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Every single PS2 I ever saw growing up was bought in the US (I grew up in a third world country). Consoles in big box stores here were outrageously expensive, like 3 to 4 times the…

Who gets to keep the nukes?

What do you mean? All the APIs (Xcode SDK, Metal, ML, etc) required to build on their devices are very well documented.

That “independently verified” part was that they talked with the same source and were told the same thing.

How? In my country for example there is a surge of US companies setting shop here just to hire local devs, and a lot more hiring remote, when their products have presence only in t…

Why the hell would companies sell their stock to raise money to buy their own stock again? That doesn't make sense. If they want to do stock buybacks they just borrow money to do i…

> Union endorsements are valuable, union money, union member donations. This is why a lot of people oppose unions. You could be contributing for causes you actively oppose, and on …

They are already doing that, hence SV salaries.

Facebook is competing with other FAANG [et al] companies for talent, and not all of them are in the same sector. Their market position is only relevant in that it allows them to co…

Any of the Rockstar Games studios, Naughty Dog, SCE Santa Monica, Bungie, Epic Games, any of the main Activision-Blizzard (Ininity Ward, Treyarcht) or EA studios (Respawn), etc... …

Most do not get multi-million-dollar pay , hell a lot of people there barely make a living. The reason there is an union there is because a lot of those same people would work for …

Game dev is not a low barrier to entry industry. It is WAY easier to get a SDE job at a FAANG straight out of college than it is to get a job as a programmer at a big name studio, …

This is what is known as Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_cash_advance , nearly every business with at least $20k credit/debit card sales a year h…

Correction: Facebook has struggled to hire talent [from top universities] since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Why do you think that is?

She's dumb because she thinks NYC now has 3 billions stacked somewhere that can now be used for other things like, the subway system, schools, teacher salaries, firefighters, farti…

Health insurance or insurance in general is a low margin business, and whatever margin they have is mostly through investing the premiums they collected before paying it out in cla…

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Alipay and Tenpay.