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No, value is determined by what participants in a market are willing to pay for something. The only reason you are able to say that the value of gold is determined by its weight is…

People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.

Read the linked issue. The bot did not find anything interesting. The issue has the solution spelled out and is intended only as a first issue for new contributors.

Pretty terrible for SpaceX. Of course they paid a crazy inflated price for xAI in an attempt to cash in on the IPO. This just devalues SpaceX and exposes the investors to all the A…

What an empty threat. Apple has 1/3 of the mobile market share in Europe and people here are not locked into the ecosystem, with 3P messaging apps like WhatsApp dominating communic…

The hardest part is to remember not to do it when sharing screens...

Doesn't sound misleading to me. I read "$5,000 of professional software" as paid-for software that would have cost $5,000.

He most definitely did not pay $6.6B. The beauty of these OpenAI acquisitions is that they are all-stock transactions so only worth the face value in the make-believe world OpenAI …

I admit I've not been following the Chrome saga, but what does the DoJ mean by Google divesting from Chrome? Will they have to sell the Chrome brand? Will they have to get rid of a…

Worse than projecting one's values onto a rationalization of the new tariffs is to simply take the administration's rhetoric at face value. That other countries are "taking advanta…

So, will Databricks deprioritize Delta Lake in favor or Iceberg, or will they try to derail Iceberg development now they they got the team that originally built it at Netflix? Edit…

That would not make any sense to Microsoft. Xbox consoles are sold at or close to manufacturing cost but it's worth it to MS because it locks consumers into their ecosystem that ge…

> Elon is Tesla's marketing driver so we can't kick him out I confess that when he started the downward spiral, I thought it might be part of some marketing strategy: they had to b…

Whenever this comes up, my thought (admittedly from an outsider perspective) is that people can say that .NET is far ahead in the same way some may say that Oracle is far ahead: Bo…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale It would cost substantially more for a small-scale company to produce a laptop with the quality of MacBooks than it costs Apple. Th…

It has an Apache 2.0 license. I assume it allows it to be repackaged removing telemetry.

They probably mean that the actual number of malicious repos is probably very hard to get. The article reaches the 100K number by searching for repos with patches with a particular…

While it't true that oil is used for plastics and chemicals today, it's absolutely not the case that it will be drilled into the future when demand for gasoline disappears. Oil is …

Quite the opposite, this is great for Meta's competitors. Meta is not trying to get market share with this strategy, it's trying to commoditize their complements ( https://www.joel…

I was with you until your last sentence. Taking you point at face value, people who despise codes of conduct nonetheless working under a code of conduct would just be another examp…

I guess I finally understand what they mean when they say “I don’t know how to count that low”

> The Many World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics was rejected out of hand by scientists that were also religious Do you have a reference for that? The Many Worlds interpretatio…

They have a comparison page: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/compare.html

Even if it would be easy only pay per conversion, you would create a different type of perverse incentive in which ad platforms would exclusively want to target consumers their mod…

Because they are for-profit businesses and as such have a strong incentive to spend in ads and for these ads to be as effective as possible. FB and Google are just giving them the …