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To be fair, sometimes that is all that it takes. LinkedIn is after all still effectively a monopoly. And it's not just Microsoft. Whatsapp is another "do nothing" example that comes to mind where the work was done on the bac
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The beauty of the ambiguity is that you know there's someone on this web site that is 100% serious and believes that all labour is capitalist exploitation. Then there is also someone that is 100% sarcastic and that if you look at socie
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Also worth noting that practicing law in the US, even today, does not require an undergraduate. That requirement is purely a result of academia being academia and eagerly wasting 4 years of people's lives for the sake of not finding a
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Also: a news agency receiving funding from a US administration that hates some industries, is here to tell you just how bad those industries are. May as well be in Canada.
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Don't forget that every healthcare practitioner the West imports - I'm sorry "encourages to immigrate" - they remove a healthcare practitioner from a country that educated them, trained them, invested in their residence&
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Is this not already what governments do to themselves? Justice is intentionally slow, so you don't even need to DDoS it. How many illegal or unconstitutional executive orders and plans have US Presidents passed knowing that they will
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I think where we can all agree that Musk is a genius is in seeing where billions of public funds are going to flow, and then positioning himself to be in a position to profit. That was a key difference between Theranos and Tesla/SolarC
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Also keep in mind the Swiss effectively abandoned their 200 year old policy of neutrality over the Ukraine - Russian conflict. Millionaires and billionaires take note of this sort of thing, and while it may not be an overnight exodus, it ce
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> So you create a product, put it out and have it do unimaginable damage, then pay for the health and environmental damage you did, and then create legislation around what others should do going forward. The very scary part is how many o
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Yes, but Enron forgot to grease the right palms in Washington, and crucially also help deliver a Midterm victory to the Party. The level of regulatory capture and open corruption in the US today vs 2001 is also incomparable. It's fun
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> This is how things started in 2007, anecdotally. The ladder got pulled up earlier in the year, and then right around the holiday season everything fell apart. It took a good 2-3 years for everything to recover, but in that time salarie
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Because gold is being now purchased by Central Banks (albeit not the ones that would necessarily tell me it's time to go all-in on gold)?
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> Except of few ideological mistakes, I would say, quite a lot of time was wasted on doubtful technical decisions ... Not just technical, but remember when they expanded into physical products that made no sense? I don't mean the h
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> Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney+ are just a few of the highlights. How much of the absurdly poor quality content that made to screens, were projects left in the pipe by Iger though? Iger is also the CEO that failed to reign in the woke
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However, the Presidential pardon is available for federal convictions. Conveniently: Vice President (at the time) Biden, knew Elizabeth and even visited Theranos. Elizabeth Holmes held fundraisers for Hillary Clinton with Chelsea Clinton. J
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See, in my book it's the opposite. I don't take financial advise from Tom Brady. I don't expect him - or even his money person - to do due diligence and provide me investment advice. But if I were positioned in one of the f
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Exactly. The scariest part to me is that an unelected, partisan, US intelligence agency literally moderates the content on social media through their own purpose-made moderation portals[1], than anything China is doing. --- [1] https:&#x2
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Will it? Part of Tiktok's genius is that you don't even need an account to view content, or even the app - the browser experience is quite good. Now compare the friction between wanting to see a Tiktok right now, versus trying to
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The problem is that a non-trivial segment of the population does believe it with zealous devotion. They've attended the diversity seminaries, taken the oaths, and there is no off-ramp for their faith. The other problem is politicians
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It's probably no accident that SBF made substantial donations to one of the major US political parties. And by substantial, I mean that party's second biggest donor in the '20-21 cycle.
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But Internet Archive is not, so make sure you archive it elsewhere.
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The irony is that there is a very high chance the drop was caused by fake information, not from the Twitter accounts, but rather from the US government's BLS. You see, back in October, they decided that inflation is too high so it&#x27
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It's part of the whole BLS report, here: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm You may also be interested in what is referred to as "sticky CPI" which is reported by the Atlanta Fed: https:/
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Hiring freezes aside, it is possible to be laying off people and hiring. Laying off your costly senior employees, while replacing them with cheaper entry-level employees, can be a huge cost saving and the loss in quality or performance may
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Yes, if Apple wanted to bury, a Friday afternoon release would have been in order. More likely these are new developments and Apple just heard of them relatively recently, keeping in mind that it's already Monday morning in China. This
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I had the same question, but my response was: "at the end of the day, authoritarian politicians will order you what to think, and their media/technology lackeys will enforce those orders".
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> What makes me nervous, though, is that we don't really understand why programmers are paid this well It's very easy. Look at any tech company's stock price and you have a very good proxy for programmer compensation. Whe
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The analogy you're using is binary (seat belt on or off), whereas an infrastructure cut is more like reducing your thermostat by a couple of degrees, then concluding that no one froze to death, therefore it was an acceptable cut. Many
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There are a couple of Western countries that have combined a decade of terrible housing policy, banking policy, immigration policy, and every other government lever you could imagine; in order to generate an absolutely generation-crushing p
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All those cases are replacement via competitor. This seems like a completely different case unless the Leftists execute what they told the Right-leaning users all these years: "just build your own Twitter".

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