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by squokko 3y ago
"Replacing the CEO" isn't a panacea because most CEOs are pretty average, but when an exceptional CEO does take the helm, they can pull off some amazing feats (e.g. Satya Nadella).
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by squokko 3y ago
Is there some first-principles reason why this is surprising? Why shouldn't welding pay more than teaching?
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by squokko 3y ago
These days? "Work from home" there and have your lackeys actually run your business.
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by squokko 3y ago
It has to do with the company's balance sheet - their list of assets which they use to borrow money. If they have 1000 units that they say are worth $1 million each, they can borrow from banks as if they are sitting on $1 billion of as
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by squokko 3y ago
making the toaster is the easy part; getting anyone to buy the toaster is the hard part. The demand is gatekept by companies like Google and Amazon and they will extract almost all of your profit
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by squokko 3y ago
They’re no less transactional than a used car dealership, they just hide it better
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by squokko 3y ago
The Polestar 2's 0-60 time is 3.7 seconds. That is faster than a Ferrari F430.
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by squokko 3y ago
A lot of boards want to lay people off to increase profits, but they're afraid that if they do it, the company will seem like it's failing, causing high performing employees to leave and perhaps even customers to get worried. But
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by squokko 3y ago
Not everyone wants Lamborghini acceleration. I find that riding in a Tesla makes me ill because of how fast it's always lurching forward.
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by squokko 3y ago
Whether it should or not is a matter of opinion, but the law makes a distinction based on the state of motives of the perpetrator, and the consequences of their actions. Murder has a more severe punishment than attempted murder, and premedi
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by squokko 3y ago
Ironically enough, one of the rich people who did not have a large household staff was Steve Jobs himself. One thing that money often seems to buy you is a bunch of strangers in your fucking house and he hated that.
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by squokko 3y ago
What did they do before DoorDash?
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by squokko 3y ago
What happened to kids who refused to eat 200 years ago? Did they just starve themselves to death? I'm open to information. I've never used phones with my kids. They throw plenty of tantrums at meals. Sometimes they don't eat.
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by squokko 3y ago
Kids ate food before smartphones existed. They miss one meal, throw one meltdown, and quickly learn that it's better to eat than go hungry.
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by squokko 3y ago
I've played a few hands of casino poker, just for fun (although I once won several thousand dollars when I was bored at the end of the night and went all-in with 4-7 offsuit and then flopped a full house). After maybe 10 hours spent in
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by squokko 3y ago
Actually, most studies show that eating ice cream actually is good for you. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...
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by squokko 3y ago
Apple enjoys a level of consumer trust that essentially no other technology business, and almost no other business at all. Whether that's justified or not is a matter of opinion.
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by squokko 3y ago
I hope she still told everyone on the estate...
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by squokko 3y ago
The average person simply has no hope of understanding the flows of modern global capital, data, weapons, etc. Back in the day, if the local leather tanner was polluting the town water supply... you'd just go tell him to stop, and if h
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by squokko 3y ago
$1.5B for a screen recorder with customers
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by squokko 3y ago
hn.algolia.com was a ZIRP phenomenon
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by squokko 3y ago
I would absolutely love this because I could use the camera that my father used to take all of my baby photos to take photos of my own kids. I would unironically pay $2000 for it in full frame
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by squokko 3y ago
People who didn't worry about the "population bomb" were considered hopeless denialists just ~15 years ago. People who didn't keep their kids at home for a year were considered hopeless denialists just ~2 years ago. And
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by squokko 3y ago
Go calculate what a small fraction of your total plastic footprint is Lego. Worrying about it for one millisecond is complete lunacy
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by squokko 3y ago
Changing anything about Lego would be monumentally stupid. The stuff is essentially perfect and has been for decades.
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by squokko 3y ago
I don't know if it will happen but I'd love to see these oldheads run circles around the whippersnappers.
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by squokko 3y ago
You're not the first person I've seen with more of a movie-ripping than movie-watching habit. The thrill is feeling like you've gotten one over on the system. The reality is that you made more money for the creator of the fil
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by squokko 3y ago
LOL. Imagine the amount of plastic created by Netflix DVD. How many people you can rent one DVD to and how much plastic is in one DVD compared to the packaging in your trash can right now.
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by squokko 3y ago
Early on, they did find secret algorithmic sauce. By now, they are so large that their edge largely comes from their ability to see stuff before anyone else.
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by squokko 3y ago
The value per dollar in sponsoring educational content on YouTube is incredible. Imagine how many people are learning from channels like Numberphile, 3Blue1Brown, Steve Mould, etc.

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