MikeCapone

That's a misunderstanding of how companies at this phase of growth work. They are only "loosing" money because they invest so much in growth. If they slowed down growth, they could be profitable (they have 78% gross margins), but over time, it creates more value to keep investing at this phase of things and become profitable later, when they're more mature and the land-grab phase is over.

The Arm people would still be there running the company, it's not like they all get fired and overnight it's Nvidia people with no experience doing it.

96% accuracy may be a problem...

Depends how many false positives and false negatives, but if there's 4% of false negatives and there's, say, 1% of the tested population that has the disease, then even a positive test may mean you have only 20% chances of being actually positive.

(someone double check my math, but the general idea stands, I think)

If anyone wants more, I liked the recent biography: "A Mind at Play"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32919530-a-mind-at-play

The author is interviewed in the documentary.

I recently finished Rocket Men by Robert Kurson, about Apollo 8. That was great. But the ultimate book on Apollo for me is still Chaikin's 'Man on the Moon' which details all of the Apollo missions from interviews with the astronauts not too long after, as well as some of the pre-Apollo stuff (Gemini and Mercury).

Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff is also great to understand the test pilots from which most of the astronauts were picked.

Was it gelcaps or dry tablets? Vitamin D is fat-soluble so much better absorbed in gelcap format (and taken with a meal).

Her podcast has been a great source of interviews with interesting researchers. Her guest appearances have also been great (she's been on Peter Attia's podcast).

Omega 3 can be in various forms:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509649/

I think it's a case of security being hard and an arms race. Kind of like Google and Facebook have to constantly run faster to stay in the same place against attackers, and sometimes attackers win a little more, and then they again get back on top.

Amazon sells almost 200bn of goods each year. Even if a tiny fraction of those are problematic and slip through the cracks, it'll seem like a lot to observers. Doubt they can get it down to zero, no system is perfect, and there are too many attackers trying to game the system.

It's a price to pay for all the benefits of the open platform model.

is eBay getting sued every time a counterfeit good is sold?

Fish roe is apparently an excellent source of phospholipids, so health-wise, it's probably pretty good. But krill oil is probably a cheaper source.

I don't know. High-volume cheap cars can certainly be more reliable than low volume, expensive high-end cars, simply because that's how manufacturing works.

Corollas and Civics can last forever.

Lots of things that work aren't supported by scientific research (yet?). It's your choice not to use it, but to claim that something is bollocks probably means that you will never follow what most people tell you about lots of things (where are all the double-blind peer-reviewed studies about how to bake a good cake or write a good novel?).

I forgot to include:

-Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)

So many, and I wish I could write a long paragraph on each, but I'm unfortunately short on time. I'm posting any in case just one person who hasn't heard of those checks them out and gets value:

-Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hosfstadter)

-The Mindbody Prescription (John E. Sarno, completely cured my long-term crippling RSI that kept me from using computers and was ruining my life)

-Feeling Good (Dr. Burns, cognitive therapy mostly centered on depression, but I want to learn about this before I have depression so that I can avoid it and do 'maintenance' on myself)

-The 5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman, made me understand a lot more about how people express and receive love, and the problems that arise from mismatched languages in relationships)

-Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman (you guys probably already know this)

-The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker)

-The Snowball (Warren Buffett biography)

-Influence (Robert B. Cialdini)

-Your Money or Your Life (Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin)

-When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (Le Ly Hayslip)

-The Halo Effect (Phil Rosenzweig)

-The LessWrong.com sequences on rationality

A lot of things are regulated on the road. This kind of communication protocol could be one of them.

Toyota has squandered its huge lead in hybrids and is now quite late to EVs. I'm glad to see them make these moves, but this should've happened over 10 years ago. These things take time.

Guetlzi comparison is mostly against JPEGs you can find in the wild (ie. from a digital camera).

In my experience, Guetzli is a lot slowly than mozjpeg, but tops up at much higher space savings when the conditions are right.

Looks interesting, though on recent iOS devices, images will be in HEIF format, which is about 50% the size of JPEG at similar quality, and MozJPEG isn't compatible with it afaik.

If you're interested in compressing JPEGs without quality loss, there's a free Mac app called ImageOptim that can handle JPEG, GIF and PNG. It has Google's Guetlzi, so on some JPEG you can reach 20-40% compression without any loss of quality that I could detect (and sometimes lower levels around 10% on images that are already well compressed or smaller resolution).

https://imageoptim.com/mac

I was making more of a general statement about the dynamics involved. Of course, then you have to look at it case-by-case.

Descent was great, but it was also much harder to play, and to build levels for, which kind of limited its appeal, IMO. DOOM hit a sweet spot of fast-paced gameplay, really cool ambience (for preteens and teens especially), and lower technical requirements (though I remember Descent's engine being quite well optimized).

Owning shares is not a negative. It's a positive. It means that he's more aligned with shareholders than with management.

Boards full of non-shareholders tend to prioritize the paycheck they get as board members, so they tend to not want to rock the boat or get into conflicts with mangement.

Those that are shareholders first tend to have a bigger incentive to confront or fire management if they start doing things that are bad for shareholders.

You shop while holding your phone in front of your face?

Mine's in my pocket when I'm at the store.

It's not so much about the level of taxes as it is about taxing foreign income, which is not something that other countries do, giving a competitive disadvantage to the US.

Even if Apple brings back the cash and dividends it out, that's more money in the pockets of shareholders, which are pretty much everybody with an index fund, pension funds, mutual funds, etc. That can't hurt the US compared to leaving the cash abroad.

It's hard to truly compare, but I started from VPN review sites and just disqualified most of the sites that seemed to care more about torrenting than about privacy, and of the remaining ones I went with the one with the best reviews and official policies.

> Forecast is created by company employees, based on what they know and the company plans.

Forecasts are created by financial analysts working for big banks and brokerage firms, not Google employees.

After some research, I ended up going with IVPN (https://www.ivpn.net/). It's pretty affordable too.

It isn't. The SIP is much slower than what the HFTers can put together. Read the book, it's in there.

If that was all they were doing, that'd be fine. But read the book.

Some exchanges have 150 types of orders that are mostly undocumented and unknown to most regular players, created specifically so that HFT can not do what they publicly appear to be doing, or take incentives without providing liquidity, etc. The public price that everybody seems is outdated compared to the private prices that HFTers see, so they can risklessly front-run people because they already know if a price has dropped or rise, etc. All that stuff isn't just fast market-making.

That's strange logic. Whatever happened or not with Billy Beane, he's absolutely right about the HFT-bank-broker strategies that he singles out in his book. Most of the critics of the book seem to not have read it, sadly..