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by ojbyrne 8mo ago
Pretty sure it will be like TrumpRX. Big PR blitz and when the details are exposed, a nothing burger.
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by ojbyrne 8mo ago
Concerning independence and autonomy, I ruefully recall hearing the saying “You get to work your own hours … as long as it’s all of them.”
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by ojbyrne 8mo ago
The article says "I ended up having 26 interviews and meetings (of course I kept a log) with various AI tech giants." I don't think that indicates that any one company interviewed him 20+ times.
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by ojbyrne 9mo ago
Plus government backstop. The federal government (especially the current one) is not going to let SpaceX fail.
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by ojbyrne 9mo ago
Amateur status hasn’t been relevant to the Olympics in quite a while.
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by ojbyrne 9mo ago
Personally I’m willing to pay more to support global trade, and reduce the harmful effects of excessive nationalism and imperialism.
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by ojbyrne 9mo ago
Actually its easy if you're a multinational. You invest outside the United States.
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by ojbyrne 10mo ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking, because I’m looking at the site on chrome on iPhone and there’s numbers.
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by ojbyrne 10mo ago
Perhaps you've looked at the site so much that you're blind to the numbers at the start of each item.
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by ojbyrne 10mo ago
It would be cool to see the EU bar a few tech CEOs from travel to Europe, since they’re very clearly the people behind this. Say Zuckerberg and Musk. Tit for tat immigration restrictions seems like a hot upcoming idea.
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by ojbyrne 10mo ago
“Shittiest Possible Outcome” is basically the motto of the current administration.
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by ojbyrne 11mo ago
Sorry, I didn't follow the thread, thought you were referring to the top level article.
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by ojbyrne 11mo ago
I’m curious how you deduced it’s from 2024. Timestamps on the article and the embedded video are both November 2025.
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by ojbyrne 11mo ago
Definitely true, but Oracle is the worst, has been for decades.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
The article is essentially describing virtual memory (with enhancements) which predates the 6502 by a decade or so.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
We gave our parents an iPad for Christmas. Now they have two and never turn on their computer.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I am guessing that it’s a highly automated process, so per unit costs are not going to be affected much by the cost of labor.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
New CEO started in March, I vaguely recall him cancelling fabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip-Bu_Tan
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I’m curious what state that is.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Somewhat similar to the Shoeshine Boy Theory: https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2020/06/11/in-1929-the-warn...
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Passion can be its own reward. People run into their 90s, it is obviously rewarding even if not “great.”
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
This should really credit Joel Spolsky somewhere: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
One of the interesting things I read in the article is that the industry is a duopoly, and one of the companies is a Canadian company, New Flyer Industries. I went on a tour of their factory many years ago, and they told us they do most of
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I guess I’m an “under-indexed person” (whatever that is) because I didn’t really enjoy that. I’ve always been a Porter guy when it comes to business strategy though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter's_generic
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Look again, it's under Yankeedom. Anticosti and the Magdelenes are nearby and under New France.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
One personal pet peeve I have is using obscure (and in this case, non-Google-able) acronyms. Its easy to just give the full name once, then use the acronym after.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
I’m curious what visa the “extremely talented people from the subcontinent” were on. If they have a green card or are naturalized citizens, there are very few paths to those statuses that doesn’t involve an H1B.
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Seems to me the salient part of this is not being discussed: “The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
What’s a GCC?
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by ojbyrne 1y ago
Canadians do it best. https://youtu.be/tXgfzxXUVsc?si=vBXu20TewUldSBJB

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