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by yesplorer 6y ago
and they all happen use the same BTC address?
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by yesplorer 6y ago
At this point, no single government has provided a verifiable reason why Tik tok should be banned. if there were verifiable claims, you think Apple and Google will conveniently let them be in their app stores and take the heat for it? What
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by yesplorer 6y ago
therefore, see point 2.
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by yesplorer 6y ago
1. Because the app stores don't serve a single country. 2. People don't use the app store at the pleasure of the US government.
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by yesplorer 6y ago
which part of their comment stated or even remotely implied '...because the founder is asian looking'? if anyone will be called racist in this thread, it will probably be you.
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by yesplorer 6y ago
and that's the reason for the above suggestion. Or you aren't following the discussion?
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by yesplorer 6y ago
perhaps they are banking on the person buying other profitable items while in the store for gift cards.
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by yesplorer 6y ago
why will it make them useless? Does anyone ever need gift cards urgently?
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by yesplorer 6y ago
No, it's cheaper because of huge difference in cost of living. $10,000/month may not go far in SV, but in parts of India, you can live like a king, literally, with servants and such. Rent for a studio apartment in India will cost
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by yesplorer 6y ago
I think he's implying you can also own part of Amazon by buying shares so it's not just for Bezos. Bezos owns 11% of Amazon which means over a trillion dollars in value is shared by other people who own pieces of Amazon.
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A Year In, First Patient to Get Gene Editing for Sickle Cell Disease Is Thriving(npr.org)
2 points by yesplorer 6y ago|0 comments
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by yesplorer 6y ago
I agree with you, but I also think 536 could be considered worst because of the initial shock. But as other events roll in with time, people may become used to expecting the worst. I'm thinking this way because of our current situation
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by yesplorer 6y ago
Because the guidelines allows it: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. I think this qualifies as interesting new phenomenon.
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by yesplorer 6y ago
Governance and diplomacy is not a short term venture. Trump will not be president forever and you cannot undo the act of siding against the US in favor of China. There are a lot of decision-making processes in governance that involves a lot
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by yesplorer 6y ago
you can talk to hundred people at at time. You just can't forward the same message to more than 5 people at the time. What's the problem with that?
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by yesplorer 6y ago
Whatsapp forwards is largely a solved problem. Now you can't forward whatsapp messages to more than 5 people at a go. And if you try doing 5 people at a time consecutively, your account is automatically deleted even before you reach 30
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by yesplorer 6y ago
Is there any Business to Consumer intermediary/platform that doesn't do this? All big retailers (Walmart, Costco, etc) Apple Google Amazon. Once you sell or distribute through a marketplace where they also sell or offer products t
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by yesplorer 6y ago
There is no company in the world that will ignore a market offering $1 million daily revenue, more especially in advertising where cost to platform owners like Google and Fb is marginal.
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by yesplorer 6y ago
Did you read the article? Vietnam's digital ad market was worth some $550 million in 2018 and 70% of that went to Facebook and Google.
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by yesplorer 7y ago
Am I supposed to do something about it? Do you know the meaning or point of a discussion forum? You're such a bad loser, lol. Wsj published the article, what are they going to do about it? Don't be rude, it's stupid. You can
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by yesplorer 7y ago
At what point does Management not realise that they need to balance their books and so at least, expenditure = revenue for them to break even? Airbnb is 12 years old. If they haven't figured out that they shouldn't spend more than
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by yesplorer 7y ago
Then they're indeed not fit to run their business, period.
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by yesplorer 7y ago
Airbnb takes approximately 15% off every booking. What are they doing as an intermediary that 15% on each booking isn't enough to pay salaries, rent and server costs?
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by yesplorer 7y ago
Airbnb has over 5 million listings and 150 million customers around 190 countries and they don't make enough in commissions to pay rent, salaries and server costs?
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by yesplorer 7y ago
I don't mean making money during this very pandemic. Rather, making money overall. What are they doing besides providing intermediary service all around (most of) the world throughh their website. I presumed they would be profitable b
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by yesplorer 7y ago
Why should Airbnb be making losses at this point? Are they refunding booking fees to customers while paying hosts? Traditional hotels lose money because of huge amount of, costs (both fixed and variable) associated with running a hotel. sho
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by yesplorer 7y ago
For every one Congressman, there are 5 pharma industry lobbyists. Heard it on an NPR podcast fee days ago. So i guess that is the reason.
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by yesplorer 7y ago
Well I can also make an anon account and make contrary statement to all that you've said so they're not in a position to place more weight on a comment than they already have. It's just a post by an anon person on a public fo
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by yesplorer 7y ago
You created an account just to hype a dead start-up?
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Tesla overtakes Volkswagen as value hits $100bn(bbc.com)
7 points by yesplorer 7y ago|0 comments

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