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by ralph84 6y ago
MSRP is a reference point. So is invoice. You shouldn't ignore either, but one is not a better reference point than the other. Maybe 20 years ago when you had to pay a publisher to get the invoice price, but now that invoice prices are
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by ralph84 7y ago
Of course customers don’t say “I want complex software.” They say “I want software that works well for my use case.” Except their use case is slightly different than any other customer’s use case. You only have to have a few customers like
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by ralph84 7y ago
> Third, if you have been with us for less than one year, we have removed your cliff and extended your PTE to 1 year from today. You joined Carta to create owners and to become one. Everyone affected today will be an owner of Carta. PTE
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by ralph84 7y ago
Exactly. Plus you have to dig out from under the taxes and fees. You always want the cheapest money for the longest term. The only reason to go with a shorter term is if the interest rate is significantly lower. Being "underwater"
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by ralph84 7y ago
Judging by the comments no one is actually reading TFA. Article is about the 2001 anthrax attacks. Two USPS employees died. Article is basically complaining that the USPS didn't upend their entire way of doing business in response to a
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by ralph84 7y ago
> Does Wi-Fi use the same frequency for a transmitter and receiver? Yes
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Boards would never go for it because it would reveal how little work they actually do.
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by ralph84 7y ago
https://nationalpost.com/news/a-brief-terrifying-history-of-... > SARS has not re-emerged naturally, but there have been six escapes from virology labs: one each in Singapore and Taiwan, and four separate escapes at
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by ralph84 7y ago
That the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing research on engineered coronaviruses isn't in dispute. They have published several research papers describing their work over the last 10 years. It wouldn't have had to have been a de
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by ralph84 7y ago
Many of these retailers were barely holding on as it was. Any "wealth" that they have is heavily encumbered by debt. They have bills to pay and severely reduced income. Someone's not getting paid.
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by ralph84 7y ago
The idea of renting time on someone else's computing equipment goes back at least to the 1930s. https://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/did-the-us-govern...
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by ralph84 7y ago
> Economic interdependence makes war a lot harder. Citation needed. The American Revolutionary War, The American Civil War, WWI, WWII, just to name a few, all involved belligerents with significant economic interdependence.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Around $10 million per life seems to be the number used in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#United_States
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by ralph84 7y ago
Or even a basic cost/benefit analysis. "We expect this will save X lives, at a cost of $Y to the economy." Shouldn't someone be doing that analysis? There are lots of things that would save lives if we did them (e.g. ban
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by ralph84 7y ago
Both HOA and property taxes are a lien on the property and will eventually lead to losing the property if you don’t pay them. You seem to be assuming landlords are “rich” and tenants are “poor”, which may be true in many cases but it’s not
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by ralph84 7y ago
Landlords have more expenses than just mortgage payments. Property taxes, insurance, HOA, property management, maintenance. Suspend all of those too?
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by ralph84 7y ago
If the author thinks overhearing some people saying old people will die soon in any case is “staggering, heartless cruelty”, he really needs to get out more.
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by ralph84 7y ago
In the US your only defense for using someone else's copyrighted broadcast is fair use. Making clips of every play of every game is highly unlikely to be considered fair use.
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by ralph84 7y ago
It’s a tautology that the biggest tech companies have benefited the most. Microsoft generates more revenue from Linux (via Linux VMs on Azure) than any Linux company ever did.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Sure pilots experience failures in the sim. The point is they can't experience every possible failure scenario or they'd never get out of the sim. Southwest has had three fatalities in 48 years of operation, and in only one of tho
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by ralph84 7y ago
For any airline sim time is a finite resource. They have to choose what to focus on. They can't have every pilot experience every possible failure in the sim.
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by ralph84 7y ago
The 757 and 767 were designed at the same time and have a common type rating. It’s not unusual at an airline that has both aircraft for a pilot to be flying a 757 one day and a 767 the next.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Money quote: > I’m not a financial analyst and I haven’t gone through the numbers in detail
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by ralph84 7y ago
This. Some of the highest paid individual contributors in the world are actors and professional athletes. They're represented by unions.
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by ralph84 7y ago
Every unprofitable growth company says they’re doing it “by choice”. And every unprofitable growth company burns investor dollars (where else would the dollars come from?). During Amazon’s unprofitable years many people were saying the exac
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by ralph84 7y ago
In the US a law saying a newspaper owner isn't allowed to control editorial policy wouldn't make it past the first amendment.
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by ralph84 7y ago
I don't know Chinese, but my reading was a mistranslation of Idol as in the various Idol TV shows.
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by ralph84 7y ago
How is https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/ materially different from https://developer.github.com/marketplace/ ? Not trolling, just curious why you think one is open and one is not
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by ralph84 7y ago
Nowhere else in the world other than California could Khosla have amassed the wealth he has in the way that he did. You'd think at some point he'd want to "give back", but I guess sociopaths gonna sociopath.
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by ralph84 7y ago
The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, 57 years before Alfred Nobel was born. He was aware of the field of economics and didn't think it was worthy of a prize. Fields such as mathematics and philosophy were also around in Nobel

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