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by bagacrap 4y ago
Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet are sitting on extremely profitable businesses and huge piles of cash. (Other megacaps like NVDA, Meta, NFLX, maybe less so.) So far we have not seen much in the way of the highly-anticipated earnings decline,
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by bagacrap 4y ago
There have been some product changes in terms of moderation, those blue checkmarks, and impression count. I don't really blame Elon for trying new things. On the technical side I don't know what's changed. That said, I concur
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Is this a war on talent, or just free market dynamics?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Sometimes you can have an employee that just lacks motivation, and keeping them around while hoping to motivate them one day is cheaper/easier than finding a new hire, when hiring is super competitive. MS may have less time/patien
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by bagacrap 4y ago
> it's probably reasonable to assume their shareholders are enjoying a robust, growing business I don't know what you mean by enjoy here, but shareholders generally enjoy it when stock price appreciates, which is not what'
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by bagacrap 4y ago
as does Microsoft. Even NVDA pays a dividend albeit tiny.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
why? tether can survive a 4.25% overnight rate and not 50%?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
pick 3 months and try it.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Since October 12 it has been going up at an annualized ~30% rate. Where it goes next is anybody's guess.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Their bet doesn't require tether to blow up in the next one year. It's only a total loss for them after 6 years or so.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
If Google fails to filter out shitty SEO blogs on topic X, how is ChatGPT going to do the same? Changing the results format from a list of links to a paragragh of natural language doesn't alter the content.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
As a resident in the area, at this precise moment I would rather not own a home here.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
are simple factual questions where Google makes money? I don't think so. I'm guessing they mostly make money when you're searching for goods and services. I doubt Google makes you spend any more money than you were going to s
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by bagacrap 4y ago
If you haven't noticed, Europe has passed laws making it nearly impossible for American (and only American) tech companies to operate there. I would probably be less inclined to want TikTok banned if China were in the midst of saving m
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by bagacrap 4y ago
His father is a law professor at Stanford. He has friends and money alright.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Stimulus packages may have goosed demand but low interest rates should in theory* increase supply, since capital must be applied to useful purposes rather than sitting in a bank collecting interest. *unfortunately, subsidizing ride shares i
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by bagacrap 4y ago
I would say it's pretty "special" and well written code if outsiders can come in and quickly understand it. You should have commended them for their work.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
why would you throw away 20% of your revenue? Obviously a lot of functionality is there to chase marginal percentages of revenue, but it's still worthwhile at Twitter scale.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
Twitter is no longer public.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
that announcement most certainly did spook the market and news about the Twitter acquisition has been a drag on TSLA all year. You may have noticed the stock trading for slightly more than half of its peak value.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
taxing plastic is not something our economy is likely to withstand. Sure, tech workers can afford a few more cents per plastic item. But inflation this year has shown just how precarious the world's economy really is when it comes to h
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by bagacrap 4y ago
isn't convenience a practical benefit? Cost as well, particularly for lower income individuals. Plastic bags actually are practically superior to the alternatives in many ways. They are stronger, smaller and more water resistant than p
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by bagacrap 4y ago
that's the top 1% of people ordered by how much tax they pay, not the top 1% most wealthy. We tend to tax earnings rather than wealth and thus the super wealthy get by with minimal taxation. This should be fixed imo. Also if you try to
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by bagacrap 4y ago
If you didn't sell semi stocks at their peak last November, when will you sell them? And if you didn't buy till they were near their peak, did you really care about PE ratios?
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by bagacrap 4y ago
you're hearing of mass layoffs, meanwhile US unemployment is 3.5%
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by bagacrap 4y ago
playing second life
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by bagacrap 4y ago
The price of eggs increased 38% year ending in August. Inflation doesn't hit all areas equally.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
an "eighth" (1/8 oz) is rounded to 3.5g. That means an ounce is 28g and a pound is 16 times that.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
real yields on TIPS are roughly 2% which likely makes them a better bet than ibonds now. IBonds real yield is approx 0.
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by bagacrap 4y ago
"making someone do something"? what kind of ad does that describe?

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