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They did https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/paypal-acquires-payments-g... Some integration happened, but there are still separate parts, so they're not one and the same at the momen…

HBO is removing many: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/westworld-hbo-max-the-never... Apparently to make them available on other ad supported networks: https://www.polygon.com/plat…

It could be spurious correlation like https://xkcd.com/882/

I think they’re probably referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

You could wait to collect the email address until after users have searched for a product and found something they want an alert on. That way people know what they're getting into …

The way I have heard it described is that governments have a monopoly on the "legitimate use of force." That is, if someone commits a crime, or doesn't pay taxes, or doesn't hold u…

My favorite by far (or, well, the other one that comes to mind) is No Evidence of Disease. I've recommended it to all my friends. http://idlewords.com/2012/09/no_evidence_of_diseas…

You make a fair point, given what was in the article. I think one interesting thing that the article left out is that the situation has actually changed a fair amount in the last d…

They said: "when they're culled we lower the temperature so that there's no violent death or change in state (because insects are exothermic their metabolism slows until they go in…

Well, I got curious and found an answer: "In 1982, 60 percent of the people on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans came from wealthy families, compared with 32 percent in 2…

What proportion of the richest 1% (or 0.1%, or the top 1000 richest people) do you think came from families that were already in the top 1%? How do you define "out of reach"?

It's fairly common in acquisitions for one or both sides to agree to a "break-up" fee to protect against one side getting cold feet, regulatory risks, financing risks, and more. ht…