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by sct202 7y ago
One of the criticisms of when Google Maps API was basically a free for all was that it was suppressing the ability of startups to exist by devaluing products; it seems like with these pricing changes Google is giving the competition an oppo
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by sct202 7y ago
Yep, and corporate profits have been pretty flat since 2011 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP
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by sct202 7y ago
The CEO of this company was the co-founder to Tile. I'm sure he could have paid out refunds if he tried to plan this out more responsibly.
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by sct202 7y ago
There are also options to purchase backdated cobra if there is an emergency and you didn't purchase it initially.
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by sct202 7y ago
Maybe, but a lot of the denials from services/consulting companies are of on-site semi-technical project managers who really wouldn't be that useful offshore. The technical people are already offshore.
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by sct202 7y ago
If Google had been bought by them, the would have been starved to death for resources from the messy merger with @Home.
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by sct202 7y ago
Grubhub was profitable (Q3 2019, they made $1 million), but now that they have real competition from Uber Eats and Doordash their fortunes have soured. https://investors.grubhub.com/investors/press-releases/press..
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by sct202 7y ago
Globalism has definitely supported the US tech industry significantly and wealth in cities that have tech giants. The internet was left basically open across borders, and I don't think that American tech's dominance would have bee
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by sct202 7y ago
But you own a portion of the house and the bank owns a portion equal to the loan value.
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by sct202 7y ago
I don't understand why they announced that Google Hangouts (classic) is closing to move to Google Hangouts Chat, like it's a chat app am I going to notice a difference, but now you just made me think that the whole service is shut
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by sct202 7y ago
Netflix is the last app that works on my Sony Google TV from 2011. The YouTube app shut off after like 2015, but 8 years later Netflix is still trucking.
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by sct202 7y ago
I think everyone had higher expectations for Google, but Microsoft doesn't get the same level of scrutiny for things like running a fully CCP approved version of Bing in China.
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by sct202 7y ago
Yeah, the person above you makes it sound like stores just have giant Dutch auctions for space when it's more like negotiating terms to a contract after they've already passed other qualifying steps.
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by sct202 7y ago
Are recruiting fees that high that they are able to pay their own staff and the recruits $10k (plus the "member" benefits) and make money?
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by sct202 7y ago
They should really make it obvious if it's commingled or not. I've read that some brands can block third parties and some 3rd party sellers can pay Amazon extra to stop their inventory from mixing, which seems like a scam on Ama
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by sct202 7y ago
Some of those low cost areas are in the country. A lot of the Rust Belt jobs moved within the USA to the South (especially with the auto industry), which is one of the reasons top line US industrial production is pretty stable/growing
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by sct202 7y ago
Both are definitely contributing, but automation/process improvements is very apparent in steel production: "In the 1980s, American steelmakers needed 10.1 man-hours to produce a ton of steel; now they need 1.5 man-hours, says Joe
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by sct202 7y ago
There are a hundred million+ factory workers in China producing products at massive scale for the world. Scaling up enough equipment, robots, and skilled workers in America to do even a fraction of that work is going to be a huge undertakin
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by sct202 7y ago
So many medical clinics and outpatient facilities don't have to deal with costs supporting those groups and they still have outrageous pricing. The homeless/unemployed/etc groups only really affect emergency care. If they are
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by sct202 7y ago
I'm not sure if I want a Stadia, but I think there is a product that could succeed doing something similar. Like, I occasionally play Starcraft and other PC games, but it's kind of a pain to plan out future desktop or laptop upgra
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by sct202 7y ago
I think it depends on the products, like Rodan & Fields seems to be popular specifically in higher income / educated demographics compared to other MLMs, like I've seen people who seem like they should know better get roped in
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by sct202 7y ago
A lot of companies have 3 parties do all the fulfillment (warehouse/packaging) for them and then the carriers are always FedEx, UPS, USPS. I've pushed almost all my online shopping off of Amazon (except for Kindle books) and haven
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by sct202 7y ago
It's ridiculous when some of the Instagram ads are drop shipped from China at 4x the price of AliExpress. At least relocate the product to the US for faster shipping if you're going to charge more. The fluffy soft shiba inu pillo
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by sct202 7y ago
Yeah I'm not sure what Google's value add is. It might be like how Simple Bank was partnered with BBVA to run the back end (before BBVA straight up bought them).
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by sct202 7y ago
They had some bumbled early attempts to get online that probably were held up as examples of why their retail business would succeed. Sears was a co-founder of Prodigy the online service and had a web store on it in the late 80s/early
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by sct202 7y ago
It sounds like Citi bank is providing most of the actual services so they'd probably roll the account fully on to them in that event.
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by sct202 7y ago
I actually kind of like those mailers, it's how I got all my magic erasers and swiffer pad refills.
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by sct202 7y ago
It could be a self fulfilling thing, if the CTR increases on a search listing (because it appears newer to the user) that listing generally moves up because of higher CTR.
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by sct202 7y ago
I think people just don't want to have other people argue or get offended with them over the reasons, like on dating apps people just straight up ghost instead of having a potential confrontation.
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by sct202 7y ago
Except the ones that the creators speak or insert themselves.

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