RyanAF7

I'm sorry, who the frack is this CEO?

How are these anti-savvy CEOs getting this much money in the first place? What investor looked at this kind of model and went...oh hell ya, Imma dump money into that.

Massive real estate speculation you say? Shrinking capital gains you say? No downside risk of massive customer fallout or systemic risk of market downturns you say?

Oh...you're saying all those things are totally possible and very likely! Well in that case just take 75% of all my money for your little scheme.

Most sensible answer.

Not sure how this wouldn't be considered price fixing or anti-competitive behavior.

Prices are key to free market efficiencies and market for loanable funds.

Amazon really has a marvellous way of being completely anti-capitalist while appearing as it's golden child, too.

Amazon is a scam. Jeff Bezos has succeeded where Jeff Skilling failed.

You mean the loopholes that allow people to start their own business as contractors?

Venture Capitalists aren't in the middle of nowhere.

Currencies do exist in a vacuum. Which is why currency manipulation is international and national fraud; your laborers and trading partners lose. It's also why we have a purchasing power parity.

Managing a currency through the control of interest rates, taxes, employment etc. are the legal ways of the game to manipulate your currency.

Centralized clandestine devaluation of ones currency while government sponsored companies buy real estate worth trillions all over the world, as well as commodities and rare resources, not to mention the jobs it's created and among local populations and the access to foreign citizens data, is an outright slap in the face to any sort of partnership.

SEO fake crap.

This is what fraud looks like.

Amazon has had a total Net Income of ~$20B from 2006-2018; half of that was from 2018. (Walmart's Net Income over the same period was $183B.)The value of Amazon's acquisitions is 10x > than the usable Net Income of Amazon's operations.

How are they able to purchase that many companies and technologies; while also having a founder who has leveraged his personal worth based on Amazon's success to create Bezos Expeditions and all of it's businesses?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/jeff-bezos-empire-chart/

Walmart's 2006 - 2018 Stock Price saw 140% increase (~$45 to ~$110) Amazon's 2006 - 2018 Stock Price saw a 3000% increase (~$65 to ~$1950)

There is ZERO regulation of how institutional investors can evaluate the future value of investments such as stocks which are completely subjective unlike other assets.

Amazon's future value is based on future net income which is representative of the possible return; either in dividends or capital gains. This value is predicted by "analysts" on Wall Street and led to massive buys pushing Amazon's stock price sky high.

The institutional demand for Amazon stock, created by fake predictions of future value, allowed Amazon to sell their Treasury stock at these "legal" prices. Which is what fueled their purchase of a HUGE array of upcoming technologies and companies.

Amazon is not in the tech business, they are in the stock business. The empire business.

Jeff Bezos was a VP on Wall Street before he started his company and created his tech persona. His maternal grandfather, L.P. Gise, was a Director at the Atomic Energy Commission and was well aware of ARPAnet.

Amazon, through Bezos' Wall Street connections, has been criminally inflating the stock price of Amazon since it's inception as a means of purchasing technologies and companies that could subvert the existing financial makeup and control of Wall Street while making themselves fabulously rich.

When asked about the discrepancies of their Net Income and booked Revenue, Enron CEO Jeff Skilling would often say, "You just don't get it."

Jeff Bezos was on Wall Street during Enron's parabolic ascension and would have been well aware of how they did what they did and why. The assets under Amazon's umbrella are structured in a very similar way as what Enron's CFO, Andy Fastow, was originally doing. Instead of hiding unrecognized revenue, Amazon simply leverages the "future value" of acquisitions to further fuel Amazon's stock price. Which is the goal of Enron's machinations.

At the same time, Mackenzie Bezos just walked away with a huge chunk of Amazon's stock for which she doesn't have to report the sale of to the SEC, FINRA, or any federal agency, because she isn't beholden to SOX reporting requirements. Unlike Jeff.

This is the biggest fraud and story of the past 2 centuries. And it's killing the US economy.

This comment encapsulates the plot, events and a monologue of the movie Sneakers made in the early 90s.

Been using Brave for a while now... maybe 2 years? Have a lot of unused BAT since few sites recognize the payments yet.

Once they do, it'll be pretty amazing.

But then again, anything to the negative in a way that isn't "kosher" with HN's fucked up overly privileged sensibilities is going to be downvoted lol.

WITHIN 1 minute lol.

How about one of you dipshits run an algo on how long it takes for non-positive comments to be downvoted and see if it's even possible based on the user base.

Anything pitched by bullshit "tech" companies is going to be bad for you.

How is it that it's taken this long for people to realize these fucking ear buds are bad for you?

Who thought, "Oh hey, let's shove a speaker directly into peoples ears so they can hear music louder than otherwise possible and they'll love us for it."

Jesus, leave it to the HN microcosm to pick up on something only after the "experts" published a bullshit article. lol

Favorite quote from the article, "Despite the failure of OS/2 in the consumer market, it was hilariously robust..."

Would this make the NYC subway system more or less prone to hacking? Can't imagine there are a ton of exploits in OS/2 that modern hackers would know about.

I believe this is known as the 'chicken breast stroke' in ornithoculture.

But, seriously. My grandfather used to take my brother and I every summer to see the bald eagles near their house.

Never really appreciated just how special that was. They are quite majestic and their nests are huge.

This is one thing I'm glad no one listened to Ben Franklin about.

Maybe cause they don't have any sustainable Revenue to justify their UNGODLY stock price? And, now need to compensate.

Let's not forget Microsoft was at $65 the majority lf their life.

You rebel scum...

Lot of the comments seem to miss the point.

It's for the military, not consumers. It won't need driver support or features like a consumer OS.

The more foreign the layout probably the better as you can train new habits more easily when the environment for old ones doesn't exist.

Have a feeling the end result will be the same, "We built it!"

spy leaks code hacked

Agreed.

Privilege provides the opportunity to opine disdain for that which elevated you in the first place.

The kind that requires you to /actually/ land a man on the moon.

Down vote all you want, its true. Otherwise, the only legit excuse is "politics". Least we forget Kennedy was long deady by the time 1969 rolled around - doesn't get much more political than that.

Or much more fake.

Sounds like you might have a degree in communications?

Well written.

The comment I made, poorly spelled at that, had no name calling in it.

Saying something is filled with ego centrism* or is a garbled mush* is no different than pointing out the overuse of the word "I" in a text, or the poor argument structure of a faulty conclusion.

It lends weight and contributes to the discussion by describing the perspective and feel of the piece.

Again, it seems as if you don't like how I said something because it lacked respect. That, I can agree with and in the future reconsider how something is phrased.

Please, consider the brevity of my comment and it's efficient conveyance of my opinion on the piece versus something like this thread; overly detailed and descriptive for the single purpose of reconciling differing opinions on how one should comment on posts.

Appreciate the input, and the earnestness with which you address the want for civility.

Will use this calculator should McDonald's ever switch back to the original McNugget recipe.

For me, it's not that heterogenic climate change isn't possible or likely, it's the predictions of what it means that are in question.

CO2 is not a pollutant, and no one knows what will happen with increasing levels.

I would argue that stating the flaws of an article is substative. Seems you just don't like how I said it.

They both have degrees in economics. Musk has an additional undergrad in physics, but Trump graduated from Wharton so... oh wait - they both went to the same school lol.

Oh and they both dodged military service.

Wake up, homie. Musk is as much an engineer as Bill Nye is a scientist.

My favorite part about this question is that it allows for an SAT like comparison that tickles me to no end when people realize how true it is.

Trump is to Boomers as Elon Musk is to Millennials.

They are almost the exact same personality wrapped in only slightly different generational belief systems. Where Trump made waves in the 80s by being the "winner" type, Musk made waves by being the "visionary" type.

Both are voracious exaggerators bordering on pathological liars. Both are media whores who appear in movie cameos as themselves. Both are completely despised by former business partners. Both use Twitter as a personal echo chamber.

Only reason Musk hasn't gone bankrupt is because the US government kept all of his businesses afloat with major capital infusions. At least Trump's bankruptcies didn't cost tax dollars.

Musk is worshiped because a lot of people don't want to face the fact he's a bullshit artist so they have to take comfort in the illusion of his persona.