MS doesn't even have QA testers anymore. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micr...

Much like Twitter - what on earth do you need that many employees to do, exactly? Ebay has more traffic, but the core product scales horizontally, and they haven't added any new customer facing features since about 2005. Much like craigslist they could have frozen the core product 20 years ago

Index fund companies are sort of though.

If vanguard causes trouble for the executive of an s and p 500 using their holdings in 401k accounts, how long before that company switches to principal to manage its 401k?

There's a lot of money in index funds.

There's also the model of build a reputation and then extract any value your name had.

I see that a lot too (especially with clothing and shoe companies).

Nearly 50% of stocks are held in retirement plans. It's not that the shareholders only care for the next dividend. It's that the shareholders are passive (as you also pointed out), or are one level removed (in index funds).

The fund managers don't want to rock the boat with the companies because the companies get to pick who manages their retirement accounts, so essentially the retirement accounts are yes votes and not ownership oversight.

The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world please nching above its weight in manufacturing. It manufactures about 1/8 of the stuff with 1/20 the global population.

It's behind china in raw numbers, but above per person (by about 50%).

Not jist execution for corporations, also "jail" time.

A corporation commits a crime, it doesn't get a slap on the wrist fine. It becomes a ward of the state for x amount of years (government assigns a board, no dividends for the shareholders, shares are locked and cannot be traded).

Which is worse in Norway?

Note: I don't worship Norway, but I do see it as a place where positive lessons could be learned and integrated.

>The new MacBook Pro models are expected to be "significantly lighter" than the current models.
 
This is the exact opposite of what I want. A macbook pro needs to survive a fall from the passenger seat of a chevy suburban (more than 3' high) onto concrete. Today you get about one drop per corner before the aluminum deforms too much and can't take the beating and the display breaks. Maybe the new OLED are less prone to cracking. At no time in my life did I look at my work issued MBP and think "I wish this were lighter" particularly the 13/14" models

Probably to watch a person fight the terminator and the predator.

People like spectacle.

WWE isn't for me, but it's incredibly popular, and I could see this becoming so too.

No. Opened on fewer than 1,000 sceens.

Isn't SE limited like slow speed, low memory, etc.? I had to replace my 12 mini because of them. Some games really are killers. :(

Bring back the smaller and lighter iPhones like minis and SEs!

It's more that people want their money now and it takes time to verify. So there's a touch of arbitrage to be had being a market maker when people want to cash out 30 minutes early.

It's not fraud, it's taking advantage of gambling addiction.

Note. I didn't read the article, but it's known ther s time based arbitrage between an event and the official resolving of it.

I like xfce with the two panel layout a lot.

Reminds me of gnome 2 more than mint or cinnamon, and gnome 2 just felt right to me.