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Speaking about Nero: One of the best names for a software product: "Nero Burning ROM".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Burning_ROM

> - they've reached GOOG, AAPL, and MSFT size now,

Amazon is much bigger than GOOG, MSFT and APPL now. They have more employees and bigger revenue than the other FAANG companies. In the US only Walmart has more employees and bigger revenue.

The global advertising revenue is projected to grow for the next 5 years [1]:

There is too much extrapolation in this thread from the results of 1 company in 1 quarter.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/236943/global-advertisin...

Here are Twitter financials for the last year.

Revenue $5,078 (in millions)

Cost of Revenue $1,798 35.40%

Sales and Admin $1,760 34.67%

R&D $1,247 24.55%

Interest $52 1.02%

Unusual Items $441 8.69%

Their biggest expense 34.40% is "Cost of Revenue" followed by "Sales and Admin". For a company like twitter "Cost of Revenue" includes operations and Customer Care.

I don't think that they can cut 75% at once, just the severance payment will be huge and they may not have the money for that.

With R&D being only 24% it is possible to make large cuts in "Cost of Revenue" and "Sales and Admin" and keep more of the engineering team.

> "Instead, they made a separate device. This was, from the perspective of desktop integration, 100% indistinguishable from any of the other offerings out there. "

They made a device which was worse than all of the existing devices. The initial version didn't have TCP /IP support, only HTTP. The app store was full of scams, etc.

I don't think this is a good advice in general and I haven't seen many companies to do it practice. The initial decisions which a company makes most of the time are hard to change. Moving a successful business with clients from one platform to another 3 or 4 times is very difficult to do or hardly impossible.

It may work for a simple website, but for any more complicated project with web clients, mobile clients third party integrations, migrating from Heroku to cloud provider to on prem means refactoring big parts of the project.

What is even bigger problem a migration like this is hard to do incrementally.

The article doesn't answer the question. The list is also missing 2 of the big names which announced layoffs Oracle and Citrix. For more detailed and depressing discussion about layoffs check [1].

[1] https://www.thelayoff.com/

I should take a look. I never owned Radeon.

It is a relative bargain, but I missed the time when I can build entire PC for $1,599 and play most games well.

Two minute papers [1] is very good YouTube channel. Follows mostly papers related to video and graphics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai

Some of them of caught and arrested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Bitfinex_hack

According to Wikipedia they employ 85k. 10% of that is a big deal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms

More information about the longer term project. This is just the first step:

- Google promised to invest $1B in Africa

- Google will build subsea cable will cut across South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria and St Helena, connecting Africa and Europe.

- Investments in Startups and small businesses

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/google-confirms-1b-investm...

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

It is not going to be good. The combined company had to pay back $16.5B. Just the interest will be $1B per year.

TIBCO is not buying Citrix. Vista and Elliot bought Citrix and merged it with TIBCO which was owned by Vista.

This article explains some of the background and how the banks lost money on the deal:

https://prospect.org/power/griftrix-citrix-systems-debt-deal...

Google Chrome the most popular browser in the world. Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets) more than 1B users

GMail was internal project.

Here is paper from the Atlanta Fed which tries to explain the effect of QT [1]

"I show that a passive roll-off of $2.2 trillion over three years is equivalent to an increase of 29 basis points in the current federal funds rate at normal times. However, during a crisis period with risk aversion being doubled, it is equivalent to a 74 basis point increase."

[1] https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/research/public...

The games are going to adapt to the new cards and 3080 performance will go down with the latest and the greatest. It always happen.

At the end of the movie "Crumb" he moves to France.

That's not how I understood it. 48MP are available only in ProRaw format.

SNL did a sketch about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRzJJcq6Rs

I can't predict the future, but there is one big difference between Snap and the FAANG companies. Snap hasn't been profitable for the last 5 years.

This is not true!

Here is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdobKqTPB0

Reddit also allows or used to allow commenting on the some ads.

Do you have to send money to a different company when the mortgage is sold?

Monster Beverage is owned by Coca-Cola.

This was discussed a few days ago "Embed is in C23":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201951

C++ added "std::embed" https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2020/p1040r6...