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541.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's not the same at all. Payment processing is work, regardless of direction. Marketing fees for non-sales is payment for nothing.
542.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's a legal defense argument. Of course it's not correct or intellectually honest.
543.
by sukilot 6y ago
> Often the answer is just a click or an app away. It used to be "a click away". Now that it's "an app away", what does that say about App Store antitrust? Also, "We face competition from... the other gigaco
544.
by sukilot 6y ago
The S&L crisis was 1986-1995. The demise in popular opinion is not new.
545.
by sukilot 6y ago
That's partly bad accounting, where a $1 of useless entertainment or luxury is considered the same as $1 of food or medicine.
546.
by sukilot 6y ago
Paradox of thrift. If everyone saves, there's nothing to do hard work on, so currency inflates. The approach only works if we can use our work to stockpile durable goods.
547.
by sukilot 6y ago
Why is there a monopoly in anything? It's convenient and tends to happen naturally via small scale local optimizations.
548.
by sukilot 6y ago
They go after everyone.
549.
by sukilot 6y ago
So? $10M ransom plus trying again is cheaper than collapsing a $1B business.
550.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's crazy to think that airplanes fly by wire over a cloud computing service .
551.
by sukilot 6y ago
I don't want to live in a country where the government prosecutes victims of crimes instead doing its primary duty of national defense against foreign attackers.
552.
by sukilot 6y ago
Investors don't get to see trade secrets. They obviously restored some backups even if they paid random via a reputation laundering company.
553.
by sukilot 6y ago
Some people prefer some unhappiness over death. It's a rational choice.
554.
by sukilot 6y ago
Unless a social justice movement prevents it on equity/diversity/inclusion grounds, as has been mooted at my company.
555.
by sukilot 6y ago
There's patchwork public daycare from age 3+, but mainly only for poverty cases. Daycare costs less than a job though, so you don't really need free day care as long as minimum wage is high enough.
556.
by sukilot 6y ago
Specifically, the people who were already outcasts from the mainstream society.
557.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's bizarre that this, the largest factor by far, gets so little play.
558.
by sukilot 6y ago
"early settlers" is a tiny slice of history.
559.
by sukilot 6y ago
Make lunch dates with coworkers or friends. A stationary bike or row machine or an aerobics video is a good home exercise (and can be done on video chat)
560.
by sukilot 6y ago
Green paper pays for more in life
561.
by sukilot 6y ago
Boot camps aren't "up or date skills" but to the extent that 24 year olds are getting hired off them would still support your point. Why do you assume young people don't learn C++ to work on games? They do to work on web
562.
by sukilot 6y ago
In medicine it's largely to college bribes from vendors.
563.
by sukilot 6y ago
No field reinvents itself as frequently as software.
564.
by sukilot 6y ago
There th Kabuki theater of business management. Precise calculations over phoy assumptions to rationalize political choices.
565.
by sukilot 6y ago
Most of this thread is the financial equivalent of someone saying "How do I do mail merge and excel macros to automate some of my business process" and getting answers like "To get started, Install Linux".
566.
by sukilot 6y ago
Business and Finance are not the same thing. "Business and Finance" is like saying "Apps and Code" Before computers, many many people like today's computer programmers would be accountants, quants and other financia
567.
by sukilot 6y ago
Who makes Pinebook? Why do they seem to be maintaining anonymity? They go to great lengths to hide their identity or the existence of their native language, even having an About Us page that says nothing about Us. https://store.p
568.
by sukilot 6y ago
Non-issue. Price goes up, consumption of unimportant and completely substutible luxury goes down. You're locked down at home, you can buy a 40oz or 1L bottle instead of cans.
569.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's hard to muster up the energy to worry about the privacy policies of luxury toys for rich people.
570.
by sukilot 6y ago
Obviously it's better for you to take money from shareholders if you don't ever give it back. That's not a foundation for a long term stable ecosystem.

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