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You left out the word "gross" but that word is important here. GAAP gross profit doesn't include operational cost, only product production cost. That's why it's gross and not net.

Indeed. I expect mass layoffs basically immediately.

With operating losses at 93% of total revenue, bringing FY2020 net income deeply negative, I'm still surprised.

Except they had net income of -$570M (that's a minus sign in front) because their operational losses are staggeringly high.

I have this problem often. I want very few things, I can easily afford everything I want, and the things I might want fall into two categories:

1. I already know the most about the thing and have already found the one that either maximizes the utility/price relationship or maximizes utility below my price sensitivity threshold.

2. I don't know the most about the thing yet and have therefore not decided what I want.

The problem with the first is obvious: I either already own the thing or am about to, so the gift becomes just a cash transfer, and I don't need or want cash transfers from my friends.

The problem with the second is less obvious until you know that I dislike owning things and only choose to own things when they meet the first category.

So what's the answer for people with enough money and interest to buy good things for themselves?

Don't buy them utility gifts if you aren't more passionate than they are.

Buy them only weird sentimental things and quirky consumables that don't have to meet a personalized utility threshold. A small piece of artwork that comes with a note saying "This made me think of you" carries sentimental value and will make the receiver think of giver every time they look at it. A weird chocolate with ants inside will be weird and fun and it won't matter if it isn't the best weird chocolate with ants inside.

Every discussion thread about M1 has a dozen people saying "Give me a 64GB M2 with more cores and more ports and I'll buy one." But I just want a 15 inch M1 Air. For most people 16GB and 4+4 is more than enough, and it's the larger screen that differentiates the models.

> Perhaps there’s a market for people who want an ebike that’s a little easier to get up apartment stairs?

A detachable battery might also help with this.

Water isn't wet. Water wets things.

See also "Hanlon's Handgun" from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691282

> I didn't mean it...

Saying things you don't mean might be why people on reddit accused you of being a troll or a liar. I don't have proof, but it seems like a good place to start.

> It's an internet comment not a journal article.

"It's the internet so I can say whatever I want regardless of facts" is not a mindset conducive to meaningful conversation. I'm guessing again that it might be why the people on reddit dismissed you.

You might not think that this is important, but, speaking to your complaint that outlets "give this impression that dissent arrises only from ignorance, and I must be some evil, Mr Burns-esque robber baron", it seems pertinent that the available interpretations for people encountering what you said are that either you didn't know that the real number was far lower than what you said or you knew and were intentionally misrepresenting things.

> I am of the 80 percent of people who get decent health coverage via my employer

Fact Check:

Only 55.4% of all Americans and 58% of Americans under the age of 65 had employer-based health insurance in 2019.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-05/55085-HealthCoverag...

> I've tried to say these sorts of views on reddit, but just get called a troll or a liar.

I think it would help if you didn't start by saying that 80 percent of people have employer coverage, decent or otherwise. Because it's both false and easy to check.

The voice app has its own dialer.

No, it's significantly less readable than Comic Sans. Pointfree, however, is a good simple monospace variant of Comic Sans.

Does Sonos still spy on people? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680614 )

Have you never been to a large family dinner?

> 8 hours at work is ok, but a few hours at dinner isn't

Large, well-ventilated space vs close poorly-ventilated space.

Not sharing food vs sharing food.

Not yelling at each other vs yelling at each other.

Everyone wearing a mask vs not wearing masks.

There are some important differences between workplaces and dinner tables.

> it's clear that they realized the ram would be too large to fit under an IHS

This is exactly the same design they used in the A12X and A12Z ( see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12X )

They clearly do have room for a larger IHS that covers the RAM too, but either this makes manufacturing cheaper since they didn't have to change anything from the previous rev or there's actually a real benefit to not dumping excess core heat directly into the RAM (seems more likely). Sinking heat is great, but only if the temperature differential points away from what you're trying to cool.

And .amp doesn't allow public registration.

Vertically oscillating metaballs don't really look much like a lava lamp.

> the AMD 2990WX comes in at

Oh, neat. What kind of battery life do you get on your AMD 2990WX ultralight laptop?

> For the instant pot. It’s just a regular pot. Take it out and stick it in the dishwasher.

The problem with cleaning an instant pot is not the metal pot itself, but the body and lid.

This is also the preferred style of microwave for blind people, because there's a direct relationship between mechanical tactility and performance.

The repository itself doesn't violate the TOS. Just their stated intent does.

Doesn't this person's stated purpose violates GitHub's TOS?

"If you would like to compile GitHub data, you must comply with our Terms of Service regarding scraping and privacy, and you may only use any public-facing User Personal Information you gather for the purpose for which our user authorized it. For example, where a GitHub user has made an email address public-facing for the purpose of identification and attribution, do not use that email address for commercial advertising."

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

Making an email address public-facing for the purpose of identification and attribution != cold email me. Using an attribution email for the purposes of contacting someone is not an authorized use.

> Which is why I mentioned using certificate based authentication (AKA, client-side TLS certificates). Not only does the client verify that they're connecting to the correct server via the server side TLS certificate, the server can verify the client though the client cert.

"Software has no flaws" is not a strong position historically. I mean, the very fact that we're on TLS version 1.3 and not SSL 1.0 should be clue enough.

> Has our foreign policy towards Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, to name a few countries, changed significantly depending on whether someone from the Democratic or Republican Party is president?

This is a strawman meant to distract. You should instead ask "Are there significant benefits and incentives to set up a puppet government?" The answer to that is a very obvious yes. You can then ask "Is doing that easier if you can flip votes easily?" The answer to that is a very obvious yes.

That's a small problem, but not _the_ problem. _The_ problem is that, in our entire history of making networked computers, we have never successfully produced one capable of guaranteeing end-to-end security once someone starts poking at it.

The person you're replying to is wishfully handwaving away electronic attacks like we haven't been facing an endless cascading catastrophe of device security breaches since practically forever.

They further keep equating property theft scenarios, where you would easily notice that your money went to someone else, or personal harrassment scenarios, where your first consequence is a human individual audit not a national election outcome, with scenarios where you'd have no idea that your vote was changed unless you start implementing policies that would allow people to sell their votes, which is something that we don't allow for a reason. Paper ballots kept in small batches distributed among thousands of precincts that are counted by hand with opposition observers are hard to systematically rig. Bits in a cloud machine somewhere that lose all connection to your action are not.

They further handwave away the significance of stealing an election because catastrophic harm would only happen _sometimes_.

> Online voting could be done securely over the network and could be authenticated with a certificate associated with one's voter registration that's anonymized in a way that doesn't reveal any information about the voter other than whether they have already voted.

There's a lot of handwaving in this sentence about what can be done. We can't even secure computers when the fate of the entire world _doesn't_ depend on it. You think we can do a better job when control of a nuclear power with the world's largest economy rests in the balance?

> like you can do now with taxes

I'm not terribly worried about the consequences of someone filing my taxes for me.

> Generally, I have 3-4 Windows 10 VMs running

What are you doing that needs them all actually running simultaneously? Disk-backed VM pause/resume is extremely fast when your SSD's sequential read/write performance is measured in GBps.

I have a hard time imagining a workflow that actually uses multiple systems all at once, so to me what you're saying sounds like "Well of course my RAM gets filled if I fill it on purpose."

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/ down at the bottom says:

“World’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon”: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring peak single thread performance of workloads taken from select industry standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open source applications. Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available at the time of testing."

So, "Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available [one month ago]". I guess there could be wiggle room on interpreting "highest-performing", but this seems pretty good.

> it's still a bit disingenuous of Apple not to compare with the best of their previous models.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/ Says: "“World’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon”: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring peak single thread performance of workloads taken from select industry standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open source applications. Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available at the time of testing."

"highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available [in October 2020]" seems pretty good to me.