Cheesus

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[–] Cheesus 6 points 1 year ago

The original captchas were to help computers read scanned books for OCR. It was a neat solution that had value where it prevented abuse on websites and helped open up knowledge to people.

Now captchas aren't needed because of cookies and fingerprinting and tech companies know if you're malicious or not. They kept it going because it's so valuable to tech companies.

[–] Cheesus 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To train ai models

[–] Cheesus 11 points 1 year ago

It's a bit more complicated than that. There are a lot of accounting tricks to be constantly making losses but end up cash flow positive.

I don't work or invest in Unity so I don't have a great understanding of their metrics but companies I worked at would constantly capitalize new projects to add expenses in the future. You can structure sales deals so a new feature is added late in the contract. That pushes revenue out, but you can collect more cash early.

If unity didn't do share buy backs this quarter, they would have a positive cash flow. Which points to they should be a profitable company but instead are using accounting tricks to post losses to lower tax bills.

[–] Cheesus 142 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They didn't earn $544M, they had $544M in revenue. They lost $124M but it's all due to their decisions. They have a great operating margin in the 60s and spent all the money elsewhere.

[–] Cheesus 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite current player for the niners

[–] Cheesus 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Credit cards are great if you know how to use them. You should always use them then pay them off. You get better protection and perks like cash back over using a debit card or cash.

[–] Cheesus 2 points 1 year ago

Not unless you pirate it

[–] Cheesus 2 points 1 year ago

It's also odd that sweet potato pie isn't a custard pie. They're both pretty similar and would be custard based.

[–] Cheesus 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

People would just go on the internet and tell ties? I don't believe you.

[–] Cheesus 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ever since it was widely available, I see one on every flight I take. It's not surprising it's sold well.

[–] Cheesus 278 points 1 year ago (87 children)

For those who don't know, the blue liquid is their blood

[–] Cheesus 14 points 1 year ago

So many talented creators have left over bad working conditions. Not surprising it's still going on now.

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