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by pb7 4y ago
Twitter is a cesspool so ruining what it is is a positive thing. It cannot get worse from here. At worst, it dies; at best, it returns to its former glory circa 2012. Both sound like wins to me.
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by pb7 4y ago
Clearly they don't: https://www.businessinsider.com/read-blunt-email-telling-twi...
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by pb7 4y ago
I probably like him even less than the average person in this discussion. Believe it or not, it's possible to take a neutral unbiased stance based on facts instead of foaming at the mouth at every opportunity. Even serial killers have
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by pb7 4y ago
It's not at all reasonable to accuse someone of being on drugs when making an offer to buy a billion dollar company just because you don't like them. Stick to facts and you'll have others' support (including mine).
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by pb7 4y ago
>In a drug-induced haze, Elon offered to buy Twitter at a price that was a weed meme and after sobering up, went on a full court press in the media to get out of his deal. It required a absolute shitpounding There's no reason to tak
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by pb7 4y ago
This is proper advance notice as long as he pays for 60+ days of employment. There is no law that requires employers to let you do whatever you want with access to company resources for 60 days.
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by pb7 4y ago
That's not how lawsuits work. You don't sue someone for something they might do with zero indication that they will. When you buy a company headquartered in California and elect to layoff half of it, you probably know your legal
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by pb7 4y ago
Thanks for the image but to me personally it only raises more questions. If sucralose "impairs glycemic response", then why does the line go up more aggressive on the "glycemic response" chart? Is having a higher respons
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by pb7 4y ago
Glad someone else got stuck here. I couldn't figure out from context whether this is good or bad and looking up "glycemic response" still didn't clear up whether it's a desired trait or not in terms of sweeteners, h
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by pb7 4y ago
I demand more for myself. I would also be ashamed convincing people I don't have enough as it is. It's possible to prefer to make $500K over $200K and not argue that $200K is peanuts to live on. Argue that you prefer the even more
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by pb7 4y ago
Leaving you with $48,000 to $72,000 for everything else, roughly twice as much as much as the median pretax individual income. The horror.
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by pb7 4y ago
Who are you to say to be better? Policing people's language doesn't make you better, it just makes you feel better. Entirely performative just like woke people using "Latinx" when 90% of Hispanic people preferring they d
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by pb7 4y ago
He's fine. Perhaps you shouldn't police people's language whether it takes 5 seconds or not.
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by pb7 4y ago
I witness plenty of misery every time I visit Europe. It reminds me that most places are about the same averaged out. Reminder that the US has the highest median disposable income in the world, not just the highest top percentiles.
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by pb7 4y ago
I didn't downvote but I imagine at least someone did because the laws of physics dictate that smaller lenses/sensors can't capture as much light as bigger ones of similar quality. This is why cameras have started trending to
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by pb7 4y ago
Do they look the same when zoomed in/at 100% zoom? Phone photos look great on small screens but show weaknesses on desktop.
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by pb7 4y ago
Because they're exceptionally good products that are beloved by everyone except the average Hacker News user. :-) There is an incredible bubble here that doesn't reflect the world.
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by pb7 4y ago
Grossly overpaid? What are you basing that on? Every company that is paying big bucks is generating revenue that is 5x+ the cost of the employee. Many tech employees are underpaid, if anything.
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by pb7 4y ago
Large companies have a ton of “cash” — but it’s not really cash, it’s parked in equities of other companies. If the whole market goes down and those equities are worth less, yes, the company is less valuable overall so market cap should be
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by pb7 4y ago
Worse outcomes than gambling? Please explain how an average of 7% YoY growth after inflation over long periods of time throughout the history of the stock market is a worse outcome than gambling.
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by pb7 4y ago
Google doesn't provide forward guidance. Any EPS estimates are done by financial firms.
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by pb7 4y ago
It was like $5T in total stimulus.
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by pb7 4y ago
Why do you feel so personally offended that I think a company makes mediocre products? Why do you feel so compelled to defend them? >The iPhone you keep dragging out didn't sell all that great either - the shipment were counted in
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by pb7 4y ago
The current incarnation is exactly what I’m talking about. You don’t need to ship it and market the hell out of it just in anticipation for some other actually usable incarnation to reach maturity. The waiting until a technology is mature
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by pb7 4y ago
3D TVs sales once rose sharply too and now they’re dead. I laughed at those back then too. Samsung sold ~10M foldable phones in the same time Apple sold ~240M iPhones. It might be a success to Samsung but it’s a drop in the bucket overall.
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by pb7 4y ago
What are you talking about? I used it for 3 years, not a single problem nor have I heard of any. Cite your assertions.
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by pb7 4y ago
Comparing Samsung to Apple is laughable. Samsung is clueless when it comes to product design. Their strategy can be best described as “throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks”. Latest attempt: foldable phones. Foldable phones will ne
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by pb7 4y ago
I made another comment agreeing that this simulation is overly simplistic in multiple ways. It‘s basically a simulation of US and Russian nukes with European soil as the first strike. There’s no way other nuclear powers would sit idly by.
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by pb7 4y ago
It’s a shockingly simplistic simulation to the point that I’m not sure attaching the Princeton brand to it is doing them any favors. I was expecting to learn something new but this is even more basic than I could have guessed knowing nothin
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by pb7 4y ago
I laughed. But if you’re going for maximum economic damage, a capital whose economic value is largely in tax avoidance wouldn’t be that high up on the list since in a post-apocalyptic world, taxes will be the least of everyone’s worries.

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