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sithlord
6y ago
Personally, I have no problem paying for it, but I hate the bait and switch crap. I'd rather pay someone who has always been paid, then wait for lastpass to decide to strip more features unless you pay up more.
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6y ago
Be a giant investor, ie a bank. IPOs are there for banks to be able to buy up shares at a low price, then dump it when retail investors get their turn to run it up before banks sell off.
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6y ago
its not really whats happening. Reddit has identified that there are more outstanding short shares than stocks. So in effect they are doing more of a blockade. Effectively, if buys continue, the hedge funds they will have to buy more sha
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6y ago
not 100% sure on this, but don't most doctors in other countries go to medical school for free? Whereas US doctors are going into 3-400k+ debt.
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6y ago
A lot of software do make it very difficult, if not impossible for a regular accountant to erase history. To the point, when I was an accountant, if I made a simple error in keying in something, you would have to reverse it out, and then f
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6y ago
The biggest hit will be on tax revenue, new "sexy" businesses dont tend to make as much money as the zombie companies that seem to print money
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6y ago
I would hope not, I would assume the GDPR includes all info collected, including that on an application - so it would be included in that information - doesn't necessarily mean they would. but wouldn't surprise me one bit
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6y ago
You don't buy stocks because the company "makes money" you buy stocks because the expectation is that they will make more money in the future than they are now. Also, stocks don't really produce cash flow either - A div
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6y ago
unsure how they would with cold stuff, and laws about pain meds and such
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6y ago
This sounds interesting; Would be interested in knowing more about what you all do, and if you all hire remote :D
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6y ago
They say that, but then I looked up Insulin price, and it was astronautical. Even compared to normal drug stores.
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6y ago
I think the better question is, how loyal are the customers, personally - I am going to go for the cheaper of the platforms. Especially knowing that the drivers are basically all the same.
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6y ago
i know that a lot of it is standard, but woowee, like 74 pages of risk factors.
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6y ago
It is also possible that there is nothing wrong with the financials, but there is wrong with the controls over the financials. IE, can the entire finance department sign off on checks? Or something along those lines. But with the above exa
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6y ago
Former auditor here: The first one is standard. Second one is also a standard statement, but not standard to actually see. Honestly I don't know that I have ever seen that statement out in the wild. It's like something you study
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6y ago
I do not believe herd immunity is a thing when every 6 months the herd has to become re-immune
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6y ago
I dont know the cost bookstores pay for books, but if bookshop.org is charging 30% of msrp i can't imagige the physical bookstore can make anywhere close to enough to warrant using that service.
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6y ago
Stocks are not supposed to necessarily value what a company is worth today, they are supposed to be speculative of what the company will be worth in the future.
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6y ago
As someone who is type 1 diabetic, and someone who has had insurance that required me to pay up front, and then get reimbursed after the fact - insulin was charged at ~200 dollars a vial, I can't speak for everyone, as everyone is diff
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6y ago
Maybe for the top 10% (maybe even less) of workers.
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6y ago
And you dont charge yourself what the lawn companies charge you to cut your yard. I don't really get your point.
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6y ago
pretty sure if you buy an item (game, controller, etc) FOR a playstation, they are paying sony a royalty to produce that item.
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6y ago
Guess Apple could let developers disclose the 30% iap fee, but only if they disclose the margins they make off of each user/transaction/etc.
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6y ago
Because it makes since to keep an emergency fund, even a small amount, say 10-15k, will earn 125-150 (obviously more or less depending on rate) in a savings account is better than roughly 0 in a checking account.
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6y ago
A good chunk of their watches are designed for triathalons, and if im not mistaken pretty much all use the same (proprietary) usb. They are all perfectly waterproof. (Current owner of a forerunner 945)
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6y ago
You do not have to be a CPA to be an accountant. a CPA is an accountant who can sign off on financial statements for an auditing firm.
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to be fair, teams has more users than slack because they effectively give away teams with o365, and then claim all the people who have o365 use teams. Lots of companies use o365 (so get counted for teams) then, use slack as there actual ch
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6y ago
Then companies would just contract out the lowest jobs, and only pay the higher ones.
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7y ago
So lets say I own a business - and buy for the business, now al the sudden everyone is working from home. As a business owner I can either, return it so others can get it or I can save it for later. Seems like there could be good reason to
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7y ago
I imagine their thought is that, it spread to Italy and the other big US cities at about the same time (we have just not done as much testing). And that we have not had the deaths they had.
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