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siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack

What's the difference here? How can GAAP profit and net income be nearly a billion dollars in difference? I thought GAAP was standard accounting? What kind of operational losses are not included in GAAP

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Five Biggest Stocks Are 23% of S&P 500 Market Cap

I said "where gross negligence and gross fraud are mostly avoided"

I know about Worldcom Enron AIG Lehman... Gross fraud and negligence still isn't condoned. Buying the index is still better than trying to guess which of the 500 aren't performing fraud. Laugh all you want; best of luck to you

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Ya, weekly builds on Monday morning for a gaming company with multiple teams makes sense. They could slice it up across their teams even for better TCO

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Five Biggest Stocks Are 23% of S&P 500 Market Cap

I buy index. I have a portfolio of 500 large American companies, who are publicly traded, and follow SEC regulations, where gross negligence and gross fraud are mostly avoided, and which maybe a third also have global operations.

It’s a basket of restive safe equity, diversified across industry but not much in terms of nationality. Beyond that I don’t know what’s in it and don’t particularly need to care

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Geometric Algebra (2012)

Thanks for sharing. At what point does something like this become a PhD thesis level topic and not "just" a paper quality topic?

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites

I would like to find the same thing for online ebook/textbook readers that University websites use. Suggestions?

Every online reader I've used ProQuest, VLE, BCR, etc offer the worst online readers with frames, annoying 15 minute timeouts, terrible highlighting/notes, etc

I just want to print or download a local copy to highlight & full text search offline (I run them through OCR for text)

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: A better Kubernetes from the ground up

"K8s networking is just typical networking."

K8 networking is far more complex than typical networking and with less visibility

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”

Eventually something you agree with or think is reasonable will be censored by a corporation. censorship is always a problem

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Tony Hsieh has died

No. Better to let law enforcement & the family consider that then speculate on an internet forum without any substantial or additional information.

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months

A delivery to ten houses from one delivery truck is less carbon than ten household cars driving to the store (10 roundtrips). Or more likely, 2-3 different stores per each household.

What you propose would reverse that and increase carbon.

Its also worth pointing out theyre moving to electric delivery vans

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries

Netflix just made a 3 hour movie about this - The Irishman.

I had to keep pausing and checking if something was real as I couldn't believe how bad things got

siliconmountain | 5 years ago | on: United States vs. Google

I'm surprised Ben Thompson is able to write such detail and publish in 24 hours without a team. As a one-person newsletter, it is impressive. Makes me feel sad that I don't publish even a single blog post in a year