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by maym86 8y ago
Large companies spend millions lobbying to keep it that way. It's not a accident that it's legal. They're not just innocently taking advantage of loopholes that just happen to be there. They help create them and keep then tha
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by maym86 8y ago
It does put it in some perspective. It's a lot. He didn't say they were directly equivalent. You need 5% of US GDP to buy Apple.
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by maym86 8y ago
> Value creation is not a zero-sum game. Who said it was? > A cooperative selling the same products and services as, say, Amazon might not make the same profit. It might make more. It might make less because it's paying it's
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by maym86 8y ago
It's relevant in many cases of many large companies, even profitable ones: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/2/16842876/google-double-iri... Bezos in particular chooses to actively avoid making profit
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by maym86 8y ago
The profit comes from the labour of people who work for you. Any profit you make is the difference between what their true labour is worth and what you pay them. So unless the owners are adding billions in value by themselves they are payin
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by maym86 8y ago
Tommy Robinson was arrested for breaching his parole. This parole caused by his prior arrest in 2017 for contempt of court outside Canterbury Crown Court. So the reason he got this seemingly harsh sentence, was because it was a reoffence, c
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by maym86 8y ago
Nonsense. Have you actually lived in the UK?
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Google does the hardware well too. They built their own lidar to reduce cost compared to velodyne by 90%. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/01/googles-waymo-invests-i... They also built a second narrowly foc
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by maym86 8y ago
> It barely qualifies as a western democracy these days. Care to explain?
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You are missing the point. It depends on who you know or who you can convince to provide money. This is inherently unfair.
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by maym86 8y ago
This, from a explaination of the UK system in a comment below. > Police can only hold you for up to 96 hours without charging you with a crime. Once you are charged with something and awaiting trial, you have to be tried within 56 days.
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by maym86 8y ago
No thanks. Bail + blockchain + AI is still just bail. The point is this is still based on proving you or your family's ability to pay a bail with added "AI" which is notoriously bad for this kind of thing due to historical tr
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by maym86 8y ago
I think there are both feasibility and practicality issues with the cooperative estimation scheme you are describing. Without already knowing where the phones are very accuratly there will be a lot of noise. Would need a lot more detail to
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by maym86 8y ago
So is this only an issue if you don't pay off in full every month?
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by maym86 8y ago
Yeah that was why I left the cards open but at this point I don't care. Getting out of BoA.
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No bosses, no managers: the truth behind the ‘flat hierarchy’ facade(theguardian.com)
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by maym86 8y ago
They currently don't seem to be behaving in ways that actively hurts customers. I don't think there anywhere close to as big as BoA. My issue is more with behavior. But yeah, I've been considering opening a local credit union
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by maym86 8y ago
Wells Fargo is beyond conservative. It is activley criminal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_sc... It's not too difficult to take a small step and open an account elsewhere. We can stop r
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by maym86 8y ago
Yep. Thanks
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by maym86 8y ago
Ally is what I'm using. 1.75% saving account. 0.1% interest on checking account. No minimum balance. They pay all withdrawal fees. They don't have physical locations but I never used them anyway. Phone service is pretty good. I ha
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by maym86 8y ago
Started closing some of my higher value BoA accounts after they started charging people fees for having a low balance. This is predatory and targeting people who can't afford it. https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/smart-mo
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by maym86 8y ago
Nothing is quantified in this article. Define healthiest? The framing of this is a nonsense way of saying get some daily exercise. Maybe "the healthiest people in the world" would be even helathier if they went to the gym too? The
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by maym86 8y ago
Thanks, I know PUBG. Just curious what exactly the bug is? The timer was counting down waiting for enough players to join, is the issue related to estimating how long it will take to get 100 players?
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by maym86 8y ago
> the countdown in pubg Care to explain?
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This doesn't make a lot of sense tbh.
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by maym86 8y ago
This only becomes an issue when you are a monopoly as this is when it hurts the consumers ability to choose alternatives. If Android truely is the best option let the customer decide without trying to stifel competition. Firefox and Linux d
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It's not about "identity". It's about experience with the issue which for many gender issues is often tied to identity. "Other thinking people" can also do better to recognize this.
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by maym86 8y ago
Exactly - he gets to look at it like that. A lot of people don't have that privilege.
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I guess it's more of a PR issue than a criticism of his work. A Harvard Professor with a pretty decent life telling the world that everythings getting better when for a significant number of people that isn't what they are experie
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> men can't have an opinion on gender equality, or what not It's about getting the people with the right experience and weighting people's opinions based on experience. For a long time mens opinions have been overweighted

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