I don't either, and I don't want a war with either Russia or China nor do I want the slow escalation that is currently happening. But the political reality is that the US will not be decreasing defense spending any time soon. There's no voting this situation away.
> I really do not understand why governments aren't working hard to make this kind of gig-economy illegal.
It makes money and the current governing/legal doctrine says the government should give a lot of leeway to that. Biden has been touted as the most pro-labor president since about LBJ, but a lot of this is just letting the NLRB mediate every individual starbucks that unionized.
No actually, that's about the opportunity cost of war. There's a left-wing argument I frequently see that the US finds wars to increase profitability but I'm talking about the propping up of firms to keep the industrial capacity ready. It is not the most productive use of capital, but it is productive.
It is though, more value is generated by the MIC than is put in and war has yet to ruin the productive capacity of the United States. The societal ills of this are why it’s popular to call America an evil empire
There’s definitely an element of rubber banding and I think this time some of it is built up resentment about how liberals dominated big cultural institutions like TV and movies. That said I don’t think everyone who voted for trump cares about this, but the malaise of the Biden presidency was a powerful proximate factor
In terms of a cultural moment it feels like the 80s. Millions of his voters weren’t ideological conservatives but didn’t fully disagree and like the strength Reagan projected after the turmoil of the mid 60s through the 70s.
They abandoned the movement during bush senior and the Clinton years.
The goal is to always be bringing in new talent and cutting lowest performers to increase productivity. They want the new talent and don’t care about the low performers at a personal level.
I don’t think this reflects the reality of the power industry. Data centers are the only significant growth in actual generated power in decades and hyperscalers are already looking at very bespoke solutions.
The heavy commodification of networking and compute brought about by the internet and cloud aligned with tech company interests in delivering services or content to consumers. There does not seem to be an emerging consensus that data center operators also need to provide consumer power.
Is it going to fall significantly for data centers? Industrial policy for consumer power is different from subsidizing it for data centers and if you own grid infrastructure why would you tank the price by putting up massive amounts of capital?
Now building on AWS inside is heavily emphasized, but just a few years ago most services were built with internal systems that are very different. Some solutions (multi account/cellular architecture for example) seemed to come from dog fooding heavily, but supporting services (like account SSO for handling many accounts) are still very different from the publicly available equivalents.
Yeah, same with ending filibuster and other speculated tactics. I don't think you can close the door behind you without a constitutional amendment, which won't happen.
If if you click through for meta analysis of most of the drugs listed, it claims a statistically significant reduction in mortality. That seems incredible.
I suspect how Milei would frame it is he's focusing on the currency crisis and deficit. If/when that is under control, Argentina will be more attractive to foreign capital or some other mechanism of creating better paying jobs which will alleviate poverty.
I don't think the people quoted in the article are saying the plane is going down, but rather the policies will probably get reversed due to politics.
I was doing firmware in IoT/M2M for an engineering services company back then and it was the tail end of "slap a radio on [common product]" projects for that company. I saw a few projects end with the arguments and fingerpointing with inevitable laser focus on what the SOW actually said and it always sucked to end that way.
Is the moat that good for HW? The more commodified your product is, the more you risk losing to undifferentiated foreign competitors who have lower input costs.
There's been places where capital is the main issue. Like Chinese SEZs attracting foreign capital with low regulation, low labor costs, cheap land, etc.
One big difference is Uber only has a few peers and became instrumental before the realities of market size caught up to them.
But every hyperscale data center owner is investing for themselves, major companies capable of the R&D are investing in their own science, and the market for LLMs is slow to materialize relative to the hype. That's money that might have gone to OpenAI if their situation was similar to Uber's.