Perhaps a simple analogy would work here - you made $86,000 in 2016, and had a $6,000 surplus that represents your profit. In 2020 you made $50,000 and spent $5,0000 of your savings to stay afloat. You shrink your lifestyle. Now in 2025, you make $35,000 a year, and have a $2,000 surplus. There are no prospects for more income and you expect to earn $32,500 next year, and maybe $30,000 the year after. Would you consider this a turnaround for your finances?
Likewise, the company's revenue has declined ~60% in the last ten years, and declined 5% from 2024 to 2025. The business became marginally profitable when they shrank the business by reducing operating expenses and produced a small profit.
There are no significant avenues for growth in their current business model, revenue will continue to decline, as it has for the last ten years because the core model of re-selling used games continues to shrink. As revenue decline continues, they'll run out of people to lay off and stores to close, there will be no profit because the revenue is too small, and the company will BK.
There is no turn around, the company continues a death spiral.
You can see from the right hand column that many of those companies have delivered returns over the last twelve months, unlike GameStop. Also it appears many companies that don't have $9 billion are generating returns as well.
You seem to be making some of your statements as if they exist in a vacuum. The context is easily half the story.
For instance, do you know where that $9 billion in cash came from? It was not revenue I’ll tell you that much. Their revenue has been rapidly dropping, they’re shuttering stores, etc. They didn’t get that cash from successfully turning around operations.
GameStop has zero debt and billions in cash on its books. It is not a stretch for them to be making this offer. It really does make sense here for both sides.
For my use case I need MSL to support fp64. Until that happens I don't care what hardware changes they make: I'm not going to be filling racks with M5s and they're not producing something I can use to even tinker with AI with in my spare time. Apple has lost the AI war before it even got started IMO.
My concern is Cloudflare will implement this plan in a way that makes it very profitable for large players and absolutely kills any new entrants to the market in the future.
...which explains the link to China. NK natives probably do not typically have access to computers or the open internet, but the children of certain elites are educated in China. There may even be a collaborative effort between the two states.
Hey - not everything is bullshit on "Who's hiring" threads. I once got eight rounds of interviews with a company before being ghosted by someone off of an HN thread.
If i post a bunch of ghost/fake jobs, then investros *could potentially* see that as a signal that i am growing, and they should invest NOW before its too late...as one example. Another example, could be that my competition sees "enough/so many open jobs", that they might assume their market position is less than it might be - think of it as a sort of distant intimidation...but also, could be an approach for that competition to get distracted and spin their wheels trying to hire unnecessarily (to try to block up the pool of relevant candidates), thus burning budget in process, etc.
You need to think outside the box. Once you've determined that a particular technological avenue is a dead end, gin up a bunch of job postings that would suggest that you're doubling down on it and watch your competitors set money on fire trying to catch up.
(There's a classic story from the Windows 3.x era regarding pen computing, where Microsoft spent money on it and advertised that solely to force competitors to expend efforts where Microsoft knew there was no payoff)
It's common in the investment industry to look at the content/trends in a company's job posts. More job posts are not directly a good thing, but job posts can give insights into the departments or projects that are growing
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