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mhudson125on Sid Meier's Memoir

You might want to give Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings 2(free on steam), or Crusader Kings 3 a try. Definitely more of a learning curve than Civilization, but can be really fun.

mhudson125on Police say shooter’s anger over YouTube policies ‘appears to be the motive’

Unfortunately, neither of the links show a concrete indication of where YouTube profitability is right now.

It was approximated to be break even two years ago but doesn't have a growth factor as part of the number that is reported in the article, which is a key metric for determining revenue in the future. Revenue aside, profitability is extremely difficult to calculate as we don't know what the costs are as YouTube grows.

You would have made a better case here, but it's still far too old for any relevance in this discussion: https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-f...

mhudson125on Police say shooter’s anger over YouTube policies ‘appears to be the motive’

I'd love to see where you got the idea that YouTube doesn't make any money. As far as I know they don't break out YouTube revenue in any of their filings.

In fact, in each of the filings for 2016 & 2017 the revenue they report is an amalgamation of products that consist of search, ads, commerce, maps, youtube, google cloud, android, chrome, and google play[1][2].

[1] => https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20170331_alphabet_10Q.pdf pg 30

[2] => https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20160331_alphabet_10Q.pdf pg 28

mhudson125on A 32nm 1000-Processor Array

Could it be the mill cpu that you were thinking about?

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKdGg6hZoUYnjyRUb08Kjbg/

The Mill CPU Architecture – The Compiler [video] (youtube.com):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9856334

Wiki:

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

mhudson125on Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

I was wondering this too, but I think half the reason the stock jumped up to ~192 is due to the sentiment of this acquisition being approved by the FTC.

Since it's a cash deal, you'll miss out on ~$4 share, and since you bought in Feb/March, you'll end up paying your normal tax rate in capital gains. My guess is they approve this deal before Feb/March so no clear advantage holding for that reason.

Perhaps someone else could chime in as well?