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by scarab92 2y ago
Unfortunately, accounting is full of concepts like this. Ideas which conceptually make accounting “better reflect” the real word, but in reality add a lot of complexity for very little benefit. Getting rid of accrual accounting and simply a
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Musk didn’t do a nazi salute. The gesture he did is both mechanistically different, and contextually different. It’s only people who are convinced a priori that he’s a Nazi who seem to contort his awkward gesture to fit that narrative.
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Australia had very few EV models available prior to the BYD launches. A 17% fall in the face of such a large step change increase in competition isn’t too bad.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Tesla sales only dropping 17% after BYD launched here is surprising. BYD’s launch was aggressive with several new models and significantly cheaper pricing.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Let’s not turn this site into reddit. It’s obvious to anyone who has watched the video with an iota of common sense that Musk didn’t deliberately make a Nazi salute. Even the hypersensitive ADL can recognise that.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Google uses the official place names of the user’s country. If the governments of Spain or Columbia want to opine on what it should be called, I’m sure Google would adopt it for their citizens
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Many of the left’s ideas look just as silly to the right, as some of the right’s ideas look to you. It’s double standard to insist that your ideological positions should be respected but others shouldn’t.
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by scarab92 2y ago
The left have been pressuring companies to adopt all sorts of ideological partisan positions for years, so it’s a bit hypocritical to expect companies to ignore the government now that the tide has turned.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Forgive the silly question, but does the lab leak theory entail the virus being engineered in the lab, or simply sampled from nature by researchers then not adequately contained? I’m not clear on what exactly is being alleged by these agenc
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by scarab92 2y ago
If the MVP finds product market fit and the market is large enough, then the economic incentive to finish the remaining 20% will exist. If the market isn’t large enough, then the customer still got 80% of the value whereas in the authors id
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by scarab92 2y ago
> Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it That’s exactly what it means under the presumption of innocence. Advocating for the continued imprisonment of someone for something they are legally conside
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by scarab92 2y ago
The presumption of innocence is a legal principle that every person accused of any crime is considered innocent until proven guilty. Under the presumption of innocence, the legal burden of proof is thus on the prosecution, which must presen
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by scarab92 2y ago
The attempted murder charge was dropped. Under our system that means he should be considered innocent of it. This conversation is messy mostly because people are refusing to do that, which is akin to vigilantism. A good faith discussion sho
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by scarab92 2y ago
No, #FFF is white, and it's up to the client to decide what white should look like. Arguing that we should use, say, #CCC for white, is like saying that instead of rating things out of a 100, you should rate them out of 70 instead. All
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> The United States here feels entitled to own and run an app used on every continent of the world. This isn’t correct. The US law only applies to the services provided within the US. ByteDance could spin out the US userbase while retain
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You can’t claim this is unfair to China, when China requires foreign companies enter into joint ventures which give the Chinese partner majority voting share. The US is simply reciprocating.
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Are you saying serving content to the application would not count as maintenance?
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Fiduciary responsibilities make it unlikely that many companies would risk it. There’s always a chance you don’t come back, and there’s likely to be a loss of marketshare for simply being unavailable for a period and forcing users to trial
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by scarab92 2y ago
Disagree, white should be standardised as #FFFFFF so that it’s consistent between applications. Then users can adjust how they want “white” to appear by adjusting their screen settings.
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That depends entirely on ambient light levels. All screens are brighter than white paper under moon light, almost none are brighter than white paper under midday sun.
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I don’t particularly care what is traditional. There’s a significant base of users that prefer light mode and dark mode so provide both, it’s generally not difficult to do so. I disagree that apps should tone down light mode. It’s better th
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by scarab92 2y ago
Douyin isn't available outside China. TikTok isn't available within China. There's no risk of brand dilution.
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The Chinese government has a majority of the voting stock. More importantly, the company based in China, and the engineers working on it's recommendation system are based in China, and both are subject to the laws of China. From a nati
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I doubt this has anything to do with "data". I generally view "data is the new oil" arguments as a sign that the journalist doesn't know what they are talking about, especially if they can't characterise what d
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Adults are also quite susceptible to propaganda.
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The TikTok branding and user base are already firewalled from ByteDance's Chinese operations. Their Chinese variant of TikTok is called Douyin, so there wouldn't be any brand dilution from spinning TikTok off. I also have doubts t
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It's hard for China to claim that they are being treated unfairly, when US companies are generally only permitted to hold a minority 49% interest of the Chinese operations. The US is just reciprocating.
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There's no guarantee that will happen, and even if it does, TikTok will likely have lost marketshare by being unavailable for a period of time. A financially motivated actor would have avoided the damage by spinning it out. They likely
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If ByteDance's interest in TikTok was purely commercial, they would have made the commercial decision to spin out the US market into a US-listed public company or sold it to a US buyer. The fact that they chose to shut down instead, st
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> If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing Most likely, the rationale will be similar to Huawei and Kaspersky. Not based on actual historical misbehaviour, but rather the amount of power you’re allowing their respective

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