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Tread with caution...the prospects of zombie grift tend to be real when brand recognition is established.
[1] https://usb.org/sites/default/files/vendor_ids051920_0.pdf
When baseline consumer behavior is sort-by-price-low-to-high and select the cheapest item from random pop-up white label chinesium third-party vendor on Amazon, exercising an ounce of supply chain due diligence where none previously existed can go a long way.
To be sure, if you think you can economically defend against a coordinated supply chain attack by a speculative adversary willing to pony up real capital operating an otherwise legitimate facade for years building market goodwill only to burn it all down in one shot against a single worthwhile target...well, I've got a bridge to sell you.
This is a good enough "policy control" for the average consumer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...
Modern watches too, e.g. Casio digital watches marketed as integrating their "Wave Ceptor"/"Multi-Band 6" feature[1].
I still use a 17-year-old (batch code[2] 202A327G) G-Shock GW-530A (predecessor of this active offering[3]) that syncs with WWVB every morning several hours before dawn.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Wave_Ceptor
[2] https://shockbase.org/watches/batchcode.php
[3] https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GW-M530A-1/
>> Rejecting the anthropomorphism that permeates the preceding 10 chapters, she cautions that “putting too human a sheen on plant intelligence is a failure of imagination.”
A courtesy caveat emptor for the objective passersby suffering from acute antilibrary fatigue.
It's almost as if your reference was generated by some half-baked AI bot that doesn't know how to contextually interpret comma/period numerical delimiters in financial statements of US companies.
From authoritative source[1], Uber's 2023 bottom line reads $1.887 billion.
[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000154315124...
...which begs the question: What US federal agencies aren't deploying their GitLab instances behind CAC auth at a minimum?
>> The DDC/CI display is considered a fixed address display device at adddress 0x6Eh / 6Fh, and uses only I2C slave mode to communicate with the host.
...while § 3.3.1 specifies addresses for external display dependent devices.
To the GP's original remark, Meta paid out a quarterly dividend of $0.50/share a few weeks ago[1]...I'm sure you can ballpark what Zuck's cut of that was. When you do, square that notional figure against the limited use total comp above and tell us why the latter even matters.
[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00035241/
[2] https://www.trustedparts.com/en/search/232-1287-00-0602J
[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124...
Given the implied trend, and companies that the org highlights as partners[2], this outcome doesn't seem very surprising.
[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/464...
- obstructing the rear driver's ability to assess forward traffic conditions, especially if the leading vehicle is larger and/or has dark tinted glass; and
- posturing for insufficient clearance/time to safely react to an abrupt change in forward obstacle speed upon surprise discovery.
The tailgater pejorative is what drivers are most likely familiar with; implied risks are much easier to internalize when framing the scenario from this oft encountered context. It's just one possible path towards the conditions and outcomes being discussed, which is what really matters.
Sure, this might naively beg the question: Was the BlueCruise vehicle tailgating as a typical driver might characterize?
If yes, then the outcome should be unsurprising, and it makes me wonder how such an operating mode is even permitted.
If no, then it begs the even harder question of whether the automation tech is operationally mature enough to safely handle such a common known unknown.
Blind curves, peaking hill ascents, and backed up interstate exits immediately come to mind where peek-a-boo rear ends become a serious risk.
This scenario sounds like what I refer to as a "peek-a-boo rear ending". You see it exaggerated in movies with high speed chase scenes, but its real world equivalent is a very common road going scenario and almost certainly leads to a collision if at 45+ mph and the rear car driver isn't maintaining situational awareness of traffic flow several cars ahead...a scenario that aggressive tailgaters simply don't take into account in their public behavioral risk calculus, and clearly BlueCruise isn't capable of handling either.
5G --> 3GPP --> ATIS[1] --> includes every major ISP in the US
Equipment manufacturers are just one piece of a much, much bigger puzzle. Standards development towards at-scale adoption, global interoperability, etc. is just as important; consumers just see the end game of all that backend work, and to be quite frank, it's grossly underappreciated.
You've summarily lost your mind if you think any sane utility CFO would greenlight deploying capex to the tune of billions in gross excess of requirements for the speculative option of expansion capacity at marginal cost several decades into the future. Also, good luck convincing rate payers that increased costs realized today is to speculatively reduce the utility company's cost of doing business long after they're dead.
Worth noting that saffron adulteration in India is common enough that the country's Food Safety and Standards Authority disseminates public guidance on how to detect for it at home; see serial numbers 46 and 47 here[1].
The money printer I'm alluding to is the US federal government. They own the proverbial money trees that $8.5B in grants will be plucked from.
The US federal government is also the investor. They couldn't care less that the companies you're attempting to compare against "make money from chips". If the government wants money, they print it, end of story. Furthermore, these irrelevant companies aren't getting $8.5B big bucks for the simple reason that they don't have the independent capacity to make their own semiconductor products...they're fabless design houses, dependent on other companies' infrastructure and processes...more specifically, a certain most excellent company whose bleeding edge infrastructure and processes are physically located at the doorsteps of its greatest economic adversary.
What the US federal government more immediately cares about are sufficiently advanced fab owner operators, more specifically, those rooted deeply in domestic soil...and who better to incentivize than a domestic former alpha dog who ate his own breakfast. Intel isn't leading at the margins anymore, but they're certainly not out of the game.
If you're still not seeing the bigger picture, then I'd recommend reading this recently discussed[1] short story by Arthur C. Clarke to get a relevant feel for the underlying threat landscape.
Reiterating, the money printer doesn't give a flying fuck about stock price trends.
You're living in a bubble if you think the biggest money printer in the world actually cares about the historical performance of your cherry-picked stock comparisons.
If I may be permitted to reiterate: 28x GWP impact factor. Cherry-picking CH4 is hardly premature optimization...it's pure low-hanging fruit!
Consider this paper published in Nature Communications[1] which analyzed CH4 emissions from just low production natural gas well sites in the US. From the abstract:
>> Here, we integrate national site-level O&G production data and previously reported site-level CH4 measurement data (n = 240) and find that low production well sites are a disproportionately large source of US O&G well site CH4 emissions, emitting more than 4 (95% confidence interval: 3—6) teragrams, 50% more than the total CH4 emissions from the Permian Basin, one of the world’s largest O&G producing regions. We estimate low production well sites represent roughly half (37—75%) of all O&G well site CH4 emissions, and a production-normalized CH4 loss rate of more than 10%—a factor of 6—12 times higher than the mean CH4 loss rate of 1.5% for all O&G well sites in the US.
...and further into the paper:
>> At low production well sites, field observations report a common theme revolving around the issue of well site equipment negligence and disrepair as the primary driver of CH4 emissions. Most proximately, recent work by Deighton et al. documents several of these maintenance-related issues, including, for example, (i) leaks at fittings and joints, (ii) leaks and vents from rusted pump jacks, tanks, and other onsite gathering infrastructure, and (iii) evidence of well site neglect or poor maintenance, such as wellheads or casings covered in weeds or fallen trees.
In summary, an estimated 4 teragrams (4 million metric tons) annual CH4 leakage as a direct consequence of operations/maintenance negligence in just the US. Scaled by 28x GWP factor and now we're in the ballpark of 112 million metric tons CO2 equivalence.
Sounds like a big number, but I need a more relatable proxy to square that figure. This source[2] suggests a typical adult human generates 0.9 kg CO2 per day just breathing. Therefore, the value prop of dropping the penal hammer hard on negligent US low production natural gas site operators implies a CO2 sequestration equivalence of offing 341 million warm adult human bodies...effectively the entire US population! Apologies for the morbid anolog, but it's perhaps much easier to internalize impact by this measure.
Only a secondary goal? Sorry, the notion doesn't pass this layman's ballpark sniff test.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29709-3
[2] https://www.globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archiv...
In case anyone else was wondering, the EPA[1] puts a layman figure on that notional multiple:
>> Methane's lifetime in the atmosphere is much shorter than carbon dioxide (CO2), but CH4 is more efficient at trapping radiation than CO2. Pound for pound, the comparative impact of CH4 is 28 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period.
[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases#m...