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Recommendations?
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It means bug bounty hunters can jailbreak any version of their phone to turn it into a listening honeypot. Then they can take it to China, let the PRC re-exploit it, record the new exploit, then sell the exploit to Apple for $1 Million Doll
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I’ve never had a problem bringing a shoulder bag or small backpack into a store. I’ll infrequently ride a bicycle to Target, Home Depot, Walmart, a gas station or the local grocery store and put everything in my bag after I check out. At st
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Except sometimes you’re wrong and the market is right.
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Tax laws. When healthcare is paid out from payroll, it is FICA exempt which means you don’t have to pay Social Security or Medicare taxes on it.
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How Monopolies Broke the Federal Reserve
(mattstoller.substack.com)
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Tesla Surges on Musk Seeing Shot at 100k-Delivery Quarter
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In 2016, Explained Casually had a prediction about the future: One day, Apple will release the iPhone X, a solid block of featureless aluminum. This article indicates Xiaomi might beat Apple to it! YouTube: Casually Explained-The Future(201
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They aren’t going to beat Amazon through competition. They just aren’t as talented as Amazon. But they very well could get rural senators to write amazon-destroying legislation.
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So good. Thanks for sharing
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Imagine the power of the United States if it controlled the world’s currency through Facebook’s Libra as a reserve currency? Oh wait the U.S. dollar is already the world’s reserve currency and is included in over 50% of the world’s FX trans
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There are rumors that the unemployment rate is now skewed by counting people with 3 jobs as “3 jobs”. They simply divide the total number of jobs by the total number of people to get the unemployment rate. This would explain the unusual gro
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Communication can also be for relationship and community building
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I once tried to return an unopened, sealed 30 day supply of overpriced $150 medication to one of the big pharma chain stores and I was told that they won’t accept refunds because there could be a chance someone tampered with the medication.
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No. This is rent seeking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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Did any of them actually work?
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The Guardian has an axe to grind with Google and Facebook for taking over their market share of ad revenue.
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I used to link to the EPA but I learned this week that they might be a captured agency(1). They used to have a website section devoted to methane, it’s sources, and it’s contribution but it’s either been taken down or I simply can’t find i
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Meat has been highly produced because the gov’t of Nixon’s era and today’s era has been buying up tons of bushels of grain(1). The gov’t bought grain to help support & subsidize farmers and ranchers. Grain is convenient to offload as ca
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So that means Shopify grew by 500M and EBay grew by 200M. Is that right?
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page together own 14% of Alphabet’s shares but own 56% of Alphabet’s voting rights because the shares they own are mostly non-public preferred shares. Since they own more than 51% of the voting rights, GOOGL shares don
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To elaborate further the justification for this discrepancy for anyone who likes reading: Stocks are ultimately worth a function of 4 things: 1) The value of their future dividends, 2) The value of their future stock buybacks, 3) The value
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There was a time when GOOGL was $900 and AMZN was $900. Look at where their share prices are now. $1182 and $1791. One of them underperformed the other.
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As a male rider, I don’t consent to have the cost of that camera coming out of my wallet. If it increases the price of a Lyft from $10 to $15, it’s not worth it to me. You can pay for it if you want, ask shareholders to pay for it, ask the
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This is awful. Can’t we just legalize a safe and controlled outlet for these poor men with paid and consenting women? I mean realistically, who’s going to date an Uber driver? Nowadays the dating apps are 4:1 men-to-women and women are pick
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Maybe get rid of the winner takes all feature? It locks us in a 2-party system.
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>>No city in the US could withstand that kind of rainfall. Florida gets that kind of rainfall all the time from all the hurricanes! There are water retention ponds built everywhere that are empty all-year-round right up until a hurric
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> We have 3 classes of stock: Class A shares which have 1 vote, class B shares, which have 20 votes, and class C shares which have 20 votes. All classes vote alongside each other. I wouldn’t consider being an investor in this company unl
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At Infosys, upwards of 90% of employees have a bachelors degree or higher. I’m not going to say that a bachelors degree is a requirement... but most employees have one.
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This is fantastic news from Apple! I use an iPhone and I can sleep a little better at night knowing that someone would now have to risk burning a $1Million exploit if they wanted to hack me! I’m not worth near that much yet so I’m probably
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