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by repsilat 4y ago
So Tesla's enterprise value is $426.5 billion and VW's is $473.9 billion? Regarding the "operating as a bank", are we talking about net debt? I'd guess that if VW loaned money to customers those loans would be asse
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by repsilat 4y ago
> less than the sum of their parts At least with e-commerce and advertising it's clear they're worth more together. Without advertising the profits would be thin, and without e-commerce the advertising couldn't exist.
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by repsilat 4y ago
They're also learning all the things we learned through evolution (a rather data-inefficient process.) People's brains are wired for language, it's natural we have a head-start.
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by repsilat 4y ago
Interesting enough to me, and pretty relevant to a claim like "book-writing is rarely commercially worthwhile". No "points scored" against the publishing industry, but point-scoring is for shallow people. For publishing,
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by repsilat 4y ago
I think that's a more complicated explanation than necessary. If their private valuation is higher than their public valuation it means they can raise money more cheaply while private.
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by repsilat 4y ago
Maybe off-topic, but here's an example of a null dereference that usually won't segfault because it never actually loads the address: struct X { int foo() { return 1; } }; X *x = nullptr; cout << x->foo() <<
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by repsilat 4y ago
Yeah, a common mode when I'm making changes is "add a field to the type, run the type-checker, fix all the failures." In a sense "type coverage" is analogous to test coverage.
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by repsilat 4y ago
> We can guess a page was deleted My interpretation was "the edits were quickly reverted and the editor's page remained flattering and devoid of evidence of notability."
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by repsilat 4y ago
Russians trade on it. Maybe they do have an overly rosy view of the company's fortunes, I dunno -- I don't know much about their business, how sensitive it is to the conflict and sanctions. The stock price movement is easier to re
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by repsilat 4y ago
Yandex is traded on the MOEX. It's priced around 1800 roubles/share, down from a pre-war high of around 6k and pre-COVID levels of around 3k. Beaten down, but not "nearly worthless", and it is traded. (Not on the NASDA
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by repsilat 5y ago
Thanks for the links. Goodness what a mess of a precedent. Having the board ignore a large shareholder would be one thing. Shares give votes, and terms don't turn over every day, and we don't kick out politicians as soon as the po
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by repsilat 5y ago
A company can't pay a dividend to some shareholders but not others. This action would effectively be giving in-the-money call options to some shareholders but not others. Probably legal, but pretty dodgy.
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by repsilat 5y ago
I guess they mean that there are no original recordings for most of it, lots of cover bands etc.
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by repsilat 5y ago
And why beholdest thou the floater that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the submarine that is in thine own eye?
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by repsilat 5y ago
The border crossing was unblocked without much fuss, and without the use of wild emergency powers. Several arrests were made. No "tear gas", wtf. A Canadian MP has claimed that a small-donor constituent had their bank account froz
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by repsilat 5y ago
Working in games isn't courageous. As GP said, there's a glut of people who want to do it. It's oversupplied, and the lower wages reflect the lower marginal utility to society for engineers to work in games over other kinds o
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by repsilat 5y ago
IMO using code that generates (possibly binary/opaque) config data is the sweet spot. It's one more layer of indirection, but it means you're language-agnostic, you have a "safe" interface, and your "config-gen
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by repsilat 5y ago
> The only opinion that matters in the end is the court’s and they concluded it was a monopoly. I guess I'm less convinced of judicial infallibility, but I'll grant you it anyway. Mostly I don't think the important quest
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by repsilat 5y ago
This article[1] from Brookings says, >> At the time of the divestiture, the oil industry was becoming competitive because it was moving into Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and California—states where Standard Oil didn’t have much
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by repsilat 5y ago
To be honest, those definitions are looking pretty arbitrary. I read the other day[1] (from an academic economist, though perhaps not a mainstream one?), >> The government, Fed and Treasury, basically printed up about $5 trillion of
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by repsilat 5y ago
One claim of moving the goalposts comes from https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop : >> Excessive concern about low levels of radiation led to a regulatory standard known as ALARA: As Low As Reasona
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by repsilat 5y ago
The brief summary here[1] implies that's the basis of the ACLU's reasoning: >> Mr. Cross spoke in opposition to Policy 8040 at a school board meeting, and refused to comply with the provision... >> While the teacher
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by repsilat 5y ago
> they cannot fight every single fight I think "failing to support" in the grandparent comment is too weak for some. This is Glenn Greenwald on a recent ACLU amicus brief[1]: >> This is the first time, at least to my k
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by repsilat 5y ago
Sure, "no obligation", I think their critics agree with you there. This isn't a conversation about rights, it's a conversation about values. This action shows that Youtube doesn't strongly value being a neutral plat
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by repsilat 5y ago
I don't know. I agree that refusing to do business with someone is a finite source of political power, but the cost is short-lived. The video gets taken down, but once the news cycle completes the creator will upload to Youtube next ti
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by repsilat 5y ago
Funny coincidence, I just started watching [1]. In it, Tyler Cowen makes the case that "Big Tech" is underrated, and around 6:30 he talks about the claim that YouTube radicalises people. He doesn't find a compelling case in t
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by repsilat 5y ago
With YouTube increasingly removing or penalising content without government asking, this regular report is starting to feel out of touch. At least in this year, at least in the US, content being removed for being "disinformation&quot
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by repsilat 5y ago
Mostly public sector (around 1/3 unionized). Private is around 6%[1]. And after the public sector it's transport, utilities, telecoms, construction, manufacturing. Basically a laundry list of underperformance in the US -- importan
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by repsilat 5y ago
I guess the whiggish interpretation is that if each step is an improvement then the cycle represents steady progress, if not arrived at as directly as could be hoped. Maybe a cynic says that the extensions are negative-sum, or the rewrite i
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by repsilat 5y ago
> a separate hash for each mask If someone steals a hash for characters 1-4 they'll be able to brute force it. Only 10000x the cost of a single login. And then if you have the hash for characters 2-5...

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