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20pt font sizes goes brrr!

Every single PS2 I ever saw growing up was bought in the US (I grew up in a third world country). Consoles in big box stores here were outrageously expensive, like 3 to 4 times the price in the US. It was cheaper to fly to the US to buy one I kid you not, so that was what a lot of people did.

edit: Also all of them were modchipped, you could take any console to any random electronics repair shop to get it modded.

Who gets to keep the nukes?

What do you mean? All the APIs (Xcode SDK, Metal, ML, etc) required to build on their devices are very well documented.

That “independently verified” part was that they talked with the same source and were told the same thing.

How? In my country for example there is a surge of US companies setting shop here just to hire local devs, and a lot more hiring remote, when their products have presence only in the US. Each year the number keep increasing.

Why the hell would companies sell their stock to raise money to buy their own stock again? That doesn't make sense. If they want to do stock buybacks they just borrow money to do it, but only if interest rates are low enough. In most cases when companies raise money by selling stock you can bet its to expand, by making capital investment, raising headcount, acquisitions, etc. Either at that moment or the near future.

Union endorsements are valuable, union money, union member donations.

This is why a lot of people oppose unions. You could be contributing for causes you actively oppose, and on top of that against your will.

They are already doing that, hence SV salaries.

Facebook is competing with other FAANG [et al] companies for talent, and not all of them are in the same sector. Their market position is only relevant in that it allows them to compete for the kind of talent that $300k a year can buy, and they deem it necessary for maintaining that position, they are not going to pay more than necessary nor are you entitled to more just because they can.

Why does it matter to you whether you make $300k at a company that makes $500k out of you or at one that makes $1m out of you? You would be doing the same job and either way being compensated at the top range of the market for the skills you have. I don't see the point.

Any of the Rockstar Games studios, Naughty Dog, SCE Santa Monica, Bungie, Epic Games, any of the main Activision-Blizzard (Ininity Ward, Treyarcht) or EA studios (Respawn), etc... basically any major studio rarely hire straight out of college.

Most do not get multi-million-dollar pay, hell a lot of people there barely make a living. The reason there is an union there is because a lot of those same people would work for free to get a chance at making it in the industry (interns don't get paid), that is highly exploitable.

Game dev is not a low barrier to entry industry. It is WAY easier to get a SDE job at a FAANG straight out of college than it is to get a job as a programmer at a big name studio, even with experience.

This is what is known as Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_cash_advance, nearly every business with at least $20k credit/debit card sales a year has access to through their payment processor, bank, or companies that specialize in that sort of arrangement, of which there are tons. It is not a loan, what you are doing is basically selling your future card sales at a discount.

Correction: Facebook has struggled to hire talent [from top universities] since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Why do you think that is?

She's dumb because she thinks NYC now has 3 billions stacked somewhere that can now be used for other things like, the subway system, schools, teacher salaries, firefighters, farting cows, the unwilling to work, etc.

Health insurance or insurance in general is a low margin business, and whatever margin they have is mostly through investing the premiums they collected before paying it out in claims. Most insurers pay more in claims than they get in premiums making up the losses with their investment, that's because they price their policies to undercut competitors that might not have access to such a large pool of money. So you can see how a newcomer can have hard time becoming a profitable insurance business.

Anne Wojcicki

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