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It's a quote from the CEO of AMC from their recent investor call. "Fast forward to today, in March and April, MoviePass paid AMC $12.02 per ticket on hundreds and hundreds and hund…

The Clinton boogie man at it again eh?

Wanting to do targeting for the specific user makes that really hard. They would have to do real-time transcoding of the ad into the video. Makes more sense to transcode the video …

Story from March 2017 about this: https://theintercept.com/2017/03/30/facebook-failed-to-prote... >In late 2015, the turkers began reporting that the Global Science Research survey…

The EU study does not say what the pro-piracy crowd wants it to say. The study only looks out the count of games and not the dollar amount spent. A non-pirate who buys a $60 game a…

A company is valued in terms of the currency in it's stock exchange. A company in US has it's market cap in USD and a Japanese company has it's market cap in JPY. If you want to ca…

They are testing that in Seattle as well. https://www.amazon.com/afx/nc/aboutpickup

Do you have an example of a biased news piece from the NYT? (Not their editorial section or op-ed section).

That's not true. Changing a stock sale plan in any way is considered insider trading. The window has nothing to do with whether it's legal or not. It's only used a risk mitigation …

Their main national sport (cricket) is really only played in handful of countries. And in those countries (AU/NZ) soccer is still more popular.

That was over 3 years after they purchased Twitch. Brightscript and the Roku SDK aren't easy to work with.

A simple trading desk does not create the kind risk that caused the financial crisis. The nature of the CDS/MBS contracts the bank owned in their name caused the counter-party risk…

What corrupt shit? What specific action did the DNC do that caused Bernie to lose?

That is only part of Amazon's advertising business. If you read their 10-k: "Vendor Agreements We have agreements with our vendors to receive funds for advertising services, cooper…

This is a good summary of the entire situation without the emotion of an op-ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/11/reed-college-...

Because the stock price would drop and Tesla wants to do another round of funding (aka issue more stock) soon.

The several dozen people playing AAA games on linux must be thrilled.

Depends on the margin. Nvidia pulled out of gaming consoles due to the margin MS and Sony dictated. AMD was fine with fulfilling demand at almost any margin.

Amazon and Google both do PIPs before firing low performing employees. That means several months (usually 6 or more) of pay and time to find a new job. It also means your employer …

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Because their library gets smaller and smaller every year especially their library of non-Netflix produced content.

So I assume they'll also go after the Trump Organization then. http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538387033/trumps-private-clubs...

You mean she might have had to memorize a simple formula? Such "rock solid" mathematical chops.

Math is not arithmetic. What are the odds she can prove basic theorems in undergrad math like rank-nullity or intermediate value?

His last sentence mostly. "project planning, reporting, managing expectations, coordinating teams and delivering on time. It's not terribly rewarding or creative work, but it's wha…