SamReidHughes

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by SamReidHughes 2y ago
Long term, buybacks aren't about supply/demand -- they increase a share's percentage ownership of the business.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Philly cheesesteak sellers in other locations often advertise they use real Amoroso rolls shipped from Philadelphia.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
They seem to mean talent density in the sense of the amount of talent per person.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Singapore obviously had a lot of differences, particularly the PM's past close relationship with the unions, and the early stage of development making it more rational for workers to ride the common prosperity of high economic growth r
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
From his memoirs "The Singapore Story", Chapter 6, "Winning Over the Unions", on the ports: > Recounting Britain's prodigal years of crippling dock strikes which led to the devaluation of the pound sterling in 19
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Channel their inner LKY and deal with it the way he did.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
For computers, it's surely that common office keyboards have changed from awful squishy keys to units that are more chiclet-like, or even if not, still have a better key action for a rubber dome keyboard.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
The thing is, by the time you get to this book, most students have probably taken DiffEq or multivariable calculus, and had exposure to linear algebra there. (If not in high school.)
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
They want eBay to enforce the law on merchants.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
They want to further outsource law enforcement to a due-process-free zone.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Everything you're talking about has nothing to do with federal taxation.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
No. Their presumed nukes are more useful as a deterrent against more capable enemies that might develop their own nukes. And they'd immediately become an absolute pariah state. That would damage them in every way.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
So, actually, 47% of them by dollar amount, according to the report you quoted. Selectively quoted. Why do you behave this way? Here's a question for you to think about: Why do they reverse some claims but not others?
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
I'm not an author or artist or creator of any kind, but if some guy made a bunch of "plot summary" videos of my work, I'd want him hunted down and sentenced to hard labor.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Transactions where you got scammed aren't the same thing as unauthorized transactions.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
He undid all the hard work that the visual novel creators put in and undermined the creative industry.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
> Truthfully I don't think this is an issue the federal government is in a position to solve any time soon. The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supply of housing, Federally they can do an immigration
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
An enterprise that "strains the grid" still has to pay for that electricity, so it's not some perverse incentive at all.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
I've seen this sort of pointer (assuming the author means it's nullable) be called "clone_ptr<T>" but it called T's clone() method. Because T might be a base class, invoking the pointee's copy constructo
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
It's not prosecuted murders. The baseline stats aren't built on that number, they're built on the race of the perp when known.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
This news story itself shows "Warning: This video contains scenes of a sexual nature" before displaying the ad.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Traditionally I think it's done as rapidly and haphazardly as possible during homeroom. It's right there in the word, home -room. What I saw is basically the embodiment of this chart. (And remember that the "Asian" nu
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
You must find it really confusing how smallpox killed off the Indians.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
This is just second-hand chit-chat from Bay Area parents, mostly living in Palo Alto/Los Altos/MV/Sunnyvale/Cupertino, about their kids' lives, that I'm talking about. > Even if it was like that daily, how d
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
I can't read minds but "racial animus" would certainly be a strange conclusion to jump to with the people I was talking to.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Yes, kids spending their after school time doing homework and maxing test scores instead of having a childhood is disturbing.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
This description is very consistent with some comments from parents that I encountered in the peninsula, when I lived there a decade ago. Avoiding heavily east Asian areas would be a factor I'd expect them to make in deciding on schoo
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
The comparisons, being intra-race, are between people of the same race. How does that mean there's nothing to compare?
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Nope, you're just making stuff up with no factual basis behind it.
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by SamReidHughes 3y ago
Wow, an n=35 study didn't have the power to find a signal while the ones with thousands of people do. That must mean we have vestigial neurons.

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