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It needs to hook into the existing legal book supply chain so that authors could potentially get compensated (I doubt they do for used book resale tho..).

Do you have to run destroy first to order the same order again a second time?

They don't have an incentive to share their view of reality until after they make investments that would capitalize on their belief in that view of reality. After they take those p…

It was not great to work at a company Vista acquired company ~10 years ago. Engineering talent fled, code quality dropped, product prices were jacked up, etc. I guess the company I…

I think they want to get their money out of china and parked into a safe place. If they pay off their mortgage, they don't want to find a new place to park their money, they can ju…

> why would a company ever do a stock buyback if changing the amount of issued stock didn't change the price? Buy low/sell high maybe? They buy their stock when the price is low an…

Is it all due to inflation and the interest rates? Shouldn't these companies be able to issue stock to get some cheap capital to continue growth/hiring? Or anyone know why this is …

From the abstract: > This paper explores this case in detail and its potential impact. You talk about them like they are the enemy. Lots of people talk about them like you without …

You cite one instance and equate that to a lot of them are not bright by design. I am sure there are indeed some cops that are not great and some that have lower intelligence. The …

Their job is to enforce the law. It doesn't seem quite right to denigrate them and call them not bright for doing their job. Shouldn't you be blaming someone else and not the peopl…

Yea.. there is so much ambiguity in stuff like this. Reasonable and probable mean different things to different people and its not like we have statistics to show that when a powde…

Yea, I didn't think of something like creatine. That being said, I would still be a little sketched to travel with it like that as I would assume the first thoughts of a police off…

Yea, didn't think of that. I would probably be too scared to pack that for a flight.

Yea, makes sense, didn't think of that. It would indeed sketch me out a little to carry that around, but could see wanting to carry it around.

Right.. hence my dunkin donuts statement.

Were there technical reasons for the deprecation or was it more of a cancelled type thing?

Is it common for people to carry around baggies of white powder that isn't drugs? The container might tip the scale one way or the other. If there is a little white substance at th…

Maybe there is a market for people who get shot at or with those that are paranoid about that? I know the windows aren't bullet proof, but the panels stop smaller calibers. If it i…

The putin assassinations are a little different though. The assassinated are publicly known to have links to the regime. The methods of death have a similar signature and the rarit…

Is a car accident and not publicly announcing it as a reprisal sending a message? Seems a little too quiet for that and like it might be cleaning up loose ends by someone else inst…

Wouldn't they have to take credit for it and announce it if that's the case?

He was an asset, not a member of a secret service organization. He was in a useful position in a company, then he was recruited. It sounds like he was more of a useful idiot and no…

That's pretty screwed up to kill an asset like that. I doubt Iran could have unraveled the plot so quickly and I'm not sure how they could benefit from killing him.

But we can't be sure unless we know the actual stats. A lot of news operates by driving sensational stories, the more hysteria and doom they invoke, the more views they get. Are we…

Maybe that it would be interesting to know what the numbers actually are. There is the common saying that you are more likely to get in an accident on the way to the airport than t…