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manderley··on Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest
If maximizing value to the shareholders is the goal, companies should dissolve and pay out the proceeds as dividends.
manderley··on YouTube was launched as a dating site
Pretty sure not making money is what attracts the most investment money these days.
manderley··on Why did Intel kill off their modem program?
The issue will absolutely show up. Just download pingplotter and set the interval to 0.3 seconds. The latest firmware simply mitigates the problem a bit, all Puma 6 chips are affected.

It's most noticeable in online games, for regular usage, you probably won't see much of a problem.

manderley··on Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up
Wouldn't running Windows 10 and the Microsoft Subsystem for Linux make way more sense for these users? Seems more like inertia that is keeping some on the Mac.
manderley··on VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard
They absolutely could add a settings toggle. This has been a huge annoyance since DP and HDMI arrived at the scene.
manderley··on Italy proposes tax on savings hidden in safety deposit boxes
> Some European country tax 90% of income...

This is untrue.

manderley··on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
You're not really getting a rebate, the extremely high merchant fees in the US are paid by the customers.

While it makes sense for the individual, high fees should be regulated.

manderley··on A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today
The people making things aren't necessarily the ones to profit from their commercial success. VFX studios seem to be squeezed very hard by big studios.
manderley··on A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today
If anything, the $200 VESA mount you absolutely need is more egregious.
manderley··on A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today
People keep saying this: Is this monitor actually competitive with $25k+ reference monitors? Because the specs seem to indicate "no" to me, but I'm not a professional user so can't judge what's important.

Also, to be able to use your own mount you still need the $200 VESA mount.

manderley··on China Prepares to Drop Microsoft Windows, Blames U.S. Hacking Threat
Meanwhile, the US was entirely passive, didn't operate bases anywhere and didn't invade anything. Totally relaxed.
manderley··on Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve It Deserves
You can bind Snip & Sketch to the Print Screen button in Ease of Access -> Keyboard. This is a new feature in Windows 10 1809.
manderley··on Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
You can edit form fields for every password entry to fix the "filling out the wrong form entry" problem.
manderley··on Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
This is changing by September 2019, "Payment Initiation Services Providers (PISP) is the term used by the EU.
manderley··on NVMe and an interesting technology change
Yep. But SATA Express used to be common (but mostly unused) for a while.
manderley··on NVMe and an interesting technology change
Seems very much like the opposite to me, even Nvidia's "Founder's Edition" went to an open design in its latest iteration. Only AMD reference cards seem to still be blowers, AIO designs are pretty much all open.
manderley··on Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
The new EU Financial Services Directive formalizes this process and forces banks to provide an API for third-party payment providers.
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