So in this case it doesn't seem like they're different.

Is this a hedge to maintain a good reputation and a good working relationship with the world by using this action as a: "Hey, look we helped Ukraine in its time of need"?

> China has refused to describe Russia's activities in Ukraine as invasion.

What's happening in Ukraine is reprehensible - but the result of US policy blunders in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, numerous South American countries and the like has been more damaging for the world we live in IMO.

While this isn't an apples to apples comparison, maybe you've got to convince us that the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. are better off after US involvement. From my perspective, the answer is an obvious 'no'. Even under Saddam Hussein (who was a dictator and evil person - I'm in agreement there) the people of Iraq, who lived under some repression in their daily lives, were better off than before the US invasion.

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  1. Create an instagram account to follow just one account. 
  2. Follow an account called @mosheh. It's run by a former CBS News Producer [1]
  3. 1x or 2x per day, go through his stories.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosheh_Oinounou

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I'd highly recommend it in case anyone here's looking to switch to Bitwarden.

I've used LastPass previously, but that was so long ago that it'd hardly be a fair comparison to Bitwarden now - but I remember not being satisfied with LastPass enough to export my data and switch.

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My inbox is on chess is full of such generic boilerplate messages from chess.com; I doubt they really kick anyone off their platform though (unless the player does something extreme):

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Also the title seems eerily similar to a good primer on the company that I had read earlier this year by twitter.com/packym that was titled, "Infinite Revenue, Infinite Possibilities." That was a super bullish piece though so perhaps the growth is tapering off as the title of this piece seems to suggest.

Anyways - I'd highly recommend that piece [0] for a primer on the company and catalysts for its growth (if anyone reading this isn't familiar with this company and wants a deeper dive + more context around blockchains+games).

[0] https://www.notboring.co/p/infinity-revenue-infinity-possibi...

The article mentions that the old contract stated that about 60% of revenue gets shared with 2U but then there was a revision to the contract so it's not clear what the current figure is but even if they lowered it to 40-55%, that's still a huge chunk of change for basically running ads to target students into the funnel. It's actually sickening that the contract extends to 2030.

So USC is only getting $115,000 * .4 = $46,000 which while still high is substantially lower and sounds like a reasonable amount to offer the degree at. I'm not sure why they haven't built out an internal function since and tried to get out of the contract.

For the peak year of graduation mentioned (2017, 1500 students), 2U's take at the 60% figure is ginormous. $115k * 1500 students * 0.6. = $103.5 million.

Anyway there's so much wrong with what's happening here.

EDIT: I just re-read the article, it seems like the 1500 figure is a combination of in-person and online graduates for the year 2017. Still the premise holds true: a 60% take rate is excessive.

This rings true for me as a consumer of tech and tech-adjacent news. Most writers that I've started to follow via their newsletters, I've come across on twitter via their tweets that have gone viral or have been liked/retweeted by people in my network.

Another journalist that I subscribe to via their Substack in Eric Newcomer who also recently published a "Looking Back ..." post [0]. Interesting just to diff it from this post. From my understanding, Eric started writing his newsletter last year without importing a pre-existing list (at least that's the impression I got). His numbers (11,867 free subscribers and 1374 paid subscribers) definitely seems to suggest that Substack's guidance that about 10% of subscribers convert to paid is in the ballpark.

[0] https://www.newcomer.co/p/looking-back-on-newcomers-first-ye... 11867 1374

Personally I feel that this only makes housing more unaffordable in the long run for most people and only policy level intervention by the government is going to stem such actions in the future.

Obviously real estate/housing is seen as a good investment because it's one of the few asset classes available to average/retail investors where they can access leverage in a massive way to build up a portfolio of housing assets over time so if any legislation about this is even considered, it'll probably face a lot of opposition even from people it won't possibly affect (because that's what happens these days + FUD).

I guess I don't really see any meaningful changes in the near future that'll make housing affordable for the masses (at least in some of the most desirable real estate markets, can't talk about rural markets as I don't know enough). For more context, I live in Toronto and unless I settle for owning a condo or housing in the suburbs, owning a house in the city is pretty much a no go for me and most of my peers.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-bets-6-billion-on-bu...

But a commenter below said they have around a 1000 restaurants worldwide so perhaps the Canadian A&W is a separate entity from the American A&W otherwise that number doesn't make sense.

This is the best reference I could find in relation to what I've said above:

In newly published research, with Amin Shams of Ohio State University, he finds evidence that Bitcoin’s 2017–2018 bubble was inflated by a lesser-known digital currency called Tether. [0]

[0] https://medium.com/texas-mccombs/tether-connection-puts-bitc...

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