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by philipov 3y ago
I thought Italy was responsible for introducing the rest of Europe to all sorts of goods coming across the silk road for the first time. Italy was the most important center of trade in Europe for a long time.
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by philipov 3y ago
Yeah, the article is like 3 times longer than it was yesterday around 6pm ET when it was posted. It was barely 5 paragraphs then.
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by philipov 3y ago
Is this entire article based on the Reuters news that came out yesterday? The news that amounted to "Two guys in the alley told us some stuff, but we can't verify any of it" This feels like laundering news; all the "We w
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by philipov 3y ago
War Thunder Forums on the other hand? That's a completely different story.
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by philipov 3y ago
All twitter influencer posts are "self-promotion", whether they link externally or not.
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by philipov 3y ago
You must be thinking of "bit posts", because they're so small :p
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by philipov 3y ago
> It's fascinating to hear realtime news directly from the people making it. With all of their editorial biases, axes to grind, and investors to placate, instead.
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by philipov 3y ago
> and will remain in his role at the company The portion you quoted says he will remain at the company. This post is about him quitting, and no longer remaining with the company.
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by philipov 3y ago
It's all very ambiguous, but if he had been there for the board meeting where he was removed, I imagine he would have quit then and it would have been in the official announcement. It comes across like he didn't quit until after t
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by philipov 3y ago
How much did they pay for that 49% stake?
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by philipov 3y ago
The Soviet Union was a socialist state: that was the word they used to describe themselves. It was ruled by the Communist Party, which has nothing to do with the economic or political system the country followed. The best word to describe C
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by philipov 3y ago
Same as it's a sign of the times that the most reliable news show on TV is found on Comedy Central.
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by philipov 3y ago
Someone just posted this [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293817 ] by Matt Levine: "Hackers Know Everything Is Securities Fraud" I note that it was published less than 20 minutes ago, well after the above co
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by philipov 3y ago
It's different because in the case of mail and wire fraud, everything begins as fraud. A CEO having an affair isn't inherently fraud, but it becomes fraud when you don't admit to it.
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by philipov 3y ago
It's more like doing the R&D and producing the product, but then deciding not to sell it. In fact, it's literally that. You make it sound more reasonable than it should because you stops things at the research phase rather t
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by philipov 3y ago
In both cases, the 's does not indicate plurality. It is a contraction of "He has been robbed." "Maine has just had its data stolen." In the second case, depending on your dialect, you could remove either '
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by philipov 3y ago
OpenTTD lets you use either the base graphics, which require Transport Tycoon Deluxe, or OpenGFX graphics, which do not.
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by philipov 3y ago
At least as a software developer, when I test on production because that's the only place the bug manifests, I'm not risking my life to reproduce the issue.
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by philipov 3y ago
not even the laws of physics are inevitable, except for thermodynamics
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by philipov 3y ago
Yeah, it did - every time the nobleman's goons came by to seize the grain.
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by philipov 3y ago
To help them, we need to be less tolerant of the white collar crime perpetrated by the employers in our country.
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by philipov 3y ago
Isn't that just a hypomanic episode?
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by philipov 3y ago
To wit: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" Or in another case, there's a political scientist, whose name I don't currently remember, who's made fun of for predicting 9 out of the l
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by philipov 3y ago
The company is called Prospective and their product is called Perspective? Wild...
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by philipov 3y ago
Nebula is trying to compete, they seem like a good alternative to support.
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by philipov 3y ago
2 billion dollars. In cash.
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by philipov 3y ago
That's what's called a Failure of Leadership by upper management, whose job it is to be coordinating these things.
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by philipov 3y ago
Always have been.
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by philipov 3y ago
Bloomberg? Is New York Times not reporting on this? :p
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by philipov 3y ago
By that logic, nobody should have started using Twitter in the first place, because when it started, no one used it either. It's circular reasoning.

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