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When YouTube won that race, they won it with a given set of parameters, including the kind and amount of ads they show. Society at large has, at that point in the past, basically decided that YouTube's offering is the best, and given this market domineering position.YouTube is increasingly moving away from the parameters of this implicit agreement, in minor ways at first, more now. Had they "competed" in the video platform race with current policies, maybe everyone'd be using Vimeo now.
YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
Crudely oversimplifying, the rule in the US is that if you sell securities to accredited venture capitalists and they immediately turn around and dump them on retail investors, that’s bad, that’s a public offering of securities and you and the VCs get in trouble. But if you sell the securities to VCs and lock them up for a year, and at the end of the year the VCs dump them on retail, that’s fine, that’s allowed: You sold the securities under an exemption from registration (just to the VCs), and they sold the securities in a regular secondary-market transaction that doesn’t need to be registered.
UBS Cuts Out Credit Suisse - Bloomberg
Matt Levine
What’s in a Subway tuna fish sandwich? In January two Subway customers filed a class-action complaint against the sandwich megachain, alleging that its tuna — which is grayish and spreads perhaps a little too easily for comfort — has been misleadingly marketed. Rather than the “high quality” skipjack tuna Subway advertised, the suit claimed that the product was a franken-mash of “various concoctions.” Investigations ensued. The company tried to restore its good name (and put an end to the “something’s fishy” jokes) with SubwayTunaFacts.com, and a judge soon dismissed the lawsuit. But that didn’t stop the plaintiffs from filing a new version in November, which Subway has called “reckless and improper.” The plaintiffs’ claim this time? That samples of Subway’s tuna contained DNA from chickens, pigs or cows. Yikes.
Opinion | 2021: Covid, Wokeness and Other Debates That Defined the Year - The New York Times
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