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by qiskit 4y ago
> The chart is very obvious. It is only obvious to people who have already drawn their conclusions and are looking for justifications to back up their conclusions. > That doesn't happen by mistake, and if you look at the persona
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> pretty clear the primary driver was demand driven. Perhaps after the sharp downward in 2020. But it isn't clear what is the primary driver after the 1st qtr of 2020. That chart doesn't necessarily imply consumer consumption i
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That's interesting. Benedict Arnold's treason was exposed in late september and this guy was born early october before his parents found out about the treason. So news definitely spread slowly back then. It says he had 12 children
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SpaceX is pretty much recession proof. SpaceX will get government and commercial contracts as long as the technology is there. Tesla might face issues, but a recession might be used to propel the "green/climate change" moveme
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Three names no parent will name their sons - Benedict, Adolf, Judas. Poor bastard. Talk about choosing poorly. Sold his legacy for peanuts.
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> a lot of his concerns seem entirely commonplace today Because a lot of his concerns dealt with the human condition. That will never change. Other things that were commonplace in roman times - graffiti and dick jokes... https:/&#x
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Ukraine lost crimea and half the country. At least so far. They might lose everything in the next few months. Not good job of protecting itself and keeping itself free. North korea lost what? Not a speck of land and against a much greater
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> Why is Apple's market cap so much higher than Microsoft and Alphabet? Because Apple brings in more revenue than Google ( 50% more ) and MSFT ( 100% more ) and they bring in more income than google and msft. > Their businesses a
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Almost all the german military was destroyed by the russians. WW2 in europe was pretty much the eastern front. And we didn't even join the war until germany decided to declare war on the US. If you are french, you should thank the russ
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That would be true if they got married, got a job, stayed married and stayed employed. But isn't that more of a fairy tale than the norm. It takes immense amount of maturity, courage, discipline, etc. Things that are not taught or enco
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> China switching sides is one of the many factors. An important one, but not as important as US/NATO matching and outspending (adjusted per-capita) the USSR in military buildup and proxy wars. China switching sides is the factor. U
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The last nation ( Bolivia ) that tried to nationalize its lithium got "couped" by the US. Hopefully lithium doesn't become the new oil.
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> Would add that had Ukraine kept its post-separation guns, millions today wouldn’t be dead or displaced. Makes you wonder why we demanded ukraine disarm and give up its nukes after the fall of the soviet union. Makes you wonder why sanc
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> As someone born behind the Iron Curtain, here’s my reply to Eisenhouer: all those guns made, ships launched and rockets fired contributed to me, and a few hundred million people like me, being free now No it didn't. China switchin
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> The board negotiated a deal with Elon after putting the poison pill into effect. There was no "negotiation" with the board. Elon just made an unsolicited offer and said take it or leave it. The board "left it" and y
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This is simply wrong. The board outright rejected musk's offer and instituted a poison pill to prevent a hostile takeover of twitter by musk. So elon simply bypassed the board of directors and went to the major shareholders. It is the
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> but strictly from a business point of view, buying Twitter for the purpose of profiteering was a bad one, but at his level, money has become irrelevant, its more about control here. Agreed. Bezos, Gates, Musk, etc don't buy media
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> What caused the board to change the direction 180 and now closing the deal with Musk? Enough of the large shareholders behind the scenes backed the deal for whatever reason. Who, what and why? We'll never get the real story. Not i
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Firefox's market share is what? 3%? Shouldn't mozilla be focusing more on that than this nonsense? So much unnecessary waste of capital in tech.
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What a gentleman.
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South Vietnam was never an independent nation. After vietnam won their independence from france, we stepped in and took over the southern part of vietnam fromfrance. South Vietnam was created by the US and won its independence when the sout
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Couldn't we test this hypothesis by checking the teeth of people living non-modern lifestyles? Do tribal people around the world living traditionally have cavities or not? What is the quality of their teeth?
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Not sure making residential decisions based on SF novels is a wise idea. Arizona has been one of the fastest growing states for many years now. So has nevada and utah. If the population and economic activity is there, the water will find it
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The entire war was a war crime. Over 4 million innocent vietnamese died in the war for vietnamese indepedence. Or rather, over 4 million innocent vietnamese died because we didn't want them to have their freedom. We should really tear
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https://www.wordnik.com/words/genocide 1. noun The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. 2. noun The systematic killing of a racial or cul
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What'll you do for enjoyment then?
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> Twitter says it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change, echoing a policy already in place at Google. Maybe someone should tell twitter, google, etc that science isn't suppo
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Genocide and population increase doesn't work together. The ughyur population has increased during the "genocide". How about this. When did the genocide start? How many ughyurs were genocided? What is the reason for the genoc
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8/9/18: Wanna invest in Tesla? Tesla was trading at a split adjusted $70 per share back then. It's trading over $1000 today. Little larry could have made a killing if he invested then. But then again, he is worth over $100 bi
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> they'll just "report spam" rather than unsubscribe I'm guessing this is a major part of it. But then again, if a legitimate service is so spammy that people will just "report as spam" rather than unsubscri

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