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In the ballpark ($2-4 billion in the 1970s): https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-...

It’s not clear to me whether you’re characterizing that as trenchant business advice or cynical bullshit. Meta has had several rounds of layoffs now so it surely can’t be the former.

Also Guy Kawasaki probably isn’t the first to say this, but I’d guess he predates Zuckerberg: https://guykawasaki.com/the_art_of_the_/

Once upon a time I took a course where the prof read excerpts from Chaucer to us. Middle English was much more decipherable to this modern English speaker when it was spoken.

Pretty sure it will be like TrumpRX. Big PR blitz and when the details are exposed, a nothing burger.

Concerning independence and autonomy, I ruefully recall hearing the saying “You get to work your own hours … as long as it’s all of them.”

The article says "I ended up having 26 interviews and meetings (of course I kept a log) with various AI tech giants."

I don't think that indicates that any one company interviewed him 20+ times.

Plus government backstop. The federal government (especially the current one) is not going to let SpaceX fail.

Amateur status hasn’t been relevant to the Olympics in quite a while.

Personally I’m willing to pay more to support global trade, and reduce the harmful effects of excessive nationalism and imperialism.

Actually its easy if you're a multinational. You invest outside the United States.

I can’t tell if you’re joking, because I’m looking at the site on chrome on iPhone and there’s numbers.

Perhaps you've looked at the site so much that you're blind to the numbers at the start of each item.

It would be cool to see the EU bar a few tech CEOs from travel to Europe, since they’re very clearly the people behind this. Say Zuckerberg and Musk. Tit for tat immigration restrictions seems like a hot upcoming idea.

“Shittiest Possible Outcome” is basically the motto of the current administration.

Sorry, I didn't follow the thread, thought you were referring to the top level article.

I’m curious how you deduced it’s from 2024. Timestamps on the article and the embedded video are both November 2025.

Definitely true, but Oracle is the worst, has been for decades.

The article is essentially describing virtual memory (with enhancements) which predates the 6502 by a decade or so.

We gave our parents an iPad for Christmas. Now they have two and never turn on their computer.

I am guessing that it’s a highly automated process, so per unit costs are not going to be affected much by the cost of labor.

New CEO started in March, I vaguely recall him cancelling fabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip-Bu_Tan

I’m curious what state that is.

Somewhat similar to the Shoeshine Boy Theory: https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2020/06/11/in-1929-the-warn...

Passion can be its own reward. People run into their 90s, it is obviously rewarding even if not “great.”

This should really credit Joel Spolsky somewhere: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...

One of the interesting things I read in the article is that the industry is a duopoly, and one of the companies is a Canadian company, New Flyer Industries. I went on a tour of their factory many years ago, and they told us they do most of the assembly of the busses there, then ship them to Minnesota where the engine was installed. They did that in order to meet US content requirements.

I guess I’m an “under-indexed person” (whatever that is) because I didn’t really enjoy that.

I’ve always been a Porter guy when it comes to business strategy though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter's_generic_strategies

Look again, it's under Yankeedom. Anticosti and the Magdelenes are nearby and under New France.

One personal pet peeve I have is using obscure (and in this case, non-Google-able) acronyms. Its easy to just give the full name once, then use the acronym after.

I’m curious what visa the “extremely talented people from the subcontinent” were on. If they have a green card or are naturalized citizens, there are very few paths to those statuses that doesn’t involve an H1B.