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Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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Yeah, it's always corrupt. No, it was not always this corrupt. We're aiming for third world. That's going to be a new experience.

how do you measure levels of corruptness?

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 offers some methodologies.

Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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I don't understand what "low risk" means here. For a start-up, 99% risk of failure is low. What are we comparing that to?

It's low risk from the acquirer's point of view. Somebody else paid for that research, you just get to buy it once it's proven itself sufficiently to your liking.

Sure. But at that point the purchase price is much higher than the cost of the research.

Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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how do you measure levels of corruptness?

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 offers some methodologies.

this is pretty cool... looks like USA is doing amazing here :)

Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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> degree of corruption is the same the echochamber is going nuts… look at this thread and see how many of you are saying “degree of corruption” and then think whether or not you are getting this fed like clowns from whatever fucking (“social”) media your brain is being poisoned and then start to question your life’s choices

Lmao you don't know anything about what i read or believe, and i don't use social media. Are you arguing that every act of corruption is of precisely equal magnitude and consequence?

nope, I am educated so I don't write silly blanket statements like this without having something to back it up with. I am not saying that it less, equal or more corruption cause this is something that you cannot measure. you can only believe crap you read (depending on your politics you will be in one or the other echochamber) and then go "oh, the 'magnitute' of corruption is now "bigger/smaller/equal" than in ____ [insert year/administrations/...]

Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 offers some methodologies.

this is pretty cool... looks like USA is doing amazing here :)

It says the US is 28th out of 180.

Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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this is pretty cool... looks like USA is doing amazing here :)

It says the US is 28th out of 180.

not too bad :) and looks like we picked the right people in 2024 election cause we are with the arrow pointing down :)

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If you think Biden is corrupt surely you're completely crashing out about Trump. Or do you only care about corruption when it's not your team?

Biden is a 5+ decades politician, he is corrupted and has had every fiber of being sold to the highest bidder over and over again. it is you that care about “which team you are on” - not me. I have been a democrat my entire life and will continue to be so especially now that alternative barely exists but I also posses intelligence to know that democrats (especially fucking establishment ones like biden) are corrupt t…

Since this thread has mostly been for the benefit of others reading it, let me close with this:

It's fine, good even, to be unhappy with e.g, joe biden and want someone better, however you define that. It is very much not fine to not vote or vote for trump because getting trump is 1000 times worse and there is no conceivable world where electing trump leads to a better outcome for us.

Re: Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

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Biden is a 5+ decades politician, he is corrupted and has had every fiber of being sold to the highest bidder over and over again. it is you that care about “which team you are on” - not me. I have been a democrat my entire life and will continue to be so especially now that alternative barely exists but I also posses intelligence to know that democrats (especially fucking establishment ones like biden) are corrupt t…

Since this thread has mostly been for the benefit of others reading it, let me close with this: It's fine, good even, to be unhappy with e.g, joe biden and want someone better, however you define that. It is very much not fine to not vote or vote for trump because getting trump is 1000 times worse and there is no conceivable world where electing trump leads to a better outcome for us.

100% agree with every single word you said. I hope the country gets wise (somehow we always manage, see 2020) for 2026/2028 cycle...
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