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by unreal37 6y ago
I have a NY Times subscription and didn't know this. Shady, shady.
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by unreal37 6y ago
It's a blog. The person is starting a blog. They want people to visit it. People visit it and liked it. And upvoted this post.
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by unreal37 6y ago
The pizza delivery operation is typically part of the pizza chain, and not outsourced to a third party that takes a hefty fee from the restaurant and the customer. Easier to pay a kid $7.50 per hour to drive around than to pay $12 per order
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by unreal37 6y ago
And the restaurant pays 30% as well. Charging on both ends.
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by unreal37 6y ago
That quote is probably right out of a business school textbook. Any Apple customer will tell you they "benefit" from spending all their computer and phone money with Apple. Apple trying to build a moat around their ecosystem doesn
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by unreal37 6y ago
Amazon has a $15 minimum wage, right? Do other companies follow them? Clearly, it's fun to pick on Amazon and not as fun to pick on <insert company name you've never heard of here>.
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by unreal37 6y ago
That article starts with an incorrect premise. "America isn’t supposed to allow moats, much less reward them. Our economic system, we claim, is founded on free and fair competition." That's called a straw man. No one has ever
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by unreal37 6y ago
I don't think there is as much business opportunity in Western Europe due to taxes and regulations. This is why the US has given birth to the majority of big businesses in the world in the last 20 years. A lot of startups that started
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by unreal37 6y ago
Ideas are not protected under law. There's no "stealing" of ideas. You can steal data, code, and customer lists.
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by unreal37 6y ago
Also, there's an argument to be made that America is not actually truly capitalist. The government intervenes in the market all the time, especially now. Nothing big is allowed to fail. $Trillions to keep the party going. That's n
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by unreal37 6y ago
The US "was" energy independent. But now all the US oil drillers are shutting down. The same factors hurting Saudi are hurting oil in the US.
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by unreal37 6y ago
Yes the oil industry is going to take years to recover from 2020.
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by unreal37 6y ago
Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason. Amazon is famous for stealing whatever data they can get to promote their own business over their customers. Some might consider Zoom giving Google, Amazon, or Microsoft insights int
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by unreal37 7y ago
That's just bad application design to have sensitive info in the URL.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Because, "business". That is, sales will drop for anyone who does this. That's friction that will reduce sales, and online sellers will move to a provider that does not do this. Stripe would go out of business if it made it m
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by unreal37 7y ago
Minor quibble. Companies don't get the money invested in the stock market after the IPO - other traders do. They don't make more products or hire more people when someone buys a stock on the open market.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Yeah absolutely. We rarely think that countries are "competitive" with each other when it comes to tax deals and tax rates. But they are. Just like people shopping around for the best deal on a car, why do we expect companies to N
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by unreal37 7y ago
There are two valid points in there, despite how easy a target "the media" is. - People saying things with confidence that they didn't know to be true - This happens all the time but with Coronavirus, the facts came to light
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by unreal37 7y ago
Perhaps the difference is not in the "donations to politicians" that the cynical like to say, but in the "ability to afford expensive tax consultants." Small companies pay what the government tells them to pay. Big compa
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by unreal37 7y ago
It's impossible. We live in a global world. How can the US enact a law that a company in Seychelles is forced to follow?
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by unreal37 7y ago
The tax system is designed by the government to get people and companies to act a certain way. There are discounts for capital gains and extra taxes for gasoline, travel and cigarettes. So companies act the way they are told to act.
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by unreal37 7y ago
It would seem the solution would be to remove the ability to "pay for" politicians. The influence of money on politics is the blame here.
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by unreal37 7y ago
Relevant to say Zoom has responded to this. https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/facts-around-zoom-... "In light of recent interest in our encryption practices, we want to start by apologizing
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by unreal37 7y ago
Yes absolutely. In this time of crisis, where every hour of every day brings a new horror, it's like this is the one thing we can all be mad at. Classic painting of the bike shed discussion.
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by unreal37 7y ago
The thing to note is, if cash inflows stop, some cash outflows also stop. Like if you're a store and you're not selling any products right now, you're also not buying any inventory. If you're a restaurant that's clo
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by unreal37 7y ago
That's quite a cynical take.
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by unreal37 7y ago
But how can you do that in a way that makes logical sense? Let's say you have 4 instances, a database, some storage. Every minute you have those things costs you money. And how do you "stop" the bill? Delete everything? What
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by unreal37 7y ago
So then your AWS/Azure service is turned off April 2 because you had some temporary spike in uploads? What you're asking for is not possible and will have unintended consequences. Guaranteed not to meet every customer's expec
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by unreal37 7y ago
I've been doing that for years. What do you mean "doesn't work"? Example of how it works for me: https://share.getcloudapp.com/qGuob6D0 I picked a photo of a journalist at random. It identified her.
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by unreal37 7y ago
OK, I'll bite. Who or what created the universe? Don't say "big bang" because something needed to create that.

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