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Comment · 2 years ago
no, they can write off the loss regardless of whether it's been released
Comment · 2 years ago
This is more of a negotiation tactic against pharmaceutical companies that are marketing new wonder drugs that give terminal cancer patients 1% longer life expectancy for 10x more cost.

The drugs company can sell their new wonder drug to the UK for 80k a year, or not at all. That's why these drugs are so much cheaper in the UK than in countries such as the US.

Comment · 3 years ago
No. Non folding bikes are not allowed on most tube services in central london. The lines that do allow it don't allow it during rush hour.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is an awesome view into the implementation details of python. Can anyone recommend other resources that go into the lower level python implementation?
Comment · 4 years ago
> I thought everyone who flew domestically more than twice a year did that.

Not at all, I've never seen a flight cheaper direct with the airline than going through an agent.

Comment · 4 years ago
It depends on your word list, are you using the same word list as wordle?
Comment · 4 years ago
With the first word you aren't necessarily trying to get the most number of matches.

You are trying to use the word that once you get the match result back, it discards the most number of words.

These two are not the same thing.

Comment · 4 years ago
The skill is in not leaving yourself with two words that would both fit. If earlier you had tried a word with both an 'm' and a 'g' such as 'image' you would not have been left in a position where you would have to have a lucky guess
Comment · 4 years ago
The optimal starting word is ARISE, as it partitions the possible words most evenly across the different green/yellow/grey colour combinations
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Comment · 5 years ago
That $3,000,000 would have payed each of the 250 employees $12,000. Do you think they would have stayed for $12,000 a year?
Comment · 5 years ago
Coming from a country where that's not how it works it sounds quite strange. Does it apply to houses? Gold? Antiques?
Comment · 5 years ago
why would you depreciate the assets to $0 when there's very good evidence that the assets do in fact have positive value?
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not like 10% of sales goes to the song writer, so the artist changing a word means that the artist gets and additional 1% and the song writer only 9%. Surely at the point of producing a contract everyone negotiates the split and signs the contract if they are happy with the deal.

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