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by myroon5 9y ago
Segment Highlights: Y/Y net sales growth: North America 46 % International 34 % AWS 49 % Consolidated 43 % ------------------------------------ Net sales mix: North America 60 % International 29 % AWS 11 % Consolidated 100 %
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Microsoft FY18 Q3 Earnings Report(microsoft.com)
5 points by myroon5 9y ago|1 comments
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by myroon5 9y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by myroon5 9y ago
I don't think this is specific to Facebook. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft all have less revenue around this time of year when compared to the previous quarter. I'd imagine consumption in general is just higher around the ho
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by myroon5 9y ago
Probably from one-time repatriation
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Facebook Q1 2018 Earnings(investor.fb.com)
4 points by myroon5 9y ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 9y ago
Forex seems like a market where the average trader would see less success than something like equities because Forex seems zero-sum at best. Do they have these statistics for other markets?
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Amazon Baffles Investors with Meaningless Numbers(bloomberg.com)
3 points by myroon5 9y ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 9y ago
Neat. I see that you explicitly specify 8 as the number of processes here. In Java, parallelStream() will pick a sane default for you if you haven't previously specified (based on the number of available processors, I believe). Is some
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by myroon5 9y ago
It looks like this downloads them one-by-one instead of downloading at the same time. Is there a simple Python equivalent to Java's .parallelStream().forEach() that would allow these calls to easily be run in parallel?
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by myroon5 9y ago
Never heard this reasoning before. Do you have a source?
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by myroon5 9y ago
I interpreted this as being an option for riders, not drivers.
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by myroon5 9y ago
Found this idea interesting and looked into it and found this: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/062905.asp Looks like it's allowed, but difficult
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Amazon Music Says Number of Subscriptions Doubled in the Past Six Months(billboard.com)
2 points by myroon5 9y ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 9y ago
Don’t get too fancy. Head to edgier, trendier, neighborhoods. And definitely stay on time. These are a few of the tricks cities are deploying in their all-out effort to woo Amazon.com Inc.’s new headquarters, a move the online retailer says
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by myroon5 9y ago
@dang the title is cut off. Could you fix that? Article title: "Warren Buffett recommends investing in index funds — but many of his employees don’t have that option"
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Our 8 favorite startups from Y Combinator W’18 Demo Day 2(techcrunch.com)
3 points by myroon5 9y ago|0 comments
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by myroon5 9y ago
Do you remember the name of the Larry Niven novel? Sounds interesting
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by myroon5 9y ago
Those are really long sentences for the crimes described
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by myroon5 9y ago
Maybe more misleading than dishonest, but seems questionable to me in addition to the x-axis being labeled and the y-axis not being labeled
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by myroon5 9y ago
Seems dishonest to not use a linear scale on this graph: https://am.coinbase.com/index Also, the minimum investment and management fee found here don't look too appealing: Minimum Investment: $10,000 2% annual manageme
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by myroon5 9y ago
Surprised to see JavaScript so high in preferred languages
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by myroon5 9y ago
I do actually find the project fairly neat, and I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. Just wanted to start a discussion about a different aspect of this and see people's arguments because opportunity cost definitely exists, an
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by myroon5 9y ago
save 10,000 lives [1] or make a 10,000 year clock? Opportunity cost exists [1]: https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec... , http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-best-chari
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by myroon5 9y ago
AVG PrivacyFix used to have a (probably biased and inaccurate but still) neat little tool that estimated how much you were worth to FB, Google, Twitter, etc after connecting your accounts. But I can't seem to find it anymore.
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by myroon5 9y ago
They also publicly list their chosen most effective charities, so you can always donate to those directly instead of through GiveWell. I'd imagine this is common, and a lot of additional external donations result from their research. T
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by myroon5 9y ago
any further explanation? Not sure what we should be looking for in these 40+ pages
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by myroon5 9y ago
"less than 10% of their Seattle staff" even less than 1%
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by myroon5 9y ago
Interested in this one. Could you provide a specific example?
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by myroon5 9y ago
It needs to pass in both

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