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retornam

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    Comment #48896802

    please cite your sources, we can't take your comment at face value without citations.

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    Comment #48896770

    State governments administer education separately, the Department of Education's job is to make sure they are following federal law. The Department mainly administers federal progr…

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    Comment #48896741

    > The Department of Education has spent $3 trillion since its inception in 1980, and academic accomplishment has not advanced at all The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), whic…

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    Comment #48896302

    What do you think the GAO was setup to do? When was the last time you read a GAO report, if you claim to care about how the government spends your taxes and if they spend it effici…

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    Comment #48896001

    > What's the evidence for that? If your mandate is to identify fraud or optimize a system, wouldn’t your success or failure be determined by the number of fraudulent cases you succ…

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    Comment #48690132

    I used to have a lot of respect for YC and the kind of founders it used to attract. However, over the past few years, they have started attracting a certain type of founder that mo…

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    Comment #47191422

    I have a bridge to Brooklyn to sell you if you believe this. Standing up for whats right often is not easy and involves hard choices and consequences, your leader has shown you and…

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    Comment #44578512

    Doesn't it bother anybody that their product heavily relies on FastAPI according to this post yet they haven't donated to the project or aren't listed as sponsors? https://github.c…

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    Comment #44118471

    When was the last time you ran into an IRC CnC server?

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    Comment #44118433

    Indeed, it is undoubtedly advantageous for scammers and malware authors.

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    Comment #44118415

    It is worth noting that WhatsApp Trust and Safety team is more effective in removing and blocking large-scale scam operations compared to Telegram. For instance, Telegram’s founder…

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    Comment #44118206

    Telegram is a haven for scammers and malware authors, who frequently use it as a command and control channel. These scammers and malware authors can now seamlessly integrate Grok i…

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    Comment #43911949

    Cursor purports $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) but stays silent on churn. They made $25M from subscriptions one month, took that number, multiplied it by 12, arrived at $3…

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    Comment #43911890

    $400M in real revenue versus $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) are totally different things. Real revenue is money actually earned, while ARR just multiplies one month's subs…

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    Comment #43911843

    If your assertion was true, we would see a hiring boom across the board, instead of mass layoffs and hiring freezes throughout our industry

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    Comment #43909166

    If enterprises require fewer software engineers, where will the market for IDE development wrappers come from?

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    Comment #43908956

    I'm skeptical about this VSCode fork commanding a $3 billion valuation when it depends on API services it doesn't own. What's their moat here? For comparison, JetBrains generates o…

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    Comment #36132188

    Link, please? I ask because I have used Wise multiple times over many years and haven't had a transaction take more than 5 minutes. I'm confident I'm not the exception. Cash App is…

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    Comment #36132146

    Where do you live? Almost all of Africa, many parts of South-East Asia, India, many parts (if not all) of China, and nearly all of South America are heavily cash-based societies. T…

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    Comment #36131820

    Wise is near-instant it doesn't take multiple days. Even Western Union has money in minutes to over 200 countries [1]. Almost all delayed transactions are due to fraud. The delay i…

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    Comment #35920757

    Bookmarks launched in 2018 https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/twitter-launches-bookmarks... Super Follows in 2021 https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci... Bir…