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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Reality is complicated. That's why. Silver Bullet solutions presume reality is simple and simplistic. Reality is nonlinear and has feedback loops.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Good. 99% of coding boot camps are frauds making promises they can never keep and they know it. Most people can NOT code well ever. The economy can't possibly absorb having much more than 5% of the population being coders and that&#
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
NOTHING on the web can be trusted to last very long. It's the deep flaw of digitalization of paper.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The literal value is their share price x total shares. The notional value is at best the NPV of future profit streams. However Twitter's track record on profits are dismal so the claim is dubious legally.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
And then the board and executive get sued for failing to maximize shareholder value. It's literally a violation of federal law.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Ah, NO... I'm in B2B and Porter is central to our product design and marketing strategy. I'll just put it out there: the author has NEVER started a company!
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Firewire was supposed to be an AV standard that allowed connecting anything to anything and completely eliminate the RCA cables etc. And then the RIAA and MPAA discovered the plan and killed it good.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
There's definitely a whole lot more than listed - easily 10x. The half dozen I know about in each CA and NY aren't listed at all.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Ditto! B2B is alive and well. I absolutely prefer it because it's a far more rational interaction and sales process. Margins can be higher and it's a better class of customers most of the time.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
It's simply not realistic to expect or want this. You have only a final amount of time in a day so you can't have it both ways and still do EITHER well enough to be competitive with people who focus. You simply have to let go and
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
You can think all you want. It won't matter. We are not remotely getting closer (my sister is a VP ops at a major biotech/pharma firm - she provides me with sober sanity about such things). Cancer is not one thing - it's
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Indeed. My SIL was diagnosed with MM. At that time, the life expectancy was 6 mo - 2 years. And then thanks to being at the right place at the right time, she went into 5 separate clinical trials and lived 10 years. But then very suddenl
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The police should have shot the tires out and boxed in the vehicle to stop it from escaping.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
In fact, liability has been limited in this case by California laws...
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Except safety has only ever been improved for either aircraft or drugs by people dying from exactly this kind of failure. Apparently there is ZERO learning or forethought about risks that can be anticipated or suggested from other technolog
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
This is what war is all about. This is why many want cooler heads to prevail in the Russia-Ukraine war now! Those who have lived through war know how horrific and uncontrollable it is and how sociopathic you need to become to wage it succes
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Just google "gorbachev saddam 1991" The answer is "pretty much true".
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
I was probably the last generation in the US in the 1970s to willingly learn slide rules - the HP-35 had been out a few years and new scientific calculators already made the demise of slide rules pretty obvious to even us nerdlets. One of m
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Mathologer has a nice video about this via "log wheels". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQQvxSXLhI
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Except you have to consider inflation has been galloping since the 1980s. So even these may be cheaper than back in the day...
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Well, back in the day, when California still had "extras" in public schools like photography with real 135 and 120 cameras complete with darkrooms, I learned photography "the hard way" like this and that included process
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Honestly, it might be easier to pivot your business model and/or use a different channel. This seems too much like "some one else do the work to make my life easier again!!"
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
I hope you don't believe that "things will just happen on their own". Because they don't and won't. It's the same with selling products that generate company revenue - in general products DO NOT SELL THEMSELV
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
LOL If they truly believe that, then they do NOT understand their roll and thus they are probably ALREADY obsolete and irrelevant. If they understand - it should not be a problem of need but of methods and skills.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The problem with "electric heaters" is that electricity for ANYTHING can NEVER be better that 50% efficient and often is worse. Natural gas heating can EASILY attain 70%-80% efficiency in heating. Green Energy is generally contr
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
There's a FAR LARGER backdoor that allows oil, minerals, etc. to flow in far larger quantities to the USA.
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
The central error in this question which is ill-formed: what do you mean by "Humans". Can humans as a species survive? Absolutely no question: yes. Can humans as any individuals survive? Absolutely no question: no. Not statist
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
Nice article. Hopefully the complexity of fabs and their operations makes it obvious why chip shortages can easily take 3-5 years to address if creating new fab capacity is the problem. It also costs between $30B-$50B to create a new &quot
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
It's because photoresist is sensitive to deep blue out to UV so you want to avoid that kind of light as wafers with photoresist applied but not-yet-exposed are running around in their robotic FOUPs through the facility. It's exact
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by xyzzy21 5y ago
One of my dogs used to "lie" - he knew he wasn't suppose to be on the sofa. But he'd always push boundaries and try anyway like a human child. As soon as he'd hear you approaching the room, he'd just off (he

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