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Blyton and Dahl used to sell about equally well a few decades ago, but Blyton's books fell off a cliff as the racism, anti-gypsy, etc parts of the books meant parents weren't buyin…

It's also much harder to make millions from the lottery than it is to get a degree from an Ivy. There might be a few hundred winning the lottery every year. So I'm not really sure …

Not really. It's not just 1 billionaire replacing another billionaire. Twitter was public and is now private. That's a huge difference. It's not just any billionaire. It's literall…

> From the beginning his investment thesis was that the headcount is extremely bloated Is there any evidence that this was his investment thesis from the beginning as opposed to so…

Even completely setting aside the political aspects, how does TikTok have less of a moral downside as a product? At least Facebook and Instagram can genuinely claim to be built on …

Well, iphones have also only existed since little before Uber came around. The reason that was the only way cabs were available because those were the only communication technologi…

You're extremely lucky. Or maybe you change your laptops before Apple acknowledges the very real problems they have. So many of their laptops have had issues necessitating recalls,…

macOS for many years now has been inferior to Windows, IMO.

CPI is a completely different measure that includes a lot more than currency value vs other currencies (usually the dollar). I'm curious why you wouldn't compare it to the direct m…

The Tiger -> Snow Leopard period was amazing. Tiger: Great new UI. Spotlight. Dashboard. Leopard: Quick Look. Time Machine. I hated it from a functional perspective, but wow it loo…

This was key. I built a couple of minor, but useful for me, apps by simply following the docs at the time. The major difference between Apple docs, and Javadocs at the time (Java w…

I paid for alternate OS X versions (and then jumped on the snow leopard wagon immediately due to the $29? price). That meant shelling out $129 after about 3 years (2 year lifecycle…

They've restructured how their divisions are reorganized. You cannot do that without firing some top leaders.

Humans aren't computers. A machine can throw a fastball at speeds well above what humans can do. That doesn't mean we retire pitchers completely and end the game of baseball. A car…

Stockfish having mate in 39 moves says nothing about a match between 2 humans, already having played for over 6 hours, under very limited time constraints.

The 5 year thing is misleading though. It would have been 4 years if not for COVID. And what it basically means is that there were decisive games 4 years ago, and then 2 years late…