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IMO the US government has a big interest in trying to get American companies as big as possible, and to keep them in the US. Or maybe you can point out some things that the government has done (recently) to show the opposite?

The US government is interested in making sure US companies get as big as possible, why would they hamstring them?

Do you think they're out there shooting people in the Middle East so that Middle Eastern oil companies can make more money or so that the American ones can?

I saw a TV program where they tried to live off-grid and set up a bike generator to charge a big battery. They found out that the human body produces less power than you'd think.

Going to 0 carbon is not free, otherwise every country would be doing it.

Sounds fascinating. Do you have a picture of the setup?

Onboarding is also very dependent on employee goodwill. Too much churn, and people stop wanting to bring new employees up to speed.

Ask any state west of the Rockies. California for example.

You know what the US does to country leaders who even talk about trading oil in currency other than USD? Hint: kill with impunity.

Their CRO should have told them this was a risky strategy, or how to hedge interest rate risk. Ooops, they've been without a CRO since Q2 2022.

What SVB did was not best practice, as shown by the fact that they are now bankrupt and the FDIC had to step in to make depositors whole. Why are you painting it as if it was?

Sugar is bad and so are sweeteners. The question is, what is the least worst option? Maybe that is to cut sweet things out of our diet completely.

Perhaps take a look at how many trucks and SUVs are sold and exclusively operated within cities, vs on farms or other rural areas.

> If I owned a pickup truck and kept it in a garage by my place then I would be far more likely to make last minute decisions to go camping or yard sale shopping or whatever.

You and every other SUV driver share this dream. We all know that last minute outdoorsy fantasy is not gonna happen. And are you buying the entire yard at the yard sale?

AirBNB essentially made it easier to operate shadow hotels that are not bound to the same rules and regulations as real hotels. For a long time you could even get away with not paying taxes on your rentals since Airbnb was not cooperating with local governments.

At the same time, low interest rates made it possible for individuals to leverage up on real estate and suck up valuable housing supply from precisely the kind of places that needs it the most - popular cities where tourists like to go. Cheaper rooms also added to the boom of tourism by making it possible for more tourists to travel to said cities.

I see this as a regulatory failure. Airbnb's objective was to move fast and break things, and they broke the social contract and allowed people to sidestep the process required to become a hotel.

Sorry but H1-B aka corporate slavery is abominable in the first place. That it is the way it is doesn't mean it is fair or ethical. Most other countries have moved to a more humane way of dealing with foreign workers, at least qualified immigrants where you don't immediately lose your entire life that you've built because of a layoff.

If the answer is, well we're the US and this is the law here, well...

> The maximum theoretical gain from shorting is 100%. A stock can only go to zero. If only 10% of your shorts are wildly correct and go to zero, you just made 10% on that one bet.

That's one way to look at it. A stock can only go down 100%. But shorting can make tons of money because:

a) stairs up, elevator down, it takes shorter amount of time to get the same price movement.

b) leverage, corollary of (a).

c) A stock going from 400 to 200 is a 50% move, from 200 to 400 is a 100% move, in terms of points its exactly the same so you earn the same amount.

I feel like a histogram or line chart would be better for displaying popularity of the drinks rather than the heatmap, given that there are no patterns appearing in terms of day of month.

1. There may have been a sale without restrictions on purpose or usage of the data attached.

2. There may have been a sale to a third party, from which the group bought the data.

3. The group may have used a shell entity to buy the data.

Is that why so many new buildings have been built in the last 10-15 years?

The (home) owner class has a much louder voice.

When the stock indexes go up (get more expensive) it is business as usual. When they go down, its doom and gloom everywhere.

Going to Kinko's and giving your papers to the friendly guy outside who says he'll give you color photocopies for free if you just give him your documents and wait here.

Wasn't that more from the acquisition of Picasa?

Facebook had lists (don't quote me on the name) which was very similar to Circles, without needing to be on the sahara desert of content which was Google+.

The advantage of FB was also that you saw content, whereas on Google+ everyone would have it locked up and you couldn't see it, great for the less popular types.

You seem to have it mixed up with a fact-checking bot, tbh

I think the various government agencies, but especially the FTC, have taken the position that its America vs the world, and thus have looked the other way as tech giants have engaged in anti-competitive and consumer hostile behavior that earlier would have resulted in at least raps on the wrist, if not more (MS antitrust suit).

Now the position seems to be to let them do whatever they want and shield them from other governments and competition if necessary.

I daresay a higher percentage of men have interesting hobbies than women, at any age. Mostly because having interesting hobbies is a good way to attract mates for men, and not for women.

You can't really expect mainstream writing to take the opposite stance, that its women's fault. Somebody has to be to blame, and in a case of men vs women, the target is easy.

Culture matters. You can have the most "game" but if you grow up in Saudi Arabia or India you will almost certainly have a lower "count" than someone with no game who grew up in Brazil.

I think VR can definitely benefit from more pixels.

We already know we are competing with workers from all over the world. Go to Bengaluru, India or other IT-centric cities and marvel at how many silicon valley names you see on the skyscrapers, each of which has thousands of workers. This has been the paradigm since at least the early 00s. Remote-first may have accelerated it but it didn't bring it about.