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by jleyank 4mo ago
Unless things have changed since Covid, "selling work" was consulting which was hard to scale while "selling software" had a multiplicative factor. Although consulting/customization work might be the only survivor
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by jleyank 4mo ago
They've had several decades to do this and it's not dominating the industry. Might keep at it and make it work. Or, it might be looking to AI to get rid of staff. But essentially all of N America is inaccessible to the tech bar
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by jleyank 4mo ago
The casual disregard of international treaties and responsibilities coupled by the arbitrary tariffs and other economic actions makes the us untrustworthy and unpredictable. Countries hate the former and business hate the latter. Therefor
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Remote work or satellite offices would permit working where housing was more affordable and it would encourage 2 professional families. It would also encourage families as spare resources might be available for munchkins. But this seems to
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by jleyank 4mo ago
I would not purchase a house unless you’re looking to retire into it or if you can change jobs easily without moving. Retirement is far easier without house payments, but they can be illiquid assets in downturns when people have to move fo
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by jleyank 4mo ago
We’ll see how the discussion changes if/when the us southwest runs out of water or gets too warm. Or if/when the crop production of the Midwest suffers. I guess at that point the us will have both problems?
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by jleyank 4mo ago
+1 on the notebook although I prefer a grid-ruled version. Clairefontaine worked for me, as its pages deal well with the inks of the various ballpoints I throw at it. There are other vendors of merit, but a good pen and good paper is worth
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Might it be that one sells EV’s and the other sells ICE cars? Or perhaps stupidity re Volvo’s ownership? Or a missing bribe?
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by jleyank 4mo ago
If HN is business of tech as well as tech of tech, politics might be too intertwined to ignore. Particularly if deployment and government oversight is involved. If you can’t get to market or if oversight makes it impossible to operate tha
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Because they’re not warfighters? Are they going to strip rank from medical and supply people as well? How about engineers? Mechanics?
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by jleyank 4mo ago
They say they’re capitalist not socialist, but fail to draw a distinction between the two. What don’t they do that would be socialist, for example?
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Smartphones can operate without a net connection, having sufficient internal storage and compute capability to handle various tasks. What can smart glasses do without a network? How do such glasses work with the various less-than-perfect
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by jleyank 4mo ago
It still has a car industry. Not the best nor the worst choices and some are even made in the us I think. Some in Canada/Mexico at least at the moment.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
I know! I know! 1) Components cost (way) more due to the AI explosion. 2) We're not taking the hit paying for (1).
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Describe it correctly - the (sudden?) abundance of spud-based food acted as a selection pressure on the people's genetics. Those who had mutations making it easier to extract energy from spuds (more amylase) were better suited to bree
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by jleyank 4mo ago
The Airbnb lobby won’t like this, but if the purpose of houses is housing rather than vacations that’s ok. But then there’s also cottages and other dwellings that are owned by individuals as a non primary residence.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
The auto makers were not mentioned in the article…. Wrong link? And I expect to see three shifts at the defense companies if they can get the bodies.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Alberta ships through BC now and I think they’ve gone from half to full capacity. That profit might not survive Hormuz opening and unfortunately much of it leaves Canada.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
It's a political problem until the replicators show up. And that'll be a while.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Yet if AI works well, the number of well-paid workers will be reduced. In a consumer economy, this is a bad thing. Remove too many salaries and there's insufficient demand to keep things going. UBI in some form will be needed to mai
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by jleyank 4mo ago
What if it becomes urgent to reduce CO2? There's a lot of places without hydro or geothermal power, and if you needs gobs of power for, say, making aluminum you need as much as you can get power wise.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Will Alberta go (away)? If/when the price of crude goes back down, they'll feel the cash crunch. Curiously, if they leave Canada, they need a path through a foreign country to get their oil out of Alberta.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Crypto, AI and EV. Heating/Cooling. Raw material processing. There's going to be a need for every KW that's available. Hell, there's probably going to be a copper shortage the way things are going.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Judging from your career path, you shifted from tech to money towards the start. I hope you were a good boss when you were starting up, as such people are rare and wondrous creatures. Forgive my choice of jargon - I divide the world into
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Have you experienced the US job market outside of the Valley and NYC?
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Of late, US folks coming out of university optimize for money and head for things like finance - people who hire STEM people. Those more interested in the field than the bucks go for advanced STEM degrees. And if the Yanks don't go
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by jleyank 4mo ago
I would think it an inappropriate question if you're asking a PhD (or MS). You could just ask for a copy of the paper(s) or the dissertation/thesis. Some people improve over the time in the uni environment. Some people don&#x27
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Worker w/PhD was asked by Quebec during residency interview to produce High School grades. Bureaucrats will be bureaucrats independent of language I guess.
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Tailor the degree to the desired job. Wanna be a (us) chemist or pharmacologist? Get a PhD. Want to be a doctor, get an MD. Want to be a hacker, hack as much as possible - Uni might not help here. Some of it is a credential. Some of it
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by jleyank 4mo ago
Perhaps for pc’s but evolution within a single product family is to be expected. The minicomputer and workstation world had windows years before the micros did. And the research from bell labs and xerox and mit preceded that.

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