throwadobe

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by throwadobe 2y ago
> Then I think you're legally required to tell the truth here. Or you can just not respond, at least in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Those are opinion pieces and meant to be contrarian. Shareholders by definition own the equity of the company. You're confounding the equity with the enterprise, while also ignoring the meaning of "control". Having IOUs from
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Presumably because they believe keeping Musk will increase value long term, so they are still maximizing the value of the future cashflows discounted to the present. The size of Musk's ownership stake adds another layer to this metric,
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by throwadobe 2y ago
The shareholders literally own the company, so they are the ones who get to decide what gets maximized. Most shareholders decide they want returns to themselves to be maximized. Not all will in every single company at every point in time, b
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Full time moderator(s) who are paid a proper living to do their job and happen to be literally _excellent_ at it
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by throwadobe 2y ago
are you in Europe, which TFA discusses?
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by throwadobe 2y ago
The mission of Tesla is to maximize value to its shareholders
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by throwadobe 2y ago
> After he asked for a $12 million loan from a neighbor, Brian Mitchell, his neighbor detected the scam and refused to lend the money. Who asks their neighbors for $12 million? The dude was out of his mind. 24 years seems long but at t
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by throwadobe 2y ago
"Ordinals notations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_notation are lik systemaic ways of labelling ordinals. They don’t described every posible ordinal."
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by throwadobe 2y ago
It's an interesting problem, but I would say that a single feed of the "latest" news isn't really what I want as a reader. I already have twitter for that. None of your writers are known to me so I'm not going to im
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by throwadobe 2y ago
> enforces a draconian global taxation scheme on any citizen or person who has ever held a US green card, even after they permanently leave. That's not quite true. If you _return_ your green card ("abandon it"), you no lon
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by throwadobe 2y ago
You're arguing legality trumps morality. We're in the opposite camp. Fuck MPAA/RIAA. They're not good faith actors and they play dirty all the time. We need to fight dirty too. It's so rich of those guys to complain
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Fuck the MPAA/RIAA
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by throwadobe 2y ago
> And then used it for racketeering, allegedly, which is where the government interest starts. MPAA/RIAA needing to be saved from racketeering is epic levels of irony
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by throwadobe 2y ago
That's the mother of cop outs. It's an absolutely honest question.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Google owns ~90% of the search market and if you don't play by their rules, you're out of the game. The argument is that there's nothing really superior about their technology today, just market dominance to force everyone to
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Answer the question yourself by first deciding the market(s) for which you're making that assessment. Google commands a higher market share % of search than Microsoft does of personal computing OS.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
#2 will get you laughed out of any room. The goal here is not to destroy Google.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
That's a pipe dream and really achieves nothing other than hurting Google.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Immediately worse vs. worse long term.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
If you haven't made the switch to Firefox, now is the time. There's no reason to keep supporting Google through Chrome. There hasn't been one in years.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
within any industry, really, even technical ones... "Tech" seems to be the exception.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
I think Canva's dream is to become the next Adobe, so there's that.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
> The early termination fees in the FTC case represent “less than half a percent of our annual revenue,” Rao told me. “It doesn’t drive our business, it doesn’t drive our business decisions. Great, so you should have no issue removing
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by throwadobe 2y ago
Citation needed. Maybe it's difficult to state it, entirely.
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by throwadobe 2y ago
I think the fundamental issue with Alexa is that Amazon is trying to answer the question "how can we use it to sell more shit?" instead of trying to answer "how can we make people's lives better by adding more value than
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by throwadobe 2y ago
TBF to Amazon they take all my shit back on the reg
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by throwadobe 2y ago
I wish I could frame this comment
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by throwadobe 2y ago
This is also my perception using it daily for the last year or so. Sometimes it also responds with exactly what I provided it with and does not make any changes. It's also bad at following instructions. GPT-4 was great until it became
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by throwadobe 2y ago
It's a rise about as far as a quantum leap

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