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lesuorac
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lesuorac
4mo ago
Because that's the grand plan from the start. You don't put a sentence like "In other words, upon a change in control where Tesla is acquired, vesting of milestones under the CEO Performance Award does not require the achieve
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4mo ago
> Does the combined market cap count? That would be wrong. It counts and it's not wrong. Sure, the Tesla award takes into account any M&A but growing a 2T company to 3T is a 50% increase. While growing a 1T company to 2T is a 10
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4mo ago
Isn't the bigger issue with the parent's argument that its comparing apples and oranges? Like the customers were largely owed _not_ USD and so compared the USD value owed _4 years ago_ to the _current day_ USD value of something e
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4mo ago
Were you alive in 2024? Trump won by <1% against an incumbent in a time that incumbents lost by >10%. It's absolutely not that people like Trump, it's just that democrats are inept. Literally all democrats had to do was run
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4mo ago
> Are investors subsidizing the technology? There's upfront build out, but Anthropic is profitable and I believe the big labs are profitable on inference. That's the thing about a bubble though. It's not about if things ar
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4mo ago
Meh, stakes don't matter. So much of the financial world runs off excel. Think about all the geneticists that complain about excel re-writing DNA sequences. It doesn't matter if its high stakes or low stakes. People use the softwa
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4mo ago
IIUC, it's too early to taking "0.5%" as fact. Need to wait a few more months to see if any revisions occur.
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4mo ago
Except dry ice is -100 and boiling water is 200 so you feel hot and not cozy.
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4mo ago
> It's nearly impossible for even a star athlete to succeed at more than one sport I don't think this means as much as you're putting weight into. I think the fact that somebody like MJ or Tim Tebow could even get a try-ou
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4mo ago
> regulating everything for the sake of it. Eh, if you're not hiding behind a LLC I can see regulation not being necessary. Like you want to build a factory and dump the sewage into the river? Fine, but uh you're personally goi
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4mo ago
And yet people love X which pretty famously during the "Twitter Files" was revealed to also assist US psy-ops. The public just distrusts large organizations now because those large organizations haven't been effective with th
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5mo ago
Naw unions are nerfed. ex. Secondary (Sympathy) Strikes are illegal [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action#United_State...
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5mo ago
Are they charging for the guardrails? Like do the guardrails expend token counts to then block you from the output of other tokens?
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5mo ago
Yeah it's not fun. Vanguard offers a bunch of ETFs so I can't exactly give you a solid answer. One of their specific etfs (VTI) tracks the CRSP US Total Market index [1] which has its methodology described here [2] and looking at
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5mo ago
You have to lookup what your index fund is. They all have always had different inclusion rules and they may or might not have changed theirs recent to try to include SpaceX.
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5mo ago
Is this even relevant? I can't sue you for product liability if you strangle me but I can still sue you. Gun manufacturers have been successfully sued for shootings before [1]; who cares if it's about "product liability"
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5mo ago
I will point out at no point in the article does he complain about seeing advertisements for golfing tees in his Golf magazine subscription. IMO, the real problems with ads are 1) They just aren't relevant to you. No I'm not going
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5mo ago
Given how popular this has gotten I guess I should point out that it's wrong. There isn't a single seller so the proper ones are Oligopoly - Market with few sellers Oligopsony - Market with few buyers "few" really meanin
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5mo ago
Yeah and C yields bug free performance software when used correctly.
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5mo ago
For future people to look it up. Monopoly is a single seller. Monopsony is a single buyer.
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5mo ago
It can though. The USG kinda used to do this by changing the headquarters for an agency/organization to be in the western (less populated) states.
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5mo ago
Not criminal but fraud is still a crime. But also I don't think the T&C's came into play here. This is strictly his employer (Google) told him to keep this information confidential and he didn't and instead profited from
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5mo ago
> transacting on systems involving US currency. Transacting on systems involving a currency (USDC) that is pegged to a US currency. Pretty sure he sold Swiss Francs for USDC and deposited those onto Polymarket (after running them through
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5mo ago
The charges are a bit funny. [1] "From at least in or about October 2025 up to and including at least in or about December 2025, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere outside of the jurisdiction of any particular State or
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5mo ago
> a) not all landowners have mortgages! many own outright. they make pure profit I mean they don't. They have expenses like taxes and maintenance regardless of the properties vacancy. Nominally this is more profit than somebody with
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5mo ago
The general problem with leverage is a margin call though. You largely will not get margin called over your house. The bank doesn't want it. And also the house largely won't get re-assessed in value so you can launder the volatili
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5mo ago
> Unless you think landlords are running a charity, some part of your mortgage is going to them as profit This isn't true due to market dynamics. If a homeowners mortgage is say 4k/month and they list the property at 4.5k/
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5mo ago
> A house is an inflation hedge. So are Stocks ... > I find it hard to believe that over time if you took the money you'd put into a house and subtracted out rent, you'd end up winning in the long term. You are not alone. Th
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5mo ago
I mean if you phrase it like that. However, the articles phrasing is employee used work resources to notify colleges that their work may causing legal risk for the business. Which uh seems pretty fine? But also, the laws of a country Trump
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5mo ago
Tbh, I kinda always assume they were going to pivot into designer kids as opposed to dinosaurs.
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