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SamReidHughes
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About SamReidHughes
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Comment #40243601
Long term, buybacks aren't about supply/demand -- they increase a share's percentage ownership of the business.
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Comment #38980869
Philly cheesesteak sellers in other locations often advertise they use real Amoroso rolls shipped from Philadelphia.
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Comment #38678673
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Comment #38300294
They seem to mean talent density in the sense of the amount of talent per person.
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Comment #38147046
Singapore obviously had a lot of differences, particularly the PM's past close relationship with the unions, and the early stage of development making it more rational for workers …
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Comment #38146883
From his memoirs "The Singapore Story", Chapter 6, "Winning Over the Unions", on the ports: > Recounting Britain's prodigal years of crippling dock strikes which led to the devalua…
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Comment #38146709
Channel their inner LKY and deal with it the way he did.
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Comment #38122356
For computers, it's surely that common office keyboards have changed from awful squishy keys to units that are more chiclet-like, or even if not, still have a better key action for…
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Comment #38063259
The thing is, by the time you get to this book, most students have probably taken DiffEq or multivariable calculus, and had exposure to linear algebra there. (If not in high school…
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Comment #37835373
They want eBay to enforce the law on merchants.
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Comment #37835158
They want to further outsource law enforcement to a due-process-free zone.
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Comment #37825947
Everything you're talking about has nothing to do with federal taxation.
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Comment #37807120
No. Their presumed nukes are more useful as a deterrent against more capable enemies that might develop their own nukes. And they'd immediately become an absolute pariah state. Tha…
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Comment #37579404
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Comment #37489041
So, actually, 47% of them by dollar amount, according to the report you quoted. Selectively quoted. Why do you behave this way? Here's a question for you to think about: Why do the…
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Comment #37488957
I'm not an author or artist or creator of any kind, but if some guy made a bunch of "plot summary" videos of my work, I'd want him hunted down and sentenced to hard labor.
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Comment #37487409
Transactions where you got scammed aren't the same thing as unauthorized transactions.
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Comment #37473521
He undid all the hard work that the visual novel creators put in and undermined the creative industry.
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Comment #37451009
> Truthfully I don't think this is an issue the federal government is in a position to solve any time soon. The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supp…
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Comment #37429743
An enterprise that "strains the grid" still has to pay for that electricity, so it's not some perverse incentive at all.
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Comment #37202198
I've seen this sort of pointer (assuming the author means it's nullable) be called "clone_ptr " but it called T's clone() method. Because T might be a base class, invoking the poin…
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Comment #37030026
It's not prosecuted murders. The baseline stats aren't built on that number, they're built on the race of the perp when known.
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