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by sfifs 5y ago
> In most cases, they even delay payment for a few months to account for returns and the cost of returning unsold products. You may be conflating payment terms of trade with sales/revenue recognition. In general for consumer goods (
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Yes merchants/retailers almost always decide prices. In fact some variant of "pricing is at the sole discretion of the retailer" is a standard email signature and PPT/Doc footnotes of many sales people in most manufactur
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Sure but doing all that at such a young age is so impressive
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They'd be staring at a bunch of lawsuits if they did that. Remember Google itself pretty much forces/nags you to login if you're on Chrome.
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Are you sure you are not judging by the standards of mass market ad supported broadcast production vs what these companies seem to be doing in terms of producing content for long tail of smaller but still profitable subscription interest ba
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by sfifs 5y ago
Are you sure you are not judging by the standards of mass market broadcast production vs what these companies seem to be doing in terms of producing content for smaller, more targeted but still profitable target audiences? In the broadcast
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I think increasingly that people in western societies are misunderstanding (and electing people to positions of power who misunderstand) the big picture purpose that law enforcement and justice system has played throughout civilized history
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Google Photos with family sharing and Original quality with paid Google One. I used to have a NAS based solution which was backed up to S3 etc. I even wrote a photo browsing server for my NAS but became too complex as we increase family dev
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Got it. Makes sense - thanks for your reply.
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Please publish. Even if you are filing some patents or working on some other commercial licensing, you could publish under a source available licenses. Just yesterday I saw in the 3D printing Reddit some academics developed an interesting a
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One interesting side note is that in the land of origin of pepper in India, to a very large extent Chilli has replaced pepper as the spiciness creating ingredient in most household and restaurant dishes. Chillies of course come from Mexico
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So I have one question and maybe the answer has already been determined. I understand we looked at distribution of mass i galaxies and have inferred that for them to keep a stable shape, they need to be spinning at a certain rate which req
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Eventually they will be in every sizeable market outside the US starting with Korea. With all that 30% cut money leaving the domestic economy and multi trillion valuation, Apple has made itself too juicy a target
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And the irony is in the Asia, using an iPhone pretty much guarantees that you'll be considered "old" / "unable to handle tech" / "unable to express individuality" :-)
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I've never come across unpaid internships in Fortune 100. They may even be paid higher in internship than the bottom end if software engineering full time jobs.
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Japan's habitable area according to [1] is about 125k sq Km. Fukushima official Exclusion Zone is about 370 sq km [2] - so that's 0.3% which is quite a significant loss in itself. However given the events, there's a lot of m
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Europe is small and densely populated. They can't afford to take the risk of having large swaths of land rendered un-inhabitable due to nuclear accidents. If there's one thing the last 60 odd years of nuclear experience has taught
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Seems like something that would be very useful for furniture or mechanisms that are self assembled like Ikea, chairs etc by regular people. Easy visual inspection when things are loose.
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Do major projects like GCC maintain a list of developers who are willing to take on paid consulting work with standard contracts to do things like this? The GCC devs could simply point to details page of such an arrangement of it exists as
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Yes because the license was terminated when the violating party violated the license and then also ignored the notice asking them to come into compliance. So the right judgement is to cause GPL code to be removed from the product.
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As far as company rehulations are concerned, these titles have specific meanings, powers and liabilities. You can call the positions anything like Tesla does, but as far as regulators are concerned your company will still need to define som
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This is actually a great question and doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Indeed this is one of the considerations that led me to leave materials science research field after a couple of undergraduate projects with PhD candidates. It turn
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One of my family members gets terrible debilitating migraines. When they get it, the whole day gets lost, vomiting, dehydration, maybe a trip to urgent care. An opioid based tablet they are prescribed for migraine cuts this to about 2 hours
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Very true. I've literally seen this play out with some friends and cousins in extended family in the last 10-15 years. At a critical period, some had to find work to support the family especially as the health of parents started failin
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The biggest benefit US gets from its massive millitary is that the Dollar is the de-facto global reserve currency and energy is priced in dollars. This makes debt essentially free for the US government (since the demand for dollars and dol
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Virtually every meaningful laptop in the last 4-5 years has had an integrated GPU, even if it's a basic Intel one - even though my personal laptop model is 4-5 years old with such a GPU, I'm also able to run Intellij on WSL2 on it
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I have shifted from dual booting to fully windows + wsl (Ubuntu). The new GPU passthrough and GUI app support in Win 11 WSL is particularly useful as you can run full fledged dev tools like Intellij natively in Linux vs the WSL Remote trick
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When you're buying a car, you're buying optionality for personally controlled mobility that's comfortable, immediately available, weather proof and able to carry people and cargo - even if you regularly take public transport,
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To be fair to Gibson, the Shemzhen SEZ had just about been started when he wrote Neuromancer. As I understand it Japan at that time had an underground electronics scene in Tokyo - though of course nothing to the scale of Huaqiangbei. I won
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Essentially mobilization of society by making people feel deeply emotionally connected to a cause. Successful politicians have an intuitive feel for what will trigger a loss in elections and will change course those that don't are wipe

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