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by guyzero 6y ago
"Now"? People have been making this complaint since the 80's.
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by guyzero 6y ago
Having cracked e-ink displays by looking at them wrong, this person is a lot braver than I am.
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by guyzero 6y ago
No one in California is prepared for anything remotely close to actual weather, with the exception of people who live in the mountains. Thus any deviation from the extremely limited norm seems shocking. That said, I grew up in southern on
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by guyzero 6y ago
https://www.targetmarketingmag.com/article/market-focus-amat... - " A survey conducted by National Family Opinion on behalf of Wood magazine found that approximately 5.5 million Americans actively participate in w
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by guyzero 6y ago
Well t's a better parable than the one about boiling a frog, so I guess it got that at least.
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by guyzero 6y ago
Going to Samsung's mobile phone model page they currently list 24 models. The most recent data I can find says they lead the market with 22% market share. I think that empirically it's fine to have a bunch of different models. Mar
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by guyzero 6y ago
I am not a musician but my guess is that they don't sit down and say "I'm going to record an album with 9 bad songs and one good one." They do their best on every song and that's just how it turns out.
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by guyzero 6y ago
I am reminded of the story about ceramics students being told that half would be graded on quantity and half would be graded on the quality of a single piece of work. https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/ar
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by guyzero 6y ago
Yes, exactly. The notion that there's clear evidence that breaking up firms unlocks value is simply not true. What is true is that not all firms are well-run and when you change the corporate structure or management style you sometimes
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by guyzero 6y ago
Not really. My point is that every time someone brings up a reason to break up any given company that the same reason applies to many other companies equally well. People seem to be basing these calls on feelings and not on any underlying p
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by guyzero 6y ago
Exactly. Why not break up Berkshire?
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by guyzero 6y ago
Why would oil companies not benefit from economies of scale? These aren't Bain-style leveraged buyouts. It's true that once a company gets a lot of market power, either as a buyer or a seller, it causes problems. But by this logic
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by guyzero 6y ago
Some of the Standard Oil companies have been re-merged into Exxon-Mobil and they'd gladly do more mergers if they were allowed to.
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by guyzero 6y ago
There are tons of industrial conglomerates, from GE to Samsung to Siemens and there's not really any universal agreement that they're any worse than more focussed companies. This goes all the way back to the most basic theories of
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by guyzero 6y ago
"It is not a secret that one of methods to unleash value in a stock is to split the company" Yes, and it's not a secret that the other way to unleash value is to merge companies. See for example AT&T or Exxon & Mobil.
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by guyzero 6y ago
All the SF bay area school districts I'm aware of are opening in online-only mode, at least for the first few months.
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by guyzero 6y ago
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf The unemployment rate for university graduates in the US is 7.4%, which is not great, but is considerably lower than the civilian unemployment rate of 13.3% in that sa
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by guyzero 6y ago
I know the difference between "deceitful" and "disingenuous" and if I wanted to call you deceitful I would have. Besides,"disingenuous" isn't a name or pejorative, like calling you "ugly" or some
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by guyzero 6y ago
The only edits I've made are for grammatical changes or typographical errors, done quickly after the initial posting as I am a poor proofreader. I am really not sure what you're talking about. My original comment stands that yes,
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by guyzero 6y ago
This is disingenuous and only possible if you ignore the multiple other anti-immigrant changes the Trump administration has made.
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by guyzero 6y ago
Did I hurl an epithet? I'm confused here.
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by guyzero 6y ago
How is it in the collective interests of Americans to block highly educated and productive people from taking jobs in the US? The economy is not a zero-sum game. The administration still lets in temporary agricultural workers - who work for
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by guyzero 6y ago
Unbelievable how naked the anti-immigrant sentiment from you and numerous other commenters. I'm honestly shocked.
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by guyzero 6y ago
Give me a break. There are still a huge number of white developers across tech companies of all sizes. Cries of anti-American discrimination at American companies are overblown.
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by guyzero 6y ago
No one is arguing in favour of that, but the statement that all the data lets them perfect their strategies and shut out competitors is provably wrong.
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by guyzero 6y ago
Yes, all that data helped Google perfect its amazing chat and video calling app strategy.
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by guyzero 6y ago
Honestly I've felt this. way for a decade - when I moved to the south Bay Area from Canada I no longer had any meaningful weather and it very much disrupts your sense of time and history.
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by guyzero 6y ago
If you eat vegetables in the US, they were probably picked by farmworkers paid below minimum wage who are probably do not have legal work authorization. If you eat meat, in addition to having killed an animal (which isn't an ethical is
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by guyzero 6y ago
The issue is lying to Congress about it when asked.
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by guyzero 6y ago
This seems like various security "holes" in unix where once you're root that you can do bad things. Or to quote Raymond Chen: "Well, yeah. It’s compromised because you compromised it."

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