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most of these places are body shops, pretty much the opposite of “pinnacle of the labour pool”

shame "home" for me is manhattan, and moving there would be financial ruin

Had to double check this wasn’t a late April Fools joke. Each weird acquisition or product launch feels like an implicit admission that anything like “AGI” is never coming.

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Finance, consulting, some kinds of real estate-adjacent jobs.

Sounded in Gruber's review like they have something that sort of incidentally does that https://arc.net/l/quote/wgcwgxod

Ordered one but have fairly low expectations. I guess my main fear is that it really takes off, and there is a huge improvement in the V2 that obsoletes this one.

Spotify isn’t really profitable, and their deals with the labels mean that they probably never will be IMO

Hasn’t Sam been there since the company was founded?

I believe she studied mathematics, not finance fwiw

What alternative(s) are you considering?

Jacques Marie Mage are very nice, I'm also a fan of Matsuda.

Paying over 24 months is mildly cheaper due to the time value of money

I assume they were referring to seasonal farm worker types, who don’t seem to experience as much social mobility.

You might be interested in some videos Alpha Investments on Youtube makes, he is all about MTG finance.

I believe the collector boosters are all foils, so that particular trick may not have worked in this case.

what would you have done in Christian's shoes?

i think it might do that when the app has an update pending?

Perhaps three hots and a cot?

This profile in the times caught my interest

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/business/dealbook/a-new-b...

I remember reading that he has them made by Brunello Cucinelli, but not sure. I know Bezos does.

i believe the IntelliJ Git tool window does this as well FWIW

What’s the plan to stop their nukes?

To be fair, that includes an AirTag :)

I think in that case you would expect the company to return value to shareholders when liquidating it’s assets.

skiing, maybe driving

It’s a difference in policy vs technical capability. Currently the policy is only scan when iCloud Photos is enabled, but the capability to scan at any/all times is just a policy change away.

I see “sub coins” on sale in the Twitch app, my assumption is that you can offer them outside the app, but you cannot promote that alternative in the app and you must also sell them in-app (presumably for 30% more)