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by rmah 5y ago
The iPad will NEVER be a full-fledged computer. Never ever. By design. The same way Apple will never make a phone or watch that is a full-fledged computer. In their view it is not what padds are. Full stop. Personally, I like it this w
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by rmah 5y ago
A $50mil budget for a applied research project seems pretty low to me, especially when split up between multiple orgs.
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Nations in the far east already have have vast fish farms in the ocean (along the coasts). They are huge and produce huge quantities of fish -- a substantial percentage of fish consumed. But there are species that people like to eat that
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by rmah 5y ago
I'm curious, how do you deal with daylight savings time switches?
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The UK already has an 18% GST rate, which is equivalent to an 18% tax on revenues. In 2020, Apple had revenues of $274B and pre-tax net income of $67B. On which, they paid $10B in income tax (a 15% rate). Apple revenues in the UK was abou
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by rmah 5y ago
[edit] "all but the four largest"... my bad, I misread. Not sure why comparing mega-corps to small nations has much value though. Not sure where you got your info, but I'm afraid it seems inaccurate. The total wealth of t
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by rmah 5y ago
Your baseless opinion is 100% correct. Biological brains are not Turing machines and do not have a Harvard or even a Von Neumann architecture. If I understand it correctly, biological brains are essentially associative memory machines wher
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by rmah 5y ago
You can stop believing the idiocy printed by rags masquerading as newspapers. Microsoft did not even make £220B (apx $310B) revenue globally in the 2020 fiscal year, much less in one subsidiary. Their total global revenues were $143B and
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by rmah 5y ago
Microsoft did not even make that much revenue in the 2020 fiscal year. Total global revenues were $143B and total global net income (aka profit) was $44. It was the a very good year for Microsoft. But £220B (apx $310B) in profits is la
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by rmah 5y ago
It's only 1/8th of your awake time if you don't count weekends. If you count weekends, you have 5 * 8 + 2 * 16 = 72 hours of "free time". so 5 hrs commute / 32 hrs = 6.94% or 1/14.4 of your time awake.
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To call the Yangtze dam a "short term gain" is ... short sighted. Now, I can't speak to the effectiveness of the dam, but its goals and objectives were literally epic in scope. But to understand the goals, you have to under
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by rmah 5y ago
Money laundering is not always linked to criminal activity except in so far as money laundering it itself illegal. Many nations (and not just "third world" nations) have some pretty onerous restrictions of flow of capital. A lot
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Hey, don't hold back, tell us what you really think!
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Repealing social security has been a wink-wink, nudge-nudge part of the unspoken Republican platform since social security was created.
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by rmah 5y ago
The simple truth is that even small companies get solicited a dozen times a day. Managers at larger companies get hit up even more. Even if they get past the spam filter, most go strait into the trash. So to answer your first question: at
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by rmah 5y ago
Sales of such health and wellness products such as skincare creams/ointments/whatnot is mostly about marketing and distribution channels than traditional "sales" (i.e. talking to people). You will, of course, need to t
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by rmah 5y ago
I'd rather a thousand cute bunnies go blind (or worse) than one woman's eyesight be harmed by dangerous makeup.
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Any functioning society would gladly sacrifice a serial killer to save millions of innocent children.
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You aren't the only one. There's something subtly "wrong" about the typefaces. Likely because it's "scientifically designed" rather than simply designed. IMO typeface design is an art, not a science. A
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by rmah 5y ago
A full 100% of the drugs sold today are manufactured using only ingredients found in nature! <sarcasm>
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by rmah 5y ago
I think the 2.6 mil refers to the # of titles available for sale, not the number of copies sold.
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I think they meant 2.6 mil titles, not copies.
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How is it a legitimate fine if the company doesn't do business in the country that issued the fine?
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Um, the concept of "econommies of scale" is something that has existed since the start of the industrial revolution. This is nothing new to Big Tech.
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Robots are everywhere. We just don't call them robots. We call them dishwashers, CNC machines, STM machines, automatic welders, fabric cutting machines, etc, etc. Sort of like we already have flying cars. They're called "h
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by rmah 5y ago
This is quite insightful. I never thought of it this way but I think you are correct. If I could rephrase it a bit more clinically, the signaling of fitness (wealth, social status, etc) is important to the human mating rituals. And diamon
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by rmah 5y ago
This is a common problem in poor nations and probably worse in the larger ones. Poor nations simply cannot afford the infrastructure necessary to maintain a deep bureaucracy that tracks everything and everyone. In addition, some of the pe
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4% of your market buying the same paperback in some mass hysteria moment is not sustainable, that's just not how physical books work. That's exactly how physical books work. It's always been this way. All media is a hit d
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Having money worth more tomorrow than today is how you get a stagnant economy and misery for everyone but the very rich. It's how you depress consumption and investment. It's how you destroy a nation. Money is not wealth. Money
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by rmah 5y ago
Are you asserting that lower income people cannot be as greedy as higher income people?

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