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meh kind of another fluff content marketing piece making unsubstantiated generalizations, but to raise brand awareness about a PM rather than a vc firm etc. > Just like you interview with multiple companies and choose between multiple of
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Externality has a specific technical meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
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> They're not all contributing to that specific accident, but they're contributing to the rate of accidents. > For a more extreme example, imagine a million drunk drivers getting on the road at the same time to drive a signi
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I think they just want to rant about the evils of social media.
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Surprised there is no mention that during this period 1932 and 1938 the US was de-militarized! In 1939 the The US had the 17th largest Army in the world by size, and half of it was the national guard. https://web.archive.org&#x2F
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Not only was there no obligation to declare war, but it was Hitler's first formal declaration of war in the conflict! So there was no precedent for expecting him too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_w
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In WW2 the US was the first country that Germany formally declared war on, and was not required by its treaty with Japan, so thats an odd theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_war_during_Wor... People f
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> If 1000 drivers are being unsafe, are they not all contributing? Surely the one driver that actually causes a fatal accident doesn't absorb the blame from the other 999. 1000 drivers contribute to 1 accident ??? No they are essent
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Don't think this is the correct usage of externality... It's more that it's an acceptable risk, until it happens. Externality would imply the vast majority of drivers who are never involved in fatal accidents contributed to c
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my heart goes out to all the victims of abuse, but not the ones that one time were on an email chain and their bosses-boss called the team they were on a bunch of "dumb dolphins"
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> The point of fines and regulations is to encourage drivers to drive better to reduce the chances of the accidents taking place. E.g. Speed limits encourage drivers to change their behavior so that we have fewer accidents. Driver behavi
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plenty of decisions that result in the death of people in the medical industry and others suffer no consequences, but it's pointless to debate your unspecified hypothetical. Not sure how you can possibly look at something that kills 40
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> The best thing you can do is ignore all of the inflation talk and focus on building your business. Yeah the only inflation founder's need to worry about it is the valuations. Some will raise an A at 100x revenue but if B-Public mu
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Yeah its terrifying. As he says "They are reckless & can see the main road is clear", blind spots are scary.
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Rather than unintentionally causing a car accident, let's say it was an engineer bringing down production. You are saying Engineers need more negative incentives; they should loose there job for accidentally bringing down production. B
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"Prestige" TV about unhappy families Succession (2018 - present) Drama, Dark Comedy Fleabag (2016-2019) British Dark Comedy Undone (2019) Psychological Thriller, Drama Other TV The Expanse (2015 - present) Space Opera Made in Abys
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You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_War Same director, lots of cast overlap
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It's a systemic issue drivers are one stakeholder and many are responsible. Vehicle designers & manufactures, Urban Planners etc. > people respond better when there are real costs associated with driving poorly The real cost is
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> Think about abuse in other contexts to put it in perspective. If a teacher in the middle of giving a homework assignment had said the same thing, would that be okay? What about a police officer who pulled someone over during a traffic
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Agreed, to characterize it as such is a dis-service to people who have suffered abuse in the workplace.
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Seems like a mistake to assume ability/cost of getting a new job is indicative of making positive contributions. A lot of hire-ability in Tech is based on brand (university or employer) and network. Tech is actually a very snobby indus
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> You mean, people who oversaw the roll-out of a new, horrible design with no testing and multiple breaking bugs that took over a year to fix (and many are still not fixed)? lol but wouldn't that all have rolled up to the new CEO si
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> However you don't win arguments by arbitrarily definition words or phrases to be what you would like them to be > the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to excl
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> This is the point. Amazon is has too much market share for that to be feasible. Market share of what ? The internet? Of course Vendors can become too dependent selling thru Amazon just like they can with any large retailer or on any en
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>it’s similar to credit cards if a cash discount is banned. [1] A merchant is permitted to offer discounts for paying in cash, however, the discount must be given as a reduction from the standard price. Does Amazon prevent you from offer
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Not really, you have to make several huge assumptions for them to get close to logical equivalence like 1) ALL PRODUCTS ARE LISTED ON AMAZON 2) ALL PRODUCTS ARE LISTED ON AMAZON BY THE ORIGINAL UNIQUE MANUFACTURER Are two major ones.
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> The additional $1.98 is going to Doordash Yes it is > It represents the additional value that their service provides. In theory but that is with non real world assumptions. In this case, I would be charged 20% more for the identical
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> an unelected corporate bureaucrat in Seattle Do board votes or shareholder votes not count ?
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Amazon is not allowing the the price to be raised for the Consumer. My local FiveGuys sells a Cheeseburger for $11.87 Thru DoorDash app but for $9.89 thru the FiveGuys App. We aren't even talking about a different service like Delivery
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> I guess it’s a little confusing because when Amazon sets a maximum price policy on their marketplace pegged against others, it in effect creates a minimum price policy on other marketplaces. I just don't find it a convincing argum

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