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by smugma 3y ago
Another miscalculation by a factor of ~2: you’re only looking US music revenues. And further: the numbers are only recorded music revenues, which excludes publishing, which accounts for another 20% error (or 40% of your base number). So no
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by smugma 3y ago
40% lower from the peak, which led to an even larger decline with the birth of Napster. Ignoring 1994-2000, revenue is roughly inline with where it’s been the last 30 years. And music companies (labels and publishers) are seeing record prof
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by smugma 3y ago
Apple is known for insisting on a positive margin on its individual products. $59 Siri Remote, $179 Apple TV, etc.
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by smugma 3y ago
I live in SF and have two bikes (a road bike and a bike with a kid seat on the back), an eBike, and a car. I do lots of trips on my bike. When I am in a rush or need to go a bit farther or hillier than I feel comfortable on my bike, I often
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by smugma 3y ago
I often ask people to write up requests and often write up my own verbal requests to provide documentation of the ask and allow for clarification. Over time I’ve learned that my verbal requests often leave out important details and then peo
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ISP’s are often a monopoly or duopoly of equally shitty options.
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by smugma 3y ago
In iOS I hate that Messages pastes in links from Wikipedia. To get around this, I first paste into an app that doesn’t preserve the links, such as a Web panel or WhatsApp.
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by smugma 3y ago
we used to joke that we had 5 8's of availability
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by smugma 3y ago
It wasn’t News, or Opinion. It was a Feature.
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by smugma 3y ago
Oracle should have bought them. They are the ultimate rent seekers.
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Apple never had product managers while Steve Jobs was alive. The closest they had was Steve Jobs and Product MARKETING Managers, which are quite different than Product Managers.
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by smugma 3y ago
Ending is the best: I’m thinking about putting the COVID vaccine in Halloween candy too.
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Right; down nearly 8% on the day.
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The CX90 has two screen sizes. Bizarrely, only the larger screen is a touch screen, and even then, only when using CarPlay! For Mazda system settings, you need to use the dial. I imagine they are testing this out as a higher end/cost f
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by smugma 3y ago
Yes variety but lots of sombreros and maybe 50% dressed for day of the dead
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by smugma 3y ago
AFAIK This isn’t true at any FANG-like companies. Engineering managers I’ve seen either code or at least do technical reviews. This is true for senior managers and often still true regarding technical direction at the director level.
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by smugma 3y ago
I have a friend who is legally blind. Her husband and kid use iPhones and iPads, and she has an iPad, but for her phone she prefers Android. It’s very confusing to me because of all I’ve read about Apple accessibility but she says she finds
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by smugma 3y ago
If Apple is filming its ASL employees, it’s about to get a lot more
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by smugma 3y ago
Conversely companies can buy back shares so each share is a larger percentage of the company. Apple has been doing this aggressively for the past 10+ years.
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by smugma 3y ago
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045222 About half of Americans (59%) are not white and it’s still becoming more diverse. Quick Google search shows Italy to be 92% white, Sweden 86% (80
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by smugma 3y ago
A few years ago a coworker was hit by a truck riding in to work. He called me before getting into an ambulance and said he’d miss our 830AM meeting. Later, he had no recollection of that, he must have been in shock. His helmet was split in
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by smugma 3y ago
Mario is still going strong.
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Said another way, it’s a progressive tax. Prices really are going up for the top 1-5 or 10% eg markphip paying $120K/yr for two kids even though he’s in no way wealthy.
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seemingly is the key word here.
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It’s hard to find that value niche in the middle. They do exist within categories eg Anker for USB related things.
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Apple’s market share has been pretty flat for a decade.
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Time to buy AMZN? https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/the-hedge-fund-that-made-a-k...
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by smugma 3y ago
We use Textio to help remove bias from job postings. It’s not great but helps with low hanging fruit. Just being aware of it helps avoid a lot of bias e.g. don’t write in tropes of crushing code.
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Half plus 7 is not about child porn but today is socially acceptable: 52/2+7=33.
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Is Math Real? Not when we are talking about how Math can be Complex.

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