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by aslkdjaslkdj 8y ago
It's a quote from the CEO of AMC from their recent investor call. "Fast forward to today, in March and April, MoviePass paid AMC $12.02 per ticket on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tickets each month, hundreds
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
The Clinton boogie man at it again eh?
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Wanting to do targeting for the specific user makes that really hard. They would have to do real-time transcoding of the ad into the video. Makes more sense to transcode the video once at upload then dynamically insert just the ad.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Story from March 2017 about this: https://theintercept.com/2017/03/30/facebook-failed-to-prote... >In late 2015, the turkers began reporting that the Global Science Research survey had abruptly shut down.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
The EU study does not say what the pro-piracy crowd wants it to say. The study only looks out the count of games and not the dollar amount spent. A non-pirate who buys a $60 game and all the DLC and microtransactions is counted the same as
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
A company is valued in terms of the currency in it's stock exchange. A company in US has it's market cap in USD and a Japanese company has it's market cap in JPY. If you want to calculate the market cap in USD for a Japenese
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
They are testing that in Seattle as well. https://www.amazon.com/afx/nc/aboutpickup
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Do you have an example of a biased news piece from the NYT? (Not their editorial section or op-ed section).
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
That's not true. Changing a stock sale plan in any way is considered insider trading. The window has nothing to do with whether it's legal or not. It's only used a risk mitigation and is up to company policy. https:/&#x
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Their main national sport (cricket) is really only played in handful of countries. And in those countries (AU/NZ) soccer is still more popular.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
That was over 3 years after they purchased Twitch. Brightscript and the Roku SDK aren't easy to work with.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
A simple trading desk does not create the kind risk that caused the financial crisis. The nature of the CDS/MBS contracts the bank owned in their name caused the counter-party risk. Buying and selling bitcoin on behalf of customers doe
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
What corrupt shit? What specific action did the DNC do that caused Bernie to lose?
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
That is only part of Amazon's advertising business. If you read their 10-k: "Vendor Agreements We have agreements with our vendors to receive funds for advertising services, cooperative marketing efforts, promotions, and volume re
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
This is a good summary of the entire situation without the emotion of an op-ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/11/reed-college-...
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Because the stock price would drop and Tesla wants to do another round of funding (aka issue more stock) soon.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
The several dozen people playing AAA games on linux must be thrilled.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Depends on the margin. Nvidia pulled out of gaming consoles due to the margin MS and Sony dictated. AMD was fine with fulfilling demand at almost any margin.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Amazon and Google both do PIPs before firing low performing employees. That means several months (usually 6 or more) of pay and time to find a new job. It also means your employer isn't in the news with "Everyone who left in Octob
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
How to lose your money to a stranger in 3 easy steps!
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Because their library gets smaller and smaller every year especially their library of non-Netflix produced content.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
So I assume they'll also go after the Trump Organization then. http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538387033/trumps-private-clubs...
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
You mean she might have had to memorize a simple formula? Such "rock solid" mathematical chops.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Math is not arithmetic. What are the odds she can prove basic theorems in undergrad math like rank-nullity or intermediate value?
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
His last sentence mostly. "project planning, reporting, managing expectations, coordinating teams and delivering on time. It's not terribly rewarding or creative work, but it's what MBAs can reliably produce." Aka stakeh
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Eisenhower The idea being that the process of planning makes you more easily able to react when everything goes to shit. Eg don
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Intel's are actual measurements. TSMC, GF, and samsung are all marketing bs.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
Do you assume that the people who disagree with the memo don't have the capacity or will to read through a mere 10 pages? How patronizing can you be?
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
If someone is studying computability or formal languages or algorithms or ML in a CS department, they don't really need to be programmers.
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by aslkdjaslkdj 9y ago
CDN costs of serving HD movies at scale aren't trivial.

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