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Comment #49193593
The bigger question is why a social media company is even offering this?
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Comment #49110146
Small retail investors comprise 66% of the market in SK. It's usually single unmarried people who make ridiculously big bets to try and get enough money to buy a house or get marri…
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Comment #49033239
The Numbers is such a brilliant site, this explains why it came back in such a stripped down form. AI and prediction markets giving me more reason to hate them.
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Comment #49022194
People bought Google for the torrential free cashflow, that looks like its gone forever with this new capital intensive model. If that the case then it needs to be valued like a he…
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Comment #49022011
And then they'll be valued like more normal companies as well. Which will mean a drastic re-rating.
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Comment #48932730
Piracy, however much it's hated by the industry has saved so much media from being lost forever. The greatest example I can think of is Doctor Who. When the BBC erased tapings of t…
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Comment #48902759
They're doing it protect themselves and Israel. The insanity to brag about doing this. Rubio was mainstream once, but the sniff of power seems to have corrupted him completely.
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Comment #48899093
Apple dont compete on units sold, they're all about the margin. Samsung sell a lot of low value phones, which in the current environment will do well, but you'd need to sell 10 of …
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Comment #48828499
They're wrong and right in equal measure, but what they do is publish their opinions with conviction and back it up with sound arguments and facts. I remember reading articles they…
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Comment #48716160
The baffling thing is how SoftBank still hasn't gone under.
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Comment #48568259
There's a misconception about self help books that they teach you "tricks" that you can instantly use to become a completely different person. A lot of the good ones teach you prin…
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Comment #48348443
The first dual core processor I built a machine with was an Opteron. It was a nice piece of hardware.
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Comment #48335393
Imagine sacrificing millions of dollars worth of business and goodwill for the sake of a $200,000 collection. If I were board member I'd be demanding the CEO's resignation.
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Comment #48276397
It's far from ugly, it's just very standard EV. When you buy a Ferrari though you want it to stand it, you don't want it looking like a bog standard Tesla.
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Comment #48276372
It's looks less interesting than the cars Xiaomi and BYD have been making. Let's hope that the performance is something special. Though why they chose Mr thin and light instead of …
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Comment #48233401
I was an adult and other than being on the obvious shows like Blue Peter and newsround, there was nothing. You'd expect a knighthood or a peerage, all she's got is an OBE. England …
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Comment #48233101
It was really sad how she doesn't get the recognition she deserves for being the first Briton in space. Whether it's because she's a woman or because it was with the Russians she h…
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Comment #48210582
They're like vampires we invited in to our houses. And now we cant get rid of them.
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Comment #47963081
The world seems to have become smaller since then. Many places on that route are at war, unstable, unfriendly. Where there would have been curiosity and friendliness there's hostil…
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Comment #47706516
Fun Fact - Elbridge Colby is a Catholic, maybe time for excommunication?
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Comment #47706480
Threatening the holy father is not something I entirely expected, but when you couple that with statements like "We have the military power to do what we want" it becomes rather te…
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Comment #47663168
So Lotus 1-2-3
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Comment #47347852
They were Palantir apparently.
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Comment #47259135
So its fundamentally an iPad with a keyboard running macOS.
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Comment #47186862
Dont forget Nvidia technology was condsidered too sensitive to be exported to China....until the Trump administration decided they could export it if they paid a 10% export tax.