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by fieryscribe 10d ago
Most things go out of business. That's why the franchising model exists. Local owners know their local market best and they take a calculated risk on it. From what I understand, McDonald's franchisees can make 5-15% of gross reven
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by fieryscribe 10d ago
Maybe? It's how McDonald's runs things too. They make the food centrally and ship it to franchises. They take on brand risk, food logistics at scale and so on. Franchisees deal with local demand, operations, hiring, local laws and
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by fieryscribe 10d ago
They could, but running local operations isn't his forte, preference or interest, it seems. Even if he had a massive fleet of these, he'd have to navigate local laws, demand, operations and logistics. His revealed preference is to
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by fieryscribe 10d ago
If McDonald's was profitable, they wouldn't try to franchise it. That's what this is. You take on operating costs and you understand your local market. They own the brand.
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by fieryscribe 2y ago
And East Asia, especially Hong Kong since 2019.
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by fieryscribe 2y ago
For now anyway
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by fieryscribe 2y ago
He's been right this entire time and caught a lot of flack for it.
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by fieryscribe 2y ago
Unrelated, but you just reminded me of an old blog: Groklaw. I can't believe it's been over 10 years since it was active
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by fieryscribe 2y ago
As is git. I think it's intentional
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by fieryscribe 2y ago
Fellow Reason subscriber here. They're more balanced than most.
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by fieryscribe 3y ago
It's interesting to see them go after others for copying gameplay when they have done exactly the same: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/15/connections-ne...
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by fieryscribe 3y ago
What is echonewshub? Is this a reputable source? Their Privacy Policy seems incomplete and the T&C pages seems to have been generated by GPT
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by fieryscribe 4y ago
Daniel Rensch and others have said that Magnus has not seen chesscom cheating algorithms or lists. It had been a rumor in the chess world for a while that Hans has cheated before
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by fieryscribe 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. This is the comment: > FIRE has done way more for campus free speech issues this last decade or two ... > You mean conservative speech? Or has FIRE actually defended speech they despised,
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by fieryscribe 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're implying that FIRE "despises" speech; perhaps you see them as conservative. That said, here's are some recent situations in which FIRE has taken the side of what would be under the general pr
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
Zombocom. Anything is possible at Zombocom
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. One thing caught my eye in that report. It says that 57% of Black and 61% of Hispanic respondents claim to have been fully vaccinated. The totals across 40 states in the US are 36% and 41% respectively [1]: > Less tha
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
OP was talking about someone making the argument, not that it would be affirmed. That's what I was referencing, fwiw
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
This happened last year. The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) hosted a discussion about this[1] [1] https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/john-adams-slams-a...
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Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure(vice.com)
479 points by fieryscribe 5y ago|242 comments
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
I don't find this so convincing. Most normal usera may not be able to secure things effectively and they can still use the existing iCloud / Google Play infrastructure. That doesn't mean that other users, who want to manage t
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
No, the government did not remove the extradition law until September 2019, after proposing it in February 2019. By then, many Hong Kongers had been protesting, arrested, beaten and worse. The reason we Hong Kongers did not and have not sto
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
The former Reddit employee in question accused the Green Party in the UK of transphobia, after they discovered she hired her own father as an election consultant, under an alias. At the time, he had been charged with rape and child abuse, a
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by fieryscribe 5y ago
The post was removed after a few hours, not immediately. It was also removed because Challenor was referenced at the bottom of the article, not because of anything in the Reddit post itself
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by fieryscribe 6y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
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by fieryscribe 6y ago
AWS too. A large portion of it is written in Java
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by fieryscribe 6y ago
Wall Street punishes companies that are not profitable or are losing money. Consumers can make that happen by walking away when companies are anti-consumer. If they do, profits fall and Wall Street would hold that company accountable. Why d
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by fieryscribe 6y ago
Whatever the government decides, they rarely, if ever, provide an explanation or recourse either: the Patriot Act, Ahmad Arbury, TBTF, the assassination of Awlaki, snooping on Americans, Operation Fast and the Furious, the Pentagon's m
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by fieryscribe 6y ago
If that's all that needs to be done, Google should update their boilerplate responses to include that. Right now, for multiple developers, they're appearing to be obtuse. For Google, it just adds to their reputation as being robot
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by fieryscribe 6y ago
The quote is here: > 这次我们的疫情其实各方面对我们信息的披露是不满意的，我们既有披露不及时的一面，也有我们利用很多有效信息来完善我们的工作不到位的一面。前面这个披露的不及时，这一点大家要理解，因为它是传染病，传染病有传染病防治法，它必须依法披露，作为地方政府，我获得这个信息以后，授权以后，我才能披露，所以这一点在当时很多不理解。 Google translated: > In this epidemic, all parties are no

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