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This is the video you are referring to:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751841/

Will check it out.

With the unimportant caveat of the upvote and downvote icons being too close to each other I think the plain simpleness of HN works perfectly from a mobile browser.

The author wants regulations to prevent favorable treatment for data centers. She is warning that a tech backlash might happen in Europe:

Thus far, the so-called techlash has spared data centres, but that could soon change unless companies and governments change their behaviour.

Luckily we don’t blacklist our companies that use AI to kill muslims like NVIDIA.

This is the official Chinese governments response to the Summit for Democracy being held.

This document is clearly geared for clueless CEOs as a McKinsey pitch. Slick fluff but no true substance. A classic McKinsey vignette I suppose. They did not fail again. Anyone that understands "AI" would be turned into Holden Caulfield.

The A-10 is truly remarkable as are the drones. Meanwhile the F35 is an overpriced hangar queen that should never have been built (the F22 is a solid stealth plane).

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/why-nothing-even-the-air...

Meanwhile corporates are groups and when they fail we call it creative destruction in Schumpeter's words or nowadays disruption.

There is the spoof video on paying by ass done for the Money20/20 conference in 2014:

The Future of Dough - PaybyAss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2brZQocmMc

Unfortunately we have seen too much of governments lying to the public or even under oath to Congress and violating existing laws with impunity. The Obama administration and the head of the NSA James Clapper lied to Congress about breaking the law:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/06/fire-dni-james-c...

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This is the link that the Schneier (who explains some very complex stuff really well) post is based on:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/interview/g...

From the article:

Contrast all of these issues with a city like Istanbul, where the M5, an 18-mile subway line, was built in seven years and for just $630 million.

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That is roughly $35 million per mile. And it is one of the deepest subways in the world. Almost as deep as Moscow's. Meanwhile the 2nd Avenue Subway cost $2.5 billion per mile. That is a difference of 71x.

The big bogeyman that is ignored is the incredible corruption involved with the politicians, contractors and "consultants" who rig these absurd outcomes.

And let's not forget the incredible corruption in Boston and the Big Dig that became a smaller dig with massive cost overruns and delays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

One other thing is that in countries like Turkey they build a lot of infrastructure with private funds who run it like a concession for a certain period of time (say 2 decades) and then it reverts back to the government. The private contractors have an incentive to build build inexpensively and quicker as their IRR is ticking.

Examples of such Public Private Partnership projects are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87anakkale_1915_Bridge

The concept of PPT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partner...

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By the way the awesome website of the quoted and mentioned Alon Levy which I discovered years ago when we had a discussion on the disparity of subway costs per mile between the US and places like Prague:

https://pedestrianobservations.com/construction-costs/

This is for students 12 and over.

Most of the world has been concentrating on 18 plus to be vaccinated. In fact the way most countries disclose vaccination numbers is on 18 over. I wonder other countries enforce under 18 vaccination for schooling, as opposed to voluntary vaccinations.

From some quick searches:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/12/06/covid-vaccine-for-c...

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

He says: and including a first-use nuclear attack.

It's like the phrasing of invading a country and bombing with nuclear weapons is "all options are on the table."

Looks like the mother of all pivots.

They could kickstart funding their new initiative through their themselves.

Moral of the story is that we overestimate good outcomes and underestimate bad outcomes. If people believed this then all rational folk (and by definition risk averse) would steer clear of startups. Maybe that's why startup folks are crazy and have a higher chance of winning the lottery.

My issue is the booster (3rd shot and now 4th) shaming going on. As someone who is vaccinated I am still disturbed by the sanctimonious tone of shaming citizens who whatever reason don't do it. We have enough compelling evidence out there for the benefits of all vaccinations. Once we go down the route of shaming whole groups of vaccine hesitants it becomes an irreparable burden to society and manifests itself in manners beyond just health outcomes. Positive messaging works better than negative messaging in the long run. The Catholic Church eventually yielded to Galileo. But they did firebomb evangelical Cotton Mather's house in Boston who advocated vaccinations.

It seems to me that we are in 1914 and Russia is the Austro Habsburg Empire, Ukraine is Serbia, the US is the British Empire and China is Kaiser Germany/US and that the war game is on. The establishment is arguing for a first-use nuclear attack on Russia:

A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack.

“I would not rule out military action,” Senator Roger Wicker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. “I think we start making a mistake when we take options off the table. So I would hope the president keeps that option on the table.”

“What does military action mean, senator?” Cavuto asked.

“Well, military action could mean that we standoff with our ships in the Black Sea and we rain destruction on Russian military capability,” the senator replied. “It could mean that. It could mean that we participate – and I would not rule that out – I would not rule out American troops on the ground. You know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action. We don’t think it will happen. But there’s certain things in negotiations – if you’re going to be tough – that you don’t take off the table.”

Wicker emphasized that his position was entirely bipartisan.

So they rein a bank that was never independent?

The word gymnastics deserves an Olympic medal.

If you want to sell on premise enterprise software then Java is a big plus.

Also if you plan on exiting the company to a strategic buyer then your stack will come up in the due diligence and if it is a stack they are not familiar with then they can call off the deal. That is another, minor, reason why enterprise software companies chose Java.

But stacks are always a moving target. Todays hipster stack might be tomorrows mainstream. Postgres was an obscurity compared to MYSQL in the early 2010s and it has picked up tremendous stream since then.

And getting product market fit is more important than choosing the right stack. You can always use duct tape if you get lucky enough to have problems with scaling.

The Japanese Pachinko (pinball) market is bigger than the casinos of Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau combined and is dominated by ethnic Koreans like Masayoshi Son of Softbank whose dad was in the pachinko parlor business. This might explain the "gambling" tendencies of Masayoshi Son and Softbank with investments in WeWork and Better.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/CEO-in-the-news/SoftBank-Ma...

From the TV show 24:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0502186/

We can have url rot on both centralized and decentralized systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

This reminds me of the Flint, Michigan water drinking "controversy":

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-...

Obama In Flint: 'Can I Get Some Water?' | NBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjugN-nUHh8

Whatever is here, or anywhere on the Internet, assume the world knows about it. This spot is just a larger megaphone to the developer/tech community. For regular folk they have different watering holes like Twitter or Reddit with overlaps of course.

Intel seems to be on a mission to slide into historical irrelevance. Rome didn't die in a day and neither will Intel. I think this gives new meaning to planned obsolescence.

This reminded me of the video on DRM called C.R.A.P.(Content Restriction Annulment Protection) by David Berlind of ZDNET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww65z8HuIJ8

Pfizer seems to be on a roll. As if Viagra users needed another excuse to use it. Viagra is set to be the new aspirin pill.

This reminded me of the comedy reddit thread of China using the sea to hide its submarines:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/ap374i...

The CIA had a thing for Blacks including spying on Malcom X, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King (with FBI and NSA), killing Patrice Lumumba and having Nelson Mandela being imprisoned:

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272695/retired-cia-agent-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/15/cia-operativ...

https://www.newsweek.com/richard-gibson-cia-spies-james-bald...

https://www.krabarchive.com/ralphmag/JI/finks.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24279394

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/18/956741992/documentary-exposes...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/21/malcolm-x-de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_Democrat...