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by lenerdenator 5d ago
30 years doesn't matter; 90 days does. If you can make enough money back over that period by enshittifying the company, you do it, even if that means selling the thing whole.
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
It used to be that the goal of a company was to compete in a market and gain value through performance in that market over the long term. In the 1990s, several CEOs, including Jack Welch, realized how exactly things work. Namely, most share
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
Remember: Cable TV started out as ad-free. I don't bother paying for ad-free versions of any video service. At some point some analyst will say "but you could make $.000000000000001 more per share if you just put in a few ads&qu
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
That's my point. ZIRP never should have happened. Now we have a bunch of people who think that ZIRP was the norm. The industry's full of people who would not, and could not, have made their fortunes if they had to have gone to a
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
This is what lots of people forget. Android is not a Linux desktop or server distro. It is not about you getting to put what you want on the hardware you bought for free. Operating systems are hellaciously expensive to maintain and that
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
There's "dropping the ball" and then there's "not reaching out your glove to catch it to begin with". It'd be interesting to see which one is happening here.
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
It's less about access control and more about corporate behavior control. When you ask a contractor to come fix something about your home, you don't have to clarify to them that they shouldn't also be snooping around the bedr
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
Depending upon where, exactly, you moved to in Missouri, I don't think you'll necessarily see the drop in crime and corruption you might have hoped for. And I say this as a life-long Missouri resident and Mizzou grad.
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
OP here. Wondering why this was changed to the St. Louis Public Radio link over the Kansas City one.
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
Shouldn't do that, either. Mind and marketshare are currency in this space. Either these people are honest and deserve your trust and business, or they don't. They've been mischaracterizing the way they've been handling
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Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs(stlpr.org)
49 points by lenerdenator 9d ago|28 comments
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by lenerdenator 9d ago
> Their resistance to Israel isn't irrational either. The extent is.
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by lenerdenator 9d ago
If you look at the kind of person who makes massive donations to politicians and initiatives that are about massive tax reforms (think Missouri's recent ballot question about introducing a state sales tax and eventually sunset its inco
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by lenerdenator 10d ago
Let's say pre-COVID.
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by lenerdenator 10d ago
Should have been this high years ago. The country - particularly this industry, information technology - got addicted to cheap cash. Worse, people didn't want to pay any of it back in tax, so bond yields are going to go up on the debt
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by lenerdenator 10d ago
It'd be interesting to know how much of that they put second to "Americans seem to like using our hardware as targets for firearms, reciprocating saws, spray paint, and garbage bags" in their list of corporate concerns.
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by lenerdenator 11d ago
Bear with me here: we could do all of them. You can get these companies under control. You just have to, y'know, try.
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
That's just it, though: we don't hold humans accountable. Incorporation is a way to split a human's financial assets from the company they run so that they don't lose everything when the company is successfully sued. Cor
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
I take it this is the one that tosses out Rosetta 2 on macOS?
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
Yet another failure of corporate governance in this industry. If you can pull a bunch of shenanigans to get around being fired by your bosses, then the system isn't working.
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
He did not fall out of a window. He fell out of the sky . After his plane exploded. Happens all the time. Is tragedy.
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
I'm not chastising them for anything. I'm explaining my view on the rationale of their leadership. That being said, if you're talking about the 1953 coup, ask the British about that. Also, it doesn't take away from the f
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
"The largest issue with Iran having nuclear weapons is that it almost certainly intends to use them against an already nuclear-armed power, Israel, in a way that really doesn't have any rational endgame."
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
Believe it or not, they're not exactly a 1-to-1. Up until fairly recently, Israel was a stand-out in the region for actually having things like decently fair elections and a political class derived from a relatively wide sample of its
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
The way this was dealt with historically, for better or for worse, was to put the cheap housing under the flight path. The proles were left to deal with the noise. The Harlem neighborhood of Kansas City North is a good example of this. It s
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
You're right. Violent authoritarian thugs are bad. There should be systems in place to sweep them away. Ideally, through peaceful means. I'd be interested to see what has been implemented with regard to this under the stewardship
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
It's not propaganda. It's just the result of the policies that the CCP has implemented in the past, and given their death grip on politics in China, it could very well happen again should it be found advantageous to the survival o
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
> Hong Kong belongs to China if you forgot If that's not a healthy attitude to take towards a territorial possession, I don't know what is.
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by lenerdenator 15d ago
I know that it's not a luxury that all metro areas can implement, but if you look at airports like Denver or Kansas City, there is a very, very good reason that those airports are out in the middle of nowhere. Lots of accidents happen
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by lenerdenator 16d ago
> Stanford Mmmmm. Yep. There's yer trouble.

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