• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    6 months ago

    thousands of people working on software engineering

    Doing fucking what?

    Have you ever seen a reddit ad?

    All the time (possible you don’t see them because of ad blockers etc). I just opened the front page and the fourth result was:

    “Hey Reddit, there are r/nostupidquestions, so we want to know: What’s your decision making process before entering a trade? Walk us through your method in the comments. (tastylive.com)”

    I honestly can’t make sense of it and I don’t want to know.

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      6 months ago

      All the time

      It’s always good to have my personal bubble burst, thanks.

      So yeah, they should be spending a lot of money on that line. Looks like they are.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, $124m for marketing doesn’t strike me as instantly unreasonable, if they’re managing to bring in $242m in ad revenue from ads that I literally have never once wanted to click on that are so poorly presented that my brain literally filters them out

        Research and development and admin, on the other hand, I would have some questions about, if I’d spent money on the stock and was supposed to be receiving a return on my investment