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by trimbo 7y ago
> Instagram is possibly the best acquisition of all time I vote for NeXT
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by trimbo 7y ago
What a weird non-article. Anyone who is investing in Snapchat at this point is doing so purely on stock price speculation. There is no business reason to invest in this company.
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by trimbo 7y ago
> with all that money we could build better infrastructure The amount of incentives spent by the US government for electric cars in the last 8 years is maybe $6bn. So that might buy a new span of the Bay Bridge.
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by trimbo 7y ago
Could tap Watson for the job. I bet it's fair
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by trimbo 7y ago
Except half of the N were Xooglers implementing their own clone of Blaze.
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by trimbo 7y ago
Or a pyromaniac who flies here from Missouri :( https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/09/26/freddie-graham-mi...
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by trimbo 7y ago
Java was not considered?
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by trimbo 7y ago
In Microsoft's defense, at least the Windows 10 updates are now quick . Last week a minor patch for MacOS took 30 minutes on a 2019 Macbook Pro.
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by trimbo 7y ago
Except there's no reason those things couldn't be supported in an existing API with less friction to adopt. It's software. I think the reason software abruptly changes (API switches, rewrites, UX redesigns, etc) is because do
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Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify
5 points by trimbo 7y ago|2 comments
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by trimbo 7y ago
Schwab got rid of sweeps. Really makes Fidelity a lot more appealing if you keep a lot of cash in there.
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by trimbo 7y ago
The 'web' link hacker news supplies worked for me (in incognito)
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by trimbo 7y ago
75% of opioid/opiate addicts started with pills. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24871348
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by trimbo 7y ago
The table below the fold breaks it out by fund
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by trimbo 7y ago
Vanguard's total stock market fund is Snapchat's #1 mutual fund holder https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNAP/holders/ AFAIK, most "target date" retirement funds use total market passive inv
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by trimbo 7y ago
I did. It was also brought to my attention a few months ago with this article[1] Question is, where to put money? Factor funds? [1] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/wave-of-index-money-is-about-to...
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by trimbo 7y ago
Road show going that well? WeWork highlights why I am still skeptical of pure index investing. This company seems rotten, and I would not deliberately buy their stock. But there's a big pool of index fund money that will be thrown at t
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by trimbo 7y ago
I'm not sure how to reconcile the fact that Intel, nVidia, TSMC, AMD don't seem to fit these criteria but are undoubtedly "tech companies".
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by trimbo 7y ago
Crush Tools No idea how it compares to others but has been very handy. https://github.com/google/crush-tools
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by trimbo 7y ago
You're totally right, and it's <1% of the car, but perception is everything. BMW doing it the DIVX way[1] for a feature that's included on a Ford Focus rubs me the wrong way badly. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org
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by trimbo 7y ago
No. This article is absolutely how I've come to feel about cars in the past 12-24 months. If a car doesn't have both CarPlay and Android Auto, I just won't get it[1]. It's like the top feature I care about after number o
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by trimbo 7y ago
I will invest in this company because I love the product and so does everyone I know who uses it. But the general and administrative costs in 2019 seem ridiculously high. The tender offer last year only makes up 1/3 of that increase. W
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by trimbo 7y ago
> Arthur Anderson and Enron harmed wealthy, powerful people. Not true. Probably the biggest losers for Enron were the rank-and-file employees of the company. Not only did they lose their jobs, but more than half of the Enron employees&#x
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by trimbo 7y ago
> anyone else know of examples of CEO compensation like this prior to an IPO? Snapchat https://fortune.com/2018/02/23/snapchat-evan-spiegel-ipo/
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How 'Microcracks' Undermined San Francisco's New Bus Terminal(wired.com)
2 points by trimbo 7y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 7y ago
I don't have exact performance numbers handy and haven't measured it personally but... from what I understand: * With heavy avx instructions churning, AVX should still be a net positive performance-wise even when clocking down. *
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by trimbo 7y ago
...and no link to the research?
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by trimbo 7y ago
> Cuban spent $20 million hedging his Yahoo stock with synthetic indexes My understanding is that he used puts. Either way, any derivative strategies he employed back then almost certainly violates any corporate stock agreement today.
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by trimbo 7y ago
A few years ago, I found out that Connectifier[1] is one way this happens. That company seems to mine data in some sort of questionable manner and then distributes it to recruiters. It's now owned by Microsoft. I discovered it because
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by trimbo 7y ago
Why would you want to replace Honeycrisp though? I've tried all of these varieties people have claimed are as good (Ambrosia, Jazz)... none even comes close.

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