for sure, my response I guess was less with Dave, and more with some affordable housing I’ve seen has really just been pretty covert ways to keep the poor even poorer. It’s important to raise concerns in development stage, but you’re right in that Dave probably doesn’t actually care.

It makes it more difficult...to own a small portion, in some industries, if you don’t meet the exceptions. It makes a merger no different at all, since any merger would be over 10% in the first place, so there’re on the same timeline they would have been on anyway. It was not an anti-merger law; it’s an “anti…

Not even remotely true - if the car was on a private lot without whatever pre-req is required (typically a mirror tag or sticker), it will just get towed no questions asked. and in many cases, nobody even has to call it in - the tow companies patrol the lots they are contracted to tow from (BTDT, due to forgetting my…

By the same note Xbox is not MS gaming. And any and all gaming activity isn’t as separate from MS’s “core business” as you seem to be assuming.

When Netflix was a DVD renter, charging per disc, it made decent money despite few homes having DVD players. When they switched to a subscription model they started really raking it in. They then cannibalized their own product by shifting from DVD rentals to instant streaming. As competitors started offering streaming…

Yeah, but that’s not what he was doing. A draw might be prestigious if Karjakin wasn’t already an international grandmaster and one of the most recognizable and notable chess players in the world...or if after some wildly ambitious play he realized he’d overplayed and then managed to somehow lure Magnus into a draw. 

Th…

Microsoft has a lot of mature businesses that don’t require enormous investment. People think that the cash gets allocated roughly evenly with the size of the business. It doesn’t. The small businesses get proportionally more cash so that they can become as large as the larger businesses. Cloud still obviously needs…

“Bungie’s technical expertise, coupled with their track record of building highly engaged communities, make them a natural fit for collaboration with PlayStation Studios,” said Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios. “We are excited to make plans to share skills and expertise, and to unlock the potential in having…

The studios are worth more if the IPs remain multi platform. The incentive for exclusives driving console purchases is somewhat irrelevant.

I mean, *had* more cash on hand, since paying for AB reduces it below Sony’s market cap...but your larger point is well made.

sure, but at the end of the day, the quality of the games produced really does count for a lot. sony cleaned xbox’s clock last gen because microsoft failed to consistently develop good games in-house. it doesn’t matter how much money they spend if their business and creative culture produces poor games. microsoft has…

Comparing this deal to the MS Activision one is like comparing the sale of In-and-Out to McDonalds. 

I don’t think anybody ever claimed that getting vaccinated would mean you couldn’t catch or spread COVID, just that it reduced the likelihood dramatically, which is still true. I don’t think any experts have ever said straight up that cloth masks don’t work, just that they’re not as effective as N95's, which is still…

For maybe the first time in history many civil servants actually faired well during a state of emergency. She’s not working at Footlocker and neither is her husband.

my old accounts are even more fun, i have several BTC addresses that blockchain.com tells me have received many millions over the years plus my old accounts at some exchanges where i was depositing several million doge a week for example

My Auschwitz-survivor grandfather-in-law will be 100 in April.

I wish they made the legacy chocobo more...noticeable? I still rock that as my main mount but I wish there was a way legacy players could have some kind of identifiable feature (that you could optionally switch on) besides the tattoo and a way-too-subtle mount. Still enjoying my discounted sub though.

It’s not that hard. Adjunct faculty are used quite often on campus and they are often quite good. I had very good adjunct professors when I was in college. The reasons it's been hard to find professors  is the same reason it's been hard to find secondary and primary school teachers...not enough money paid nor…

Of course he has the liberty to tell the story, nothing I’ve said suggested otherwise.  I think it would have been better, for a variety of reasons, to keep this particular thought to a private conversation with his therapist.

Pretty sure Cracker Barrel is a reference to actual barrels of crackers. That's what I was told when I asked why such a trashy restraunt decided to name itself after a slur, and use barrel.