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by xkjkls 9y ago
I mean, a business is worth present value of your future cash flows, so it all depends on how you think Amazon's future looks.
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by xkjkls 9y ago
Price to Earnings less cash is probably a better metric anyways. If you take away the ~250 billion in cash that Apple has on their balance sheet, you end up with a P/E of around 12-13, which is a little below average historically.
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by xkjkls 9y ago
Correct, by enterprise value metrics, AMZN is more valuable than AAPL.
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> 1. Word about how bad they are to work for becomes sufficiently widespread among prospective top employees that recruiting becomes a challenge. I'd say word about Amazon's working environment is heavily overblown. There are m
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by xkjkls 9y ago
It's a bit of a simplification to call Amazon a low profit margin business -- Amazon is a lot of different businesses each with their own margin considerations. And most of Amazon's businesses we won't know the real margins t
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How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order–with a simple quiz(arstechnica.com)
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by xkjkls 9y ago
True, I'm not saying Singapore isn't an ally. They just have much more hedged relationships with the US than a country like The Netherlands, who we've managed to fight two World Wars with.
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I think The Netherlands and Singapore are an Apples to Orange comparison. Given that The Netherlands has been one of our closest allies for decades and was an original founding member of NATO, them deciding to halt a US takeover on "na
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If you're from a country that is not allied with the United States, I'm certain they would agree with that. There's a reason the Russians and Iranians aren't clamoring to buy our products.
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> The whole notion of discriminating on fit and finish is its own interesting story when Japan, which was synonymous with "junk" cars decided to compete with American car makers on fit and finish. In that case, I think there&#x
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by xkjkls 9y ago
This thread has been a revelation to me because I honestly thought "users of Emacs" were a myth like Big Foot
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That comes with an assumption that right now is the only time Tesla want customers to buy a car from them. Tesla wants these customers to buy another car from them again 3 years from now, and wants them to show off their Tesla to all their
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by xkjkls 9y ago
Do you think it's normal for software managers to refuse to let their employees schedule 30 minute meetings? That seems absurd to me and would qualify as more dysfunctional than any workplace I've ever been in. This is knowledge w
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by xkjkls 9y ago
That's a pretty bad definition of jaded: "made dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience or by having or seeing too much of something" [1] I would say that someone who feels that it's commonplace for managers to refuse t
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by xkjkls 9y ago
The higher up you get in engineering the IC/management distinctions normally start to blur. I think this is equally good advice for many senior engineers.
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by xkjkls 9y ago
This confuses me. Coding is more of a tactical operation, and with it you're still going to want a grand strategic vision of what to implement. I think it's foolish to think that you can see the big picture just by trying to make
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by xkjkls 9y ago
I disagree with the assumption that anyone spending $100K on a vehicle cares nothing about fit and finish. They may be willing to buy into the vision, but the segment of the population who can afford these fancy toys definitely care about t
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by xkjkls 9y ago
Islamophobia and misogyny are stylistic criticisms?
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We're speaking to what a large body of research and hiring practices have borne out. It's a bad idea to assume you are immune from unconcious biases. https://hbr.org/2017/08/what-the-science-actually-says
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by xkjkls 9y ago
That's definitely true too. There's a lot of developers who spend way more time beautifying code than they actually do driving the business. While sometimes great code leads to great business results, that's not a law of natu
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I mean, there's a balance you can definitely reach. In alot of organizations, depending on the process, playing some Machiavellian game in order to try to get promoted the quickest is going to backfire. But that doesn't mean you s
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by xkjkls 9y ago
Yeah, that normally works really well for any channel with alot of customer products associated with it. Hardware + cooking are great examples.
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That's true I guess; I was assuming she was a Maangchi like figure.
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And honestly, if you are producing content that really engages people, YouTube advertisements is the least efficient usage of your brand. Someone like her could probably launch a food book, or patreon, or any number of parallel branding ven
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That assumes the 1/9 who want to be a doctor or nurse actually end up becoming one. I'd say the rates for both of those are probably pretty low.
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How much capital went into it though? https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ring#section-locked-... Looking at that it looks like at least $200 million in funding was raised. The kinds of exits for software companies
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by xkjkls 9y ago
When am I just going to have a person come to wipe my butt?
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by xkjkls 9y ago
Why wouldn't an acquisition from Amazon help them achieve scale and meet some of those promises?
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Companies generally make these types of acquisitions for two reasons: customers or technology. Since the technology Amazon already has for the most part, they're obviously acquiring them to leverage their customer set (... or prevent a
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Goldman makes about half its revenue from market execution, which is basically an entirely engineering driven business. Only about 20% of it's revenue come from the "investment banking" sort of equity and debt underwriting ty

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