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well, one's a narrowbody and the other a widebody with much higher PAX, so didn't really thing this was a point that needed to be made...

For context: the Q4 revenue/EPS results came in ABOVE sell-side consensus per Factset and Q1 guidance is also ABOVE Factset consensus on both revenues and gross margins.

5% isn't

well, all you need to know is if they beat Street expectations for EPS and FCF...which they did...massively...which is why the stock is up 20% after hours.

"makes you" huh..

"Bad management is when your company evaporates because you make one bad call." That's a pretty low bar!

Its in their financial interest because it casts a halo on the brand and incentivizes people to buy iphones.

lol u mad

At a 9% nominal return, that would imply an after tax return at a 40% rate of 5.4%. Then take out inflation of 2%, and you get a 3.4% real return on stocks. Which, if you consider …

Most epic burn of HN history.

10k software engineers in Des Moines? What planet do you live on? Is it the same quadrant of the Milky Way as mine?

*unit sales growth

Hard to be insider trading if he didn't make any trades. Which he didn't.

I bet you are a lot of fun at parties.

Well said!

"All my experience shopping at grocery chains in the US and elsewhere has impressed upon me that these workers represent the absolute classic, textbook case for unionization." Why?…

There are a million reports like this: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33153.pdf

And its decoupling now. See: Trade War.

Military policy isn't civilian driven. The Pentagon drives the policy, as well as the weapons decisions. The surprise is when the civilians actually do exert some control--such as …

Top Gun notwithstanding, the F-14 was one of the biggest pieces of garbage the Navy ever fielded. Incredibly heavy, horrible E-M characteristics, expensive, crappy swing wing (a wi…