SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's In Crisis (archive)
In spite of the headlines, the hearings, and the hashtags, it does not look like many users are leaving Facebook. A survey conducted by Deutsche Bank concluded that "just 1% of respondents were deactivating or deleting their accounts." If the survey is representative of Facebook's 2 billion users, then 20 million users might leave. This may seem like a big loss, but it means 99% of users are staying.
Doug Clinton, the managing partner of Loup Ventures, estimates that each active user generates about $21 in profits for Facebook each year. The loss of 20 million users would therefore reduce Facebook's earnings by roughly $420 million. Facebook's pretax income last year was $20.5 billion. Does a 2% drop in pretax income justify a 9% loss of market value? I don't think so.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lentilla on Tuesday April 17 2018, @07:02AM
I am concerned that an invalid conclusion may have been reached through an application of false equivalence. I state (as above) that: 1) "kosher salt" has come about its name due to its use in kashering; 2) "kosher salt" is refers to a coarse salt, and those names are used interchangeably in cookbooks; 3) "kosher salt" may (or may not) have a kosher certification, but; 4) salt itself is parve ("neutral") according to kashrut (Jewish dietary law).
Basically, you have to do something pretty wacky to salt that it becomes non-kosher. Oyster-flavoured salt would do it, for example. But salt; just plain salt; is parve.
So to wrap it up without boring everyone further: "kosher salt" describes a type of salt (the grain size); and salt (fine table salt, a block of salt, whatever) may; additionally; hold a kosher certification.