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New comment by tdhoot in "Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)"

tdhoot — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:06:53 +0000

I wouldn't be so sure. Jack Daniels sued (and won) against a maker of dog toys that looked like Jack Daniels but were named "Bad Spaniels". Turns out trademark law actually is complex.

https://www.today.com/food/news/jack-daniels-dog-toy-supreme...

New comment by tdhoot in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

tdhoot — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:12:50 +0000

That's one of the arguments being made by TikTok in their challenge against the "TikTok ban" bill.

New comment by tdhoot in "Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)"

tdhoot — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:38:30 +0000

Nominative Determinisn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

New comment by tdhoot in "Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)"

tdhoot — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 01:32:45 +0000

Interac is also a for-profit corporation. It's just owned by an association of banks. Zelle would be the equivalent in the US.

New comment by tdhoot in "Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector"

tdhoot — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:30:20 +0000

When did Powell try and raise rates early in the pandemic? You might have your timelines confused, it was well before the pandemic.

New comment by tdhoot in "MSFT Q2/2023 Earnings Release"

tdhoot — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:39:20 +0000

Activision purchase hasn't closed yet.

New comment by tdhoot in "RxPass from Amazon Pharmacy, a $5 prescription subscription"

tdhoot — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:36:06 +0000

$0 with insurance maybe. This is $5 for all your medications, shipped, without insurance necessary. Seems like a pretty good deal IMO, esp. if you're taking multiple medications.

New comment by tdhoot in "World’s only sleeping bank website"

tdhoot — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:46:12 +0000

It's only $250K per account category per bank. So 5 savings accounts would only get $250K in coverage in total.

New comment by tdhoot in "EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business"

tdhoot — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:15:42 +0000

It's not that trivial to track down.

Say a US company's French subsidiary sold something for $10 in France. If the software is developed in the US, then the US company will sell it to the French subsidiary for $9, so then they only have pay profits on $1 in France. Then in the US, they will say they paid $3 in costs and sold the software to their French counterpart for $9, booking $6 of profits in the US at a lower rate.

New comment by tdhoot in "Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity"

tdhoot — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:10:11 +0000

Only once, not for every phone. So if you get it once, buying another phone won't renew it. And now it's only 3 months.

New comment by tdhoot in "Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme"

tdhoot — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:26:49 +0000

The article says Wire Fraud and Conspiracy.

New comment by tdhoot in "Does monitoring your phone affect the essence of privacy?"

tdhoot — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 22:37:23 +0000

What happens if there is a grandstanding region that simply refuses or can't get it passed into local law due to a euroskeptic local government?

New comment by tdhoot in "Lumber Prices Slump"

tdhoot — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 08:14:19 +0000

I think you mean shale, not oil sands?

New comment by tdhoot in "Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg"

tdhoot — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:48:32 +0000

That's not without risk -- you might have to sell the bonds at a loss if there is a run on the currency.

New comment by tdhoot in "California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3"

tdhoot — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:57:16 +0000

Just take the money you save on electricity and put it into the market...?

New comment by tdhoot in "Great thread on what’s problematic with Canada’s anti-protest actions"

tdhoot — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:58:55 +0000

Great. You have the freedom to speak, as long as it’s only in your head or into a corner where no one can ever hear you.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean the freedom to make people listen, but the government can’t make that choice for people.

New comment by tdhoot in "Open Salary and Equity Database"

tdhoot — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 10:49:08 +0000

Yeah, they don't disclose which is why it's terrible.

Are you behind Topstartups? If so, you still haven't answered the question I posed for your website.

New comment by tdhoot in "Open Salary and Equity Database"

tdhoot — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 11:47:30 +0000

The main thing I'd want to know is whether companies pay to appear in the Top Startups list. I learned Breakoutlist does this a few years back and it destroyed their credibility for me.

New comment by tdhoot in "Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k"

tdhoot — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 02:22:16 +0000

In theory it's all fungible and doesn't work this way. If it did, they would just take out a loan and buyback their stock and skip all the extra steps.

New comment by tdhoot in "Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k"

tdhoot — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:29:21 +0000

> employer sponsor you for an H-1B around lottery time

The vast majority of employers will not sponsor you for a H1B, esp. if you don't currently work for them.