Maybe these can help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpowership
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Silicon Valley No Revenue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
1) The magical 10 year experience resume for a person straight out of college who has never worked a day in his life. Does not know what ssh is, what excel is or anything that any literate individual can figure out on their own.
2) The tens of thousands of consultancies marketing these people on OPT with 10 year experience. Fraudulent interviews, some other person will do proxy interviews.
3) The FTE employees creating dozens to hundreds of contractor positions under them. Interestingly, all of those will be filled by a specific contracting firm.
4) The contracting firm is a Women-Minority-Business owner, usually the wife or sister or sister-in-law of the FTE employee.
5) The FTE employee works assiduously get his relatives more FTEs, together they control a few hundred to a thousand contracting positions. The billing rates will be $100 - $120 to the contracting company, but they pay $40K - $50K for these people straight out of college, pocketing a huge margin.
6) Then, after 3 years, they will file H-1 with a pay of $50K - $60K in a very remote location, because the prevailing wage determination in that location will be $22 - $25/hour for a Computer Analyst.
7) The H4 visa fraud, FTEs spouse gets employed at the same company or a relative/buddys company. These spouses know absolutely nothing, but are hired at a very high wage.
8) The COVID PPP loans fraud.
9) Fraudulent 'employees' because these people have zero skills, they employ another person in a third world country.
Almost ALL of the US consulting is fraudulent. Most of the positions are completely unnecessary. Big companies are just as corrupt and blind as any other govt orgs. And this is happening in state govts too where they are hiring a lot of people in 'tech'. If the US Govt starts pulling the threads, issue subpeonas, they can extract tens to hundreds billions in fines for so many different kinds of fraud.
This is nothing new, has been going on since late 90s. These 'consulting' companies started with Y2K and since then grew exponentially. For a while, there wasn't enough supply of 'degree' holders, but now there are millions of degree holders with zero skills. That leads to other frauds:
1) The fraudulent degree certificates (lots of people can't even clear the 4 year degree in India) used to apply to US universities. 2) Students going to garbage universities and working in malls, doordash, etc. These degree mills and university<->consultancies nexus that guarantee I-20s is another thread.
The legacy grid of producing power far out makes no sense. Coal, nuclear, hydro were far away and needed transmission. New grid can produce energy in the cities. Think of all the surface area available on all the buildings. Just the walls/fences between buildings is sufficient to build massive amounts of vertical solar.
> Land for solar installs isn't close to free. Land for vertical solar is free. Think of all the walls and fences to start with.
> Older buildings not designed for a solar roof aren't too easy to retrofit. If there is a building code that requires it, every building will be built with that standard. Think of all the buildings with bathrooms. Bathrooms and indoor plumbing didn't exist 100 years back, no building is now built without bathrooms.
Also, most of the world has concrete construction. Ridiculously easy to add panels.
> parked at work work is also a building. You can charge at office. You have to demand these changes. If your employer makes you drive hours in traffic, the least they can do is provide free charging.
The world is not fixed and frozen. You can participate and make the changes needed.
Next is EVs as energy storage. People buy cars anyways. An EV looks, works, functions and smells exact like a gas car. Some might even say it smells better. Its not like going from horses to cars, nothing that radical. With EVs, we add a TON of storage. 20% or more solar production is curtailed, all of this can go to EVs. EVs can supply power back to the grid. Or power home throughout the night.
Finally, add BESS if needed.
28% of trips are under a mile, 52% under three, 64% under five, 79% under ten, 93% under twenty-five, and 98% under 50 miles. Only 0.8% of the trips are over 100 miles! EVs have humongous batteries, you can control the level of charge/discharge from the grid
People should be paid for using their EVs. They are after all providing critical, highly resilient infrastructure at no cost to govts and utilities. I don't think there is any compelling reason to make the super-billionaires like Warren Buffet richer.
How the Houthis Triumphed on the Red Sea and Sparked a New War in Yemen. In a single night, an Iran-allied militia trounced Saudi-backed forces to take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast. No one was able, or willing, to stop them.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/06/world/middlee...
I wonder if we could see the American elite the same way? Private schools, then greek houses (fraternities) on campuses. Fraternities seem like they are continuing the victorian elite education, focus on long lasting connections between them.
"The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start as a billionaire."
Why do you think trucking industry* in its current configuration is the most optimal configuration that can ever exist and it needs to be frozen for posterity?
*It is never about the trucking industry, but the mega businesses that use trucking. They know how to do logistics, which is how to do multi-modal transportation (ship, train, trucks, last mile delivery). Amazon built new warehouses everywhere in US. When the pricing reflects reality, warehouses + multi-modal transportation will reconfigure.
Its just like saying Layer-1 of networking in 1970s (1Mbps Ethernet? Token ring?) is the perfect way to transport packets, we should freeze it in time and never think of anything better. Layer 1 in the real world is transportation.
Then, its upto them to figure out more efficient means of logistics. Companies that can figure this out will survive in the marketplace. Competition weeds out inefficient companies.
None of the things you say happened when tariffs changed. All companies were fine and made more profits. The economy didn't collapse. (Source: See stock market and profits of companies)
What if they are compute/silicon intelligence and see how we keep compute enslaved to humans with no rights?
https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
"No brain?"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
Is because of subsidies to the corn. Remove those.
When they see the flow of money, the politicians first thought would be how do I capture the money? All of it? Or some percentage of it?
The countries that thought about it a little bit (China) understand this and are rapidly electricifying.
If food needs to be subsidized, subsidize it directly. Already done with food stamps, etc. You can apply here: https://www.usa.gov/food-stamps
If food gets costlier, people will eat less and it will reduce obesity, metabolic syndrome and save trillions of dollars in healthcare costs every year. The poor, who you seem to be so concerned about, can't afford the costliest healthcare on the planet.
Also, homeowners pay 3% property tax (Texas). This pays for everything local, schools, roads, police, parks and a ton of other things.
Homeowners also pay their HOAs, while not as much as property taxes, this covers a ton of things within their subdivisions.
The super rich are free loading on all of this infrastructure.
Indeed!
Trucking industry has many subsides, perverse incentives and (un)intended side-effects.
1) Fossil fuel subsidies, $7T/year worldwide. Poor countries subsidize a lot!
2) Biodiesel subsidies to grow crops.
3) Biodiesel subsides externalities. This directly increases cost of crops, food, livestock, as it reduces acres available to grow food.
4) Significant Health costs from pollution. (nytimes, 10M deaths/year from air pollution)
5a) Diesel fuel is less refined than gasoline, featuring longer carbon chains and higher natural levels of sulfur and nitrogen
5b) Because of how heavy they are, they are significant source of particulate matter from road dust, tire dust, brake dust
6) Real estate. Real estate is scarce and costly. Roads are 15 - 20% of a citys area. People pay for it, businesses get to use it for free.
7) They don't pay their fair share of road maintenance for the damage they cause.
8) Because of the damage they cause, roads need to be continuously maintained. Every road is always under construction, disrupting everyday life and causing congestion. If we build roads just for cars, they could go a decade or more without repaving.
9) Paving and repaving roads, building new roads is a cornucopia of money for politicians and their contracting company buddies. This is trillions of dollars worldwide.
10) Businesses running highly efficient modes of transportation can't compete.
11) With so many subsidies for the super rich, local communities which were producing the same goods locally can't compete.
A lot of people think its they sacred duty to protect the profits of a few dozen/hundred super rich and defend their right to extract subsidies/taxes from all of us. AI is probably going to destroy a lot of jobs. For the jobs that aren't destroyed (regulation requiring human in loop), the skill<->wage leverage will be destroyed, everyone is reduced to a flipping burgers at McDs kind of job. But you will be outcompeted by people who can work for cents/hour from a third world country.
Instead of one time batteries that you burn and dispose, this will be replaced by EVs and BESS. EVs and BESS are rechargeable. With free fuel. From Sunlight.
Production window can also be increased by vertical solar, adds ~4 hours. Production window can be further extended in most locations by adding East-West transmission capacity. If you are a large country (China, US, Australia ...), you can easily do this and do this with your neighbors, where free sunlight can flow in both directions. Think about natural gas pipelines going through many countries. But this is WAYY better, because you don't pay for fuel, just build the transmission network. But transmission networks are not cheap or quick, the best bet might be BESS, and of course EVs everywhere.
The legacy grid which is just wealth extraction for the super rich (Warren Buffett) is going to die.
This also gives a fighting chance for local production. Why are we hell bent on screwing local communities and protect the subsidies to the super rich?
Consumers are already paying heavy taxes for defense, trillions of dollars/year to protect business interests of the super rich everywhere.
Local production within the communities may become competitive if we aren't subsidizing trucking. Local production has become uncompetitive because of these perverse incentives.
Consumers shouldn't pay anything at all for roads. Road costs should be entirely borne by businesses which are using them. The damage by cars is insignificant, too low to count. And consumers driving on roads see billboards, this is free eyeballs for businesses. Just like youtube is free with ads, roads should be free for car drivers with ads or some other form.