lvl102

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by lvl102 3y ago
They’ve been doing this since mid 1990s for entertainment. They first targeted the Japanese market and as the industry grew they went global. This has to be one of the best returns for gov’t-led funding and initiative. They played to the st
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by lvl102 3y ago
I find it very convenient for the Fed to have kept QE while inflation was flashing red hot just so Wall Street could finish making money off of all these SPAC deals. Only when Wall Street finished, did Fed magically come to senses with infl
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by lvl102 3y ago
Thank goodness it never made it public (first time around). Can you imagine the capital destruction for pension funds?
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by lvl102 3y ago
It only made sense when banks were much smaller and we didn’t have smartphones and cheap internet. You’re paying for a network that’s lost value. You’re paying for a brand at this point. It’s a scam.
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by lvl102 3y ago
It’s 2023 and we are still letting these companies take money from EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION. This is the single greatest open scam in the world.
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by lvl102 3y ago
After 9/11, they tried doing this in downtown NYC because no one wanted work there. It was not good at all.
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by lvl102 3y ago
People who get paid well in this business get paid for the big picture stuff. Architecture. Writing good code was never that valuable. My two cents.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Used to be on a bulge bracket trading desk. This happens a lot. People do stupid things for money. Especially French derivative traders.
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by lvl102 3y ago
The agencies know fighting MSFT is a costly undertaking. They learned that in 90/00s. They will only do it if there’s enough public support. Threshold is incredibly high for MSFT.
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by lvl102 3y ago
It’s anticompetitive. DoJ/FTC should be all over this. They’re using leading edge for VR. Whatever they’re rolling out next month will go down as one of their biggest failures and it will be Tim Cook’s legacy.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Which is my point exactly. They’re using market power to basically stymie competition. This is textbook anticompetitive behavior.
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by lvl102 3y ago
I feel this is a complete waste of leading tech: going into another slate of Apple products that do not need these advancements. I feel these slots should go to GPUs for AI and Apple is just hogging the capacity. It’d be one thing if Apple
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by lvl102 3y ago
I am not saying that at all. I was simply referring to Vice production on HBO. I should’ve worded it better but this is just a casual message board for me.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Just to clarify, Vice was on HBO.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Vice and HBO had some good contents in early days. They reported on stuff mass media _failed_ to report on especially following the GFC when America was going through some tough times. The most memorable was David Choe reporting on scrap me
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by lvl102 3y ago
I still have the 7. It was not a good device and I really wanted to give it a try. What really annoyed me was the constant and lengthy updates required (and often times the device wasn’t fully functional without the updates). And the lack o
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by lvl102 3y ago
3090 is such a great value right now especially if you can pair two for less than $1500.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Is it an alliance when EU led by Germany funded Putin regime for the past two decades? Interesting. By the way, more than 85% of the funding is coming from the US. My point really is that even if EU regulations against US big techs are well
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by lvl102 3y ago
I quite frankly don’t care what EU does. They’ve not been innovating at all there. They took a bunch of Chinese money and now they’re doing everything they can to harm US tech firms…while the US is de facto defending them with own tax money
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by lvl102 3y ago
For the price you can buy state of the art mic and field recorder. For audio-to-text, simply use Microsoft office. But you can buy this if you’re rich and don’t know where to burn your cash.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Just buy t-bills.
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by lvl102 3y ago
Really? Steve Jobs had NOTHING to do with iPhone logistics. Interesting. Do you know that for fact? Were you at Apple and involved in the process?
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by lvl102 3y ago
You probably don’t know or don’t care, but most of Apple’s current logistic/infrastructure was built under Steve. Steve’s connections in China played a big role in accomplishing that.
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by lvl102 3y ago
They quite literally put SOCs they started developing under Steve in Macs. You cannot be serious and think Tim Cook spearheaded M1 chip development. He’s a logistic and operations guy. He’s not a visionary.
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by lvl102 3y ago
I am not downplaying Tim at all. He’s good at what he does but he and Nadella is not on the same level in terms of accomplishments. Tim was handed a silver platter that is iPhone. Nadella completely changed Microsoft.
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by lvl102 3y ago
What did Tim actually accomplish though? He’s there to essentially “keep” what Apple already established under Steve Jobs. Nadella made some big decisions to completely remake Microsoft. By the way, return (not including dividends) is about
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by lvl102 3y ago
In comparison, Nadella is a bit above $50M which is gross underpay considering how Ballmer left the company. Nadella has been the best CEO in the past decade. In fact, you could argue that he’s the best investment manager in the past decade
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by lvl102 3y ago
So our govt has no problem with Tiktok but Facebook is a problem. It’s as if US regulation bodies are all run by clowns.
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by lvl102 3y ago
One example is car dealers. Sure, they can charge MSRP, but they will run out of cars pretty fast. And since they have no control over how much they are allotted by the manufactures, they’re effectively putting themselves at a significant d
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by lvl102 3y ago
What we need is a “boring” banking model where deposits are fully guaranteed by a bank. No lending. In digital age, that should be ridiculously easy to do.

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