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by metaphor 3y ago
That's a hard sell when the curb weight of a Tesla Model Y is identical to a Ford F-150 5.0L V8 SuperCab with 6.5-ft bed.
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by metaphor 3y ago
UIUC published stats for 2022[1]: 1 in 4 for engineering and business (roughly top-50 university odds), 1 in 15 for computer science (roughly top-10 university odds), a coin flip or better for most other majors. General admit seems pretty r
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by metaphor 3y ago
> It's a matter of pride and honor for me. That's certainly on you, and to each his own (a freedom we once swore to defend, right?), but this 10-year, 2-tour vet wouldn't dare deny the privilege to the lowest ranking pri
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> But if you don’t have a Purple Heart or you aren’t really old you better not park in those “veterans parking” spots I see at Lowes. The signs at Lowe's say "Veteran Parking Only", not "Purple Heart Recipient Parki
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by metaphor 3y ago
CMP's latest FY22 annual[1; starting p. 130] and 23Q1 quarterly[2] financial statements for the habitual numbers sleuthers. In case anyone else was wondering what the provenance of this $325MM goodwill line item on CMP's balance s
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by metaphor 3y ago
Patterson/Hennessy on Computer Organization and Hennessy/Patterson on Computer Architecture are considered foundational canon. The implied expectation underlying "beginner-friendly" seems naively misguided; it's an
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by metaphor 3y ago
> For one thing, that’s the case price, not the price per bottle. Thanks for the clarification; the devil certainly was in the details on that one.
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by metaphor 3y ago
Market price: $75+ a bottle[1]...of course. I'm somehow reminded of corporate McDonald's grift of contractually forcing Taylor ice cream machines on franchisees. EDIT: cbfrench below correctly points out that that price is per cas
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by metaphor 3y ago
That headcount estimate is off by at least -23% relative to this year. From Hashicorp's latest 10-K[1] filed circa March 2023: > As of January 31, 2023, we had over 2,400 employees operating across the world. > As of January 3
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by metaphor 3y ago
> But, DC is one of the more affordable top-tier cities in the US. Is it? This 2023 study[1] featured on Bloomberg[2] ranked DC at #7 of 76 most expensive large cities in the nation, requiring $245k gross pay to feel like $100k after n
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by metaphor 3y ago
Look long and hard at AMD's financials circa 2015[1]...for the sake of anticipated TL;DR, here are a few summary highlights: - -27.5% YoY revenue decline - -6.3% YoY gross margin decline - -$481M operating loss - $230M short-
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by metaphor 3y ago
> Nah. AMD was already profitable in 2018. This is just big mismanagement. Hindsight bias much? How easily we forget in today's speculative AI bubble that AMD rolled into 2018[1] with 6.1x levered D/E and substantial business
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From a related article marked dupe[1]: > Because of its failure to implement security measures, more than 55,000 U.S. customers faced attacks from hackers that compromised Ring devices between January 2019 and March 2020 , the FTC said.
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by metaphor 3y ago
> The end result of this announcement is another expensive system only available to the same incumbent of tech giants with tens of billions at their disposal. Certainly wasn't the case when a public research university partnership
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by metaphor 3y ago
> That people think these models “tell the truth” or “hallucinate” is only half the story. A meta-problem here is in choosing to use descriptive phrases like tell the truth and hallucinate , which are human conditions that further a
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by metaphor 3y ago
> ...but a relatively faraway Typhoon No. 2 (internationally known as Mawar) is featured instead. Relatively far away, but quite important given Guam is a very popular summer destination for Japanese tourists, and Mawar was a Category
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by metaphor 3y ago
> Annoyed at all these N=1 articles from prominent thinkers about this stuff. It's a transcript of a casual interview, not an article, and certainly not a publication whose purpose is to convey statistical rigor. As an aside, it d
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by metaphor 3y ago
> ...but I’m pretty sure Citadel is not even a major player [in the options market]. A quick sanity check suggests Vanguard[1], Fidelity[2], Schwab[3], and TD Ameritrade[4] disagree with your assertion. [1] https://nms606.ka
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by metaphor 3y ago
You know those bills that summarily end with "and for other purposes"? Well... Worth noting that the GOP-led House is trying to silently kill this with haste (along with funding for IRS enforcement) by burying defunding language i
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by metaphor 3y ago
> ...but all the banks that failed recently were doing normal banking (taking deposits and making loans). I feel like the term "normal" here is a bit loaded. To quote Buffett on First Republic Bank[1]: >> If you take F
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by metaphor 3y ago
To be sure, Munger was specifically throwing shade at investment banking practices; here's where that discussion happened for context[1]. [1] https://youtu.be/5QBkn42PSxk?t=620
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by metaphor 3y ago
After sleuthing Q1 earnings earlier this past week, it's becoming quite evident that the US is entering into stagflation territory. For example, cherry-picking Quaker Foods North America, PepsiCo 23Q1 earnings reported[1] +10% revenue
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by metaphor 4y ago
The big picture I'm seeing is there's a game being played[1], but to your point, AMD did respond to RTX 4070 launch by dropping prices on RX 6800 series GPUs[2]. [1] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper
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by metaphor 4y ago
Agreed. At this point, it's clearly artificial GPU scarcity. We felt it early in consumer staples[1], and the grifting by auto dealers wasn't imagined either[2]...I won't even bother with the housing market to preserve my s
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by metaphor 4y ago
Reference slide 5 from the cow's mouth[1] for this article's unlinked source. On first blush, the headline just looks like a consequence of quarterly revenue miss when there's an implied floor to both cost of sales and operat
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The Importance of Financial Literacy: “Strikingly Low in the United States”(nber.org)
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Nvidia might cut the supply of RTX 4070 GPUs in response to slow sales(techspot.com)
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by metaphor 4y ago
> Is that legitimate, or is that just timely excuse making? Arguably[1] a bit of both. [1] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/
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by metaphor 4y ago
> Apple as a whole only makes 21B a year from all services, and they run everything from cloud storage, to synchronization, to an App Store with a wild profit margin from fees. Correct on "wild profit margin", but your number
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by metaphor 4y ago
> If their own system has better native functionality, people will see this as a selling point. If not, they're free to ignore it. This implicitly assumes that the manufacturer's direct cost of integrating/supporting suc

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