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No, he died the next day, following multiple heart attacks.
Re:Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:01PM (#32610745)
Sounds like your comment was written by a literal child.
From what I've read, their yearly revenue is around $15 billion.
I guess I'll hold off selling then.
While it is impressive, I'd call it a side effect of his narcissism rather than leadership.
Just $10k for every full time employee in the US is over 1.3 trillion dollars, so your numbers are pretty far off.
Re:What's SAP? on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:59AM (#22257753)
Established ERP systems take so long to configure that sometimes, it makes more sense to write your own in-house. Tesla did just that. And in only 4 months.
Can't speak for the others, but Spigen is a well known and generally well-trusted brand.
I wonder if the pricing structure will be the same for taxis and ride sharing cars. I'd hope so, but something tells me the taxi lobbyists probably worked out a better deal.
Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:18PM (#19274714)
Well, the people leaving the comments aren't actually doing anything illegal. Nor are the people that aggregate these videos with the intent to appeal to pedophiles. That's what makes this such a difficult issue to combat.
Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts on Thursday February 21, 2019 @02:09PM (#19219649)
Agreed. And I imagine that if Spotify succeeds, then Apple might eventually follow suit and start picking up exclusives. At that point, there's no going back.
Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:30PM (#19213433)
It's interesting that you need at least 501 karma to be able to downvote comments and posts, but only 31 to flag submissions. Kind of surprising considering that they say a flag is essentially a "super" downvote.