So this tweet here: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839105996429668352 this 141 characters is misleading? Here's the whole tweet just so we can be clear: > CIA hacker malware a threat to journalists: infests…
I'd sum this article up as: This isn't news because we've known for ages and ages that governments do evil things, known for ages. None of the evils listed are new or that interesting. Nothing to see here. To me, that…
Not so much "heavily discounted shares" but "lower price to earnings valuations". PE ratio differences are how companies like Berkshire Hathaway use arbitrage to increase their value. They take the difference between a…
Set a goal of $1 billion yearly profit by 2020. That places the value at PE of 20 PE (2/3rds of Alphabets 29.9) at ~$20 billion, which is ~2 times their current valuation. Assuming 5% YoY growth in revenue, which is…
This never has any numbers to support it, which is unfortunate. Also, in a world of bubbles, how is a less free an open Twitter better? Is a Twitter with no controversy, with no argy bargy, really worth visiting? I…
FTFY > 1. cut costs by a lot. they shouldn't be spending $2B per year Really, is Twitter doing poorly? $2.52 billion in 2016 is more than enough revenue, I'd wager, to maintain a solid company. Twitter seem to me to…
Which, ironically, is virtual signaling. That's the modern world though - lets everyone retreat to your corners and come out throwing buzzwords at each other. "Misogynist" "Cuck" If only we could talk about ideas, not…
But where you ever accused? I dunno, I'm happy to throw anyone under any bus, pretty much of anything ever. I just think we should consider sticking with "innocent until proven guilty", if only beacuse cultures without…
I think a question like this is so nebulous that people can answer it in a multitude of ways, none more or less valid. Global warming doesn't really affect the USA specifically and/or uniquely, so maybe that biases the…
Hosting companies would be either adding capacity (new locations, new land, new construction) or filling existing capacity. Once capacity is full at a location, then what? The marginal, incremental value of adding a…
I don't think the plan is relocations. More than likely, MS see server numbers growing over time, at the very least for the foreseeable future, and they'll be located once, and then decommissioned, not moved. That may…
Cost benefits though. $15 a month to save a few days coding is a bargain. It really depends on what your turnover is, where you make the most money, and what your time is worth (objectively, rather than ideally).
> present the following frame That's not what the order states, and I SEVERELY doubt you have read it. http://on.wsj.com/2kGbSdj so we are all on the same page here. There is literally one country mentioned in the…
Why did you never follow Patrick's advice: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ Not your thing? I've always wondered.
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ - pretty much everything you just said.
This sort of scare mongering is just plain weird.
> But lurking behind every statement was an existential dread That sums up the mood in the media: existential dread.Not real. Not tangible. Not verifiable. Existential. I doubt the Donald is going to mess with making…
What rubbish! This is the thinking of someone that lives in a country with a philosophy that puts country before individuals. By almost every and any measure, we are all better off than 30, 40 or 50 years ago - Chinese,…
> distracting us from the biggest social threat of our times: wealth disparity That's not the biggest threat, any more than Diarrhea is a bigger threat than other health issues, despite Diarrhea killing more people:…
I have a question. > For two years, Sarah Nahm was the only woman at Lever, the company she co-founded and now runs as CEO... has roughly 100 employees... has a roughly 50–50 In any company, the first X hires are likely…
I reckon you'd be wrong. It cost $1,000,000,000 to own a computer for baby boomers. I have (depending on how you count) between 3 (PCs - 2 mac and a Windows), and 11 (3 PCs, 2 phones, 2 console, an appleTV, 2 iPads and…
They chose really poor colour gradients to show the differences. The image would have been clearer if it used more than purple and what looks like the most minor variation on light blue.
> Because she joins a long line of failed female CEOs I wonder: how many appointed CEOs, as opposed to founders, succeed? And how many of them them are appointed to floundering companies, versus say the transition that…
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... might be most useful.
Political - isn't there a moratorium on that?
So this tweet here: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839105996429668352 this 141 characters is misleading? Here's the whole tweet just so we can be clear: > CIA hacker malware a threat to journalists: infests…
I'd sum this article up as: This isn't news because we've known for ages and ages that governments do evil things, known for ages. None of the evils listed are new or that interesting. Nothing to see here. To me, that…
Not so much "heavily discounted shares" but "lower price to earnings valuations". PE ratio differences are how companies like Berkshire Hathaway use arbitrage to increase their value. They take the difference between a…
Set a goal of $1 billion yearly profit by 2020. That places the value at PE of 20 PE (2/3rds of Alphabets 29.9) at ~$20 billion, which is ~2 times their current valuation. Assuming 5% YoY growth in revenue, which is…
This never has any numbers to support it, which is unfortunate. Also, in a world of bubbles, how is a less free an open Twitter better? Is a Twitter with no controversy, with no argy bargy, really worth visiting? I…
FTFY > 1. cut costs by a lot. they shouldn't be spending $2B per year Really, is Twitter doing poorly? $2.52 billion in 2016 is more than enough revenue, I'd wager, to maintain a solid company. Twitter seem to me to…
Which, ironically, is virtual signaling. That's the modern world though - lets everyone retreat to your corners and come out throwing buzzwords at each other. "Misogynist" "Cuck" If only we could talk about ideas, not…
But where you ever accused? I dunno, I'm happy to throw anyone under any bus, pretty much of anything ever. I just think we should consider sticking with "innocent until proven guilty", if only beacuse cultures without…
I think a question like this is so nebulous that people can answer it in a multitude of ways, none more or less valid. Global warming doesn't really affect the USA specifically and/or uniquely, so maybe that biases the…
Hosting companies would be either adding capacity (new locations, new land, new construction) or filling existing capacity. Once capacity is full at a location, then what? The marginal, incremental value of adding a…
I don't think the plan is relocations. More than likely, MS see server numbers growing over time, at the very least for the foreseeable future, and they'll be located once, and then decommissioned, not moved. That may…
Cost benefits though. $15 a month to save a few days coding is a bargain. It really depends on what your turnover is, where you make the most money, and what your time is worth (objectively, rather than ideally).
> present the following frame That's not what the order states, and I SEVERELY doubt you have read it. http://on.wsj.com/2kGbSdj so we are all on the same page here. There is literally one country mentioned in the…
Why did you never follow Patrick's advice: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ Not your thing? I've always wondered.
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ - pretty much everything you just said.
This sort of scare mongering is just plain weird.
> But lurking behind every statement was an existential dread That sums up the mood in the media: existential dread.Not real. Not tangible. Not verifiable. Existential. I doubt the Donald is going to mess with making…
What rubbish! This is the thinking of someone that lives in a country with a philosophy that puts country before individuals. By almost every and any measure, we are all better off than 30, 40 or 50 years ago - Chinese,…
> distracting us from the biggest social threat of our times: wealth disparity That's not the biggest threat, any more than Diarrhea is a bigger threat than other health issues, despite Diarrhea killing more people:…
I have a question. > For two years, Sarah Nahm was the only woman at Lever, the company she co-founded and now runs as CEO... has roughly 100 employees... has a roughly 50–50 In any company, the first X hires are likely…
I reckon you'd be wrong. It cost $1,000,000,000 to own a computer for baby boomers. I have (depending on how you count) between 3 (PCs - 2 mac and a Windows), and 11 (3 PCs, 2 phones, 2 console, an appleTV, 2 iPads and…
They chose really poor colour gradients to show the differences. The image would have been clearer if it used more than purple and what looks like the most minor variation on light blue.
> Because she joins a long line of failed female CEOs I wonder: how many appointed CEOs, as opposed to founders, succeed? And how many of them them are appointed to floundering companies, versus say the transition that…
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... might be most useful.
Political - isn't there a moratorium on that?