Zigurd

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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Exactly. It's a strange form of whataboutism, mixed with learned helplessness, to imply that having sucked for decades, we can't avoid sucking even more now.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Copyright term kept getting extended. Copyright was a controversial concept when it got baked into the US constitution. But the enabling laws have run off the rails, mainly due to corporate lobbying. Copyright has also been reinterpreted as
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
The value of TSLA is the product of cult behavior. Even more so since growth stagnated and they stopped developing better cars. It's been that way for years.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Your response amounts to: ignore what the people affected value, only pay attention to a cherry picked number. Even the number you cherry picked is only valued by people who resent students coming to the UK and think they ought to pay steep
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Young people voted against Brexit by 2 to 1. If anything they are more opposed now. Perhaps they know if they've been harmed or not.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's not all noise. Being able to live, work, or study anywhere in the Schengen zone has tremendous value. But it doesn't show up in GDP numbers. Brexit harmed the young people of UK, and they hate it.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Just when the UK thought they had done the biggest self own in history, 'Merica says hold muh beer.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
I used to buy test phones for software testing at a bodega where they had a laundry basket full of phones, and they would sell prepaid SIMs no questions asked.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
There is a simpler explanation: passive investing in index funds turned out to be too effective and ruined the game for active investment management. Now the banks have figured out how to exploit passive investors and turn them into involun
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
That projection depends on packaging and cooling breakthroughs that we would already be seeing in terrestrial data centers if they were practical.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Fiduciary duty is meaningless without recourse. The governance structure denies any recourse. A case of breach of fiduciary duty would never make it to trial under the governance structure.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Unless you've got some magic beans that turn "some compute modules" into a significant fraction of an earthbound data center, and you can fly acres of solar panels and radiators around space debris, it really doesn't loo
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
As an avid user of a handful of Chromecast audio devices, I endorse this solution. I also advocate adding "swearing at your Chromecast devices" to the definition of the word "castigate."
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
What would you rather have? A five-year struggle to turn around a stagnant SaaS, or a big fat check? It's a simple and effective model. First one out gets the biggest check.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's a business model that's like a shark: perpetually swimming and eating or it's dying. That's how they can show big increases in revenue, but the profits are always decaying along with the products.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
For context, Broadcom bought CA.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
I'm old enough to have been acquired by Computer Associates at a company that acquired my company. CA's business model was to buy companies and then fold their products into an omnibus license, all of their customers, including th
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
There is no fixing that it's overpriced. Nobody could make those numbers real. Elon just adds flamboyance.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's a scam, like the crypto "reserve."
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
More like that government funded crypto fund scam. And nothing like the post office, although Trump engaged in some wheeling and dealing with one of his cronies there, too.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
In microgravity, everything gets everywhere. My mother worked on NASA funded research for diagnostic spit tests to determine chronic versus acute stress, which previously required blood draws, which are a less than optimal choice in space.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
If such a conduit would connect two sections that the hatch is meant to isolate, you would have to make the conduit and everything running through it airtight, even under a catastrophic loss of air. If the conduit didn't seal as well a
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
There are some methodology gaps in that 1300 riders number as well. The four minute ride sounds like it assumes ideal availability of cars at the end of the loop segments. If the cars aren't evenly distributed, you won't be able t
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
You are living in a fantasy world where, for one thing, Tesla overcoming early production problems merits and astronomical P/E ratio. For another thing you think a non-functioning robotaxi service portends some future growth. Sleep in
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
The same way other pseudo-capitalistic deals that you can't walk away from are theft. Like what we in America health insurance.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
If Nvidia was buying 80% of their own chips, we would have the same criticism of Nvidia as we have of SpaceX. Nvidia's valuation is rational because they sell to real customers and get real cold hard cash from those customers.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Real jewels aren't trying to grow into a shrinking TAM that's being whittled away by the expansion of terrestrial wireless farther into the not yet served, but rich enough to be served countryside in places where that demographic
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Tesla isn't the technology, performance, luxury, infotainment, or value leader in EV's any longer. If you think the Germans know what the salute meant, and they stopped buying the cars, you can take the hint and have a lot of exce
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
That whole foolishness will stop when we or the Chinese try to dig a hole in the moon to shield a moon station from radiation. Space is not for humans. Even super fit humans can't tolerate space for more than a few months.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Space manufacturing is in there too. The international space station is 27 years old. One reason to spend tens of billions of dollars on ISS was the idea that it would be used to run experiments that would make space manufacturing practical

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