users to export their graph and take it to competitors with similar features. Twitter closed their friend finder APIs to prevent this. I don't know if App.
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If you're looking for an offline reader, and you happen to be on OSX + iOS, I recommend Reeder. http://reederapp.com
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Character limit also means that the views that make good sound bites have a better chance of winning vs more nuanced views. Succinctness is good, but it isn't necessarily the same as 140 characters
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The price of health insurance varies (generally, decreases) when the entire community purchases it vs. just the people who highly value it. This is because health insurance is priced based on the expected health outcomes of all of its custo
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by jljljl 12y ago
@Shivetya: All other Apple products have been priced appropriately given the lack of upgrading or service available for the product. Additionally, Watches are an entirely different product category from consumer electronics, and they carry
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There is speculation in some circles that Apple will offer a servicing program, in which the S1 could be removed and replaced with the next generation SoC for the Apple watches. Also just me speculating here: For the high end watches, it mi
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by jljljl 12y ago
If you are in the middle of paying your mortgage, and housing prices rise, you actually benefit, because the equity of your home will increase. It's new homeowners who will struggle to pay.
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The benefits of saving vs. borrowing really depends on the situation, and it's possible that borrowing is actually more beneficial. Let's say I want to save money to buy a house, and I want to pay in cash (i.e., no mortgage). I es
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I'm guessing because: 1) A lot of middle class folk who buy houses see it as an investment, and they hope to seem some return on that investment driven by rising prices. 2) A lot of middle-class folk tap into their home equity to pay f
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It's possible to both lament the loss of bullshitting, and the interaction it generates, while also appreciating the significant improvements technology has brought.
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>> So you believe that corporations are people and that individuals with low skill sets and spare time even know how to represent, let alone index, what their best interests actually area? No and probably not, which is why your assert
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>> I have experience with unions and I can tell you that if every Uber driver on earth were to protest right here, right now.. and all you will be doing is creating job openings for other people who will happily get paid less to get t
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by jljljl 12y ago
>>> You can't force anyone to treat anyone fairly. All negotiations between two people are exactly that: Between two people. Are you sure that wage agreements between a corporate entity like Uber and individual drivers can rea
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Multiples are done on annual revenue. 70k/month * 12 months = 840K. 840K * 14 =~ 11.8M
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Is there any reason a UI can't be both? If you take his comments about overlaying text, for example, he's offering tips on how to keep overlaid text readable while also looking gorgeous. This is something that combines both usabil
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by jljljl 12y ago
While true, Isn't this more an "engineering problem" barrier (like the sound barrier) instead of a "theoretically impossible" barrier?
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A majority of those customers won't consider a "better wordpress", either because choosing wordpress is the safe option, or they are invested in the Wordpress ecosystem. The customer looking at the LocamotiveCMS webpage has p

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