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manquer
2y ago
It comes from the Doft (2004) ruling in Delaware courts that attaches a 30% control premium
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manquer
2y ago
$ 20B a year is what google pays [1] + the cost of running and maintaining their engine. $20B is a 1/6th of their operating margin for very little effort. [1] this was revealed in the recent anti trust trial
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manquer
2y ago
Sum of individual features is not greater than the whole product . The community is what makes SO valuable (to investors), so it makes sense to keep things the community values most :q/ a Database and jobs
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manquer
2y ago
Ads will likely show in SO answers , SO will get paid much better click rate than google ads gives them . How will it be different for us users ? More ads which are pseudo first party .
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manquer
2y ago
there are some projects which are there doing it for fun. This one from Youtuber Jerry Rig Everything https://notawheelchair.com/products/the-rig He usually reviews mobile phone durability etc, there are videos on his
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manquer
2y ago
Well using a human is bring an interstellar rail gun to hunt rabbit so i guess it still better ?
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manquer
2y ago
I would say that insurance is low-cost or free for anyone is the myth. Since the emergency over Covid was declared over last year, the number of people and kids being kicked out of Medicare and Medicaid ostensibly because of procedural issu
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manquer
2y ago
Why ? Leaving aside the obvious issue of humanity and basic decency, You are paying for the insurance no matter what anyway due to all the related illnesses [1] from obesity Should now insurance not cover heart attacks or diabetes or other
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manquer
2y ago
We have always been making more efficient software than ever before . It is just a different kind of efficient, there is economic incentive in making software development process more efficient and not that much incentive for making softwar
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manquer
2y ago
SMTP, IMAP and POP did not prevent gmail or outlook from launching products 2G/3G/4G/5g did not hinder the mobile industry it only fostered it . Standard payment interface like UPI did not stop apps for payments being built ,
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manquer
2y ago
It was always AI . The first golden era of AI was all about if else conditions
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manquer
3y ago
Not necessarily, fresher or graduate trainee programs are this effectively. Large companies especially conglomerates do this by hiring freshers and investing in their learning and benefit by paying a bit lesser than the market over the year
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manquer
3y ago
Why do we assume cash ? It can be in kind, we already do this a bit current donors get preferred for donations when they need it themselves. Why cannot we extend that and say entire health care expenses for the rest of the donor’s life the
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manquer
3y ago
> I have never heard the term tuk-tuk used in India Articles written to be read by audiences not the subject. For a global audience tuk tuk is the better word
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manquer
3y ago
> quite capable of safely handling Tuk tuk are three wheelers and handle like a reliant robin and can tip over quite easily . E-scooters does the same thing better as you hint and they can be rented too . It doesn’t help all that much to
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manquer
3y ago
I did not follow ,Which nation were the Americans defending an unprovoked attack on ? are you referring the French ?
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manquer
3y ago
No, the size of the accretion disk depends on the mass of the black hole but it not that large compared to stellar orbits. The disk well defined inner radius of 3rg (Schwarzschild radius), the outer radius is blurred, but usually even in su
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manquer
3y ago
> ever increasing I don’t think it means currently it is reasonable , just that things are continuing to worsen and we have not yet reached a bottom even if a bottom exists.
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manquer
3y ago
Why do we assume the person building the trust is the attacker ? Is not possible the attacker simply took over the account of some one genuinely getting involved in the community either hacked or just with $5 wrench and then committed the m
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manquer
3y ago
Why so ? Preservation is not free for private for profit companies, why do we expect it to be ? People should get access to older publications for free absolutely, but that is what museums, libraries and copyright law is for . The taxpayer
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manquer
3y ago
90% is a BS number . Computed basis what ? What is the baseline how did they benchmark . Is there any data whatsoever to back this claim ? They just spout a high number that is not 100% (clearly civilians are being killed publicly undeniabl
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manquer
3y ago
I obviously didn’t mean all employees ,only the employees who are doing the check out . I am not saying RFID will eliminate employees in retail , just that there is cost to not having RFID too, we should only see the diff as the cost of the
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manquer
3y ago
The wages of the scanning staff is a cost to be considered on the side . At even 10c a tag , it is equivalent to one person scanning 200 items a hour (assuming $20/hour wages) . Factoring in time to bag and do a cash/card/cou
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manquer
3y ago
I cannot comment for Africa , but having lived in parts of India where elephants both wild and domesticated are prevalent there is a real human wild life conflict . You will not truly understand the pressures on both wildlife and people un
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manquer
3y ago
The phrase “white elephant” is a thing for a reason. Elephants are incredibly expensive to maintain just one of the them let alone thousands.
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manquer
3y ago
> QA is focused on testing a product or system against how it should work It would be pretty poor QA who only tested happy paths . Any competent quality analyst will be expected to test for failure states, boundary conditions and so on .
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manquer
3y ago
PHP was a popular stack at that time ? Wikipedia and Wordpress existed and were very popular and unashamedly PHP. What PHP lacked and Ruby had was rails like framework , the team from 37signals singlehandedly shifted the momentum out of PHP
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manquer
3y ago
It is not a deterrent for crimes of passion or ones of desperation. If you are angry and upset you are not going to be stopped by rational thinking of risk/reward outcomes, similarly if you are hungry and homeless this will not be on
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manquer
3y ago
Prison is also a deterrent for future offenders, if everyone is knows/feels all they will loose is their license to practice finance then you will have lot more financial crime than there is.
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manquer
3y ago
> has thrown the book at those who trespassed in the Capitol Really? It doesn't seem that way at all to me, it seems only few rioters have been given a slap on the wrist, none of the key organizers are in jail, neither is head of t
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