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It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.
It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.
There are different types. The “financial duty” of corporations is generally overblown, however that is more or less what happened with Twitter. Elon made such a dumb offer that they had to put it to their shareholders. There’s some mechanism where shareholders can vote as a whole to sell, and if the vote passes then you don’t get a choice.
But generally corporations absolutely aren’t required to do whatever makes the most money. They’re allowed to put other values above pure profit, as long as they can justify it being in the shareholders’ interests. The shareholders may disagree and vote them out because of it, but as long as it was plausible, it’s legal. For instance, I believe the board of an Oil company could decide to shut down their wells and fully pivot to renewables, and I don’t think the courts would hold them accountable. Preventing climate change is easily arguable as in the shareholders’ interest, even at the cost of significant money. However that board would likely quickly be voted out. (And it’s unlikely they would have gotten there if they didn’t love oil money.)
If you own 51% of shares, public or not, you can’t be forced to sell afaik. And if you’re private, you’d have to do some pretty big illegal defamation or something to be forced to sell your property. Or you could die and your descendents could decide to sell.
One issue is that we’ve set up our tax system to encourage cashing out asap. For the most part in the US, you’re going to be taxed at 37% whether you sell now or whether you have the company pay you out for the next twenty years. So why not get out while the gettin’ is good? In the past, with a 90% top marginal rate at a higher income, it was often better to keep your money in the company and in the reputation, and just have it pay you out at a medium tax bracket for the next fifty years. All you really need to do as your job is make sure the company stays stable anyway. You can do that while spending four days on the golf course.
Do you use websites? They can also track your IP.
Heh, P2P absolutely does not minimize security concerns, especially of your IP being revealed.
Remember how people got DDoSed all the time because of Skype?
An IP address alone does not identify you. It might identify your general area.
Any other website works the same way. I can go buy a domain, set up a plain html site, and view the IP of anyone who visits the site.
What kind of features are you looking for?
Whoever you’d recommend is already exposed to the lemmy.ml people or worse, it’s just through Facebook or Instagram or Reddit. At least here they’re a little self-contained.
People trend towards your expectations. You’ll still have a bell curve, it’s just a matter of where it’s centered.
Oh, sorry. In English we have this stuff called punctuation. It goes between your sentences.
Were you as good in English as you were in math?
J’apprécie votre perspicacité, merci.
I’d be quite impressed if Macron sacrificed his position to fight the fascists.
I didn’t think he had it in him. (And it seems he doesn’t.)
Don’t connect that machine to the internet. (Not that you had plans to.)
Eventually a family member of a Republican will be shot in one of these. Maybe then we can do something about it.
And then you get to be extra sad when you can’t get out of the 1960s fridge.
Yes, “lemmy.ml” is how sources work.
He’s critical to the Trump campaign.
I don’t like Republicans either, but I still vote in the Republican primary. You have a duty to yourself and your country to vote.
If you don’t vote, you’re just allowing others to choose for you. How do you think that’s gonna go?
Have you tried not inspecting closer? You know, at a glance it’s all well-formed English. That’s good enough for management!
Hunter should request the same.
Unix time starts January 1st, 1970 and counts the number of seconds since then.
Right now it is 1718265480 (approximately).
That’s stored in a 32 bit signed integer. It hits max int in January of 2038.
Except that Biden is in no way evil. Being old is not evil, and his administration has done a lot of great things.