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> Corruption within private companies is irrelevant, as the main ones to suffer from it are usually shareholders. And a few millions of people suffering because they're being misle…

"customer" is a much better term IMO. It indicates this is ultimately a transactional relationship where both sides have certain responsibilities. The customer the responsibility t…

I'm curious what you think VCs, etc. who are investing in all these private companies want to do? The only difference with public companies is we actually have data about their fin…

This is correct. This isn't a financial transaction. This is a "relationship" transaction.

Are there other examples of well capitalized technology startups that have significant revenues that have also opted for significant debt financing?

Yeah, your local friendly police officer isn't gonna do that. They're gonna pay Anduril, Palantir, and a whole host of other business or consulting firms a ton of your money to do …

Or a Roomba... One of the first things they want to do is make a plan of the house. But also, don't builders have to submit plans of homes to the local government when building the…

This wasn't a non issue. You touched the phone in the wrong places and you would drop off an existing call. Most people solved this by indeed not "holding it wrong" or getting case…

There are 2 problems to this. 1. I seriously doubt Apple was accidentally displaying more bars on the phone. If it was a "bars" issue then it was almost certainly done deliberately…

Yup, that's what they will do now. Which is indeed a benefit for their countries. And is a loss for the US. The brain drain was real and the US was the beneficiary and that may be …

Student enrollment in the US is declining and the big problem for colleges the past few years has been a worry about not having enough students. So it's not clear why US students w…

Yes, they should. Which is a completely unrelated effort from the free money you're getting from abroad. Unless governments institute policies that require them to "tighten their b…

Any anecdote will suffer from survivorship bias (and also negative anecdotes). The data on the other hand are very clear that people are not doing as well as their parents. Unless …

I think eliminating online sports betting, and requiring it be done within the physical confines of a casino may help mitigate most of the concerns around this. After all, sports b…

For context, SNAP is valued at $14Bn. This is a straight up giveaway to friends. Even dictators in other countries don't make it so obvious because they're worried their population…

If you think anyone has "forgotten" the issues you're deeply mistaken. Apple essentially has a monopoly on iOS so just because people have adapted to their decisions doesn't make t…

Would similar research in other countries also return similar results? The US is going through a lot of upheaval, which whether you think is positive or negative, is unique, and a …

Install Google For Windows... until Lucy pulls the football again. How does Google expect anyone to trust them. I absolutely loved the Google Windows search app, and even went as f…

Wow, this explains an alarm I missed literally yesterday which ended up being set to today AM instead of yesterday PM like I thought I set it.

I thought the US approach to biofuels was always understood as a Republican head fake towards climate change action during Bush without doing anything that would threaten oil inter…

The Democrats have a structural problem. The party is defined as being composed of the people who are already elected. So the priority of the Democratic Party ends up reflecting th…

To be fair, a lot of people were fooled by the first term. In the first term Trump hired a lot of retired or retiring generals. They may not have been subject matter experts, but t…

I can't speak to whether the 6 applications is the correct number, but it seems like a reasonable first pass to apply some limit as long as the NIH is closely monitoring this and m…

Who is advising Apple on these actions? Is it a team out of California? Because their approach to working with the EU seems pretty obviously unproductive and will (as it has in the…