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In Ohio, the state that has voted for every president to win since 1964, trump won across every level of education and every level of income except the MOST poor according to exit polls. http://edition.cnn.com/election/
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Your point is valid, however no car factory built recently has garnered a fraction of the publicity/public interest that HQ2 has. What people don't know can't hurt them.
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The difference with those offices is they didn't tease 20+ US cities before building them. It's a nonissue to you, but it won't be to millions of Americans.
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You also could have never guessed Trump would win the election, right? You and I are not tapped into the minds of plenty of Americans who will absolutely feel the feeling you've described. And your assertion about "trumpies"
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I think that would be too incendiary a hedge. They have much more to lose than gain.
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I sincerely doubted that Hillary would lose the election, and we know how that went. You're probably right in that the majority of their customer base wouldn't care at all. However, even if 10% care, not an unreasonable guess, tha
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They won't do this after getting bids from numerous American cities. To choose a city in Canada would piss off too much of their customer base, including the president of the country, and would have a long term material impact on sales
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I heard Stalin was good on taxes as well. There are bigger issues than taxes, my friend.
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Disregard the link with the confusing title and think critically for a moment. Do you really think the US government is forcing all companies to bring any and all profits earned and stored overseas back to the United States? That’s what you
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Just out of curiosity, what's the yearly milage limit on that lease?
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Did you read the article? Please explain why you think it’s unauthorized access. >> When the call came in, staffers quickly remotely logged off every computer in the Montreal office, making it practically impossible for the authoritie
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Try reading the article before you comment. >> When the call came in, staffers quickly remotely logged off every computer in the Montreal office, making it practically impossible for the authorities to retrieve the company records th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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I'm going to remember this one for a long time! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-cr...
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Totally agree. The car manufacturers threw some of the principles of car evolution out the window when things went digital.
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All those google products are contained within the Drive client now, and could act exactly like a dropbox folder if the user doesn't do any setup.
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9y ago
Sell them in a private offering such as this - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-softbank-tender/soft...
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Do you have any proof that the global banking “cartel” is using Ripple? Why would they want to use some third party company they have no control over, with participation of the general public, for a solution to a problem that they didn’t th
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Or maybe there’s just a tech bubble that snapchat is at the forefront of. In New York for example, most of those tall buildings and millions of people have withstood the test of time, numerous decades, snapchat and cryptocurrencies have not
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We as consumers will see no gains from using self service checkouts. I am doing the job that someone once did for me so that Target can make more money. Those efficiency gains for Target are a direct burden on me. Also, I’d argue that self
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Does AMP open google up to new anti-competitive claims?
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I think holding the minimum amount of stock, as he is doing, is a far cry from selling one share. I understand you can’t buy stuff to live with stock, so he’ll need to sell some, but there’s a big difference between selling some and selling
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So he’s the CEO who knows the most intimate details about his company, including what the next few years hold. If as CEO he’s not confident enough to have a whole lot of eggs in the company that HE is running, why would anyone in their righ
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This is the study you are talking about --> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/ "The estimated decrease in average IQ associated with fluoride exposure based on our analysis may seem
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“We’re the party of small businesses” has been a guise for decades.
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The researchers don't get the money that's being discussed, the journals do.
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Ask yourself this question - how do insurance companies in general add value? Forget payout for a moment. Their value is added in deciding what rates to charge people, and determining if a claim is valid, that's it. Anything else they
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> so these gains did not come from profits, rather appreciation in the equity of the company during his tenure. it would be hypocritical to praise startup founders from reaping capital gains while admonishing this ceo Why do you think th
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Asian Americans (similar genetics) have a life expectancy of 87 years, that’s 11 years more.
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It sounds like you're against the idea of land ownership, so there's no logic that could change your thinking. Also, it's laughable that you think that 64% of the country can be considered "aristocracy."
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