#Consumer

California had rolling blackouts https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-power-outages-underscore-challenge-of-maintaining-reliability-du/583727/ because of airconditioner demand soarding in a heat wave while some gas plants went offlin
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The ACCC rejected the insufficient conditions w/ which DG Comp cleared Google-Fitbit. The EC decision shows a lack of courage and a refusal to learn from past mistakes. Having worked
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Thoughts on Orcs:My first characters were almost always orcs, or half-orcs. I was too big for my skin, didn't get people, and (I now know) wasn't wired like them. My
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21 powerful marketing quotes that will inspire you from marketers on Twitter.[Thread] Marketing and Branding is 100% Psychology. To be good at it, you have to be good with people.-
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The ACCC rejected the insufficient conditions w/ which DG Comp cleared Google-Fitbit. The EC decision shows a lack of courage and a refusal to learn from past mistakes. Having worked
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This paper, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, examines how a wealthy class of farmers that is increasingly involved in urban business uses a combination of party connections, cash, & coercion to
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The UK’s competition authority, @CMAgovUK, has opened an investigation into Google’s “Privacy Sandbox”. This is a fascinating topic at the intersection of privacy and market power. If they act, it
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Today in History:Enugu Coal Miners Massacre took placeOn this day, November 18, 1949, a sad event took place in Enugu. A day when 21 Iva Valley Coal Miners were killed
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MANITOBA COVID-19 UPDATE NOV. 19:- 475 new cases- 12,482 total- 7,629 act- 198 dead (M100s, 11-M90s, 35-M80s, 26-M70s, 8-M60s, 5-M50s, 3-M40s, W100s, 34-W90s, 33-W80s, 14-W70s, 10-W60s, 4-W50s, 2-W40s, W30s)- 263
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1/ Thanks to @militaryhistori, I went down a smallish rabbit hole on the state of military history education in America today, precipitated by this Max Hastings lamentation which might be
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To any companies who spent a bunch of $ on Super Bowl ads only to wake up & read (below) that Nielsen couldn’t deliver a low-tech ratings report for over
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Tesla's Second Quarter 2020 Update: https://ir.tesla.com/node/20896/html#tsla-ex991_63.htm Here are the Tesla @say questions: https://app.saytechnologies.com/tesla  Giga Texas WILL be in Austin (Del Valle). yeah!!! Giga Texas will
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$MELI: The Digital Infrastructure of LatAmMercadoLibre, Inc. ($MELI) is the largest e-commerce ecosystem in LatAmIt can also bring LatAm into the digital ageIts platform consists of 6 integrated verticals that
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Perceived Millionaires - Designer Cars- Expensive Clothes- Luxurious MansionsReal Millionaires - Used Cars- Fair Clothes- Modest Housing Jeff Bezos has an interview where he speaks on how he loves used
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Let's explore Bill Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew further, shall we?The common denominator is a neurosurgeon named Melanie Walker.https://neurosurgery.uw.edu/bio/melanie-walker-md In 1992 Melanie Walker m
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Big thanks @MESandbu for including @rebulidmacro in last week’s @FT Opinion piece https://ft.com/content/5a92d0f1-e65f-4965-a685-bad83496e40f pointing out we start from ‘different assumptions’ abt how world works & leads us to dep
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