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by greedo 2y ago
There's also a strategic imperative for chip production in the US that isn't cutting edge; lots of stuff depends on basic ICs that were in short supply during COVID and having more production of stuff that doesn't need to be
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by greedo 2y ago
Sweden's Gripen is dependent on US engines...
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by greedo 2y ago
What port? They already have Crimea (since 2014) and the Black Sea isn't really 'balmy.'
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by greedo 2y ago
It's about exerting political control.
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by greedo 2y ago
Clearly a non-sequitur, but I'll bite anyways. Paul Pelosi is a VC, and I'm sure that most of the Pelosi net worth is due to his income, not hers. Since the laws preventing members of Congress from trading on information they rece
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by greedo 2y ago
Again, the versions of Patriot handed over to Ukraine are not the latest versions, so their performance might not be illustrative. And we don't know the strategy used by Ukraine; they might feel like bigger salvos are worth bringing do
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by greedo 2y ago
Cavalry charges were obsolete once the pike was implemented. Using cavalry after that point in time was limited to chasing down retreating troops and the previously mentioned roles.
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by greedo 2y ago
The idea of a cavalry charge is nonsense. Rarely done, and mostly a relic of cinema. The Polish cavalry actually performed quite well during WW2 despite being tarnished as outdated. The roles of a "cavalry" unit are reconnaissance
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by greedo 2y ago
Yes. Patriot has intercepted Kinzals in Ukraine (and older versions of Patriot at that), so the tech is well established. SM3/SM6 missiles on Aegis equipped ships can defend themselves against hypersonic missiles.
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by greedo 2y ago
That's true when Apple has alternative suppliers, ie graphic cards when nVidia blabs before a presentation. But who is going to replace TSMC? Sure someone will in 15-20 years, but for now...
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by greedo 2y ago
It's crazy how expensive your electricity is. I'm in the Midwest, and only paying $.08/kWh...
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by greedo 2y ago
I thought also that he was making the docker/container reference, just didn't see how it applied. Thanks for your expansion. I do find the Great Person theory and its critiques fascinating. I think of how Kennedy navigated the Cub
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by greedo 2y ago
Cattle?
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by greedo 2y ago
Nah, it's really akin to the debate historians have over Great People or Inexorable events. Would calculus have been discovered had Liebniz and Newton died in a duel? Would the Panama Canal still have been built had Teddy Roosevelt not
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by greedo 2y ago
1. Corporations are not unitary organizations; shareholders have rights and Delaware does a good job of protecting them within reason. 2. Statements by THE PEOPLE ON THE TEAM WHO WERE JUST FIRED have a lot more weight than an internet comme
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by greedo 2y ago
It's a deceptively seductive industry. How hard could it be, especially with EVs? I think it's relatively easy to design a single car with some cool batteries and engines. It's another thing to build them in quantity, maintai
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by greedo 2y ago
Musk had developers PRINT OUT THEIR CODE to try and determine who was essential to Twitter...
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by greedo 2y ago
So let's see what you're really trying to say... 1. You want corporations, that already have huge protections, and relatively weak governance to re-domicile in states that offer even less regulations. 2. You assume that Tesla coul
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by greedo 2y ago
Pretty sure that a good techie (not even someone in AI) has most of their basic needs taken care of. Working for a psychopath who can't control his impulses does a killer number on the other levels of Maslow's needs...
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by greedo 2y ago
Employees are rarely a JIT component of a strong, healthy business. Good businesses have a little fat so that they can expand or react to changing market conditions. Make the teams too lean and then you're at constant risk of losing a
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by greedo 2y ago
Blue Origin will catch up any time now...
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by greedo 2y ago
And if you include hybrids and ICE cars, the VW group demolishes Tesla with over 9.24M vehicles sold...
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by greedo 2y ago
Philanthropy?
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by greedo 2y ago
Good podcasts and videos can't be replicated by AI. I watch two channels on YT; Eric Rosen playing chess, and a guy nicknamed Hoover who runs Pilot Debrief. Both bring subject matter expertise that can't really be fooled. I also l
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by greedo 2y ago
I never understood how any investors really thought this wouldn't be the case. They seemed to think that Tesla was going to devour all the traditional carmakers in a borg-like fashion. The evaluations have always been unsustainable.
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by greedo 2y ago
Why anyone gives credence to what Musk says is beyond me. The hype this guy has spewed the last decade is beyond credulous.
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by greedo 2y ago
They literally just did this...
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by greedo 2y ago
Fortunately no, I think my total out of pocket costs were around $10K or so; I don't remember the details too much because of chemo brain. We had pretty good health insurance through my wife's company.
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by greedo 2y ago
The link he used for cancer costs seems to exclude surgical costs. It also has some questionable hypotheticals, like: If a cancer patient requires four chemo sessions a year, it could cost them up to $48,000 total, which is beyond the aver
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by greedo 2y ago
I stopped tracking my cancer treatment costs (including surgery) after it broke the $600K mark. And my cancer was relatively common (colorectal) and only Stage II.

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