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by ralph84 3y ago
Deep State retains their board seat with Summers.
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by ralph84 3y ago
No, her job is to be interim CEO. The board hires the CEO.
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by ralph84 3y ago
You still are buying from a dealer. Basically Amazon will be another car listing service like cars.com.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Because if there was actually a shortage of $80k employees the salary would increase. There is no better way to determine where there’s a shortage than the salary.
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by ralph84 3y ago
The commission is spelled out in the listing contract between the seller and their agent. The buyer is not a party to that contract and can’t dictate changes to it.
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by ralph84 3y ago
The biggest players in AI haven’t been VC-funded for decades. Unless you mean their customers are VC-funded, but even then startups are a much smaller portion of their revenue than Fortune 500.
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by ralph84 3y ago
They’re getting hit on both ends of the broadband market. Nobody who cares about speeds and feeds is going with Comcast if fiber is available. And an increasing number of those who don’t care about speeds and feeds are dropping home interne
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by ralph84 3y ago
Too little too late. Comcast is running ads trying to scare people into not dropping their home internet service. That’s a pretty clear sign that a lot of people are doing just that and relying solely on mobile.
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by ralph84 3y ago
I’m quite certain that nobody involved here has been around for 235 or 60,000 years.
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by ralph84 3y ago
It works for the market Southwest serves, but that’s not the same market United is going after.
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by ralph84 3y ago
The CPI is calculated by the US government. They have every incentive to understate inflation and zero incentive for it to be accurate. The US government is the biggest debtor in the world. Inflation is good for debtors. The US government i
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by ralph84 3y ago
Contrast to Vinod Khosla who couldn’t have been anywhere near as successful anywhere other than California. As a thank you he tries to restrict public access to California beaches.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Although I agree with the premise, this article is just a book ad.
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It’s all so ridiculous. Microsoft got nailed for talking about beating the competition. They’re trying to nail Google for training employees to not talk about beating the competition. What is competition supposed to be if it’s not beating t
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by ralph84 3y ago
Maybe not legally, but morally this is a mass layoff without severance. Hopefully people remember if this company tries to hire again.
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by ralph84 3y ago
As always, the US government goes after the small fry who are easy wins to appear to be doing something. The irony is the only real victim here is the Chinese government who made a grant to start a company that was spent on real estate spec
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by ralph84 3y ago
So in response to people being unable to afford kids, we depress wages to make it even harder to afford kids. Got it.
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by ralph84 3y ago
> inevitably overseas investors, such as US based entities, will lose out more As they should. US-based entities speculating in China thinking the CCP had their back falls squarely into play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Who is “we”? Current self-driving research is almost entirely funded by private investors. We’re way past the days of it being a darpa science project.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Yes, unfortunately. It’s not like these people were hiking in the wilderness and might be found alive. They’re buried in the ashes of the fire.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Renewables are subsidized and nuclear isn’t. They go where the government cheese is.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Low margin is fine if you process $trillions like Visa. Investors are betting on who will be the next Visa.
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by ralph84 3y ago
Every business wants to price discriminate in order to capture consumer surplus as revenue. This is just another way for PG&E to leverage their monopoly to price discriminate.
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by ralph84 3y ago
The shareholders have all delegated their voting rights to money managers who don’t care as long as they keep getting a percentage of assets under management and the board members are all obscenely paid executives at other companies who don
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by ralph84 3y ago
How many requests are in the pipeline.
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by ralph84 3y ago
There’s a lot of empty space everywhere. Entire continents are mostly empty. You may have a preference to leave those continents uninhabited, but if humans need the space they’ll use it. It will be a lot easier to colonize the Australian Ou
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by ralph84 3y ago
And browsers would give a huge red alert for self-signed certs but say nothing about plaintext HTTP. Presumably that’s where the snark is coming from. Clearly the plaintext HTTP was less secure than self-signed certs but browsers perpetuat
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by ralph84 3y ago
This is also interesting: > Moline published an article in 2019 studying 33 patients who said their only exposure to asbestos came from talc products, and Emory, Kradin and Maddox followed up with a 2020 study of 75 similar patients. &gt
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by ralph84 3y ago
I was tangentially involved in a deal where a Big Tech company acquired a VC-funded startup. The startup hired an investment bank as an advisor. The same investment bank that routinely underwrites debt offerings for the Big Tech company. So
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OTA would die overnight if it had to pay market rate for the spectrum it occupies. I’m sure their lobbyists paint the sad picture of a blaring TV being the only connection to society for lonely seniors, but maybe there are better ways to so

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