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901.
by robjan 7y ago
It limits the parent company's liabilities for one. If, for some reason, the camera division starts hemorrhaging money they can just cut it off or let it go bankrupt without harming the parent company too much.
902.
by robjan 7y ago
That is not true. Hong Kong has its own government. Yes, the government collaborates with China but we have a separate legal system and are treated as a separate country for customs and immigration purposes.
903.
by robjan 7y ago
A billionaire doesn't care when the price of a loaf of bread increases by 10% and, in any case, the money will eventually trickle up to the billionaire.
904.
by robjan 7y ago
GraphQL also moves the N+1 problem (data fetching being dependent on other data that you are fetching) to the server side where latencies should theoretically be lower.
905.
by robjan 7y ago
It's covered in the article. Sanitisers cause the mask to lose effectiveness due to loss of static charge in the microfibres.
906.
by robjan 7y ago
The ozone layer filters out most of the UVC light which is needed to destroy the virus / bacteria.
907.
by robjan 7y ago
This document was probably written in WordPerfect which is popular in the legal profession due to the typesetting options. It stores its documents in XML format.
908.
by robjan 7y ago
This is how legal documents are always written. It's a convention that goes back to the typewriter days which never changed.
909.
by robjan 7y ago
If you say "Act of Congress" in the UK everyone will either not know what you are talking about or assume you are referring to the USA.
910.
by robjan 7y ago
Only if it's an a SIM purchased from abroad. You need to produce a form of national ID if you want to purchase a SIM in Taiwan.
911.
by robjan 7y ago
Doesn't this risk exist with all types of food factory?
912.
by robjan 7y ago
Who's the bad guy? Viruses don't have intentions
913.
by robjan 7y ago
Just focus on shipping your product. Most products never get any traction and one of the reasons is lack of focus (defending your brand before it's established is hard work). Register your company name as a trademark, if possible.
914.
by robjan 7y ago
There are plenty of articles but that doesn't mean they are correct. Here is a peer reviewed study demonstrating that masks are helpful. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133551... Ma
915.
by robjan 7y ago
The miles are paid from selling your data, not the processing fees. That's why higher net worth people get better rewards.
916.
by robjan 7y ago
Offering lower prices to cash customers usually violates the agreement between the merchant and the card network.
917.
by robjan 7y ago
It makes more sense when teamwork involves physically working on the same thing. With information work, which most of us do, there is no real need for a specific coffee break.
918.
by robjan 7y ago
Because it's just a series of loaded questions. If you have already drawn conclusions then why ask the question in the first place.
919.
by robjan 7y ago
I have seen people posting this idea on Facebook and am not convinced by the economics of it. If you buy a gift card the company may be able to survive in the short term by covering their operational expenditure. But then it will cannibalis
920.
by robjan 7y ago
Hand sanitiser is not essential, however it's an important tool which helps reduce the chance of infection in the general population. If someone is carrying a sanitiser they will most likely use it and that benefits everyone.
921.
by robjan 7y ago
wsb is about speculation, not investing. This straw man doesn't diminish my argument.
922.
by robjan 7y ago
There are other investment vehicles than cash and toilet paper. One's that are actually productive.
923.
by robjan 7y ago
How much food is actually imported from China into your country?
924.
by robjan 7y ago
Okay, so how is this a problem that exists with Amazon and not the hypothetical website that this man should have set up? We're starting to go off on a bit of a tangent here.
925.
by robjan 7y ago
Amazon has a bad reputation but in almost all cases issues are resolved quickly. Nobody is going to write about their good experience with Amazon.
926.
by robjan 7y ago
It's not really about sense of hustle. The problem is on the demand side, not the supply side. The vast majority of people would not trust a fly-by-night website selling hand sanitisers at elevated price.
927.
by robjan 7y ago
In the UK cha/char (never seen it written down, so don't know how to spell it) is a relatively common colloquial term for tea.
928.
by robjan 7y ago
If you're going to recommend your own product you should state your connection.
929.
by robjan 7y ago
The halvening usually causes the price to go up
930.
by robjan 7y ago
It's a related but different virus. Also, the environment in the Middle East tends to be arid.

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