ananthraghavan

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   by ananthraghavan 7y ago

   >If I tell people I'm a programmer, I generally am competing with the perception that I am socially awkward. People assume I'm like some Big Bang Theory character until I prove otherwise. I don't like that stereotype, but
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   by ananthraghavan 9y ago

   The takeover going through is the logical conclusion of free markets - a monopoly is very profitable for shareholders. All signs pointed to the market wanting this deal to go through, there was a Bloomberg article a couple weeks ago saying
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   by ananthraghavan 9y ago

   > The existence of Apple at all today is exactly because people perceive a value greater than the sum of the cost of parts. yes and Apple loves that and that's why it makes its phones notoriously hard to repair or upgrade. that&#x27