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So Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk (and other stupidly rich executives) created hundreds of billions of dollars of value themselves? Of course not. They got their through exploitation. An…

The recently proposed wealth taxes (e.g., Elizabeth Warren’s proposal) that work the way you’ve described would only start on wealth above $50 million. So your framing of such a ta…

> And the answer is: when the rest of society slows down, suddenly those who couldn’t keep up don’t feel so behind. Well said. This goes beyond even the socioeconomic causes of sui…

You’re completely missing the point I was making. It’s not about the snarky tweets. It’s about how big and powerful corporations have become. I don’t know why I’m surprised; HN has…

Your implication is that Bezos’ employees were inconsequential to the creation of all that brand new wealth. Surely you don't actually believe that and this is just your ideologica…

You’re clearly not being charitable to her if you read her tweet and thought she meant Amazon has to be broken up because their tweets are snarky towards her. She’s saying that Big…

Would be good to elaborate.

Because I don’t use my iPhone like I use my computer (as in desktop experience). Many people like the simple, wall/garden approach to iOS.

I don’t feel like Blind is a good source. Selection bias at play. Especially with disgruntled employees or the ones who only care about optimizing earnings.

Well if you listen to some Tesla fanatics including boss man Elon himself, traditional car companies carry too much baggage from their ICE platforms to transition to EVs successful…

L5 under those conditions won’t be achieved in 5 years. Might as well not make the bet.

> According to a source with the Yang campaign, his revamped UBI plan would grant 500,000 New Yorkers in the greatest need an annual $2,000 - $5,000 through a program administered …

No. We need to deplatform these fascist lunatics. They trust live in an alternate universe where killing politicians and cops is okay.

You can take the mask off and just say you’re a Trump supporter. Anyone else who would’ve tweeted the things he has for the past several years would’ve been banned a long time ago.…

Blame CDPR’s marketing, not the consumers. Have you seen their marketing efforts recently?

I haven’t read the linked AnandTech article yet, but is there a clear answer why Apple was able to defy common comp arch wisdom (M1 has wider decode which works fine for various ap…

Could you expand on your first paragraph? What would it have meant for them to become a platform? How should they have dominated (sow, sow, sow)?

Im skeptical as well. The primary reason IMO is the software. How do you easily reconfigure your FPGA to efficiently run whatever computationally intensive and/or specialized algor…

Can you expand on why Intel’s move was smart (what did the Altera acquisition do for them) and why FPGAs have a bright future in the datacenter? From what little I’ve seen in this …

And yet with our two cameras, we still get into a lot of accidents. Why would we not want to improve upon that with additional sensors like LIDAR?

Not the last two iterations with the X generation design (XS and 11 Pro had feature parity between regular and Max versions).

This feels like an appropriate place to rant on something that’s been bothering me for a while. It’s really disappointing to me to see every single form of entertainment becoming a…

Musk said the same thing years ago. He’s a chronic liar and/or an over-promising, under-delivering salesman.

I don’t see how $10/mo is at all profitable with them adding all these AAA games to it.

I don’t disagree with you, but I see it two ways: 1. The continued conglomeratization in the tech sector is a worrying trend as we see fewer and fewer small players. 2. Only a larg…