Eric Pepin

@Founder_Mode_ Microsoft paid $7.6b for Nokia and ran it into the ground. There are levels to this.

In 2014, Amazon launched the Fire Phone. It flopped completely... $170 million written off, unsold inventory, one of the most public product failures in tech history. During its development, the executive running the project showed Bezos a voice recognition feature buried in the software. You could ask it for any song and it would start playing instantly. Bezos stopped the meeting. He wanted that technology pulled out of the phone entirely and built into something much bigger, a standalone device that sat in your home and responded to your voice from across the room. He gave the team a fresh budget and told them to build it. Four months after the Fire Phone launched and failed, Amazon released the Echo. Bezos told the executive who ran both projects: "You can't, for one minute, feel bad about the Fire Phone. Promise me you won't lose a minute of sleep." Hundreds of millions of Alexa devices are now in homes worldwide. The Fire Phone didn't precede the success. It contained it. "Big winners pay for so many experiments."

@thathouguy_ I suspect that letting the inside acclimate to conditions outside that range takes a huge amount of time and money to recover from when closing the roof.

So basically they’re never opening the roof again

@Combs0294 If uncompensated care were approached with scam like levels of nonsense estimates, it would be less scrutinized.

Just wait until the Medicaid cuts take effect. If HCMC folds , the state's only trauma center will close doors on many patients who are often helicoptered in from rural counties.

@Wins_Williams @RSayre04 You have no idea how the on screen graphic incorporates the margin of error in measurement. It could be doing best case scenario for the pitcher or hitter or call on the field, all of which would have a different final estimated position.

@RSayre04 Genuinely what are you talking about? Less than a 10th of an inch is within supposed the margin of error for the tech. That is the issue. It has nothing to do with the definition of the strike zone.

Again, theres no way this isn't within the margin of error for the tech. I hate everything about it. This has been a relatively uncontroversial 'whatever ump says it is' for 145 years. Congrats to all the gamblers that got what they wanted.

@Braves_Jerseys You’re including his 20 game pre-rookie campaign?

Matt Olson vs Freddie freeman first 5 seasons with the Braves

@saxboybilly18 The Ballpark in Arlington opened in 1994, which is 32 years ago.

Texas is my least favorite MLB park in the US, suites all around the field so kids can’t get close to players except a weird steep right field. Then across the parking lot an empty stadium they built less than 30 years ago. Just a symbol of American failure and greed.

@nickmoscoo @tctone Near sea level.

@tctone Where was this last week

I understand it’s at elevation and it’s LIV so it’s automatically less impressive but this is truly one of the best drives I’ve ever seen

@OrealistMarcus @PGATUOR Yes, but the other golfer actually already conceded because it’s considered poor sportsmanship to demand they tap in to win the hole.

@eric_pepin @PGATUOR at worst he had a tap in next shot.

Never forget the most confident putt of all-time 💯

@notgaetti @baseball_ref @Stathead @CodifyBaseball @TimSalmon15 @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @JessicaDBrand @orwellian @Johnsense38 @BigLeagueDigest How many of Garry Maddox’s Gold Gloves were from voters trying to vote for the other G. Maddox?

Since the All-Star Game was introduced in 1933, these are the top 6 players by career WAR that never made an All-Star team. Gibson dominates the accolades while Salmon dominates the batting categories. It's insane that none of these guys ever appeared in the ASG; they were great!

@rationalyankee Until tax law changes so that collateralized gains are realized. Not anytime soon, but probable in his lifetime.

Hal Steinbrenner is never selling the Yankees. Hate to break it to everyone. It makes zero financial sense for him to do so. George Steinbrenner paid $8.8M for the Yankees in 1973. The franchise is worth roughly $11B today.. That is one of the greatest capital appreciation trades in American financial history and Hal is doing everything in his power to never cash it in. A sale today generates a $9.4B taxable gain and a $3.5B tax bill at blended federal and New York rates. Hal isn’t writing a $3.5B check to Uncle Sam. So he’s not selling. The Steinbrenner family will borrow against the franchise instead. Loan proceeds aren’t taxed as income income. The interest is deductible. The asset keeps compounding. You’ve unlocked liquidity from the appreciation without triggering a taxable event that would cost you $3.5B. The Yankees did $705M in revenue last year and reported $7M in EBITDA. A business generating $705M and barely breaking even is not mismanaged. It is managed precisely. Every depreciation schedule, every interest payment, every deductible expense is sheltering income that would otherwise get taxed. The accounting losses are a feature. Hal will pass the franchise to his kids at a stepped-up basis and they will run the exact same play. Think of it this way: Hal is sitting on an asset worth $11B that he effectively inherited for free. If he sells, he hands $3.5B to the government. If he never sells, he borrows against it, lives off the proceeds, deducts the interest, and eventually passes it to his children at full value without anyone ever paying the tax. The Yankees payroll debate is a distraction. Hal isn’t running a baseball team. He owns a generational wealth vehicle that just happens to play baseball.

@RAVerBruggen @StealthMode987 This is not at all what you stated in your initial post.

@StealthMode987 A marriage penalty or bonus kicks in at marriage, not when you shift income among partners within a marriage. (Two different legs of the "marriage tax trilemma.") If you have one person earning $500k and the other not working, $30k in taxes hinges on whether they're married.

Periodic reminder that the current tax system gives big marriage bonuses to one-working couples, even if they don't have kids. For an extreme example, someone making $500K saves more than $30K on taxes this year by being married to someone with no income.

@TheConnorPils They even do this part well

To be honest I don’t get why anyone does this

@aakashgupta “Mobile ordering turned food into a logistics transaction.” Just wtf do you think fast food is? The whole point is logistics.

Let me explain exactly why In-N-Out refusing mobile ordering is the smartest fast food decision in a decade, because everyone's calling it backwards. Every major chain added mobile ordering to increase throughput. It worked. McDonald's, Starbucks, Chipotle all saw digital orders hit 30-40% of sales. Then something happened that nobody talks about: average visit frequency went up but brand loyalty went down. Mobile ordering turned food into a logistics transaction. You're not choosing Chipotle because you love Chipotle. You're choosing whichever app loads fastest while you're walking to your car. In-N-Out does $4.5 million per store. McDonald's does $2.7 million. In-N-Out does it with 15 menu items, zero franchises, no freezers, no microwaves, and now no mobile ordering. McDonald's needs 13,000+ locations to be McDonald's. In-N-Out needs 400. The line IS the product. That 20-minute wait with the smell of fresh-cut fries is doing more marketing work than any app notification ever could. Lynsi Snyder figured out something the entire QSR industry keeps forgetting: scarcity and inconvenience are features when your product is good enough. Chick-fil-A gets this too. Closed on Sundays. Everyone said it was leaving money on the table. They now do $7.5 million per store, more than any fast food chain in America, open 6 days a week. The companies winning in fast food right now are the ones saying no to things. No to franchising. No to 50-item menus. No to mobile ordering. The rest are optimizing themselves into commodities.

@hf_222222 He’s a cluster B poster child, which the hallmark indifference to/embracing of his psychopathology. His efforts are clearly funded and when the Catholic vote doesn’t follow him, he will be unfunded.

Hale is basically a sociopath - Shameless, manipulative, narcissistic & habitually dishonest. Which is I suppose par for the course, for 3rd rate failed US politicians, but his nature is now so clear that treating him as anything but a waste of space is inexcusable.

@jow_42 @podoffame @baseball_ref His offensive WAR would’ve but he had negative defensive WAR that year. The others on that list did not for those years.

@podoffame @baseball_ref Wild that Bonds’ ‘01 season isn’t even Top 5

If Nico Hoerner were able to pull off a 13.5 WAR season, he would still not hold the single season record, which belongs to Babe Ruth (14.1 WAR).

@davidgmac9 @greg_price11 Dave, you’re always in his replies criticizing those criticizing him. Have some self respect.

@eric_pepin @greg_price11 You saw my tweet as a defence of Chris? May you have continued success in your English asa second langauge course.

Chris Hale worked for an administration that felt it was so mission critical that Catholic nuns be forced to provide contraceptives to their employees that they were forced to go to the Supreme Court to defend their First Amendment rights.

@wheysianhunk @TheMagaHulk He looks like someone who would write a bad check to sneak into a fundraiser for a pic.

@TheMagaHulk Let’s use a slightly different pic lmao

Remember when JK Rowling dunked on Chris Hale for his 33 point election loss after he was hyperventilating in her comments when Trump banned men from competing in women's sports.

@Fides_Veritas @OVTweetmarck He’s very stable in his Cluster B cocktail.

@OVTweetmarck He seems like a total whacko ngl

Chris Hale stop being a lying piece of shit challenge: impossible