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by ojbyrne 3y ago
Not to entirely rebut your question, but there is also an online education business (LinkedIn Learning/Lynda).
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A quick search shows that Mark (I worked at FB where we were all encouraged to call him Mark instead of Zuck) has a net worth of ~$100 billion. So its basically a side bet. His real estate holdings are probably worth more.
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Random googling finds “Cash equivalents are any short-term investment securities with maturity periods of 90 days or less.” They have $35 billion in Cash & Cash Equivalents.
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Maybe I'm not sure what you're getting at, but you can order these with prescription lenses, either tinted or not.
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I’m not sure basing an argument on houses in television shows is useful.
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Minor quibble/correction request - the FreeFileSync section (Windows specific) includes some Mac-specific instructions in Step 8.
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Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill's_law
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Old polite people who can spell.
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Weird that there is no discussion here relevant to the book or the author, though perhaps that's just because the book hasn't been released yet. I really enjoyed "White Teeth" so I suspect I will read this too.
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You can (of course) cross the border with more than $10k in cash. You have to declare it.
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Or they just won't do any of that, assuming that it will take years for the government to give them another manageable fine.
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The article specifically calls that out as “conventional wisdom.” “Conventional wisdom suggests that richer individuals put more of their assets toward high risk investments, which can result in higher returns. But our research finds that w
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleishhacker_Pool 300x50 meters.
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The 50 year anniversary hype is everywhere.I personally agree with the last paragraph of the article: 'He also mentions that he finds the 50th anniversary of hip hop mile-marker a bit disingenuous. The birth of an entire movement can’t
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So many people making reading like an endless chore, rather than a lifetime love affair.
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That page includes the sentence “A word that ends in a vowel is more likely to attracting this mistake.” I wouldn’t bring it up but… glass houses.
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Presumably because Easyful seems to be directly comparing itself to Gumroad, which is the subject of the blog post.
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Meta occupies Sun's former HQ. Xerox PARC (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is in a completely different place in Silicon Valley. Also Meta has something Xerox PARC never had, copious amounts of revenue.
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There's an editorial in the Washington Post today from Michael Bloomberg pushing for RTO in the federal government, and generally, everywhere else. I wonder who is more influential? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio
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My favorite name collision is Ontario, CA (city, state) and Ontario, CA (province, country).
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession : "The federal funds rate, which was about 11% in 1979, rose to 20% by June 1981. The prime interest rate, an important economic measure, eventually reached
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I am reminded of an argument from [1] that the Industrial Revolution completely wiped out a class of workers - but they were horses - and that class of workers largely became cannon fodder in WW1. So it seems reasonable to speculate that th
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Honestly, it feels like mentioning the concept of "desktop" seems a little weak, like someone from 2010. Chances are you have linux running in a VM, or container, or phone, or other device right beside you.
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Having also driven that route (Ottawa-Winnipeg) several times, there's an easy solution that solves the lack of infrastructure in that area (but also does not reflect well on Canada) - cross the border.
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My impression is there’s basically only one person here who has (a lot) more money than sense.
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If we're going to start discussing fan fiction, we should mention the best: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ROSENCRANTZ-GUILDENSTERN-ARE-DEAD-S...
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When I look at the smirk on the face of the Wagner guy on the front of CNN right now: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/23062417255... I feel like he got paid a large enough amount of
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And the TV show.
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As well as comedies, histories, and tragedies, some plays include The Tempest are often classified in a 4th genre - "romances" [0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_late_romances#... .
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That was fun to read, even though I would disagree with much of the article. I generally like the comedies least, the OP likes them most, but it's nice to see people talk about Shakespeare in an article linked here. A couple of comment

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