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by bostonsre 1y ago
It needs to hook into the existing legal book supply chain so that authors could potentially get compensated (I doubt they do for used book resale tho..).
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by bostonsre 2y ago
Do you have to run destroy first to order the same order again a second time?
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by bostonsre 2y ago
They don't have an incentive to share their view of reality until after they make investments that would capitalize on their belief in that view of reality. After they take those positions though, it is in their best interest to inform
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by bostonsre 2y ago
It was not great to work at a company Vista acquired company ~10 years ago. Engineering talent fled, code quality dropped, product prices were jacked up, etc. I guess the company I worked for was then sold to another pe company in 2017, but
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by bostonsre 3y ago
I think they want to get their money out of china and parked into a safe place. If they pay off their mortgage, they don't want to find a new place to park their money, they can just keep the house as an asset. I think a lot of investi
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by bostonsre 3y ago
> why would a company ever do a stock buyback if changing the amount of issued stock didn't change the price? Buy low/sell high maybe? They buy their stock when the price is low and they think it is undervalued so that they can
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Is it all due to inflation and the interest rates? Shouldn't these companies be able to issue stock to get some cheap capital to continue growth/hiring? Or anyone know why this is happening?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
From the abstract: > This paper explores this case in detail and its potential impact. You talk about them like they are the enemy. Lots of people talk about them like you without a word of thanks without acknowledging how fucked we woul
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by bostonsre 3y ago
You cite one instance and equate that to a lot of them are not bright by design. I am sure there are indeed some cops that are not great and some that have lower intelligence. The bad cases are usually highlighted, while those that serve th
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Their job is to enforce the law. It doesn't seem quite right to denigrate them and call them not bright for doing their job. Shouldn't you be blaming someone else and not the people in the trenches? Also, I'm not sure its so
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Yea.. there is so much ambiguity in stuff like this. Reasonable and probable mean different things to different people and its not like we have statistics to show that when a powder of a given texture of a given quantity in a given containe
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Yea, I didn't think of something like creatine. That being said, I would still be a little sketched to travel with it like that as I would assume the first thoughts of a police officer isn't going to be "that's probably
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Yea, didn't think of that. I would probably be too scared to pack that for a flight.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Yea, makes sense, didn't think of that. It would indeed sketch me out a little to carry that around, but could see wanting to carry it around.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Right.. hence my dunkin donuts statement.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Were there technical reasons for the deprecation or was it more of a cancelled type thing?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Is it common for people to carry around baggies of white powder that isn't drugs? The container might tip the scale one way or the other. If there is a little white substance at the bottom of a dunkin donuts bag, I'd err on the si
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Maybe there is a market for people who get shot at or with those that are paranoid about that? I know the windows aren't bullet proof, but the panels stop smaller calibers. If it is performance enough, maybe they could be used by polic
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by bostonsre 3y ago
The putin assassinations are a little different though. The assassinated are publicly known to have links to the regime. The methods of death have a similar signature and the rarity of that type of death makes most people draw one likely co
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Is a car accident and not publicly announcing it as a reprisal sending a message? Seems a little too quiet for that and like it might be cleaning up loose ends by someone else instead.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Wouldn't they have to take credit for it and announce it if that's the case?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
He was an asset, not a member of a secret service organization. He was in a useful position in a company, then he was recruited. It sounds like he was more of a useful idiot and not some mastermind.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
That's pretty screwed up to kill an asset like that. I doubt Iran could have unraveled the plot so quickly and I'm not sure how they could benefit from killing him.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
But we can't be sure unless we know the actual stats. A lot of news operates by driving sensational stories, the more hysteria and doom they invoke, the more views they get. Are we talking 1% more likely or 0.00000001% more likely to g
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Maybe that it would be interesting to know what the numbers actually are. There is the common saying that you are more likely to get in an accident on the way to the airport than traveling on the plane, but knowing what the likelihood of bo
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by bostonsre 3y ago
How much money did he manage to milk from the company? With that light four year prison sentence where he makes nothing, he'll probably still end up making more than us during his work + prison sentence if the penalty phase is just as
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by bostonsre 3y ago
We don't know if they had a rigorous internal debate where they evaluated all of the options or if it was a decision made from above. We don't know how the chips perform, if there are alternatives, and if there are alternatives, h
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by bostonsre 3y ago
External plugins on the backend that are hidden from users? How does it work? Something like an api call to wolfram or is it another self hosted model?
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by bostonsre 3y ago
Sounds plausible, any idea what proportion of the large index funds they are thought to own? In the same vein, I wonder if pension funds can pose a risk or if they are self perpetuating enough to not cause any fire sales.
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by bostonsre 3y ago
If it is a bubble what can take the wind out of the sails? A few experts screaming about it doesn't seem like it will be enough.

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