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by nrb 6y ago
Seems better than holding hostage the balances of existing customers who already had cash settled accounts? This was a lose/lose for them, new signups won’t stick around anyway now and they’re going to absolutely bleed existing users.
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by nrb 6y ago
But does that explain why they didn’t just prevent trading on these names unless your cash balance is settled and nothing on margin? They already have a mechanism for that.
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by nrb 6y ago
My contacts are -1.75 with -0.75x148 astigmatism and I can't make out peoples faces unless I'm practically standing next to them. Nevermind trying to read a menu board at a restaurant counter or trying to find my glasses if I mi
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by nrb 6y ago
Depending on where you live, they absolutely can terminate lease and evict for convictions on a huge laundry list of crimes: violent crimes, crimes that were conducted out of the domicile (especially drug convictions) anything that causes i
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by nrb 6y ago
It sounds like they at least facilitated it by providing a car and making engineers available “on speed dial” as the author states.
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by nrb 6y ago
To be more pendantic, handheld and set-top gaming consoles can surely be considered different markets. Nintendo has had a clear monopoly on handheld consoles for several generations. Sony had an extremely strong market position in the 5th a
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by nrb 6y ago
... and competitors do the same for less than a tenth of that cost. The only thing that allows them to do so is complete control over the ecosystem to shut out all competition.
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by nrb 6y ago
“Buy the rumor, sell the news” https://www.ig.com/en/trading-strategies/-buy-the-rumour--se...
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by nrb 6y ago
23 million is absolutely not middle class wealth, which ends in roughly the top quartile or quintile by practically any definition.
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by nrb 6y ago
This isn't about one person. In the words of Mos Def - "Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: the million other straws underneath it."
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by nrb 6y ago
According to the post, it’s due to contraction with their talent sourcing product: > This week, we reduced our global workforce by approximately 15%. Most of the affected employees were furloughed, except for employees and contractors in
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by nrb 6y ago
Many people are spending lots of time at home, enough to realize they aren't totally happy with their furnishings, and are available to accept deliveries. I would imagine the answer to that is yes.
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by nrb 7y ago
I imagine the simplest explanation is that all of these things came together at the same time by different teams.
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by nrb 7y ago
> Edit: BA stock down 1.27% in after-hours trade. I guess the market has decided that this behaviour is fine. Like you said, this basically confirms everything we already knew. So it stands to reason that the stock is already priced acco
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by nrb 7y ago
The problem is that encouraging savings of that magnitude all at once will grind our economy to a halt, potentially resulting in the loss of their income source as the economy severely contracts.
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by nrb 7y ago
It's an afternoon worth of research to understand the basic concepts. Then, with the powerful and intuitive tooling you can spin up your own cluster on your computer in minutes and practice deploying containers that: - are automaticall
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by nrb 7y ago
One thing to note is that this is a rental/commercial vehicle, which people absolutely do not treat as kindly as their own vehicles. They don't mention how many miles were shuttle vs normal rental, and I'm surprised the artic
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by nrb 7y ago
I totally agree with you, once you've factored in the dozens of hours gaining knowledge of k8s and hundreds+ of hours of experience dealing with it in production. You can get by with far less, but it's going to be pretty stressful
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by nrb 7y ago
Where it came from is one of the most important details! Is this mail relay actually elided.org or is it impersonating elided.org? There does not appear to be an SPF record for that domain so Gmail cannot determine if this is a fraudulent m
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by nrb 7y ago
Two full years for an evergreen web browser, which contains probably the largest surface area for software exploits of anything on the machine? I’d argue absolutely yes. As others have echoed, this is probably a huge marker for malicious bo
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by nrb 7y ago
It did indeed explode in the literal sense: rapid decomposition of the launch vehicle. I suppose it is worth mentioning that it did not "explode" in the sense people normally understand though: a blast of rapid combustion of fuel.
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by nrb 7y ago
For anyone unfamiliar: "go at throttle up" was the final communication to/from Space Shuttle Challenger during launch of mission STS-51-L moments before it tragically exploded, resulting in the loss of all crew. The Space Shu
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by nrb 7y ago
In the event an in-flight abort becomes necessary, odds are that the craft is probably going to be lost no matter what. Adding additional complexity or weight for a vanishingly unlikely scenario likely isn't worth it to them.
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by nrb 7y ago
If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, Apple Arcade is pretty great for this. Every game on it is an actual game, no IAP or ads.
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by nrb 7y ago
If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. - Richard Branson
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by nrb 7y ago
I don’t think players care about the architectural purity of your product. Some baseline of performance is sufficient as long as you can deliver the proper experience, which is really the only thing they’re seeking in your game. If that sam
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by nrb 7y ago
To be fair, the vast majority of those are not "crashes" in the sense that the parent post describes.
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by nrb 7y ago
Buy backs are increasingly being done with debt[1] and corporate debt-to-gdp ratios are way out of whack [2]. 1: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/29/buybacks-companies-increasin... 2: https://www.forbe
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by nrb 7y ago
It is, and I think it’s the chief cause of bankruptcy in the US.
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by nrb 7y ago
More broadly, should corporations be liable for their extremely costly externalities, and if so how do you quantify them?

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