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by mrep 6y ago
That figure is for the value of goods that traverse the canal, not the closed cost. The canal generated 5.61 billion USD in 2020 [0] so it is costing them 15 million dollars a day in lost revenue. For the shipping companies, they can still
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by mrep 6y ago
Oregon tried that with a dead beached whale 50 years ago. Results hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
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by mrep 6y ago
Yes, that money came from the US government program literally codenamed "Operation Warp Speed" which was set up as a public–private partnership initiated by the United States government to facilitate and accelerate the development
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by mrep 6y ago
Moderna got 955 million for investment of their vaccine back in May, and an additional 1.53 billion back in August for the purchase of 100 million doses which has also further been increased to 300 million doses now: https://www.
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by mrep 6y ago
This website has extremely informative visualizations that show how state and federal funding for school fills in those gaps: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...
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by mrep 6y ago
> The United States is the only major power with a strong ideological belief in unrestricted capital flows. Doesn't seem that way for citizens considering we still have to pay US taxes when living abroad (there are some tax agreemen
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by mrep 6y ago
Interesting that you propose their success is based on the value fulfillment cycle which seems like something I would be far more likely to hear from an mba/pm than a software engineer. IMO, the answer to why the biggest companies tend
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by mrep 6y ago
Zooming in is cool too as they all look like sailboats with their solar panels extended up. The trains look like one aligned sailboat army.
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by mrep 6y ago
I thought that too but this article [0] with really good graphics shows how the federal and state government give out funding selectively to counteract that such that 47 states actually allocate more per-student funding to poor kids than to
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IoTaWatt Open Source WiFi Electric Power Monitor(iotawatt.com)
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See Mars Like Never Before NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends New Video(youtube.com)
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by mrep 6y ago
Well, in the case of the US government, the FED printed about 3 trillion dollars, 2/3 of which went to buying our own governments debt (US treasury securities), and the other 1/3 was basically all mortgage backed securities and th
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by mrep 6y ago
Yeah, you already linked to that article which mentions "A recent Twitter post" but of course has no link because it is probably the aforementioned deleted one because that website is probably complete BS. It does say january 2 b
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by mrep 6y ago
Do you have an up to date source on bezos owning the flying fox as that one is based on a tweet that was deleted and everything I've read since says that was false including a quick google search. Also, I'm interested in how you t
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by mrep 6y ago
Or you know, just don't open any new positions there and transfer your funds back to your account once you have closed the rest like I did. Then you have nothing there, can deactivate your account and just open an account at another p
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by mrep 6y ago
I highly doubt that. I filed a 1 star review and it literally only took like 30 seconds as you don't have to write anything to rate it.
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by mrep 6y ago
He is the one that posted the initial GME due diligence (DD) last year. Started with 50k in stocks and options, was valued at 48 million yesterday and 33 today and been posting updates basically everyday recently [0]. He did cash out 13 m
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by mrep 6y ago
Lol, so instead, most of the internet thinks they are colluding with institutional short sellers at hedge funds in order to save them and screw over retail investors. They already had (probably in spam detection right now as they are curre
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by mrep 6y ago
Citadel securities is the market maker that pays for order flow, Citadel is the hedge fund that lent 2 billion to melvin capital. Definitely smells like some backroom don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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by mrep 6y ago
It absolutely does, it is just hard to notice because it is small enough and distributed over time thus making it hard to see in a market cap graph especially when most of the value in the market cap is dominated by expected future earnings
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by mrep 6y ago
Really? Going to der spiegel as someone from Chicago I get a "Continue reading with ads, Visit SPIEGEL.de as you normally would with the advertising and the usual tracking. (You can revoke your consent at any time.)" with an acce
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by mrep 6y ago
From the article, it sounds like google will stop putting news websites in their search results altogether and still provide search results for other websites. I doubt they will have much effect on them because I doubt they make much money
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by mrep 6y ago
Yeah, the super high ceo pay is for the super large companies. Pick a super large company in europe and you can find high ceo pay too. Shells and volkswagens ceos for example made 10 million each.
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by mrep 6y ago
They probably could and I'm assuming they would just sell it to a collections agency for pennies on the dollar and the collections agency would just send an automated notice hoping the person would pay it. For example, I had wave inter
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by mrep 6y ago
That exposes you to currency risk. Right now, 1 euro trades for about 1.23 dollars but that can go up or down (1:1.12 a year ago for example) which would effect your payments over the life of the loan because I get paid in dollars but germ
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by mrep 6y ago
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are being built at 13 billion a piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_...
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by mrep 6y ago
It is reused many times as this super interesting article that I highly recommend [0] explains and I'll quote: The very end of mRNA is polyadenylated. This is a fancy way of saying it ends on a lot of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Even mRNA has
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by mrep 6y ago
Not OP, but it is used in the expanse: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/2v9ej6/tightbea...
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by mrep 6y ago
I presume they would give you digital copies you could play on your own computer considering that is exactly what they did for the assassin's creed odyssey beta I participated in for stadia a few years ago.
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by mrep 6y ago
But from a quick google search result [0], price per square foot is 4 time as expensive in SF versus chicago. [0]: https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2020/07/07...

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