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by ralph84 6y ago
Here are two recent deals that were <$0 net for a 3-year lease: https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/nj-bolt-premier-mic-drop-5618... https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/signed-2020-bolt-lt-1700-one-...
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by ralph84 6y ago
Then get a Chevy Bolt. A 3-year lease is almost free once you start stacking all of the available incentives.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Yet China already has these small EVs, and their traffic-related death numbers are abysmal compared to North America. Yes, even when adjusted for population.
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by ralph84 6y ago
The self-dealing between the company and the founder was pretty scammy.
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by ralph84 6y ago
It has to be more than just a “net economic benefit” in a country with such large wealth inequality. Something that makes Jeff Bezos $1 billion and costs everyone else $900 million is a “net economic benefit”, but that doesn’t make it desir
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by ralph84 6y ago
No more or less "wasteful" than anything else that happens in big budget movie production. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to tell a story. If people like the story the movie investors make a profit. If not, they take a
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by ralph84 6y ago
It's not so tricky. Make the imported product more expensive. Tariffs more or less funded the entire US federal government for the first half of its existence.
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by ralph84 6y ago
It's been decades since vaccine makers had any liability for their products in the US. That hasn't changed with COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...
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by ralph84 6y ago
As long as Netflix continues paying top-of-market they'll have no problem attracting talent regardless of whether they allow WFH. It's the companies that don't pay top-of-market that have to think longer and harder about WFH.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Oracle's marketing is more to preserve their existing install base than acquire new customers.
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by ralph84 6y ago
And yet Japan has the second-longest life expectancy in the world. The "we need open borders or we'll end up like Japan" argument just doesn't seem very strong when Japan does well in most quality-of-life metrics.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Why do you need to replace population? Is Japan really that bad of a place? And Japan's population has been in the 120-130 million range for the last 35 years, so it's not like there's been a huge swing either way.
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by ralph84 6y ago
EFS is much more expensive than S3, so there is a strong incentive to make your app work with S3 unless you absolutely need a filesystem.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Even legitimate IRC servers are DoS attack magnets.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Almost all company-sponsored programming languages are run as loss leaders to enable selling some other profitable product of the company. What is the profitable product that Rust enables?
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by ralph84 6y ago
He "thought" he chipped a tooth, which means he didn't actually. It's all just a bunch of emotionally manipulative language, which obviously had its intended effect.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Buffett spent the last six months panic selling. "Be fearful when others are fearful" is his new motto. He doesn't have the same political connections he had during the GFC to get in on the sweet government-backed bailout dea
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by ralph84 6y ago
You can't have digital signatures without all of the attendant PKI baggage. And if you're going to implement all of the PKI baggage, might as well go all the way and start issuing people smart cards.
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by ralph84 6y ago
People regularly go to prison for violating US trade sanctions. The majority of Apple's employees including all of their executives are in the US and easy to find. I doubt any of them are volunteering to test the boundaries of US trade
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by ralph84 6y ago
The charitable take is he's still a socially awkward nerd. The uncharitable take is he's still as ruthless as he was during the embrace, extend, extinguish days and since the pandemic has been great business for him why shouldn&#x
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by ralph84 6y ago
The country famous for BSE is in a bit of a glass house when it comes to farming practices.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Not mentioned at all in the article, but what will be more interesting is when all of the landlords start appealing their property tax assessments. Obviously if the government has prevented the property from being used, it's not worth
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by ralph84 6y ago
It depends on who’s flying it. No argument the aircraft design was faulty and Boeing is fully responsible for that, and even worse covering it up. However Lion Air pretty regularly crashes non-MAX 737s and the first officer on Ethiopian was
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by ralph84 6y ago
The video game industry isn’t alone in doing this. Basically every “glamor” industry exploits young people with a dream. Entertainment, sports, airlines. They all have young people working for less than minimum wage in hopes of a shot at th
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by ralph84 6y ago
If the best source of capital you can find for your company is the government of a third-tier Chinese city, maybe your company isn't such a great idea in the first place.
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by ralph84 6y ago
All of the founders except one were already gone, and the remaining one left immediately after the acquisition closed. It wasn't about executing a vision, it was about cashing out.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when one person intentionally damages someone else's contractual or business relationships with a third party
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by ralph84 6y ago
The biggest lending institution in the junk bond market is now the federal reserve, so traditional notions of risk and profit are out the window.
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by ralph84 6y ago
No worries, another PE firm will come along to bail them out by issuing more debt and of course paying themselves a dividend. Rinse, repeat.
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by ralph84 6y ago
From an evolutionary perspective, a desirable male is one whose genes will produce offspring with the best chance of reproductive success. Everything else is secondary. The sexy son hypothesis[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2

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