That looks just like Elon's political career.
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Sounds more like "we got us" to me. It's our system and our philosophies that made those pennies so precious.
Not really. They used to have pretty good privacy agreements. I don't know about now. They do supply agrigate information to pharmaceutical companies, but that has become a pretty fungible resource. The only big consumer of individual DNA information is law enforcement, and that's more of an expense than an income flow, since reviewing warrants and providing responses costs money.
An important lesson in infosec is that the best way to reduce the cost of discovery and warrant compliance is to regularly delete any data you don't need or aren't legally required to retain. Companies like this don't have that option. Data is both an asset and a liability.
After lawsuits from Trump and friends against government and media for "underestimating" his crowds, both tend to stay out of that game. Just another case of dysfunction in the US.
When it's an inexpensive product that nobody ever has a reason to buy twice yet remains an ongoing cost for the company? (They keep the data available for review and continue to update it with useful information as knowledge of genetic traits and lineages grows). That's not a way to build an ongoing cash flow to cover expenses. Especially when all the people inclined to be interested have already purchased.
Shit, Oracle was down in the low $400B range in May. Apparently being evil pays well in the current administration.
A little searching finds only one company that really fits the bill. Costco has a market cap of $433B and had a reported $14.8B cash on hand as of May 11. That's an interesting possibility that I wouldn't have guessed. Costco is less evil than most big corporations, so that's a little hopeful if I got it right.
Oracle comes close with a market cap of $583B. That's indeed over $400B, but that would make the description a bit weird. In any case, Oracle makes more sense from a business angle. Unfortunately, they are near the top of the evil scale.
It's not a great business model if you think about it. Customers pay a small fee once then never again.
Biden didn't even fucking do yet.
Yet? I'm not sure how to argue with someone who thinks Biden is still president. It doesn't seem worthwhile.
(definitely couldn't be a negotiating tactic)?
No, it definitely wasn't a "negotiation tactic". It was meant to avoid negotiating without Biden's adoring masses noticing that he did a 180. He caved to AIPAC, as he would continue to do throughout his term.
Why the hell would Iran go back to fulfilling it's obligations under the agreement when the US was still ignoring it's obligations? Why would it bother negotiating with a country that doesn't honor negotiated agreements? Everyone in the foreign policy space knew exactly what it was.
Yes I know how you ended your comment,
Then why the fuck did you haul out "both sides"? Why are so many people desperate to throw everything into that frame?
Absolutely, I just don't think it actually helps Democrats in the long run to pave over their often deep flaws. If we were harder on Democrats 30 years ago, we probably wouldn't have Trump today.
Why would the left wing need a reason why Kamala lost? Any reason that isn't "because neoliberalism has failed again" works against the interests of the left. To the extent that this idea has any believers whatsoever, it comes from the centrists who desperately need an excuse.