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It means that the individual banks don’t trust each other and are leery to provide credit to each other literally “over night”. So they aren’t willing to provide liquidity to each other because they fear they will not pay back. Remember tha
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this isn't quite right, this feels like what the standard response from a developer with some hubris. Humans are fallible and mushy, and depending on their current state are error prone. So why not just codify some "best practic
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one is a webassembly runtime, the other is a program that can help you spin up microvms very quickly. So with firecracker you can spin up ubuntu and fedora images.
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Dude... srsly? Okay, hypothetically speaking, how’d you feel if the Chinese/US/insert-random-body here suddenly decided that mentioning EU text was against their own laws and would therefore be fined/punished/whatever? S
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There is no ever fountain spring of money and time which is exactly what buying a company is. You have to throw lawyers and time and effort into it. Assuming you did have Apple's cash balance, lets say you did try to spend it all.... w
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Uh, yeah that’s what I’m arguing. They aren’t buying everything. It’s a tricky concept and you just demonstrated why it is so. A thriving smart manager in a top company will only recommend the “obvious” and “great” companies to acquire. The
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Because Microsoft could have bought every startup in the early 2000s and yet..., it didn’t happen. Also there’s something called innovators dilemma. Where someone like Blockbuster could have bought Netflix, but why would they do that when c
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“Dear MSFT, enjoy the gift xoxo, Oracle”
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Really? Chances are you’re part of $recent_hack at $large_co which is a feature of the current system and not a feature in crypto.
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Well the card got skimmed targeting the store/machine that attracted the thief in the first place, as a consequence of being a giant honey pot. So you fell victim thanks to the system and you're thankful for it? Still super early
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You generate a new item altogether ( I’m talking about immutability). The positives are you’ll have an ability to keep proper records and changes done to your table which will show a different snapshots as it contained different values. Ano
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Conflating country wide attacks with precision targets is very extreme to say the least. So the obvious answer to gp is that the socialist government in power ruined the infrastructure and they are having to account for it by saying “the ev
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Why oh why would they care about a powerless, broke, and decaying country like Venezuela? Got any deep throat sources for this besides some out-of-options “president”?
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It’d be the set of all possible projects minus the set of the projects that have been done. So due to copying and fandom the set of “done” projects probably is in the low orders of magnitude(smaller than 10^2?) where as the other set is def
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Here is another point to consider: If you were growing say Shiitake mushrooms on a container, a "bad" or potential unknown fungus might move in first to it and out-compete with your crop and thereby ruin your attempt. But if
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Fast response and turn around with the company. Though do expect some leetcode question for the interview, so prep up! Was caught unaware after I got told it wouldn’t be so. But besides that solid interview flow.
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I applied a couple months back and nothing but silence. Which is weird considering the size of the company. Really curious as to how well the FP pool is stocked in the DC area! I figure you might have realized you need to grow some talent i
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Why can’t they use any number of the video / chat apps available?
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$1 Billion USD at current prices. Having said that in the current SWIFT or any other legacy payment rail, there is no finality in transactions until 30+ days. Not only that, is that you would have the Eye of Sauron quickly looking at you fo
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Sure, butter production in the southern states where there was "unlimited free labor" was roughly 20% of the national output, even though they had 40% of the total dairy cows. So there is your counter point to the argument that wi
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What. A simple counter point that breaks down everything you said would be the measurement of butter production in the northern states pre bellum (civil war) versus that of the southern states. So no, nothing to do with "unlimited land
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if we're talking geopolitically yes of course, if we're talking culturally yes of course. The other leaders at some point like Portugal, Netherlands, UK, Spain, all had their time in the sun. Now it is the U.S's, I'm not
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You realize that the European powers of 17th and 18th centuries "exploited" the Americas to include the U.S and yet here stands the U.S head and shoulders above these "exploiters".
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assuming it’s a fixed pie, which clearly it isn’t. If you simply walk around you’ll notice basic things that could and should be automated in some way that shows it’s yet to reach the limit.
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Sign up for one of those bonds where you can invest $1000 and get back $990, it’s so hot right now in Europe!
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If you don't patent it, then how will anyone know what exactly it is that you're doing and how? So then how can they copy?
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Take the reverse what if coffee was suddenly made illegal? What players would rise and how would they behave given a bag $12 bag of coffee would be $1000?
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Can't exactly guarantee offer tax breaks if they are short on tax revenue, and while every government federal/local is always short Chicago/Illinois is deathly short. The tax increases have already begun and there have been w
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Chicago has a doomsday clock that keeps ticking down with its pensions and the state's pensions. Those governments might start raising the taxes more and more and fall into a tighter death spiral as it pushes people away, leading to le
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Absent all this talk about fairness or not, if one were watching CNBC today, Cramer and the other analysts were asking themselves "what exactly is France selling to the U.S" and this is the list they came up with: 1. cheese 2. win
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