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by discodave 3y ago
The US Navy builds many reactors for the price of this power plant. A Virginia class submarine in 2023 costs $4.3 billion (that's for the whole submarine), it has a 210MW S9G reactor. The Vogtle Unit 3 was $17 billion over budget, for
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by discodave 3y ago
https://blog.drgriffin.com.au Of interest to the HN crowd are probably these posts: - https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-... - https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts&#x
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by discodave 3y ago
Beijing Olympics was 2008, that's 15 years ago. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23397205
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by discodave 3y ago
The other difference between Cybertruck and Ford trucks is that Ford has actually sold trucks to customers.
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by discodave 3y ago
1. Agree 2. Err, I can't see any big banks or other entities touching COIN, and the CRIMINAL proceedings that it will likely be embroiled in with a 10-ft pole! 3. Maybe BTC will come to 'dominate' the 'crypto' space
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by discodave 3y ago
I've heard of bungie jumping, and sky diving businesses, any examples of base jumping businesses (not counting gear makers).
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by discodave 4y ago
Why not? Gold is both a commodity and a security (think gold ETFs). This logic seems like wishful thinking that people can't get rekt by both the SEC and CFTC, they can.
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by discodave 4y ago
Probably just a haircut. How much nobody knows yet, but according to the FDIC release, 3 months ago they actually had $209B of assets, so it's not a FTX-like 'oops we accidentally your money' scenario.
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by discodave 4y ago
From Wikipedia: > A NASA history of the Hubble,[24] in discussing the reasons for switching from a 3-meter main mirror to a 2.4-meter (94 in) design, states: "In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication cost
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by discodave 4y ago
Who says they paid a premium? The price isn't mentioned in the press release.
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by discodave 4y ago
Maybe the way to think about this isn't so much from the perspective of Netflifys leadership, but Gatsby and their founders/investors. Had Gatsby found a scalable business model? Maybe this is more of a saving-face/acquihire
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by discodave 4y ago
There was an Odd Lots episode where they went deep on how complicated the ASML supply chain is. I think it was this one (though there might have been another one): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asml-the-obs
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by discodave 4y ago
To wit: One way you can find Amazon (or other) datacenters on Google maps is to look for the substation next door.
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by discodave 4y ago
Sounds like Amazon. Back in the day they managed to avoid 'layoffs' by transferring thousands of people from Fire Phone -> Alexa. They somehow avoided layoffs from shutting down Prime Air (drones, not 767s), even though that ha
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by discodave 4y ago
For those baulking at the cost: Various estimates size the corporate travel market at hundreds of billions of dollars per year. $3000 isn't that expensive compared to a business class plane ticket, and hotel. Apple has a history of con
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by discodave 4y ago
One answer would be: Because the 'unregretted attrition' or PIP quota is still a thing! But also, people voluntarily quitting is even better for Amazon.. no severance.
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by discodave 4y ago
Tether's 'market cap' is like 60 billion or whatever, I think most of that was just created out of thin air, but I think some of it was exchanged for real dollars, like a few percent, maybe a couple of billion dollars. In w
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by discodave 4y ago
I managed to get this screenshot at least: https://twitter.com/findgriffin/status/1590822569883873280
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by discodave 4y ago
Joke answer: Because dumping on AWS is fun! Serious answer: People will confirm or not in the comments, this post seems pretty reasonable, if a little trigger happy. It could just be a random launch failure.
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by discodave 4y ago
That is an interesting hypothesis. But, a) The banks may well be able to sell these bonds, just with a higher yield. b) Maybe there are some clients out there with lotsa cash (Buffet, Bezos, Gates) who would love to have Elon owe them tens
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by discodave 4y ago
Well, the market cap of Tesla is currently over $700B, so spending 6% of your market cap on marketing isn't that crazy. But in this case I don't think Musk is playing checkers, when everybody else is playing chess.. I think he was
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by discodave 4y ago
My thoughts exactly! Why does it even need to be forked? The whole point of using SQLite as a foundation for distributed, edge, or other stuff is that it's a solid foundation that can be trusted to not change too much. Why the need to
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by discodave 4y ago
Amazon has had an org called 'Builder Tools' or some variation on that for over a decade (maybe much longer?). That team has historically owned the systems for build, deployment, source control etc. AWS also uses the 'builde
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by discodave 4y ago
That still costs you (the employer) money. It's like a DoS attack for your hiring system. E.g. a nefarious actor could harm a competitor by overwhelming them with fake applicants that it takes time to sift through.
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by discodave 4y ago
If you wanna act like a superpower, then you're going to get judged like a superpower.
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by discodave 4y ago
Hahahaha... Wait until you hear about the large cloud provider running RHEL5... (I worked at said provider).
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by discodave 4y ago
> Every dollar of Snowflake revenue is a dollar of revenue that Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Databricks are fighting for. This is true, but misses one detail... Snowflake runs in the cloud so every dollar of Snowflake revenue is rough
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by discodave 4y ago
Those services are gateway, or requirements for using other services though. A VPC isn't useful without EC2 instances in it. AWS Organizations allows you to create more accounts, with more instances, databases etc in them!
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by discodave 4y ago
Amazon historically has gone after 'low margin' businesses. The cloud, at 25% margins (for AWS) is is 'low margin' compared to traditional software sales.
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by discodave 4y ago
They bought Pillpack. They also announced a big partnership with Berkshire that went... nowhere? I also know of a big secret-project kinda effort, where they were employing research scientists, and other people with very specialized knowled

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