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tnel77 commented on Steam Machine   store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr
Shorel · a month ago
They care about money. They definitely care about money. They have achieved a steady cash flow that can sustain their business forever, unless something really bad happens.

What they don't care is the endless growth that MBA guys always try to achieve, and the quarterly profit driven decision making that ultimately destroys their customers loyalty, for short term profit.

A business can be very profitable without being exploitative. It's the people in Wall Street who can't seem to understand this. For them a hundred million dollars of profit is good if last year it was only fifty million dollars, and a dying business if last year it was also a hundred million dollars. It really makes no sense.

tnel77 · a month ago
Just thinking out loud, but I wonder if Wall Street would be less awful about ruining companies if we were able to get a more meaningful dividend out of your average company? So perhaps the stock price itself stays relatively flat or boring, but the dividend paid out makes up for it. Or perhaps it would be the exact same issue and they’d be squeezing companies to maximize dividends.

I just know that I expect stock prices to go up because most “dividend stocks” give such a small amount of money per share.

tnel77 commented on What the hell have you built   wthhyb.sacha.house/... · Posted by u/sachahjkl
chistev · a month ago
Indicating sarcasm ruins the sarcasm
tnel77 · a month ago
Sadly, it is missed on a lot of people. Without the disclaimer, I would then have a bunch of serious replies “educating” me about my life choices.
tnel77 commented on What the hell have you built   wthhyb.sacha.house/... · Posted by u/sachahjkl
macspoofing · a month ago
>It's sure a corny stance to hold if you're navigating an infrastructure nightmare daily, but in my opinion, much of the complexity addresses not technical, but organisational issues: You want straightforward, self-contained deployments for one, instead of uploading files onto your single server ...

You can get all that with a monolith server and a Postgres backend.

tnel77 · a month ago
In this job market, how am I supposed to get hired without the latest buzzwords on my resume? I can’t just have monolithic server and Postgres!

(Sarcasm)

tnel77 commented on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division   bbc.com/news/articles/c1m... · Posted by u/mosura
itopaloglu83 · 2 months ago
We all know that this is just the beginning to get us desensitized.

The leaked plan is to fire up to 600,000 people. So roughly up to 40% of their workforce.

tnel77 · 2 months ago
While bad, that’s something entirely different. The reported 30,000 seems to be because of economic conditions, whereas that 600,000 number is allegedly from robotic improvements in their warehouses. Not great for the American workforce either way, but they aren’t exactly the same.
tnel77 commented on The biggest sign of an AI bubble is starting to appear – debt   axios.com/2025/10/03/ai-b... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle
zwnow · 3 months ago
B... bb... bbbut i thought we are so close to AGI and all the AI companies can easily make bazillions off of targeted advertising and and AI can do all my employees jobs for 1/1000th their salary and and...
tnel77 · 3 months ago
Hey now! I can’t raise money telling VCs the truth!
tnel77 commented on Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high   worksinprogress.news/p/wh... · Posted by u/bensouthwood
bilbo0s · 3 months ago
Nope.

To understand why, you would really need to take a good read of the average PCP's malpractice policy.

The policy for a specialist would be even more strict.

You would need to change insurance policies before your workflow was even possible from a liability perspective.

Basically, the insurer wants, "a throat to choke", so to speak. Handing up a model to them isn't going to cut it anymore than handing up Hitachi's awesome new whiz-bang proton therapy machine would. They want their pound of flesh.

tnel77 · 3 months ago
They didn’t say there wouldn’t need to be change related to insurance. They obviously mean that, change included, a perfect model would move to their described workflow (or something similar).

HackerNews is often too quick to reply with a “well actually” that they miss the overall point.

tnel77 commented on Nine things I learned in ninety years   edwardpackard.com/wp-cont... · Posted by u/coderintherye
BarryMilo · 3 months ago
Psychologists are a myth?
tnel77 · 3 months ago
I suspect they mean that psychologists are more a problem than a useful profession.
tnel77 commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says   reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy
nikkwong · 3 months ago
Good. I’m sure you and the 10 other individuals who choose to boycott all of FAANG will ensure that this all balances out in the end.
tnel77 · 3 months ago
I can’t control what others do, but I’ll sleep well knowing that I did my part.
tnel77 commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says   reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy
vasilipupkin · 3 months ago
it isn't a risk, it is a certainty that companies will off shore more as a result of this.
tnel77 · 3 months ago
That is their right. It is our right and, I’d argue, our duty to boycott them.
tnel77 commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says   reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy
vasilipupkin · 3 months ago
very real risk ? it's a certainty not a risk.
tnel77 · 3 months ago
It isn’t?

u/tnel77

KarmaCake day1083June 20, 2019View Original