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by scrlk 4y ago
> In the wake of Mr. Jobs’s death, colleagues said, Mr. Ive fumed about corporate bloat, chafed at Mr. Cook’s egalitarian structure, lamented the rise of operational leaders and struggled with a shift in the company’s focus from making d
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by scrlk 4y ago
NDX = capitalization-weighted index (i.e. the higher marker cap companies in the index will be a greater % of the index) [1] XNDX = a total return index tracks the price + reinvests all dividends back in to the index [2] [1] https:/&#
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Engineering Drawings: How to Make Prints a Machinist Will Love [video](youtube.com)
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by scrlk 5y ago
Given that Apple are selling iPhones with 1TB of storage these days, you'd expect them to test the ability to import huge libraries. (even if the 13 Pro still uses USB 2.0 so the transfer speeds would be abysmal)
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by scrlk 5y ago
>3/4ths of BBC's funding apparently comes from the license fee every Brit with a TV is charged Note that you only have to buy the TV licence if you watch live TV or use the BBC iPlayer streaming service.
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by scrlk 5y ago
>I actually built an app before that which would easily transfer money between countries, by finding matching local trades. Is this the same idea as Wise (aka TransferWise)/hawala?
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by scrlk 5y ago
Supermoney by George Goodman - he wrote under the pseudonym "Adam Smith". p.s. You might enjoy watching "Margin Call", if you haven't seen it before. This clip is particularly relevant: https://www.youtub
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by scrlk 5y ago
"We are all at a wonderful ball where the champagne sparkles in every glass and soft laughter falls upon the summer air. We know, by the rules, that at some moment, the Black Horseman will come shattering through the great terrace door
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by scrlk 5y ago
In the mid-00s, Sun started building x86 workstations using AMD Opteron CPUs when they were trouncing any Intel chip. The Ultra 2x/4x series looked great: http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/ultra_20m2/
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by scrlk 5y ago
One of the DEC Vax chips had an Easter egg message in Cyrillic for the Russian engineers who were reverse engineering DEC systems to clone: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html