• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    The point is not to turn a profit. The point is to look like a winner who’s making big boy moves and thus justify your insane big boy salary. Investors losing money is someone else’s problem (especially since the ones of them who matter have taken trouble to insulate themselves from the worst of the damage when the bubble pops and everyone loses their jobs).

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          8 hours ago

          Yes, masculine insecurity, which is when you are overly preoccupied with seeming, as the previous poster pointed out, like a “big boy”. Masculinity, just so you know, is definitionally not restricted to men, but is a broad collection of traits that can apply to all genders. As you can easily observe, many women go to great lengths to avoid any association with masculinity. How could they possibly be concerned with this in the first place, if that state was inherently unavailable to them?

          Many women, contrarily, seek to amplify their presentation of masculinity. Many masculine traits are especially sought after by those in positions of authority, cultivated as a means to maintain that authority. After all, power, competition, and control are a few of many quintessentially masculine traits. Your former CEO presented as “cutthroat” because of her masculine insecurity, in fact.

          You will find that masculine insecurity is abundant in all executive suites, regardless of anyone’s gender

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      5 hours ago

      It’s providing a service for millions of businesses of all scale, at a cost they are happy with, which pays AWS infrastructure off. AI data centres are very much not doing this.

      Considering IBM only deals with large scale research and business services these days—which is why we don’t know them as a home brand anymore—Im going with those guys being right.

      All the hyperscalers together could potentially add about 100 gigawatts, he estimated, but that still requires $8 trillion in investment—and the profit needed to balance out that investment is immense.

      “It’s my view that there’s no way you’re going to get a return on that, because $8 trillion of capex [capital expenditure] means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest,” he said.