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by dh2022 4y ago
This logic (we have billions in real estate investments that somehow we need to use. So let's use them by bringing people back to the office) is an example of cost sunk fallacy. The 3 multinationals I worked for are aware of this falla
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by dh2022 4y ago
Huh? People use Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) for decades to speculate on debt defaults... "South Sea Bubble to learn how to regulate insurance to prevent this kind of thing." - AIG (at the time the biggest insurance company in the
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by dh2022 4y ago
You can always encrypt your data if you don’t want Microsoft to train its models, red your emails, etccc
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by dh2022 4y ago
Not to nitpick, but 5% improvement profit does not apply to the additional dollar. It applies to all the revenue.... So the improvement could be massive.
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by dh2022 4y ago
Cutting costs but bringing no revenue shows as Cost Center on any financial report. Revenue though shows up as Revenue center. Thus this decisions which sometimes are illogical. Sad but true :)
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by dh2022 4y ago
There are already two Azure regions in Germany: Germany North and Germany West Central.
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by dh2022 4y ago
I do not think is a bad idea to be multi-region from start. For the most part Azure has at least two regions in each country (Germany North/West Central, UK South/West, Sweden South/Central, Norway East / West, UAE North
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by dh2022 4y ago
<<Get paid 10M in RSUs. Sell when they vest at 2x the value in 5 years. 20M pay 50% in capital gains and keep 10M.>> You probably meant to write 20M pay 50% in income tax. I still do not get your point. This situation is tax adv
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by dh2022 4y ago
There will be no more quarterly reports and no more share price. Twitter will delist from NASDAQ on Nov 8 or whereabouts
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by dh2022 4y ago
Maybe. But is all of this PR worth $44 billion?
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by dh2022 4y ago
I think you have a different threshold for the word "prevent". Which is fine by me.
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by dh2022 4y ago
In the context of this comment thread: False positives = someone wrongly accused of a crime by the police. After the accusation follows a trial (this is the judicial system) where the wrongly accused can prove that they in fact did not comm
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by dh2022 4y ago
You have a judicial system in place to prevent these false positives.
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by dh2022 4y ago
How is Amazon a monopoly of e-commerce? Target.com / Walmart.com are competitors backed by giant retailers...
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by dh2022 4y ago
I struggle to see how hard is for someone to type Ebay.com in a browser....
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by dh2022 4y ago
Re: "consumer damaging behavior of requiring sellers to sell products at low or below cost in order to 'play' on the amazon.com marketplace." How does this damage the consumer?
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by dh2022 4y ago
I wonder at what point this becomes full circle. I.e. team C depends on feature from team A which is half baked because of the initial dependency :)
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by dh2022 4y ago
Well I lived in Romania in the 1980s so I feel compelled to respond to this. Romanian leadership took a lot of loans from the West and spend the money on large industrial projects with Western technology which was either obsolete or becomin
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by dh2022 4y ago
I would like to amplify KingOfCoders answers with the experience in Romania. I lived in 1980's Romania. The party provided a guaranteed job - but only if you worked where the party sent you. The party provided a guaranteed apartment -
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by dh2022 4y ago
Knowledge itself is inevitable. You cannot control every single person's desire to know more and advance knowledge. I lived in 1980's Romania and the state tried everything it could to suppress knowledge about the outside world. P
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by dh2022 4y ago
Speak for yourself, do not speak for me.
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by dh2022 4y ago
You are comparing people that used crack at least once in their lifetime with people who drink reasonable amounts of alcohol for decades. Then this comparison became basis for comparing effect of crack on people with the effect of alcohol i
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by dh2022 4y ago
I drink alcohol because I enjoy the taste. I am now in the middle of "researching" different scotch from different parts of Scotland. Each scotch is very different from the other one. Last year I was "researching" beers.
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by dh2022 4y ago
Same in Montreal July 1st. Wanted a ride from airport, Uber quoted $70. I got a cab and it was $50 on the meter (all prices in CAD).
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by dh2022 4y ago
Or maybe the women in red states can vote for democrats? The 2022 elections outcome could turn out very unexpected.
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by dh2022 4y ago
Hello Kenny - some clarification seems to be needed re: some financial metrics. 1. Gross profit = revenue - COGS 2. COGS = price paid to manufacturer + transportation costs from manufacturer to the warehouse and from warehouse to customer C
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by dh2022 4y ago
Net income is all the money left after all the expenses are paid. Stock buybacks have no impact on net income (they are part of the cash flow statement, not the income statement). Excluding all the things you said to get to the metric you l
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by dh2022 4y ago
90% of the customers voted with their "ears" to listen to 1% of music producers. Nothing wrong with that.
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by dh2022 4y ago
<<it's also important to know that Ukraine's army today is far different than that of 2014>> That is the big difference. In 2014 Putin took Crimea without firing a shot. Very different in 2022.
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by dh2022 4y ago
hahaha - the moon will get wireless before rural america gets it! hahaha!

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