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by sct202 5y ago
In America, some stores seem to share rewards member information to product companies so they can target their ads on other platforms. For example, I paid for a very specific candy from CVS using my credit card, but used my partner's C
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They could suck up the losses of closing a 1 year old warehouse to send a signal. Walmart has claimed unfixable plumbing problems at union stores and closed them in the past.
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I couldn't find anything by site, but TSMC reported these stats in their 2019 Annual Report as a whole out of 51k employees: 5k managers, 24k professionals, 4k assistants and 17k technicians. They reported highest level of education fo
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by sct202 6y ago
From this paper that is specifically looking at scholars: "Fifth, because the scholars were not appointed until they reached young adulthood, our investigation was limited to adult mortality. The effects of shifts in infant and child m
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by sct202 6y ago
You can API google search results to make a meta-search engine if you want to but it's like $5 / 1k requests.
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People talk about the grocery shrink ray, but the packaged goods companies frequently have to reset the sizes of products so that they don't get too small. That's why at the stores, you'll see products shrink for a while and
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I don't know about solely developed, but South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan did receive substantial amounts of foreign aid in the post-war period. In addition, some of this aid financed land reforms that forced large land owners to break u
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They can process the beans and no one will notice. There are a lot of cocoa processors who produce bulk chocolate for other brands who melt that down to form their own products. Companies like Barry Callebaut or Valrhona primarily supply ot
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They used to avoid certain states for reasons like that (also sales tax), but now that they're going for same day or 1 day delivery it isn't feasible to do that anymore. For example, Amazon didn't have any warehouses in Illin
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They might pull the old oops the plumbing broke and is unfixable excuse. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-ove...
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The on hand inventory is most likely wrong in the system, so it probably thinks there are phantom units available. This happens a lot with products that could have been lost, stolen or expired and the system was not updated.
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But how much would a person value an inventory system? For retailers there are financial impacts so that they can maximize inventory turns and minimize lost sales. If I run out of spaghetti it's a minor inconvenience and there isn&#x27
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I wonder if that 55% is from mturk or other survey sites that can be somewhat questionable in terms of quality with how much people are paying attention versus maximizing their hourly survey earnings.
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I have older parents who had me at 40, and I wouldn't feel guilty over it if I were you. I didn't really realize how much older my parents were than a lot of other people's until I went to college.
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Monetization on Vimeo basically requires you to already have a following of some sort to sell subscriptions or pay per view videos. So I've seen some people use Youtube as a funnel to get viewership and send them into other services li
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by sct202 6y ago
I don't think this is a new thing. I was raised in the 90s in a very suburban area and I never heard the n-word spoken and it was always censored when spoken when we read To Kill a Mockingbird.
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In my peer group people are focusing on the monthly payments, rather than the loan amount. And mortgage rates are like half what they were in the last housing bubble https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
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by sct202 6y ago
You can sometimes buy pre-ipo shares on EquityZen or similar platforms if you meet certain standards. It's all very thinly offered though, and sometimes they bundle offers.
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I think it's 2 conflicting things going on. An owned brand/private label has higher % gross profit, but a name brand will often have a higher $ gross profit per unit. There's a balance for total profit between the whole set o
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The ones who are there because of wealth and connections aren't going to be applying for jobs on the open market, they're going to get jobs directly thru connections.
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The top colleges have very complicated pricing schemes and are basically free to middle and lower income students, for example a student to MIT only pays if their family earns more than $90k a year which is above the median household income
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A lot of the countries on your list are basically only accessible by air travel, so it's much easier to control and track travelers in and out of their countries.
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It's how it works at most big companies. There's a very big impact to morale if people think they'll get sacked at the end of a big project or if VP's best friend needs a job. The normal way to onboard a new better perso
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There were 3 'once in 500 year' floods in Houston from 2015-2017. It makes no sense.
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Novavax is growing whole modified spike proteins and sticking a dozen of them on to a nanoparticle. The article mentions their peptide is only a small fraction of the size of the spike protein.
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When you're poor and inexperienced, you probably don't have much of a basis of estimating the risk versus reward of all the potential options you could put that money into. There are a lot of influencers selling courses saying tha
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I'm a little more hopeful. They've never been punished like this before for their work. In the future, they'll probably be more careful about who they work with and what they recommend. Not to mention, Purdue Pharma is alread
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The PC market is basically all download now. Most pre-built gaming PCs don't have disc drives, and then gaming laptops with disc drives are basically non-existent. Imo, the consoles have been stingy on built in storage space and also p
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Yeah, all the early holders will be fine and will have the lions share of the gains. Everyone else who has dogpiled in will have more mixed results.
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The culture war thing is so mystifying with this especially since like Wall Street bets on both sides. So when you're pumping some random stock for supposed ideological reasons you're probably helping a bunch of Wall Street firms

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