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by subradios 4y ago
It's missing something essential to blitzscaling. It's not just cheap capital, although it helps. The presence of the internet and the amount software can improve everything created a business model of "add software to it!&qu
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by subradios 4y ago
Well, sort of - fuel costs are real. Being able to transport 5 to 10 tonne point to point (you do not need an airfield to land an airship) while using very little or no fuel that produces another avenue of competition. Cargo ships also run
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by subradios 4y ago
Most of the richest people today were born solidly middle or upper middle class. Nassim Taleb again, after mere comfortability ita a long road of blackjack and 100 hour workweeks.
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by subradios 4y ago
The issue is that the antifa/anonymous/occupy ethos is the corporate ethos, and that should be concerning, if big business really is the problem.
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by subradios 4y ago
You can say it's not about liberal cities or progressivism but about "big business" hollowing out the city, but when all of the cities in question are 60 to 80% democrats favored and only ever vote Democrat, as well as the la
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by subradios 4y ago
ICEs are incredibly efficient. Electricity is only efficient if you only care about kwh delivered to the car doing to the wheels. The efficiency of getting kwh from the grid to the car puts it well worse than most battery setups.
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by subradios 4y ago
I think it's totally plausible actually, there's lots of stranded renewables and otherwise flared natgas that could be used for this process
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by subradios 4y ago
The big thing is prestige, it takes some pretty big brains to write good, clean production infrastructure that doesn't fall over every five minutes. Those big brains are absolutely capable of learning the math and doing the creative wo
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by subradios 4y ago
Serious trend? It never stopped. Literally every website on the mobile version will outright demand I download the app. Even sites that are on a desktop will refuse to do anything the site should do and instead tell me to download the app
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by subradios 4y ago
The problem isn't live chat, or nagging - it is a corporate policy structure for something complex (sites like eBay, Facebook, and Amazon are effectively running small municipal governments at least) combined with an incentive structur
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by subradios 4y ago
Good and bad post. Getting mad at "the corporations" for being dirty middlemen is common, but Ticketmaster hires staffers, organizes purchases, handles refunds alllllllll the way down the line. The infrastructure to do that takes
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by subradios 4y ago
Would this move the needle on layoffs or the business or merely satisfy a desire for moral dessert? One team of engineers costs between one and three million dollars a year.
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by subradios 4y ago
You can't, your business strategy has to reflect stonks go up. If your funders are all thinking like stonks go up and you try to build a sustainable YoY profit generating business, you aren't producing a risk reward curve attract
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by subradios 4y ago
So the world in which this incident shows sociopathic behavior is the exact world that Musk (and I, for that matter) disagree with. My impression of prestige tech is that large parts of the industry are children because the money tree kept
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by subradios 4y ago
Google and Azure are both just light-years behind AWS , having worked on and with all three platforms and dealt with engineering staff all the way through. Google doesn't really build things for other engineers, hiding important detail
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by subradios 4y ago
Ehh, the degree to which both the US and the Japanese government maintained the idea of "self defense force" is extremely fictional. Their helicopter destroyers can and do launch jets. A lot of realpolitik here that doesn't q
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by subradios 4y ago
Intolerance of the intolerant is often word mincing to justify one's own bigotry. You only hear about it in reference to all five Nazis or few hundred KKK members, but never in reference to the thousands of articles about the problems
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by subradios 4y ago
That was a response of the commands in Okinawa, not an ask from the Japanese government. Much of the activism against Okinawa gets overruled at the national level by a Japanese government that wants the United States presence, and this is p
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by subradios 4y ago
Big daddy Lenin was a fan of this philosophy too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_does_not_work,_neithe... Don't think it's a capitalist thing.
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by subradios 4y ago
Most of the problems with policing as we see them today involve police behaving as humans do in life or death situations, even "bad shoots" have fundamental elements of reasonableness to them most of the time, whereas a robot does
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by subradios 4y ago
Everything would be better, but nobody would want to build the platform. Supply chain is a cartel industry and the present cartels aren't interested in new entrants.
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by subradios 4y ago
You can also tell by all the talks about how "human" it is, which is a way tech writers praise each other for writing books about technology that require no knowledge of nor interest in technology to understand. There's also
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by subradios 4y ago
Not merely accounting. Cultural as well, it forces the e-commerce coders to take infra cost seriously and alleviates cost center toxicity from infra teams.
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by subradios 4y ago
I am not promoting "punishing harshly petty theft" I am suggesting that the direction current prosecutors are going is to not punish theft at all. I am also not denying that Amazon and eBay can operate as easy targets to fence sto
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by subradios 4y ago
It is a valuable activity that Amazon and eBay will ship any product to anyone at a fair price with a minimum of obligatory hoop jumping. The more pressure they receive from the public and regulators to put a stop to those dastardly shoplif
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by subradios 4y ago
Regulating legitimate business activity out of existence to support progressive prosecutors ideas about shoplifting and street crime is the opposite of a solution.
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by subradios 4y ago
Depends on the environment, in the tech world of six months ago I'd have no problem signing back on for a few tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The risk of losing your job however, carries a greater premium today than it did si
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by subradios 4y ago
Censoring real news stories that look bad for particular political groups. The entire set of "fact checking" systems, adding NFTs because someone thought it sounded cool. Being sued by the government for being an ISIS recruiting a
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by subradios 4y ago
This is the strategy of someone who is aware of an internal cultural problem at Twitter. You can blame pointy haired PMs, activist community managers, leetcode and Foosball engineers, or whoever you want for the situation. To Musk its all t
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by subradios 4y ago
I was sardonically calling out that a lot of the energy picture is much more complicated than that. The battery production process (and PV production process) is quite ecologically intensive, and large portions of the reduction in prices we

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