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[–] 23 points 1 week ago

So glad, we the public, bought all of those shares and really set them on a healthy course.../s

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago

    Shares-shmares. More engineering, less shit-trading!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    They "Peter Principled" themselves into some kind of "Dildo Principle", still there but useless.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Why is Intel 30% and Nvidia is only 3? MOAR

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    At the moment: because Intel predominantly makes CPUs with a less optimized and flexible instruction set and physical architecture vis a vis the demands of the ML circlejerk, and Nvidia predominantly makes GPUs that effectively define state-of-the-art for ML training and inference (read: they are absolutely printing money, and are pretty much the only company that is actually making money hand over fist, even taking into account the circular financing deals they have with some other megacorps).

    Put it this way: when you pop a bubble, it doesn’t actually pop all at once. Intel is closer to the site of the initial bubble breach. Nvidia is basically on the side exactly opposite of the breach.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    Quite the opposite, Nvidia is the one that is over-leveraging themselves in investment, investing obscene amounts of money in OpenAI, HuggingFace, etc. etc. As far as I know Intel is just selling hardware.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    US government just giving money to executives to burn.

    Oligarchy laid bare for all to see. Emperor has no clothes....

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    More proof that the Republican party's claim of being fiscally responsible is utter bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (2 children)

    So fuck the Republican Party in general. But what does this news item have to do with them?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    The Trump admin purchased $8.9 billion dollars worth of intel stock. Pumped the shit out of the stock basically.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago*

    Ah, thanks, I were too lazy to read the article.

    The article does still say:

    While it’s still a profitable investment, the value of those holdings dropped by about $12 billion on Friday.

    So while fuck Republicans in general, and the government taking such a stake is not very free market, it is not completely obvious that taking the stake was stupid. Losing $12 billion on a $9 billion investment is a clue :P.

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Oh no I’m only up 75% instead of 90% on Intel.

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