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   by benced 2y ago

   Assuming those statistics are accurate - I'm a little suspicious that they're using non-GAAP metrics - it doesn't prove (or even define) "excessive".
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   by benced 2y ago

   The reason greed has been ignored is that it lacks explanatory power. No one has established the mechanism by which greed varies over time, therefore affecting prices. Firms having greater pricing power - and reaping the benefits of that vi
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   by benced 2y ago

   The march away from companies directly managing Kubernetes to Kubernetes being the layer that every future abstraction will be built on continues.
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   by benced 2y ago

   I have the opposite question: who is on the cloud and has such consistent workloads they never need to scale up or down? I'm sure those users exist but they must be the minority, right?
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   by benced 2y ago

   This is unfortunately a common tactic of the Chinese government (see their recent dealings with Lithuania). I do not believe a trade barrier not being explicitly stated is a barrier to bringing a WTO case though.
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   by benced 2y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40151662
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   by benced 2y ago

   The WTO allows China to ban American social networks - which would otherwise be required to be allowed under its general principle of parity - because of its "public morals" exception ( https://www.wto.org/english&#
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   by benced 2y ago

   I said "I suspect this is bad for California" which I stand by. That statement says absolutely nothing about whether or not I think this is a good decision by the FTC. However, you treated it like I was against this action by th
9. 189.▲
   by benced 2y ago

   Yes, it is bad for the state of California. That is a different question from is it good or bad for the FTC to do this.
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    by benced 2y ago

    I am making a diagnostic statement that is true. You are incorrectly inferring that I think this FTC action is therefore bad which I did not say anywhere. > Which is a huge demographic right? After all, most people don't come to Cal
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    by benced 2y ago

    It is bad for a state - at least in relative terms - if it has a good thing and suddenly every state has that good thing. It means that people that might have once moved to California for its laws will no longer do so.
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    by benced 2y ago

    The reason no non-competes has helped CA is increasing startup formation. California has shown over the last 30-50 years that startup formation > attracting legacy businesses for growth. Unless that changes, California becoming less diff
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    by benced 2y ago

    I suspect this is bad for California, its lack of noncompetes was a huge differentiation for a while. (how bad? I don't know.)
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    by benced 2y ago

    "Customers have other choices" is not a reason for a business to not accept a customer.
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    by benced 2y ago

    I think the moral obligation is slightly different when you have capabilities that no other firm has. I believe IBM falls into that category then, a company like ASML would now. Google Cloud would not: Israel can get cloud services anywhere
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    by benced 2y ago

    I don’t think the core model was crazy, you just have to actually deliver value. They didn’t and I’m glad they’re being punished for it. So many people like to do fake work instead of real work, including people who scoff at fake work.
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    by benced 2y ago

    Can you explain what nefarious things Japan - one of the US’s closest allies by the way - could do by owning 12% of the USA’s steel output in the form of physical factories that are on US soil?
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    by benced 3y ago

    Came here to say exactly this
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    by benced 3y ago

    I don’t like this mindset that just because an individual can see why something needs to be better, it shouldn’t be.
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    by benced 3y ago

    Apple has this exactly backwards. Their platforms have value because of developers. There’s a reason Apple added an App Store after the app-less first year of the iPhone. How many people would switch to android, even if they like apple’s de
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    by benced 3y ago

    It’s not wisdom to point out that using 3P software constitutes a threat vector. Personally, except in rare cases of unusual competence or unusual sensitivity, I believe that in-house CI will be more vulnerable than managed.
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    by benced 3y ago

    I thought about renting one but their policy is you have to return the vehicle charge to the same level they gave it to you (or they charge you for a full battery). I hate this policy with gas cars but at least filling gas is fast. With ele
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    by benced 3y ago

    Note that the US does not trade with Iran, the largest producer of saffron. Undoubtedly, some saffron in the US is Iranian, just ferried via another country for customs reasons but it makes the spice here more expensive than it would be oth
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    by benced 3y ago

    So what would the prefix for the IANA code be? Right now, it's continent (Asia/Kolkata, America/Chicago etc). Would it just be "Space/Moon"? One can imagine the standard would have to be revised many many times
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    by benced 3y ago

    I suspect one pro-social thing citizens can do without government action is to be personally less open to drugs. I've noticed in more left leaning space, the consensus has shifted to that drugs are "cool" which is why they sh
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    by benced 3y ago

    I disagree with this. I don't really care if a video game company is run in a profit-maximizing way. We should probably be a bit more skeptical with important companies, particularly ones that seem irreplaceable (for all their faults,
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    by benced 3y ago

    I think culture is underrated. Acting like he did should not be considered a dignified behavior and I think that will meaningfully constrict behavior even in the absence of new laws. Think about how business culture varies across jurisdicti
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    by benced 3y ago

    I am not exaggerating to say that Jim McNerney should be dragged in front of Congress and be forced to explain what he did to an incredibly important American company. It's important to push back against the shareholder value theory wh
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    by benced 3y ago

    I feel like the concept that keeping track of numbers, particularly with distributed sources and sinks, is hard would actually be very intuitive to engineers.
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    by benced 3y ago

    Agreed. However, OP said "their best and most stable and lucrative customers are sure to be nation-states" which is, minimally, very overconfident.