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by meric 9y ago
In the AAPL example, it's not a stock split.
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by meric 9y ago
Both this and dividends are payments to shareholders but this is different because it's not funded by the company itself. It's a third party electing to pay every shareholder. Also, dividends are regular events, but getting a new
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by meric 9y ago
"Depending on the country, OFAC programs may freeze assets of embargoed countries, prohibit payment of funds to individuals and countries on the embargo list, or prohibit provision of services to countries subject to US sanctions.&quot
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by meric 9y ago
Moneygram is cheap service too. Can you open a bank account in a non-sanctioned country, and ask your employer to send your salary there? What about family or relatives overseas? If you play your cards right maybe you can domicile at a non-
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by meric 9y ago
Let's say there is a court case where the judge awards all shareholders of AAPL $100 of compensation for every share held (It's to the shareholders, but not the company, because the court case involved shareholders vs management).
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by meric 9y ago
Yes and I note we have built buildings and ships for thousands of years, and software only for the past 150 years.
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by meric 9y ago
Is it possible to parse Reddit and pick recent "important" nodes? A website to comment on reddit threads, in the same way reddit is a website to comment on website links... Except the submitted reddit threads are picked automatica
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by meric 9y ago
This scenario can be boycotted as long as humanity owns some land and capital and boycott all AI overlord services.
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by meric 9y ago
1. Bet $10000 on black at the casino. If you win, well done. If you lose continue. 2. Bet $20000 on black at the casino, if you win, well done. If you lose, you lost $30000. There is 75% chance to make $10000 - casino edge using this strate
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by meric 9y ago
Tangential to the topic at hand: The substance itself, if you look closely, is only yet another layer of appearance, slightly closer to the Truth - God.
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by meric 9y ago
Stone tools is replication of beak and claws.
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by meric 9y ago
Are you nature? Did you learn? Are you not a force? It's true nature never "tried" anything except to keep going but I posit it does learn, it's memory is our genes and our own memory, and we are the effect of it's
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by meric 9y ago
He's not looking for a job.
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by meric 9y ago
Well, there have been successful dictatorships in the past...
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by meric 9y ago
Buy property in Tasmania.
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by meric 9y ago
A game made using MS PowerPoint on Mac. I can't remember if it's Mac OS 8.6 or OS X.
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by meric 9y ago
Sometimes people get sick of being addicted too - people getting sick of facebook delete or deactivate their accounts altogether.
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by meric 9y ago
>" I note Cantonese and Mandarin "dialects" have a common (formal) written form." I don't know spoken mandarin but I can read written Mandarin, I grew up knowing Cantonese. So I do think they have a common formal
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by meric 9y ago
Because the net difference between dialects are the sum of all differences from 2000 years ago to now, while 2000 years ago, less time was elapsed, the net difference was much smaller. The net difference today is the net difference 2000 yea
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by meric 9y ago
Yes that's right - 2000 years ago I'm guessing they all sounded the same. I note Cantonese and Mandarin "dialects" have a common (formal) written form.
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by meric 9y ago
Probably because English only spread from country to country in the past 200 years, and while the others you listed was hundred(s) of years before that. Chinese, which spread across China 2000 years ago, vary a lot from region to region, ev
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by meric 9y ago
Over what period, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years, 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years?
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by meric 9y ago
According to your logic - A patriarchal culture has influenced what roles society find desirable, and therefore we ought to declare that those roles ARE in fact desirable, and the roles patriarchal culture has deemed less desirable , we dec
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by meric 9y ago
If men find it desirable then is it automatically desirable to women?
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by meric 9y ago
Perhaps they have in mind a target market that's not advanced at business as you...?
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by meric 9y ago
Maybe practice showing off your capability in the face of subpar interviewing skills on the part of the interviewer.
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by meric 9y ago
Perhaps take a look at existing CRM's and copy the methods of some of their market material?
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by meric 9y ago
I wonder if someone saved interview notes with another candidate under your name.
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by meric 9y ago
Building one-off cool devices and auction it to the highest bidder. Market to the super rich.
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by meric 9y ago
I am working on a side project involving stocks and programmatically minimising capital gain taxes (e.g. using Australia's 50% CGT discount) and I'm happy to discuss it. I am not sure but I think UK's capital gains tax law ha

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