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by mythz 7y ago
> Are we taking AOC seriously on anything related to economics? AOC has at least studied economics at Boston University and has made it a goal to go after corruption and corporate greed. Just because the source isn't coming from Wal
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by mythz 7y ago
> What is exactly wrong with share buybacks? AOC presents a good argument against Buy Backs from Big Pharma which incentives CEO's who's compensation is tied to stock price, which as a result she attributes as the cause of risi
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by mythz 7y ago
> It's not a tech company anymore it's just a financial engineering scheme for large shareholders. If you're a shareholder, good for you! Not sure what point you're trying to make with this low-effort falsehood. Buy b
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by mythz 7y ago
Right now Apple's Services Business consists of: - Apple Music - iCloud - App Store / iTunes / Apple Books - Apple Pay - Apple Care - Licensing (i.e. default Google search) - Apple News+ Coming later in the
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by mythz 7y ago
I was an early adopter of iPhone X and the following year with XS Max, from my experience any unfamiliarity with FaceID is extremely short-lived, I wouldn't go back to a home button which feels archaic at this point and unnecessarily t
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by mythz 7y ago
There's a lot of misinformation in this thread, from GitHub CEO [1]: "It is painful for me to hear how trade restrictions have hurt people. We have gone to great lengths to do no more than what is required by the law, but of cours
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by mythz 7y ago
You think owners should have no control over what they own?
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by mythz 7y ago
Shareholders own companies and a rising stock price benefits shareholders who elect the board members that run said company, a falling stock price isn't in anyone's interest who are invested in the company. It does help with M&amp
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by mythz 7y ago
AWS accounts for their largest profits, growth and margins, their financials would be even worse if you compared them against retail stocks which are high capital intensive and low margin businesses, there's no way AMZN is valued as a
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by mythz 7y ago
> Yes, but now look at their growth as well and you'll understand Amazon's valuation is not wholly out of line. Then please lay out your understanding of what justifies AMZN's price in your eyes as you've yet to quote
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by mythz 7y ago
> It's pretty meaningless to look at P/E for tech companies and compare it to a retail company. Tech stocks usually have higher P/E's than retailers, but for comparison here are the P/E Ratios of the world's
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by mythz 7y ago
Are Facebook, Google, Microsoft also still considered late stage Startups? FB Growth 28% YoY, P/E 26.51, Mkt Cap 573B GOOG Growth 19% YoY, P/E 25.90, Mkt Cap 788B MSFT Growth 12%, P/E 27.69, Mkt Cap 1.07T They a
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by mythz 7y ago
Only 20% is why the stock is down after hours, at 100 P/E AMZN is speculatively priced where they're expected to achieve infinite growth until they deliver financials that justify their valuation which Investors are betting on to
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by mythz 7y ago
They're not a Startup, they've been "going for growth" for a 1/4 of a century, eventually you need to make a profit to justify your Market Cap. Just because profit isn't a goal for AMZN doesn't mean it&#x2
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by mythz 7y ago
As always, it's due to the results being below Wall St estimates that are already priced into the stock which is still trading at an insanely expensive 100 P/E ratio.
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by mythz 7y ago
The alternative is Intel dissolving their R&D completely since they couldn't see how the division could ever be profitable. At least with Apple acquiring them there's still some competition left in the field.
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by mythz 7y ago
With the massive settlement with QCOM, Apple's given themselves 6 years to try and develop competing chips which Intel wasn't capable of after many years and multi billion R&D investments. Given they're going to continue
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by mythz 7y ago
Whilst I'm not a fan of the name, I'm more discouraged that it needs to specify a fx at all which suggests that the library hasn't come up with a generic solution for all fx's but rather a library of quirks to abstract o
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by mythz 7y ago
It doesn't let you write generic components that you can use across all fx's, it just lets you use the same limited state API to set state in different fx's. Most of the effort with porting code amongst different fx's is
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by mythz 7y ago
I'm likely going to remain a permanent subscriber even if there's nothing I like to watch because I never want to return to the pre-Netflix days of normal TV which I haven't watched in more than a decade but get a glimpse of
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by mythz 7y ago
I thought Netflix was lacking in content for a long time so I ended up watching fringe shows outside of my typical viewing habits and was pleasantly surprised with the high quality production from: - The OA - Dark - Sense 8 - Bla
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by mythz 7y ago
> Go doesn't even really force you to check your errors, it just makes it harder to accidentally not check them. Like: I dislike it because it does the opposite, it makes it too easy to accidentally continue execution when there is
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by mythz 7y ago
This is why we have IAP's disabled on all devices and avoid any pay-to-win games. Unfortunately an overwhelming number of game developers are focused around gamifying IAP's for max addiction to extract max revenue where I've
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by mythz 7y ago
No doubt a brilliant academic and mathematical mind with invaluable contributions to field of comp-sci and algorithms and author of the iconic TAOCP, but in terms of software works he's single-handedly produced? He's most famous f
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by mythz 7y ago
TJ has created a large number of popular software packages, but I don't consider the depth of the software to be close in complexity of the type of software that Fabrice is capable of - basically anything he puts his mind to. bellard.o
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by mythz 7y ago
Safari's JavaScriptCore has been available on WASM for some time: https://wapm.io/package/jsc Online demo of JSC.js https://mbbill.github.io/JSC.js/demo/index.html
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by mythz 7y ago
Not the experience I've had with Hetzner (been with them for 5+ years), basically all responses have been within a day, 2 at most. Although their servers have been pretty reliable so I haven't had to contact them much.
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by mythz 7y ago
> Sure, the OP's question was what's bad about it. That's bad. Why exactly is it bad, bad for who? It's likely driven by a highly talented focused team, there are numerous high quality OSS projects that are commercial
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by mythz 7y ago
Which is expected for their own funded project that's still under active development which they've explicitly decided against publicizing what its strategic purpose or intentions are for it. > It feels like it's google pro
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by mythz 7y ago
> no need to give it to me. Think highly of yourself much? But I'll be continuing to provide links as I see it's relevant and informative, my comments are not just for your benefit, readers can make their own mind whose opinion

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