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1. 391.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   Twitter returned 30% since the IPO, versus ~200% Nasdaq in the same period. What you're saying is simply not accurate.
2. 392.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   Finance 101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...
3. 393.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   >If you're downvoting, please explain why. Same ideological reasons as your main point.
4. 394.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   They IPOd in 2017, where as Bain (IIRC) started that marketing+product thing a bunch of years earlier. Out of nowhere everyone on any big budget movie production was wearing a jacket with a canada goose logo.
5. 395.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   And built up a ton as well. The trendy thing's been buying up old fashion brands and doing a bunch of product and marketing work - Canada Goose jackets being a thing that everyone and their mom has to wear is a good example of that.
6. 396.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   Cashflow isn't the issue that people talk about re twitter? The narrative has very clearly been defined as "firing so many people that it won't be able to operate", where as the real agenda is purely ideological, as some
7. 397.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   >Twitter pre-Elon was profitable. That is not exactly accurate, twitter has lost about a billion dollars since the ipo... https://www.netcials.com/financial-net-profit-year-quarter-u...
8. 398.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   Twitter was a public company, so whatever financial issues were far more readily accessible before the acquisition. That alone should inform you of the true agenda of that narrative. The amusing part is that this narrative is ultimately get
9. 399.▲
   by pxmpxm 4y ago

   I like vi and use it daily, yet fully agree with that statement.
10. 400.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Agreed completely - these are clearly anticompetitive in nature, rather than anything to do with protecting company IP. FTC is probably overdoing this though; I sat out a full year on a compensated noncompete couple years back for a very go
11. 401.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    > it has become simple to use for the masses It has? I use gnome bits daily and it's a mess of inconsistent and zero-ux-background-so-i-came-up-with-my-own paradigms. There's no reason why the gterminal, for example, should rep
12. 402.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    This - we've got a brand new Daikin heat pump at 10F/-12C outside temp, it took full 24 hours to bring our place from 50F/10C to 72F/22C. A regular nat gas furnace would knock it out in about and hour and half, and at fr
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    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    >Swipe from left can't be disabled? winget uninstall "windows web experience pack" There's no way to remove the trash news from the widget thing, so blowing it away is the only option. Clearly there's someone a
14. 404.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Instead of keeping the actual proportion of black residents, the data set contains a presumed model B of how housing prices change as black resident population moves away from 63%. The problem is B gives you the same answer for 62% and 64%
15. 405.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    This - it's really encoding the authors' model with some magic values in there. Not even ethics, just bad stats. The correct step would be back out the raw proportion of black population, rather than the output of that quadratic m
16. 406.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Ah interesting - do you save any money using one of those companies, rather than piecing it together yourself?
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    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    > I keep wondering how these civilizations might have developed if we'd discovered them in, say, 1900 instead of 1500s. (presumably unpopular opinion, people love to signal) This honestly feels like mashup of "i think coloniali
18. 408.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Which builder out of curiosity?
19. 409.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Ha, if anything Twitter's the paragon of a European tech company. Overstaffed, politicized and unable to make money, all while their top talent flees to competitors in sf bay area.
20. 410.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Tinfoil hat type of retorts is not what I expect to read on HN
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    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    > try to force the proven sports model onto computer games. Yeah, trying a bit too hard there - every single person in that industry that i've met goes out of their way to use sports jargon to desperately try to make that model work
22. 412.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    If you are semi-government-owned company in china, getting some social media / apple idiots riled up to fire a business adversary is clearly in your best interest.
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    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    I think it was the new waterborne paint process or something that ruined an entire generation of those cars. If you see one today, it's guaranteed to have rust on the bottom of the doors, rear wheel well and especially surrounding the
24. 414.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    GIMP is the personification of xxxx year of linux on desktop.
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    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    This, gonna be a huge waste of time for everyone, since 99.99999999% of those things will involve people selling their used crap on ebay.
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    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    I imagine you prefer "green" strip mining for EV battery and motor precursors?
27. 417.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Twitter stock returned ~30% vs 190% for nasdaq in the same period... let's not pretend this company is even remotely close to being performant. I'd be far more inclined to believe "we rolled our own" engineering excellen
28. 418.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    >I think two important factors might be how obvious the danger is and how useful the object is. How dangerous-to-kids something is entirely irrelevant in every situations where there are no kids. You could ban parents from possessing h
29. 419.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    Same story - I've been using a 55in oled for a couple of years now, it's fantastic, especially with something like Rectangle for window management
30. 420.▲
    by pxmpxm 4y ago

    So you're angry about his roth 401, or something? This seems like a stance that came out some podcast...