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Comment Re:Not any more - AWS funds everything (Score 2) 271

I'm not sure you are understanding this right. First, AWS is only half of Amazon's net income. But the thing there is...you don't grow your business with your net income. You grow your business by reinvesting a portion of your revenue, and that portion reinvested gets deducted from your net income. And on that note, the revenue from AWS is minuscule compared to revenue from ecommerce operations (even after you deduct cost of goods sold)

Comment Re:Isn't that the goal of business in a free marke (Score 1) 271

The retail industry that is being destroyed did not exist as such 100 years ago

Can you clarify what you mean? The retailers being destroyed, especially the little mom & pop stores, seem very much like what there was 100 years ago. If you are referring to how most stores are chains now, even 100 years ago there were chain stores like Woolworth (and stores like Sears filled the role of "online" retailer)

Comment Re: So Trump took down a parasite company (Score 5, Insightful) 279

Funny how this article tries to blame Trump for taxes being easier to fill out. So then a gigantic corporation that built itself off of Democrat tax laws decided to screw over the Democratic voting base to keep enriching executives. And now we should be angry at Trump because.... taxes should be harder to fill out?

Check your biases. I read the article. Did you? It doesn't try to blame Trump for anything. It only mentions Trump a few time times:

"Trump’s Tax Law Threatened TurboTax’s Profits. So the Company Started Charging the Disabled, the Unemployed and Students."

Simple factual statement. Doesn't say Trumps change was good or bad. Just that it affected TurboTax, and they responded accordingly to protect their profits

The other references to Trump were even less interesting. The only real blaming the article does is blaming Intuit for advertising free filing and then trying to trick people into paying, and for failing to disclose what situations would incur additional charges this year.

So please feel free to point out where you think the article blames Trump or suggests we should be angry at Trump.

Comment Re:Only Android devices with an unlockable bootloa (Score 1) 109

Also, Pixel 2/3 are still not officially supported by LineageOS and the second Pixel was released almost two years ago.

Official Pixel 2/3 support is just around the corner:

https://www.getdroidtips.com/l...

And aside from that, it's normal for official support to lag a bit, but unofficial support for Pixel 3 has been around since November (a bit more than 1 month after the device was launched):

https://www.cyanogenmods.org/f...

Comment Re:GOG and indies (Score 1) 97

I'm sorry but if Valve, one of the largest game publishers worldwide, goes under? I think we may have bigger things to worry about than not being able to play call of dooky, like another market crash like 1929. Because when you look at their financials?

Plenty of major game companies have gone out of business. Where are Atari, Westwood, or THQ these days? Admittedly Valve is in a pretty good position right now, but any company can be but a few missteps away from failure. A decision to bank on a bad idea compounded by a competitor (Epic?) coming in capitalizing on their mistake could be all it takes to send them on their way out.

Comment Re:That's just another proof (Score 1) 133

I believe in Donald Trump he can make the Moon landing happen before the Chinese do.

I'm no fan of Trump, but I, too, believe he can make this happen. Trump has proven time and time again that, if nothing else, he's remarkably good at taking credit for things other people have already accomplished. So it would not at all surprise me if, before the end of his term, he has achieved "the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".

Comment Re: Wake up man (Score 4, Insightful) 171

There's no way he's ending up with a million. His financial advisors are going to milk the crap out of that. The kid has a 9th grade education. He's not going to know better. There would be hope that the parents would be able to keep tabs on that, but come on...they're letting him drop out in 9th grade. There no chance anyone in this family is going to be able to protect his interests against the sharks

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