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"According to the report, adjusted operating income excludes stock-based compensation, which is not unusual for technology companies. However, the report also quotes its gross margins - above 80% - exclude revenue shared with distribution partners, as well as the cost of training its models."
From https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2026091414/the-...
"More improper redaction shows that the data center using the most water annually is Fireball Group LLC, the Google Data Center in Papillion. Fireball LLC reports 547.88 megagallons for their 2025 Annual Water Consumption."
How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-unc...) 710 points | the-mitr | 4 months ago | 254 comments
Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 333 points | hourislate | 6 years ago | 70 comments
Room 641A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 248 points | llambda | 13 years ago | 44 comments
Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 207 points | mimsee | 10 years ago | 75 comments
Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 51 points | jihadjihad | 2 years ago | 5 comments
https://live.reactor.inc Generates infinitive stream of 1 minute episodes based on user prompts
https://infiniteslop.ai Generates infinite stream of 10-second vignettes based on user prompts. very curious what the prompt-upsampling prompt is on this one.
"At some point, it raises the question of what actually is the market. If everyone is buying stocks based solely on their market value, how is that value actually being set?"
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"According to research by Hendrik Bessembinder, professor of business and finance at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, over the 55-year period from 1971 through 2025, an equal-weight strategy beat the traditional value-based index approach by an average of 1.3 percentage points a year, or 12.6% to 11.3%. As the proponents of index funds repeatedly argue, such differences really make a big difference over time."