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by kds3 6y ago
But do we really need those C*O jobs and increased shareholder value? Probably keeping many of rocket science jobs could have been cheaper for taxpayers. But no one cares about that today, our children will be paying our debt, not us.
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by kds3 6y ago
Like a big "pause updates" button they already have for years in the "advanced options" tab?
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by kds3 6y ago
Lawyers are expensive only if _you_ have to pay for them. In English law (UK/EU) loser pays most lawyer's fees. This also disincentivizes businesses to start unwinnable cases in order to ruin other businesses with legal fees.
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by kds3 6y ago
It's kind of dividends but without approval from majority of shareholders and bondholders. Company draws down credit line, shareholders receive cash, lawyers receive their %. Shareholders still have same amount of shares, win-win for e
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by kds3 6y ago
> because they probably interacted with Joe in produce at some point recently > because I pulled a shift with him recently It's more likely they are scared of their customers rather than Joe. Because Joe is just a person who cont
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by kds3 6y ago
9/11 is not a good example here. It allowed US to pass important PRISM-like PATRIOT acts without much opposition from US citizens, just in time for the rise of the Internet. It also provided a great narrative to start Iraq war and forc
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by kds3 6y ago
> Have you jumped into a large old codebase with no access to its previous authors or maintainers? Written by juniors, who doesn't really understand their codebase and writing ugly hacks all over the code? With code regularly failin
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by kds3 6y ago
Maybe because they started testing early? Their first cases were in January and they screened everyone in airports since then [0], they performed 639606 tests with 4731 positives. [1][2] [0] https://www.reuters.com/article&#
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by kds3 6y ago
Why do they call them investors ? People who haven't even briefly read financial filings for the company they are going to buy? They are called speculators, not investors.
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by kds3 6y ago
> Chrome itself (like Firefox and Safari), according to this article, doesn't send a persistent tracking UUID According to the article: > Edge also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft and Yandex similarly transmits
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Helsinki Eliminated Non-Driver Deaths in 2019(usa.streetsblog.org)
2 points by kds3 6y ago|0 comments
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by kds3 7y ago
> A big part of that is trying to avoid the 'bust' part of a boom-bust cycle. The thing is you can't avoid the bust part, you can only soften it in a way it is not harmful for (some) people.
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by kds3 7y ago
US Treasury successfully completed today's 30Y auction. NY Fed was just worried that without $1.5T injection, the auction would have failed. They're not as stupid as you might think.
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by kds3 7y ago
Put options will only work in case your counterparty will have liquidity to pay you back. In case of deep recession your counterparty can just go bankrupt and you would have to take losses (sell their assets at after-recession prices).
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by kds3 7y ago
Those distances haven't been considered until real electrical shorts happened, safety standards are written in blood: > The regulation was introduced in 2009 following study of two fatal crashes: TWA 800 in 1996, in which an electri
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by kds3 7y ago
Runaway Stabilizer / MCAS cases can be mitigated by the pilots (they can use cutoff switches and do manual trim), but not this kind of electrical short: > Furthermore, the electrical power in that wire could circumvent the cutoff sw
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by kds3 7y ago
Aren't EU trains electrified yet?
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Tech Sector Fears Supply Delays as Effects of Virus Ripple Through China(wsj.com)
1 points by kds3 7y ago|0 comments
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by kds3 7y ago
There is also an option to take Stockholm-Turku ferry (10 hours overnight) and Turku-Helsinki train (2 hours).
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by kds3 7y ago
> Given that planes, which rely on a class of specifically trained professionals with minimum hour requirements, still have issues with this from time to time Most of this issues come from the fact that planes can't just stop in the
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by kds3 7y ago
> If you could only invest in one tech company, who would have invested in Apple/Amazon/Google instead of IBM? IMHO there shouldn't be Apple/Amazon/Google/IBM companies as they are today. I want Google and o
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by kds3 7y ago
> This just isn't practical though. Apple/Google/Amazon/etc would have to be broken up for example. So happened with Standard Oil and others after antitrust laws were introduced. Was their split bad? Or impractical? D
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by kds3 7y ago
> hedging is good. Is it? Article says that it can be bad for customers: >> José Azar, an economist at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, along with Martin Schmalz and Isabel Tecu, showed that airline ticket prices were 3% to
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by kds3 7y ago
> do I have to sell my ownership in one of these companies? No, company would have to split itself (create separated business entity) so you would have to sell your competing part of the company. Such a change can also solve problem of c
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by kds3 7y ago
> Index funds “are great for investors,” says Elhauge, “but part of the reason they’re great for investors is exactly because of the anti-competitive effects.” Elhauge says the trusts of the late 19th century that gave rise to today’s an
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US-China Deal Could Upend the Way Nations Settle Disputes(wsj.com)
2 points by kds3 7y ago|0 comments
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by kds3 7y ago
So, at first we encouraged military companies mergers to save our money (back from 1980s?) and left only with a few monopolies, then suddenly there is only one company that can make our military chips? What a surprise! And now we have to pa
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Boeing Sued by Irish Plane Lessor to Void Deal for 22 Max Jets(bloomberg.com)
2 points by kds3 7y ago|0 comments
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Index Providers Saddle US Pension Funds with Stock Scams(wolfstreet.com)
15 points by kds3 7y ago|0 comments
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by kds3 7y ago
> it's possible for diligent researchers to reveal unpublicized policies through their research It's possible to reveal __some__ policies (like trivial one with breastfeeding), but I think that reverse-engineering of non-trivia

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