Intel is not competing with the Chinese, because Taiwan is not China.

You are dumb and should be ashamed of your stupidity.

Realty Trusts are required by LAW to distribute 90% of their profits as dividends.

They are not scams, they are, in fact, one of the most reliable sources of income for wealthy people.

You are poor and not part of this conversation.

You missing the point.

The companies that pay a dividend basically announce "we give up, this is as good as its gonna get and we can't grow any more".

The yield coupled with buybacks is there to shore up the stock price.

Real companies that are on growth path don't do dividends, they re-invest revenue back and actually create a net loss on purpose, not to pay any taxes.

Google is, and has been, on a decline. Their workforce is stale. Their ideas are old. Their search engine is a basically an A/B tester for marketing.

What are you babbling about?

They authorized a 20 cents/share dividend. Stock was trading at $157/share.

If they pay it quarterly it would be 80 cents/year, thats a yield of 0.5%.

Also known under technical term as "fucking trash".

Nobody gives a fuck about payout ratio because the yield is pathetically low.

I don't understand/care to understand why any company would do business in Eurostan.

These are the same degenerates that gave us GDPR and these fucking cookie pop-ups.

Fuck them. Fuck their laws. Fuck their entire population. Let them build their own shit and stay out of our internet.

The replacement for plastic is a constraint-optimization problem:

1. Cost of producing the material per unit mass
2. Biodegradable factor of this material (0 - forever chemicals, 1 - Bamboo)
3. Cost of producing material (raw material input normalized with time to produce final product)
4. Cost of byproducts of production (COx, NOx, SOx emission and their cost of containment/refinement/elimination)
5. Maximize mechanical properties relative to plastic (conductivity, corrosion resistance, density, ductility, elasticity, toughness, hardness, plasticity, fatigue strength, shear strength, tensile strength, yield strength, toughness, wear resistance normalized relative to plastic and grouped by category of plastic)

Overall I'd wager that bamboo can be grown organically indoors with LED lights, using minimal water/electricity to produce it, and yield optimum levels of relative packaging strength. If you approached Whole Foods with the alternative packaging box that is 100% biodegradable and costs same as plastic, you would have your solution.

Now if the cost for bamboo is too high - that is the real engineering problem to solve. Do you need to use CRISP-R to modify it? Can you produce wood that has higher density of cellulose fibers?

It can't be that hard. We are just lazy.

A lot of the degeneracy in neural networks among the bipedal biologicals that we see today is related to poor air and water quality.

Actual work is done in solitude, not on teams. It is done after sleeping on the problem, walking around and thinking about it.

Its never done in a meeting or in the heat of the moment.

There is never quality in that kind of work.

Of course. Need that eye candy at the front desk.

This is why I never hire MBAs.

Would be a good idea for engineering schools to integrate business in their curriculum and eliminate the need to hire an MBA.

I think its only fair we automate away Larry's job first.

keras.models.load_model('LarrySummers.keras')

I'll show myself out.

There is Hillarious Clinton with her galaxy brain to tell us

Not only is his career in tech over, he is going to lose money on legal fees and in compensatory damages when he loses this case.

All because he was thirsty for some attention.

FOFO.