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by ralph84 5y ago
What rationale did the UK government use when approving Imagination being sold to a private equity firm controlled by the Chinese government?
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by ralph84 5y ago
I don't disagree, but the point is the $1.1B has already been spent which makes relegation a non-starter.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Agree that MLB should have its antitrust exemption revoked, but relegation would be a tough pill to swallow with how much has been invested in MLB stadiums. Globe Life Field opened in 2020 at a cost of $1.1 billion. The numbers don’t work i
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by ralph84 5y ago
Most Americans may not have Venmo, but certainly all Americans have ways to send money to each other. What problem are you really hoping to solve with government Venmo?
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by ralph84 5y ago
Who decides what the purpose of a degree is? Certainly for the majority of people paying six figures the purpose is to be able to earn a return on that investment from employment. Figuring out a philosophy on life can be done at a much lowe
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by ralph84 5y ago
> I forget what it's called, but there's this phenomenon in immunology where the immune system can get "stuck" with whatever initial antibodies it comes up with and doesn't adapt well. It's called original a
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by ralph84 5y ago
I have no problem paying something, but $6/user/month for family emails @${SURNAME}.org that I've given out to dozens of extended family members isn't gonna work. Hopefully with all of the backlash they come out with a m
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by ralph84 5y ago
English is defined by usage. If enough people make the same “mistake”, it’s not a mistake.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Lol, the Red Guards certainly weren't beating their teachers to death out of love.
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by ralph84 5y ago
I wouldn't be so certain of that. Antitrust review of mergers is mainly concerned with whether the merger will reduce competition in a market. Since Apple doesn't currently operate a mobile network and none of the carriers current
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by ralph84 5y ago
Absolutely. Airline pilots are forced to retire at 65 and their decisions only affect a few hundred people. Politicians' decisions affect millions.
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by ralph84 5y ago
If they didn't their employees would be pretty pissed when they're unable to get a mortgage.
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by ralph84 5y ago
For employers it offloads employment and salary verification. Instead of having to pay someone to answer verification calls all day they just upload the data to The Work Number and let them handle it.
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by ralph84 5y ago
The "finance-obsessed" shot is especially rich coming from a guy who was able to FIRE in his early 30s and spend his time running a nightclub as a hobby.
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by ralph84 5y ago
As corrupt and captured as the SEC is, even they wouldn't let that kind of thing fly.
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by ralph84 5y ago
The same way professors get named on papers where their students did all the work?
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by ralph84 5y ago
But not adjusted for overall health. This seems to be the same thing we see with flu vaccines where the vaccination rate is higher in healthy people. Otherwise what's the mechanism of action that would cause covid vaccines to decrease
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by ralph84 5y ago
OPT is basically an internship. Internships are often at/near minimum wage, regardless of degree level or immigration status.
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by ralph84 5y ago
> their agency was making most of their money Allowing body shops to sponsor H1B visas is ridiculous and directly leads to this kind of exploitation. Requiring the place where the person actually works to sponsor instead would make so mu
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by ralph84 5y ago
Those spaces exist but in general people with kids don't want to live there.
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by ralph84 5y ago
I don't get it. In the OP he shows that the Cray compiler handles this feature. So why not just have the customer use that compiler? Yes there's a license fee but presumably someone from Cray can get a good price on the Cray compi
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by ralph84 5y ago
> Except for the actual binary of the MSI installer for Windows and client specific configuration files, all the software is available under the GNU GPL and other Open Source licenses. They’re paying for a Windows installer. Building Win
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by ralph84 5y ago
It seemed likely early on that the risks of vaccination exceeded the benefits for healthy young people, but the argument was they should get vaccinated anyway so they wouldn't be able to transmit the virus to someone more vulnerable. N
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by ralph84 5y ago
Nasdaq currently has 4,826 listed companies and NYSE has 3,163. So yes, I would say it's significant when the frauds are within one order of magnitude of the total.
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by ralph84 5y ago
In the Chinese reverse merger fraud of the late 2000s/early 2010s there were hundreds of bogus companies that walked off with at least half a trillion dollars. Roughly 10X the size of the Madoff fraud. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by ralph84 5y ago
> the landing page of GitHub annoys the shit out of me. Every damn time. I don't wanna register with three clicks if I already have an account. ? If you're not signed in, `Sign in` is available on literally every page in the up
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by ralph84 5y ago
Your county health officer and my county health officer have had quite different takes on covid.
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by ralph84 5y ago
Santa Clara county. Every time there was a new health order or vaccine availability change they sent an alert. Not from an app. On iPhone the options are amber alerts, emergency alerts, and public safety alerts. The question is what combo o
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by ralph84 5y ago
In California is there a way to configure an iPhone so you get earthquake alerts but not covid alerts?
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by ralph84 5y ago
Given the number of garbage companies that have managed and continue to manage to get themselves listed on Nasdaq or NYSE via reverse mergers, a listing on a US stock exchange just ain't what it used to be.

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