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There's also buybacks, which has mostly been tech companies' weapon of choice when it comes to capital return.

I don't want to split hairs because you are correct, and this isn't really directed at you. I'd just like to point out that if you believe in roughly efficient markets, if your ent…

I don't follow, Sigma hasn't stopped using Foveon sensors, they still use the Foveon Quattro stuff afaik. Now they use a 1:1:4 ratio for R/G/B layer resolution, where the blue laye…

Maybe a bit tangential, but from an economic it's interesting to see Intel's market cap vs TSMC, given that TSMC is purely a foundry. Nowadays what 10nm or 14nm actually means is a…

TI and Cypress through Ramtron has done quite a bit of work incorporating ferroelectric materials into CMOS processes and such for FeRAMs mostly. Obviously RAMs are not transistors…

>he actually seemed like a nice person. I also enjoyed his trollish sense of humor. I see where you're coming from and don't want to get pedantic, but isn't as trollish sense of hu…

The "Late Shore Limited" I've taken has on-time performance of ~50% and train interference as 50% of delays. That sounds about right.

That's not really an honest interpretation. The part you're ignoring is future earnings. Assuming a company maintains its earnings, you have a bigger slice of the pie next quarter.…

i don't know how truly random a crc function is, but they're really cheap to implement in an fpga. especially if you're just pulling the bit off the end for a bitstream, and you ca…

spotify premium is $10. it used to be if you subscribed to spotify premium through the app store it cost $13 because Apple literally wants 30% of any money that changes hands throu…

that really doesn't sound so bad. at least curiosity piquing enough to work out more of the economics and impact of using reverse osmosis water in agriculture. I would think it mig…

The Dell takeover valuation decision got overturned, which is quite reasonable to say the least. However the valuation do-over was thought to be a solution is beyond me. The questi…

You're underestimating your particular circumstances, and forgetting a gamechanger: roommates. I can't even begin to count how many fights, squabbles, arguments disappeared when we…

they issued another $100 million in the last day.

I don't want to spam this article all over, but Matt Levine, also at Bloomberg, I felt had a much better overview of that question almost verbatim, plus imo he's an excellent write…

I think you'll find varied opinions in an organization as sprawling as Bloomberg. My favorite writer Matt Levine had a short blurb about this, he's consistently pretty sharp with a…

The first thing that comes to mind is that debt stops making sense. In addition to your interest rate, your principle becomes more expensive over time. A mortgage, a car payment, b…

From the wikipedia entry and the court documents it references, Google was required to make ITA's software available for licensees for five years after the judgement in October 201…

Skimming those papers and reading about the silicon tunable lasers was a bit mind blowing. I studied optics a bunch in college but never managed to work it into my electrical engin…

That's an interesting thought, does the government have cpi-like numbers for different localities, or just the one number? Rents are included in cpi, but home prices aren't. Now, o…

I am by no means stating it as a conclusion, but rather just as a discussion point, how does this differ from the mutual funds and etfs under a single umbrella, i.e. something like…

I definitely agree, the part that struck a chord with me was "...everyone's just trying to get instagrams. You know, like is that what art's becoming, is like what you're experienc…

They make a dirt cheap (~$20) vertical mouse that helped me correct wrist problems from bad posture overnight. I don't use anything else for long periods of time, they singlehanded…

These are always so wonderful. The size limitation is the icing, they are always so gorgeous on their own. The advantage is always in seeing what cool tricks they do to make awesom…

Yeah, but he's talking about the conversion kits to digitize input on a typewriter. That's next level annoying.