What's incredible is the idea that an argument or a point of view is somehow invalidated purely because it happens to side with the trillion dollar company. This is in the same vein as "this cause is supported by teh evil Amerika, hence it must be evil" line of thinking, typically espoused by self-declared anti-imperialists (who are often mere anti-US-imperialists).
>make a few people who already have everything even richer.
I do wonder what percentage of Apple stock is owned by pension funds and the like, i.e. The Regular Person, once you unwind the levels of indirection (mutual funds, index funds, ETFs, etc). It is surely a double digit percentage, but high, low? No idea.
> I do wonder what percentage of Apple stock is owned by pension funds and the like, i.e. The Regular Person, once you unwind the levels of indirection (mutual funds, etc). It is surely a double digit percentage, but high, low? No idea.
Pretty high. The S&P 500 has ~7% apple stock which means many peoples retirement accounts have several percentage points of apple stock.
Which you need to filter out precisely to avoid
>ensuring that every new update will be there for easy access, being notified about it
(notifications are a specifically obnoxious type of noise)
But then you get very little help with then in the RSS services
And you're missing on that whole important social aspect as well
My RSS reader links directly to HN comments hence how I arrived here. Other than HN most social discussions are not useful to me.