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With that logic, maybe we should break up the political party duopoly instead. Their customer service and approval ratings are at the lowest of all industries.

I think some ads are good. Specifically the kind that informs you of something new. Sometimes when I see an ad with a trailer for a new movie in theaters, I'm appreciative that I learned a movie that I wouldn't have otherwise known about.

I'm reducing margin (borrowed money for investing) to zero or near-zero. I'm also building up a savings account. Some of the Democrats could very well push for a pre-election recession in order to make Trump look less re-electable.

Recruiters spend 60% of their time looking at your profile picture.

Does this mean we can blame the stock market drop on the orange haired man in the office?

I was directed to a live oak tree. Tasty!

Along similar lines, what do you signal when you make $1200/mo truck payments on a new $80k truck for commuting back and forth to your $55k tech 9-5 job because "you like trucks"?

If the stock market appreciates 7% per year on average, then it appreciates by 0.02% per day and you're effectively making $0.20 per $1000 per day with massive volatility. $0.20 is so miniscule, it's not even large enough for a restaurant tip. It's not that uncommon to see large swings in either direction; The market went -4.85% just this week. The stock market is not a zero sum game over the long term (10+ years), but on a day-to-day basis, the market is effectively a zero sum game. If you manage to make more than the market's return, it's because some poor guy or gall out there made less than the market's return.

Fun fact: over 60% of the trade volume on the stock markets comes from bots. If you have enough of a superiority illusion to think your daytrading game these days can outplay the MIT PH.D Quant traders that wrote HFT bots for hedge funds, then you're in for a surprise.

I don't have the exact Peter Lynch quote but he said something to the effect that any period of less than two years in the stock market and you're basically entering a casino. Any period of greater than 2 years and you're investing.

Some other investor said that you should give a company enough time to use and generate a return from the money it received from selling it's stock before you fundamentally expect to see the returns.

Your tone is exceedingly cocksure and brash.

Youtube is free though unlike Prime and Netflix.

If you aren't buying the product, then you are the product. Maybe the problem is that extensions stores aren't as monitized as the IOS and Android App stores?

Due to crop losses from dying pollinators, pest increases, crops producing unviable pollen, and stagnant plant growth?

If those senior citizens have index funds or mutual funds, they'll be fine because the indexes automatically rebalance to the companies with the highest market caps.

Someone who likes to buy small-cap-value companies. This person could be domestic or overseas and might not care about US corporate negative externalities; just the dividend yield.

Taxes could go down by the same amount as the subsidies for all of the tax-payers, corporations, and investors involved allowing for a positive overall return to the economy if you include all of the inefficiencies avoided by having our government involved in these subsidies.

I disagree. I hold an unusual opinion that all congress members should be required to take an economics class before assuming office because they literally are the ones running our economy. Learning economics helps your thought process in many ways and makes you a better decision maker when it comes to deciding on micro and macroeconomic policies. Weighing benefits, negative externalities, and costs when making investments or policies is exactly what economics trains you best for. Our brains are not designed for decision making involving large numbers of people or large sums of money and by default we fall back on making emotional decisions based on anecdotal experiences. The teaching of Economics helps keep your logic side front and center and allows you to make better, more efficient, and more impactful decisions at lower social and economic costs than would be arrived at by default. Are you able to understand the implications and effects of taxes and government spending when there are 2 trillion dollar deficits instead of 2 billion dollar deficits?

Economics-style thinking is very valuable. If you weren't blessed to have had a great economics professor in your high-school and college years, I recommend reading Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. It was a required reading for my AP economics course and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it cover-to-cover.

I just looked at Florida's districts and the districts all include the rivers and lakes. Key examples are the Everglades and the St. Johns rivers.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/Districts

> Would you have brought up other social/political/environmental challenges that Texas faces (oh i don't know, like racial equity, or floods)?

Yes. For examples, look at the top comments for the top three HN articles on Foxconn in Wisconsin.

Yes, there's a saying that "if a couple has 10 kids in America and 1 dies, it's a tragedy. If a couple has 10 kids in India and 4 die, it's good odds." It's plausible to assume some couples might be hedging their bets however morbid that is. I'm an American that visited India for a few months and would like offer a different point of view. Buying condoms in India is still an embarrassing task since you have to stand within a line crammed full of people, look a shopkeeper in the eyes, and ask him or her to rummage around for whatever condom boxes he/she has in his/her rubbermaid containers. Lol, YC2020 could be condom vending machines in India that accept rupees >.>. Just about all of India's problems stem from the Tragedy of the Commons.

These OSM-based maps are pretty! Is there a way to set the distance and scaling in Miles instead of Kilometers for all of us USA folk?

One of Yang's top policies is Media Fragmentation. Last night's debate was held on MSNBC, NBC, and Telemundo. All three are owned in full by Comcast Corporation. Maybe Comcast interpreted "Media fragmentation" to mean it would have to divvy up its assets if he got elected? I fear that CNN and MSNBC are going to have too much power by favoring their democratic candidate of choice for us as they have done (at least once) in the past. The even bigger fear is that none of this even matters because another country managed to hack a small percentage of the voting machines in the 3144 counties.

That's too bad. It's quite funny thinking Toyota Production System is where TPS reports come from because it's so believable. Even though Toyota switched to Agile-ish methodologies, they still produce 20x the documentation and paperwork that the Waterfall method produces!

Finally someone that understands the difference.

It's hard to say how Toyota is governed unless you know more about how the Tokyo Stock Exchange functions. Toyota shares are only available here in the form of ADRs (American Depository Receipts). Each ADR share represents two shares of common stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Toyota might not have chase short term profits like many American companies choose to do. After two hours of googling it (and reading english web pages only, not japanese webpages), the only notable thing I discovered was that Toyota pays out 30% of its profits in the form of dividends and spends 20% of its profits on share buybacks for a total shareholder return of roughly 50% of earnings each year. This indicates that Toyota is shareholder friendly but it's not clear if this is an obligation or a choice.

Instead of chasing short-term profits, I've observed that Toyota spends fair budget on advertising and showboating futuristic looking hype technology that is never intended to be released or used. Some investors primarily look at the daily news and are satisfied with this strategy. The technology Toyota intends on using isn't hyped up; it's kept a secret until it's actually released to drivers.

Finally 90% of Toyota Corporate Employees in the Plano, TX US Headquarters are contractors from other companies. Those ones sure as hell aren't getting any quarterly performance bonuses or any executive compensation. At best, the executives bonuses are getting to keep your air-conditioned job for another 3 years.

You should know that Toyota went full Agile last year. Not pure Agile but Agile in the Toyota Way -- where they produce 20x the documentation that the Waterfall Method produces. I'm not commenting on whether this is a good or a bad thing because my opinion doesn't matter but it enabled everyone to try something new. If the upper management in charge of tech had any free time, they'd might benefit from reading The Mythical Man-Month as you've brought up. Toyota has been about a year or three behind all of the car companies to adopt new tech like Alexa and Apple CarPlay. Regardless, Toyota has come a pretty long way since first being a loom company.

We can only ask for the UN or another entity to investigate this and draw a rightful conclusion. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty and not the reverse. We won't know until after an investigation occurs. This post may draw up enough of a report to request that an investigation takes place.

Although it's true that cars switch owners, cars usually stay on the road for 10-15 years so consumers with the annual fee will pay out more in the long run.

After working with Toyota in their multimedia and head unit design facility, I can see why car companies would switch from a set price of $300 to a yearly fee. It used to be that you just included a FM radio and a CD player and the driver was good to go. Now, these head units need updates every month. These updates mostly include compatibility with the latest IOS/Android, latest phone hardware, newer versions of Pandora/Spotify/iHeartRadio because people wanted to "thumbs up" their songs, newer versions of the HU OS because these new music app versions broke the old OS, newer maps and less embarrassingly-bad voice recognition. Behind these map updates, there's some tester with an H1B Visa getting paid a salary to drive around in a Sienna to take photos of discrepancies between the map and the actual road. Once you see this, it's easy to understand the switch to an annual fee. However, the largest cost comes from trying to connect to the latest phones to use their 3G/4G.

If Tesla wasn't hemorrhaging out money, I'd also wish Tesla had a cheaper car. But Tesla unsustainably lost $702 million last quarter and they need to make enough of a profit to pay back all of their debt and invest in building our future; otherwise they'll go bankrupt. The list of successful car company startups is short. As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla. Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is idiocy squared. Tesla's end goal is to make an affordable sports car, just as the Ford Model T was an affordable car for the masses that brought Ford from 9% market share to 61% market share. They just can't bring the costs down yet while they are hemorrhaging so much money.

Further reading: 1) https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j... 2) https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

That's a design decision by the ReactJS. Some consider this a flaw of ReactJS. Usually all CSS stylesheets are not included globally in all pages.

Also, if you need to apply a different style, you can just include your custom stylesheet after the global or base stylesheet. As long as you use either the same selectors or more specific selectors, you will be able to override the previous styles. This is assuming the previous developer didn't make the bad design decision of using !important which usually can't be overwritten.

I heard another reason why Fortnight became so big. I had discussions with young high school gamers and they say the single reason Fortnight became so big is that it's available on every platform. Even though one person has an XBox, another has a PS4, another has a Nintendo Switch, another just has a PC, and the casual players have Android or IOS, everyone can play with each other when they go home. Also, they play a lot of different games, but they play Fortnight everyday.