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If you would, please re-read the part of the original post where the author talks about how families in Africa are literally losing their daily income. I’m guessing “a few days” can make a big difference here.

Here is a link to the folks at Kagi talking about this

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web


Early voting exists in many states. Even in these states you’ll find that younger folks hardly vote.

The BBC operates independently of the UK government. It is an autonomous entity that is publicly funded. It is not a “propaganda arm” of the UK government in the manner of state television.


This isn’t true. The content of the BBC is independent of the UK government. Even for the royal family and for foreign policy.

I am not British so I could be wrong however. If you have evidence that the BBC lacks autonomy when it comes to foreign policy or to the royal family please share it with the rest of us.


The BBC coverage of the royal family is always crawling. They tried to bury the Andrew story several times. The entire BBC is under royal charter.

As for supposed autonomy from the government... Watch BBC News, you can always get a good idea of who the UK will go to war with next... Before it happens. Their coverage of the Troubles was also reflective of the British government.


This doesn’t make sense. Surely paying taxes would be cheaper than buying Warner Bros?


That's what a poor person would say. Fox news managed to get Donald Trump elected, whose net worth has gone up by billions.

Also, it's not real money, it's debt equity. Equity transfers are just rich people toys. They move the actual cost into the entity they purchase, and if it fails, whatever, it didn't cost them anything.


And all the other investors in the market just ignore this debt when deciding the price they are willing to pay for a share?

Shares of businesses with excessive debt relative to income do not do well for their shareholders.


Ruining society is a long term objective. Normal 6month profteers need not apply.


I don’t know what that means. You wrote something about debt equity not costing shareholders anything, but it’s trivial to see that all else being equal, a business with more debt will have a smaller market capitalization than a business with less debt.

The debt from the Time Warner and other purchases dragged ATT down from the top spot to 3rd, and boosted Tmobile to the top. The shareholders of ATT lost and the shareholders of Tmobile gained.


Pretty cool article.

Nowadays often when you see articles about computer history of this era, the articles tend to be focused on Apple and IBM.

So it’s neat this article focuses on the other computers of this era. TI, Atari, Commodore, etc.


It's interesting how things differed so much across different countries.

In the UK there was good split between Atari and Amiga, and before that the Spectrum and the C64.

Lots of rivalries and interesting characters though, for sure.


Some of the new HP laptops are pretty well designed and have reasonable prices.


Because ask yourself, if you were telling your friend to buy a Macbook, which one would you tell them to buy?

Well first I would ask them what they are planning to use the Macbook for.

Then I would make the recommendation. There is Macbook Neo for basic stuff. Macbook Air for regular stuff and Macbook Pro for gangsta stuff.

It seems there is still good differentiation between the Macbook lines.


I guess I'm just an OG to Apple. Macbook pro every damn time.


$1700 is a lot for most people, and they don't have their entire jobs on it.


My friend in high school got a beefy Power Mac G5 just because his parents could afford it. All he did with it was write essays and browse online.


Ah. Well, I'm a software developer. Better hardware = smoother work experience (generally speaking)


Articles like this are pretty cool. It’s so interesting to see the behind the scenes that happens whenever we watch a Netflix movie.


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