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In other words, they’d be billionaires regardless and this guy is a prick
Assuming there’s no bias is naive.
One counter example, every atttempt at censorship and media bias works oppositely. Look at yahoo article content, tilts quite a bit left and the comments are significantly right wing. Makes them more distrustful of true news.
3% is a substantial amount but I doubt it’ll be close to that much. Supply chains will move to avoid tarrifs, parts will be shipped to Brazil or Mexico and then into the US. Or from China to Vietnam etc. I highly doubt it’ll get to 3% but if it does and the economic impacts of that thus far are fairly minimal, that would be significant. Makes up for the entire tax cut deficit and more when accounted for dynamic scoring but again it’s still monumentally dumb to count on tariffs for revenue which Trump has been stupidly bragging about. I do completely support Trump’s trade war thus far however with the end goal of fair and reciprocal trade and limiting China militarily through the economy.
They are following the rules. The rules have given us soooooo much over the last 100 if not 10 years. They can be vastly improved but lazy, monolithic ideas that take no consideration of cause and effect is the wrong populist movement to effect meaningful change.
In 2016, Trump (probably his admin he didn’t know anything) wanted to appoint the most badass anti monopoly czar in America. Probably the most momentous position in recent memory in terms of the future of society. Sounds like I’m exaggerating, but free speech, monopoly, hate speech, income inequality, spying, tracking everything, face recognition, Orwellian themes, and potential usurpation of nation states in favor of data harvesting multinationals was on the line. Google used all their lobbying capital to shut it down. Threatened to nuke every bipartisan bill and every conservative judicial appointment with the congressmen in their pockets. The WSJ had a great expose about this.
In the end the one man who scared the hell out of even Google and was poised to take down uber monopolies like att&t, Disney etc. was passed over for a pushover.
Great critical thinking guys, have fun in your complete echo chamber. If you can’t even have a discussion from someone who wants one and is willing to have an open mind and asking questions, not surprised at all that the entire world is slowly rejecting the current orthodoxy that has given us peace and prosperity for 70 years. Let it all go down the drain due to sheer arrogance and stupidity.
If you disagree with anything I said, downvote and reply back. Only flag if I broke any rules or attacked anyone in any way. Cowards.
That said, I have read a lot of stories about people being overworked, ambulances called frequently at work etc. but perhaps it’s becasue Amazon is one of the biggest employers in the world. Just like Foxconn suicide rates were the largest China Tech story for a year because something like 120 committed suicide but crunching the numbers, that was significantly better suicide rate than the rest of China because Foxconn employed millions.
I have a lot of pain and am unable to dissociate from it enough to sleep until I’m completely exhausted which several nights a week meant no sleep or just a few hours. These tinctures along with another pain medication (extremely low dose naltrexone, no side effects except better sleep for me) allow me to get a very good nights sleep 80-90% of the time which was a significant improvement in quality of life.
Give it a try if you are having no luck elsewhere!
Please ignore if any of these are too uncomfortable or invasive.
But...you do have a point even though the first part was wrong. Honestly, anything above 50% solar and wind is useless. Need to make up that cost via hydro, nuclear, or storage.
There are a handful of people stealing technologies though and the point I want to make it ITS STATE SPONSERED. China gives you a handbook on how exactly to steal technology and how to bring it back. The STATE SPONSERED stealing of tech in specific fields is the problem and is estimated to lose the US $150B every year according to a bipartisan report not including the rest of the world. The CIA estimates thousands of government trained espionage operatives are present in California alone, far more than any other country has had ever and this doesn’t include the Confucious Initiatives all over the country. This isn’t a Chinese problem at all, it’s the government of China specifically CCPs fault that should be countered by government policy not mistrust.
I’m not sure how you are calculating equity but they have $240B in plain cash. They have so much in IP, and extremely low interest loans.
Market cap does mean something, it’s literally the most meaningful value the world puts on a company
The fact that we’ve had such tepid wage increases for the past decade that a measly .6% growth is the best in a decade can be viewed as pathetic in a vacuum or as the “biggest pay increase in nearly a decade”. Both are true, but overall I’d still say it’s good news in an area which has been extremely bleak.
Source for the first part: https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/08/vcs-invested-the-most-cap...
At the time I thought Clinton was a superior candidate to Trump, so I did message a Clinton campaign member my concerns and was ignored. I posted on a Clinton forum and got blocked for being a right wing troll and was told they were ahead in Arizona and competitive in Texas, so there’s no way they need to be concerned about the states I mentioned. The group think was absurd. No dissent allowed.
I bought Chasing Hillary by a NYTimes reporter and that absurd elitism and overconfidence and refusal to hear any real dissent was a recurring theme in that book. (I wouldn’t reccomend it, but the biggest lesson I learned there was the Clinton campaign played everything so safe. A dozen reviewers checking every joke, every line, every answer so every comment Hillary spoke became devoid of substance and too safe and many good plays were shot down if any of a handful of people disagreed with them).
Though if I were the employee, I’d take that severance and try to stretch it for a couple of months and depending on the engineering field, do a bunch of interview questions and apply at FAANG or other high paying ones. I feel like a large portion of layed off employees aren’t the ones who jump companies and get promoted regularly. Those ones can smell the end is near and jump ship probabaly beforehand. If finances are stable, getting laid off might be a great opportunity if one can maintain focus and is willing to put in the time.
If I was Google, I’d use this as a perfect PR opportunity to switch gears and start charging $250 per phone for licensing Android and then offer $50 per phone to put all Google related apps on their for a net gain of $200 a phone plus their previous market share. Chrome, Google, Android are too deeply infiltrated to even effect a single percent of sales to a new OS competitor.
Then slowly eat away at the competition by producing Pixel and related models which you can beat the competition for lower and mid phones by jacking up android licensing as you eat away at the market. End result, EU users pay hundreds of more per each phone and Hardware companies die off. Apple could also further jack up their phone prices.
One of the replies to his tweet made me change my opinion a bit too. Government officials who make the decision what to do should listen to the experts, but if famous people come the govt officials might listen to them instead and it could have been a disaster. She was saying how in these situation, rescue workers hate celebrities coming because they have to fight against their usually erroneous opinions, making it harder for the workers to get through to the decision makers
I also understand he sucked the gravity of the praise there with news articles mostly mentioning him and I understand how divers who risked their lives might feel constantly being asked about the sub.
This diver was rude, but if he’s been asked this constantly I don’t blame him really.
This is one moment where he should have kept quiet on twitter and it would have blown over, but he fired back which is in poor taste, but still not too bad.
But the second he called him pedo...that was the lowest point of Elon Musk ever. It was petty, narcissistic, rude. His teen fanboys will no doubt harrass and dox this hero, he’ll have this moniker on him forever, and it’s just because Elon was attacked. Whenever he feels unfairly attacked he always attacks back, sometimes very very rudely. I hope he gets sued for millions. I don’t blame his journalism attacks because they were fairly justified, but this was really messed up.