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square90

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    Comment #25152711

    Yup, I agree. Some folks have got pretty good light, fast pages for example, http://lite.cnn.com/ is one of my favorites.

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    Comment #24992980

    With $1B you could start your own mixers and hire people to run them. Or even start your own exchange.

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    Comment #24496670

    I think it's been heavily bought up by foreign real estate investors [0]. [0] https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-chi...

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    Comment #24228639

    This reminded be of the Planet Money episode on long-haul truck drivers [0]. It's a similar contractor v. employee (company driver) scenario. Not a happy story, unfortunately. [0] …

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    Comment #24228575

    The CARES Act and state-level programs are paying unemployment assistance to contractors and self-employed individuals not usually covered by unemployment [0], [1]. [0] https://www…

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    Comment #24136243

    Even DOE is partly privatized both Sandia National Laboratories and Savannah River National Laboratory are run by private defense contractors for the government. [0] https://en.wik…

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    Comment #23114852

    The study examines a factory workplace which may already have a high-level of background noise. Perhaps the effect is non-linear? Anecdotally, two or three coworkers talking near m…

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    Comment #16861846

    Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

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    Comment #15878729

    Yeah, I was ready for a subway history lesson.

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    Comment #15027266

    I'm skeptical of the starmine dataset[0] being used: "The dataset is based on relationships between elements in the periodic table and public companies." This description is a bit …

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    Comment #14929424

    A little tongue in cheek: but isn't that classic survivorship bias?

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    Comment #13327946

    The Firefox extension review turned this up: "If you have a YouTube channel (s) and your logged in to that channel it will get your channel suspended for Violation of TOU #4 Sectio…