ultraluminous

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by ultraluminous 5y ago
Thank you for the informative reply. I definitely agree on all counts, especially re "ponzy" etc. I think that the pandemic forced the entire sector to focus on profitability and cut most loss-leading initiatives, so hearing they
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
I agree with the gist of you're saying, and I didn't personally dig into their last few fillings, but I suppose what the parent comment is trying to express can also be stated as "Uber's core ride-sharing business model
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
Yup. Essentially, housing is an in-elastic demand, and livable land is a finite resource, further exacerbated by the realities of emigration. Combined with extreme wealth inequality, it brings us to this type of dystopia - https:/&#x2
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
It's not a question of "would it work", the point is that real-estate prices are rising in dozens of countries, and thousands of cities. Zoning is a local issue. Assuming that the reason homes prices are out of control in San
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
I've seen this argument touted frequently in housing related threads and it always confuses me. Housing prices have soared over the majority of the developed world - dozens of countries[1]. Is NYMBYism and prop13 driving the housing cr
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
Are you an immunologist by any chance?
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
Arkansas was one of the last states to seceded the union. The very second sentence in the ordinance linked is "In addition to the well-founded causes of complaint set forth by this convention in resolutions adopted". You are more
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by ultraluminous 5y ago
If only the slaves had any appreciation to the important component they were in their slave master's culture, they'd probably complain a lot less and try harder to accommodate their agrarian needs. sadly necessary /s
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
Except that it actually didn't?
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
This has to be satire right? Right?
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
"they accomplish the same goals as full VMs in a different way." They are explicitly not that. Docker containers do not provide you any real isolation guarantees from a security POV and make no attempts at such. This is ex
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
Not OP but - https://qz.com/1811291/jack-welch-was-the-best-and-worst-thi... GE’s breathtaking growth under Welch was fueled in large part by its transformation into a financial services superpower. By 2000, nearly h
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
"in my time there I worked during the weekend 3 times (i don’t count oncall here)" Why wouldn't you count it? Do those days not-count somehow?
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
And if the real world could even hypothetically fulfill such a requirement, you would have had a point.
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
Lynching slaves was immoral, unethical and "blameworthy" before it became illegal.
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by ultraluminous 6y ago
First, I agree with your conclusion. The way to address this is to change the law, pushing individual corporation is ineffective. However, you DON'T have to maximize your profits above all other corporations. There's no such actua
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
If you're referring to "...investors have been cashing out of US stocks at a record pace", than to further clarify - investors are divesting out of the public stock market entirely . They're not selling their Apple stoc
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
Sure thing - https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/difference-between-... https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/11/13/1542091438000/How-acc... These results beg the question of
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
I’m not going to get into the specifics of this particular article, or public analyst reports in general, but FYI Barrons is possibly the worst source of financial information on planet earth. You’d be better served following WSB’s advice t
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
I have no idea what you base this statement on. You are absolutely likely to go to zero by continuously making market trades as a retail investor. Every trade has two sides and the side you're trading against is for the most part signi
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
You are statistically guaranteed to have worse expected value as a retail stock trader than at the blackjack table.
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
Oh then you'll love finding out how much of the overall economy is guided by tax code idiosyncrasies - read up on stock buybacks vs. dividends for extra horror.
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
Is Intel not a "mega tech company"? They have 75% the market cap of Microsoft, and virtually all of their revenue is from producing silicon. Ironically this is exactly the point you miss - Intel's business it to produce an
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
No, their business is consumer electronics. Those consumer devices contain (and are built with) tech, but the tech is not the product itself. This is in comparison with MS, which for the most part sells tech.
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
I am both bemused and somewhat concerned that you seems to hold the belief that "business discussions" are conducted outside of the realm of "emotional expression".
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
He's not advertising "on sombedoy else's trademark". He's advertising a business that offer third party repair services of a product name <trademark>. You are commenting on an article titled "Support for
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
The GP is providing their personal insider view regarding what they perceived as mismanagement of G+, and is starting of with describing the vantage the had at the time. There are many (many) instances of appeal-to-authority on HN, but this
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
" Obviously leaded gasoline actually did appear to be the better choice at that time, or else people would have just used the non-patent-encumbered ethanol." Eh. "It could only be this way, because it was" is a textbo
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by ultraluminous 7y ago
Pretty much the entirety of the article you're selectively quoting is praising preventative care. The byline is "Contrary to conventional wisdom, it tends to cost money, but it improves quality of life at a very reasonable price.&
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by ultraluminous 8y ago
Genuine question and not some MRA trolling, but how is that demeaning? How would the etymology of English pronouns would be demeaning to anyone?

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