True for some startups, but twitter's market cap is $19B. It's a publicly listed company with 676,300,000 shares outstanding which are being bought and sold for $28.17 each.
$28.17 x 676,300,000 = $19,051,371,000
Until people want to start literally giving away twitter shares, it's *actually* worth a fuckton of money.
Yes, but the point is that the shares aren't really worth $28.17 as twitter is making and has always made losses. People are assuming that it will eventually make a profit, but there is no evidence for this.
You should value companies based on their future profits/cashflows. Anything else is just witchcraft. And there is nothing special about tech companies that exempts them from financial reality.
A real Briton would have known that binge-watching Last of the Summer Wine is marginally less enjoyable than bathing your testicles in hydrochloric acid.
I've read some speculation (they had citations but I did not check them) that Uri Gregaron wasn't actually even the first person in space. They postulated that it was some other guy who they claimed was injured in some accident or another (I think it had something to do with the landing) and that the person was replaced. The other person was, they claim, pissed and ended up either in Siberia or dead or something along those lines.
It's sad that Slashdot has been taken over by mod-bombing asshats. My post was at +5 for a while, then it got mod-bombed down to 0. It's clearly not without merit, others replied to it... It's just the MRA block voting again.
There is no MRA voting block - hell, there are very few MRA posts in general. Look at this story for example - how many MRA posts do you find? I see a lot of egalitarian arguments, but no MRA arguments. Can you point them out?
It could be argued that anyone using the term "SJW" as a meaningless all-purpose insult is something other than a simple egalitarian. Or is it only right wingers who are allowed to use general smears?
The fact that you think your detractors are MRA speaks volumes of your worldview. Your technical posts are usually very insightful.
So it's OK for people on one side just to write any criticism off as being the work of "SJWs" but as soon as someone with an opposing viewpoint uses the term "MRA" that's unacceptable?
Because if it were seen as just a fact by the filmmakers and devoid of sexism, the ratio of male CEOs to female is of no relevance to women in coding and wouldn't even be in the film, much less its opening moments.
Why not the ratio of males to females in elephant caretakers?
What do you mean by "just a fact"? It's either a fact or it's not.
It is making a statement about level of women in senior level jobs. This is a factual statement, as less than 10% of CEOs of top companies are women. They are coding the benefit of being called a professional job.
No offence to zookeepers, but elephant caretaking is not a senior level or professional job.
Focusing on people's sex is sexism, therefore the whole social justice movement is sexist at its heart.
And in precisely the same way, focussing on people's skin colour or sexual preference is racist or homophobic. So if we ignore them, racism and homophobia magically disappear?
Over time they've come to dominate most professional fields and upper-management
This is simply untrue. In professions like finance and law the majority of senior posts are held by men, and in general upper-management there are far more male than female CEOs for instance.
Engineering/CS/tech may be even worse, but it is not that different.
Similarly, genitals have nothing to with being a CEO. Therefore you'd expect about half of CEOs to be women.
The fact they're not suggests that something is skewing the expected results.
It's not about individuals, it's statistics. If there is no bias against women then you would expect approximately equal numbers of women in all professions.
Now, you could argue that some work like computer programming is more suited to men than women, but that is a different argument than saying " GENITALS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMMING".
i imagine a geologist looks at rocks, a geoscientist thinks about how rocks change and their chemistry, and a geophysicist thinks about how rocks move and transfer heat.
Why wouldn't you just call them a geochemist then?
I can't wait until people stop making jokes at all. After all, what purpose do they serve? They merely distract the weak-minded from the serious business of leveraging synergies for maximisation of disruptive innovations in the digital marketplace.
Of course. Font colours can be assigned based on a single criteria such as value. In those cases it makes sense to simply sort on value. But font colour can also be assigned for any arbitrary reason and within VB scripting.
Now VB script being horrendously slow as it is, I don't know why someone would want to put themselves through the pain of having to have it do the highlighting AND then the sorting too when the existing excel function can be only slightly modified to suit.
Now assuming that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Excel's sort function (such as using outdated high school one way bubble sort) then what good reason exists not to provide another option on which to sort?
You have to remember that the archetypal slashdotter is far above such lusery things as actually using a spreadsheets program. It's like discussing the details of an accounting program or sales contact system.
They're just *shudder* business tools, and probably involve COBOL or at least Java.
Read his post again and try to comprehend it. His point is well laid out.
Yes, but he chose a bad example.
Given two different spradsheet programs, I would prefer the one with the "sort by font colour" option. I'd rather not have to pipe my spreadsheet to a separate "sort" program.
Don't know why you think I'm interested in Marx. I'm more interested in von Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Ayn Rand than I am Marx. And for each of them, including Rand, it's not their bodies I'm interested in.
When will you people realise that Ayn Rand is a laughing stock outside the US? I disagree with most of von Mises, Hayek and Friedman's ideas, but at least they're not totally evil and stupid.
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True for some startups, but twitter's market cap is $19B. It's a publicly listed company with 676,300,000 shares outstanding which are being bought and sold for $28.17 each.
$28.17 x 676,300,000 = $19,051,371,000
Until people want to start literally giving away twitter shares, it's *actually* worth a fuckton of money.
Yes, but the point is that the shares aren't really worth $28.17 as twitter is making and has always made losses. People are assuming that it will eventually make a profit, but there is no evidence for this.
You should value companies based on their future profits/cashflows. Anything else is just witchcraft. And there is nothing special about tech companies that exempts them from financial reality.
my Dr Pepper & Tuna sandwiches
Don't they get a bit soggy?
So you are PAYING money to buy something you already PAID with your taxes. Sounds like the worst of capitalism and socialism.
The TV licence fee isn't really a tax. It's optional, like car tax (i.e. if you don't want to pay it, don't use a TV/car)..
A real Briton would have known that binge-watching Last of the Summer Wine is marginally less enjoyable than bathing your testicles in hydrochloric acid.
I've read some speculation (they had citations but I did not check them) that Uri Gregaron wasn't actually even the first person in space. They postulated that it was some other guy who they claimed was injured in some accident or another (I think it had something to do with the landing) and that the person was replaced. The other person was, they claim, pissed and ended up either in Siberia or dead or something along those lines.
You can't argue with evidence like that!
I imagine most men in IT would be glad of a sexual harassment suit. It would be almost like having a girlfriend..
Anyone who uses MRA as a slur is not worth listening.
Yeah they're probably a fucking SJW.
It's sad that Slashdot has been taken over by mod-bombing asshats. My post was at +5 for a while, then it got mod-bombed down to 0. It's clearly not without merit, others replied to it... It's just the MRA block voting again.
There is no MRA voting block - hell, there are very few MRA posts in general. Look at this story for example - how many MRA posts do you find? I see a lot of egalitarian arguments, but no MRA arguments. Can you point them out?
It could be argued that anyone using the term "SJW" as a meaningless all-purpose insult is something other than a simple egalitarian. Or is it only right wingers who are allowed to use general smears?
The fact that you think your detractors are MRA speaks volumes of your worldview. Your technical posts are usually very insightful.
So it's OK for people on one side just to write any criticism off as being the work of "SJWs" but as soon as someone with an opposing viewpoint uses the term "MRA" that's unacceptable?
Who's the over-sensitive little flower again?
"How is a statement of fact sexist?"
He didn't say it was sexist. He said it was a divisive claim of sexism. Wow, you are really getting destroyed in this thread.
So facts are divisive now? Or do you seriously think that women are equally represented at CEO level in business, and that this claim is a lie?
Because if it were seen as just a fact by the filmmakers and devoid of sexism, the ratio of male CEOs to female is of no relevance to women in coding and wouldn't even be in the film, much less its opening moments.
Why not the ratio of males to females in elephant caretakers?
What do you mean by "just a fact"? It's either a fact or it's not.
It is making a statement about level of women in senior level jobs. This is a factual statement, as less than 10% of CEOs of top companies are women. They are coding the benefit of being called a professional job.
No offence to zookeepers, but elephant caretaking is not a senior level or professional job.
How about social workers removing children from abusive parents?
Focusing on people's sex is sexism, therefore the whole social justice movement is sexist at its heart.
And in precisely the same way, focussing on people's skin colour or sexual preference is racist or homophobic. So if we ignore them, racism and homophobia magically disappear?
Over time they've come to dominate most professional fields and upper-management
This is simply untrue. In professions like finance and law the majority of senior posts are held by men, and in general upper-management there are far more male than female CEOs for instance.
Engineering/CS/tech may be even worse, but it is not that different.
Trying to encourage girls and women to code has nothing to do with heading a large corporation.
The point is that in both cases there is no reason for there not to be an equal number of men and women doing either.
"It's not dividing anyone."
Oh please. The first blaring announcement in the documentary is a whine about how "fewer large companies are run by women than by men named John".
So it's divisive in the same way that saying "the Nazis murdered six million Jews" causes division between Nazis and non-Nazis?
Similarly, genitals have nothing to with being a CEO. Therefore you'd expect about half of CEOs to be women.
The fact they're not suggests that something is skewing the expected results.
It's not about individuals, it's statistics. If there is no bias against women then you would expect approximately equal numbers of women in all professions.
Now, you could argue that some work like computer programming is more suited to men than women, but that is a different argument than saying " GENITALS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMMING".
You can't have it both ways.
i imagine a geologist looks at rocks, a geoscientist thinks about how rocks change and their chemistry, and a geophysicist thinks about how rocks move and transfer heat.
Why wouldn't you just call them a geochemist then?
I can't wait until 2620 so people stop making that stupid joke once and for all.
Fight for your bitcoins!
I can't wait until people stop making jokes at all. After all, what purpose do they serve? They merely distract the weak-minded from the serious business of leveraging synergies for maximisation of disruptive innovations in the digital marketplace.
The meek shall inherit the Earth.
Matthew 5:5
If that's ok with the rest of you?
- the Meek
Of course. Font colours can be assigned based on a single criteria such as value. In those cases it makes sense to simply sort on value. But font colour can also be assigned for any arbitrary reason and within VB scripting.
Now VB script being horrendously slow as it is, I don't know why someone would want to put themselves through the pain of having to have it do the highlighting AND then the sorting too when the existing excel function can be only slightly modified to suit.
Now assuming that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Excel's sort function (such as using outdated high school one way bubble sort) then what good reason exists not to provide another option on which to sort?
You have to remember that the archetypal slashdotter is far above such lusery things as actually using a spreadsheets program. It's like discussing the details of an accounting program or sales contact system.
They're just *shudder* business tools, and probably involve COBOL or at least Java.
Read his post again and try to comprehend it. His point is well laid out.
Yes, but he chose a bad example.
Given two different spradsheet programs, I would prefer the one with the "sort by font colour" option. I'd rather not have to pipe my spreadsheet to a separate "sort" program.
Ads? What are those? I'm afraid my torrent provider doesn't offer this service.
u r so 1337
I used to switch on the TV while the wife was in the shower for fifteen minutes
That's a euphemism for "masturbating to porn" I've not heard before.
Don't know why you think I'm interested in Marx. I'm more interested in von Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Ayn Rand than I am Marx. And for each of them, including Rand, it's not their bodies I'm interested in.
When will you people realise that Ayn Rand is a laughing stock outside the US? I disagree with most of von Mises, Hayek and Friedman's ideas, but at least they're not totally evil and stupid.