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I took his class @ University of Delaware in 2002.

R.I.P Professor Mills.

They invested approximately $6 billion. Transferred Mustang brand to EVs. Ford made real investments and Monroe Live has rated Ford vehicles second best after Tesla and that is exactly the problem with EV market. Non-Tesla EVs suffer from lackluster sales is a known fact. Ford thought if they made investments they could succeed, and their initial release coincided with vehicle shortage so the early run inventory sold hot, but once market settled and early enthusiasm waned, the sales fell off the cliff.

There are two parallel thoughts going in my mind.

1. smoke and mirrors

2. hatchet job as a favor to Google for old times sake (healthcare.gov resurrection etc. relations).

Either way, this will not go anywhere, because Microsoft is run by competent people and FTC is not.

edit: upon further reading, retribution for losing Microsoft-Activision merger could be a possible thing too. But my final observation still stands.

I do not know why she gets so much fan fare for a single paper on Amazon. Her entire tenure was nothing consequential about Anti-trust. She was supposed to be queen of Trust-busting.

Just co-opt the lingo of a movement and forward your career. A walking talking self-promotion shop.

It is the hollowing of the middle, the poor will stay for the welfare, the rich will use their Nevada Incorporated Tax jiggle to stay around.

Thanks for your kind words.

Moore's law is dead, that means developers who will not waste CPU cycles will be in demand for the next generation of compute intensive development. Big Data needs big compute so obviously these kinds of articles are not only pertinent but is the way ahead.

I would not be surprised if we do rewrites of all the past 20 year code in to Rust or Go or any other performant language.

Lets agree on this, you are smart and the author is right.

I am sorry people who are complaining are not seeing where the ball is going.

the context ChatGPT provides around some of my error message inquiry is incredibly useful. on stack overflow, I have to read and discern the context.

Low Code suffers from same problems DSLs suffer from. You need to nail the abstractions down to be proficient in getting systems up and RUNNING.

Truly a civilizational company. Bravo!

thanks for providing some context here.

Lindy effect. ls is likely to be around 40 years from now since its already been around 40 years (I am assuming it's been around since 80s correct me if I am wrong).

The practices of project sustenance are already baked in, where as new projects like exa/eza have to figure out and put these practices in place to be around for that long.

We have a phrase "test of time" for a good reason.

I sucked at Vim. My tribute to Bram will be to learn it and master it.

It is one shoulders of these giants we ALL stand on.

CIA said 4 days RUS will be in Kiev! Honestly, CIA has one of the worst human intel. My only hope is these pot-heads in their hope of scoring some weed would actually learn the local languages.

I expect this line of explanation. You can always start with a hypothesis. I started with one, that EU targets Big American tech.

I did not include Meta's 1.2 billion Euro fine. For the sake of brevity.

Now, that you understand, I do my homework, all you have to do this -- give me a European company that was fined Billion Euros for anti-trust. One case.

(not group of companies or European company a defendant among 10 companies being fined).

I could not find one.

Self-deception is not my field of mastery!

>> Aren't we all supposed to be friendly allies?

We are allies -- but it is not a symmetric alliance.

Siemens (5) cases:

1. no fine. 2. 67.6 million 3. 750 million (partial Siemens in of one over dozen defendants) 4. No last decision/No fine yet 5. No last decision/ No fine yet

Microsoft (7) cases:

1.AT.37792 - 899.00 million 2. AT.39784 - non-fine decision 3. AT.39530 - 561.00 million

Remaining 4 pending cases

Google 7 cases: AT.40099 - 4.34 billion AT.39740 - 2.42 billion (2 non-fine cases) (3 pending cases)

Last one.. BASF - 4 cases: AT.37533 - 66.4 million (partial one of 10 defendants) AT.37512 - fine imposed (partial one of 13 defendants), fine document not found. (2 non-fine cases)

The amounts Microsoft and Google were demanded are in a different stratosphere. Now, you can comment about the choice of the industry I picked.. the heavy hand of Europe Anti-trust seems to be picking pocket of American tech companies a bit more than German bellwethers.

Thanks for the link!

the keyword is "anti-trust". Do the Germans go after BASF or Siemens if they buy a company? Has there been cases where German crown-jewels were beaten down by EU anti-trust regulators.

When was the last time, EU went after a European company. In the absence of anything meaningful from FTC, EU anti-trust is all we got. But has Europe held a European companies to the standards they hold American companies. I think it is a case of envy! Also, they had interesting solutions - like Windows should have a "choice" screen for choosing the browser and not too long after that regulation, Chrome came out of the gates and blew the browser markets. The rest is history.

Many threads in HN are prescriptive, but once in a while we get some wonderful retrospective threads. Of course, hindsight is 2020, but really has European anti-trust and their actions have they resulted in any meaningful change at any level. Or is it a punitive bludgeon they use to beat American tech because of their envy?

Toyota is a Japanese company, a country that will burn any thing to keep lights on. So, when people question Toyota's commitment to Electric, I do not take them seriously. Toyota might have sunk-cost going with Hydrogen, but sooner or later they will build electric vehicles. My take is, the complexity of Li-based battery supply chain coupled with their views on Total Carbon Footprint of Li-based cars made them wait for better options.

For Duck OS to shine, you really do not need a civilizational collapse. Consider a world that existed in 1960s, where computers were not affordable by a median family and only Universities and Research institutions can have them. We can get into that world with a dash of hyper-inflation and war in wrong places.

Semi-conductor industry has complex supply chains, and if cost of bunker fuel shoots to say $500 dollars a barrel, we are done with transcontinental shipping. There are few ways of getting there -- I know Civilization Collapse has dramatic effect and is the right marketing.

Good to know. Phoenix is home to Intel and TSMC fabs too. I was assuming they have this figured out, guess not.

American South West is Vast expanse. Depends on how you count it too. If DFW, Austin, San Antonio count as American South West for that 20% number, which is arguable, the Phoenix location does not make sense.

Phoenix datacenters are largely a SoCal play, the cost of investing in SoCal versus on the other side of the border with tax incentives a bit more business friendly environment and near zero land costs (compared to Coastal California metro).

When it comes to water management, the desert towns like Las Vegas, Phoenix do a far better job than coastal cities.

note: 80% of American population lives East of 98th parallel, that is roughly East of I-35 and majority of the remaining 20% is along pacific coast.

Having an actual virus was less tax on the system than having Avast and AVG.

are you sure the floor of India's growth rate from 2002 is 7%

I am looking at the following data and can see multiple 3s and 5s. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/gdp-growth-r...

Middle income trap is real. You do not grow like your teens and 20s in your 40s and 50s. Economies become big and complex, the character of the system changes and if the underlying demographics do not fit the growth model it is in danger.

Republic of Korea, Japan got rich before they got old. China got old before it got rich.

India disappoints both its optimists and pessimists. It is a middling country with growth spurts here and there, which is admirable in its own way.

Spain benefits from being part of EU, Argentina does not have a "support system" like that and sanctified practice of bankruptcy. In the long run, Argentina will beat Spain but that requires them getting their shit together, which is a big if.

It is a projection based on a model. People should stop talking as if it is fiat accompli.

Without immigration France does not have a healthy demography. As much as I am against exploitative forms of immigration, France has strong Unions and Strikes are their national past time. Not an expert in French economy, but a first hand look is their major corporations are luxury brands but the rest of the economy is a meh! Airbus is a collab with other EU countries and perhaps Dassault and a strong defense sector. I would be surprised if French economic pie is not dominated by government and its private sector is rather limited.

Canada eating America's lunch is something that I have heard multiple times in past 20 years. There was a time where YC took pitches in Vancouver or something perhaps a decade or so ago. I do not know if they are still continuing this.

At the end of the day, the immigration is only part of it. The economics of being Software developer compared to US or India are not that great (in general). That is where Canada in my humble opinion should focus.