I’m not sure Disney is a productive company for society. I’d argue that Lebron James and Disney are purely for entertainment. And the owners of sports teams are able to attach value to the players by how many people they’ll draw to TV and stadium viewership and product sales, so Lebron’s value can be pretty well guessed in advance by the team that pays him that huge salary.
This is why free speech is such an essential right in the United States, and probably contributes to the success it’s had as a country in making things. It’s hard to create when some government can come along and crush your idea. I can’t think of any other country in the world that has fewer limits on speech.
There’s no way to know how many of those were Chinese nationals because the only group with that data is FINCEN. So how exactly did you do this, and which county was it?
I’d think that the person who abuses customer privacy would be much lower class than that. I’d much rather work with someone like the WhatsApp founders than a Zuckerberg.
Considering that Amazon fulfills orders using counterfeit items from suppliers that they know have previously provided fakes to customers, and then removes reviews that point out counterfeits, I’d say they’re complicit in it. I’ve personally had a review removed that called out an obviously counterfeit item I received. That was two years ago and the seller is still on Amazon, and Amazon is still removing other reviewers’ bad reviews of them.
Looks like you got downvoted by the usual anti-science politically-correct contingent here on HN, but you’re right to investigate that possibility. Here’s an analysis of the last major outbreak in the early 90s that shows how huge a factor unvaccinated undocumented Hispanics were : https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001675.htm
This seems specifically targeted to give Uber an advantage over Lyft especially with the 10,000 dispatches rule. I’d also keep an eye on where the TLC commissioner ends up now that she’s resigned. Given all the corruption in NY, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see her end up at Uber in the next few years.
No, at least in the US. The Realtors have lobbied very hard to make sure that the real estate industry doesn’t have the same reporting requirements that banking does. So a lot of dirty money has made it into the US real estate system. The government finally started looking into it a few years ago. “By 2017, 30 percent of cash purchases of high-end real estate by LLCs in New York, Miami, LA, San Francisco, San Diego and San Antonio were involving suspicious buyers, according to FinCEN.”
That’s just another reason why Chicago’s population is lower today than 25 years ago, and Illinois has lost population for five years straight. Corruption and bad policies are rampant, so why start a business or stay there if you can leave?
Par for the course for a company that “illegally diverted over $100 million from a fund used for safety operations, and instead used it for executive compensation and bonuses” according to the state.
They could afford to pay out a regular dividend, illegally skipped safety measures on pipelines, and “an independent audit from the State of California issued a report stating that PG&E had illegally diverted over $100 million from a fund used for safety operations, and instead used it for executive compensation and bonuses”. Ratepayers and taxpayers should never have to pay for deliberate executive negligence.
Looks like the decisions that favor patent trolls were all decided by majority Obama appointees. Makes me wonder if the new Supreme Court appointees will accept any challenges to these rulings and if so, will they finally put a leash on this Federal Circuit Appeals Court.
They also took down a great little website they bought called Weatherbonk and never ended up using the site’s best features. I wonder if they were just buying up competition.