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by klooney 1y ago
You know, if Stellantis and other manufacturers can't behave responsibly, OTA updates will be illegal. They really should get their act together.
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by klooney 1y ago
> foreign companies are usually minority partners So, uh, none?
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by klooney 1y ago
> but geez does it feel like the setup for a big shift in economic power It happened ten years ago, it's just that perceptions haven't changed yet.
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by klooney 1y ago
Look at Pypy go! I need to make more excuses to use it.
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by klooney 1y ago
Why do dealerships assume warranty risk instead of the manufacturer?
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by klooney 1y ago
It turns out that if you subsidize manufacturing less than other countries, your products will cost more.
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by klooney 1y ago
If the US collapses, conversely, stock/bond market investing choices won't matter.
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by klooney 1y ago
Although the labor supply is also contracting, which makes reasoning about job growth weird
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by klooney 1y ago
"should they just donate to postmarketos" is the sort of obvious followup
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by klooney 1y ago
https://www.econtalk.org/susan-houseman-on-manufacturing/ this was the first time I heard someone talking about this, it has felt like Secret Forbidden Knowledge.
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by klooney 1y ago
https://kairos.io/docs/reference/faq/ I was wondering how it compares to Talos and now I'm confused. Is it basically a bootloader+host kernel shim and nothing else?
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by klooney 1y ago
Delightful!
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by klooney 1y ago
Lotta people who eat more rice than legacy Britons have moved there though.
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by klooney 1y ago
Cost and regulatory instability
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by klooney 1y ago
The purchasers for buses, trainsets, etc., are bad- lots of unnecessary customization, last minute changes, low volume, etc. This drives down efficiency across the system.
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by klooney 1y ago
Type R gets up there
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by klooney 1y ago
They are irreplaceable assets that would probably cost north of a trillion dollars if someone tried to build them today, and the oil refining countries club is pretty exclusive. Wildly shortsighted from a big picture national capacity point
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by klooney 1y ago
Or absolutely break the the Bay area
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by klooney 1y ago
Housing inflation also really cuts down on everyone's ability to not be mercenary
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by klooney 1y ago
And the RHLF was directed by Californians, and so the "values" are likely very California.
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by klooney 1y ago
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/113404099228886304 You auth the initrd too
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by klooney 1y ago
There may never be another transit hub built
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by klooney 1y ago
> employees often maintain their projects because they love them, not because the company asked them to. That’s often a strong guarantee of long-term care. Until they leave, or switch teams.
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by klooney 1y ago
This is a real vibe shift kind of article, remember circa 2018 Hacker News?
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by klooney 1y ago
I always hear bad things about its standings in the frontier model rankings, although I don't follow that close enough to know if that's real or not. What's cool about Llama?
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by klooney 1y ago
> US builds military ships themself. Not recently...
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by klooney 1y ago
It would be less mercurial, I think, although Vance is such a a political chameleon I don't totally know what he would do if he got his brass ring.
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by klooney 1y ago
US has ASML- lots of the patents are ultimately owned by US entities, a great deal of the research and development is done on US soil, and the Netherlands aren't rocking the boat on sanctions, etc.
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by klooney 1y ago
Best case, we get President Vance before 2028 and things settle down.
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by klooney 1y ago
A16Z gets a lot of guff for their bad politics, but their "American dynamism" portfolio, if a little defense heavy, seems great

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