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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
You should read up - you're pretty obviously misunderstanding the diagnosis. Maybe think of this as removing a long-standing distraction or irritant. Like turning down the music from 120 decibels to 80 while you're trying to work.
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
Why PDF for the data format instead of, say, CSV?
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
They don't claim to have it; they have it. It's like saying 'tobacco allegedly causes cancer' - the proof is very public and available. The typical reason for saying it like that is to indicate you don't believe it.
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
Does it make more sense to you phrased as "GameStop offers to purchase controlling 50% of eBay for $28B" ?
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
They can't include it in EBITDA
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
Well hey, what do you think about them buying eBay? eBay seems to think a lot of the value is in verification - grading cards, authenticating watches, shoes, handbags. GameStop has a similar business in collectibles and could provide eBay w
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
I think Ryan handled that badly because he didn't believe the question was serious. They're offering 50% cash and 50% stock. At an eBay valuation of 56B: 20B of cash will come from their creditor, TD Bank. 8B will come from GameSt
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
They have not made a ton of money yet, but they have turned the business around in a significant way. Where GameStop lost money every quarter from 2019 to 2023, it has now had 8 profitable quarters in a row. The fact that investors are givi
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
Not exactly, https://investor.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-details/202... He has to hit both the market cap and EBITDA for each tranche of his compensation plan to vest. He could do this by growing the core bus
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
> which they claim to have, so let's believe them on their word there So you're just outright accusing GameStop of fraud? https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/0001...
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
> The only reason the company is even showing a profit is because they repeatedly diluted shareholders to raise cash and then re-invested that money into Treasuries. That's simply not true. Profit excluding the interest from the cas
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
You're conflating two things here. Yes, in 2021 GameStop did sell shares to raise cash in a dilutive way. [1] No, that is not being treated as profit or revenue. Gamestop had ~418 million in profit in 2025. [2] A fraction of that profi
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
That might be part of it, but I don't think it's the only or primary motivation. But we don't really get to know. They can and have used this power to effectively censor legal content. I don't think this sort of power is
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
Author makes a point badly, but there is an important point here. It's really strange that we de-facto allow the few large credit card networks (Visa, Mastercard) to effectively impose their own particular views and values on what sort
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
They are categorically different. I can implement a dependency cooldown for my org and benefit from it immediately. An upload queue gets its value from being done centrally and allowing security researchers early access and the ability to
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
This article is a category error. Dependency cooldowns are how you can improve your security on an individual level. Using them does not make you a free rider any more than using Debian instead of Ubuntu instead of Arch does. Different peop
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
I don't actually believe this, but am picking an argument that I expect deadeye an Elon apologist to believe. If you don't think he's smart I don't need to convince you?
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
Say you're Elon Musk, billionaire and really smart guy. And you're asked to give a speech. That speech will be viewed by millions. You probably have a speechwriter, and a PR consultant, and hey, why not a body language consultant.
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
You don't have to rewrite the source branch to squash merge? I wouldn't describe it as "cleaning up the history". And the goal isn't to save space, it's to keep a linear history where things ought to be working
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
I wasn't making a point about whether it should actually be shut down or not (and in fact I don't have much of an opinion on that, I don't know the laws in India). Instead, I was making the point that your low quality writing
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
> this is that story. This sentence is missing capitalization. > For egs Egs is not a word. I assume you mean example? Or if you want to abbreviate it, use "e.g.". > Back to the story, at 1 am, I launched the site, and ju
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by ball_of_lint 6mo ago
With the writing being at the level that it is, I struggle to take the claim "I was telling him, sir, give me one actual rule im breaking and i'll take the site down" Seriously. OP obviously didn't clearly understand why
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
solved first try with 577 actions, not trying hard to optimize for low action count.
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
It's not about doesn't - the government can always claim that it doesn't track you. That is unlikely to stay true. It's really either they can't track you or they will track you.
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
Did you give claude access to run the compile step? I remember having to write code on paper for my CS exams, and they expected it to compile! It was hard but I mostly got there. definitely made a few small mistakes though
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
Would software be more or less free in a world without copyright? I argue more free. EULAs and restrictions on how+for what software can be used, like DRM, typically use copyright as their legal backing. GPL licenses turn that on it's
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
I think it's a bit more analogous to the government telling you what you can cook in your own kitchen. Sure I might have some friends over, maybe even some strangers, but it would be quite overbearing to hold my personal kitchen to the
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
And if the implications of that aren't clear - that would either be unenforceable or be in effect a government rootkit+DRM on every device.
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
The government really shouldn't be telling us how/what we can compute at all. But on this specific point - It's a bellwether. They're doing this to lay the groundwork and test the waters for compulsory identification and
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by ball_of_lint 7mo ago
There needs to be both things - the opportunity to make mistakes, and the support to make it okay after mistakes are made. Sounds like you got the first but not the second, which must have been tough. Hope you're doing better now.

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