NickC25

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by NickC25 3y ago
Which is terrifying - ARM's biggest risk in that regard is that ARM China can effectively shoot itself in the foot in the name of Chinese strategic/geopolitical/technological interests, and all their Chinese employees will ha
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by NickC25 3y ago
the article says that Wu is effectively still on the job, and Wu's own LinkedIn page claims he's still the boss there. Having myself been part of a joint venture with the Chinese (in the education space), and having a Chinese empl
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by NickC25 3y ago
Sad to see what Iran has become - no in small part thanks to the US/UK's meddling and installing a crazed theocratic government. The Iranian people deserve so much better - they are a nation of really smart people and would be a
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by NickC25 3y ago
I don't know how accurate it is - but I used to do business directly with Tsinghua University, and through that I got to know an executive who was pretty high up the food chain at ByteDance, and I'm regurgitating what he told me v
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by NickC25 3y ago
Exactly - I've lived in AZ, FL, and spent a lot of time in SoCal. There is plenty of sun in those places. If you can generate solar power 80% of daylight hours, that's a pretty good place to start. Again, it's not an end-all
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by NickC25 3y ago
We should insist that TikTok display the same content it is legally mandated to in China. The CCP got wise to crappy addictive content, and made sure that ByteDance (TikTok's owner) only displays legitimate educational content (langua
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by NickC25 3y ago
>* like well-organized, well-armed, well-disciplined...It didn't mean 'regulation' in the sense that we use it now...It means the militia was in an effective shape to fight.* Ever seen the type of people that are eager to
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by NickC25 3y ago
> How do you power the grid with 90% solar when the sun only shines 40% of the day during the winter? Maybe not the national grid, but there are plenty of places in the US where the sun shines a lot more than 40% of the day during the
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by NickC25 3y ago
Fantastic. I'm all for it. Not a big fan of someone being able to evade all sorts of gun laws by 3D printing their own gun. There's already far too many nutcases who own far too many guns - allowing them to print their own guns
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by NickC25 3y ago
Yes, I've seen this firsthand. In some cases, you can buy a Federal Senator's vote for as little as $10k. Using this number on a larger scale, corporations can buy the entire senate for as little as $1 million. The ROI potentia
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by NickC25 3y ago
They do make great games and have a very controlling ecosystem, which honestly I have no problem with - it's their IP and they can do what they want with it. Much like Apple, their integration with hardware is quite tight and their fi
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by NickC25 3y ago
Grew up on DDR back in the early 2000s as part of my workouts. Loved it immensely but when ITG came out, switched over immediately. I understand why Konami did what they did although I wished they didn't, because it killed the genre.
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by NickC25 3y ago
Banning them from lobbying would also be a welcome change. How can a utility with a monopoly on services be allowed to buy favorable laws in government?
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by NickC25 3y ago
Seriously...don't give Bezos any ideas. Amazon in the ISP space would be an absolute disaster for consumers.
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by NickC25 3y ago
There is some rare stuff on YouTube - check out this channel - https://www.youtube.com/@OGDonNinja Guy is a collector of old hip hop records and tapes from the 80s until early 2000s. They are all available on his channel i
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by NickC25 3y ago
If they can charge for the fee, they should be by law mandated to tell me what it's for, and where it's going. Sick of these TelCos getting billions in subsidies, not spending it on infrastructure as promised (somehow they are all
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by NickC25 3y ago
Oh, they also don't give a damn whatsoever. But they have to pretend that they do to a lot more than Wall Street does. They still have end-user customers, who have the power to buy goods and services, which in turn does have some pul
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by NickC25 3y ago
While the deal would make plenty of sense from Wall Street's POV, it really doesn't help the end-consumer at all. Moreso, it would take away from the idea that Apple is a computing company, and would transform it into an entertain
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by NickC25 3y ago
I don't have a deep understanding of physics and would have no chance at understanding the details of this if it was in a traditional academic paper, and not presented so well. This is absolutely fantastic!
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by NickC25 3y ago
It is a bad system, for sure, but the problem is that the stock markets reward corporations time and time again for entrenching themselves into monopolistic positions within their respective economic sectors. Regulatory capture sucks, but g
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by NickC25 3y ago
> The “living wage” argument is really an argument that the government should turn over the responsibility of running the social safety net to private businesses (e.g. Harvard must pay a single mother more—enough to level past food stamp
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by NickC25 3y ago
Seriously. Harvard's "endowment" has 50 billion at it's disposal. That's some serious money. It's continued success is partially predicated on top-notch research being done. If it somehow can't afford
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by NickC25 3y ago
Total company size. The book argues, if I recall correctly, that over that size, there are too many moving parts within the organization to be focused on anything but preservation of the organization at large, rather than the product or se
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by NickC25 3y ago
Being on the water can help too. Dubai might be in a desert, but a desert with direct sea (and ocean) access. Arizona, PHX in particular, has no such resource.
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by NickC25 3y ago
The right place to build is where there's plenty of resources one needs to sustain life at any scale. Water being one of those resources.
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by NickC25 3y ago
As they should - whoever thought it was a great idea to put a massive sprawling city in the middle of the fucking desert (with a single small river with which to draw any sort of water) was out of their mind. Don't get me wrong - I liv
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by NickC25 3y ago
Blackout rules really need to be called into question by the government. It's dumb that if I want to watch a game and I live within like 3 hours of the stadium, I have to actually go to the game or pirate a stream. The rules need to
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by NickC25 3y ago
The problem with Baseball is that games are so long and there's so much down-time (in between pitches, in between batters, in between innings) that commentators feel the need to fill the air with chatter, which I find to be annoying. T
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by NickC25 3y ago
Maybe they are paying lip service to such, but in practice, no, they haven't, and they aren't. At least internally. Why? Because their economy is slowing down and they have a massive population imbalance. They ended the one-chil
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by NickC25 3y ago
It's even more depressing than that. Those who are on ballots are there because they've gotten Corporate America's stamp of approval. The ones who don't have said approval never make it on the ballots, and in the extre

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