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IMHO Elon Musk is very good at complicated problems, but not so much at complex ones. By complicated I mean problems that can be decomposed into well-understood tasks with clear co…

Investors have a lot of faith in Elan because of his track record of achieving very unlikely challenges (design and mass produce electric cars, design and launch rockets, ...). The…

FSD would be a competitive advantage if it could Full Self Drive. Since it cannot, it doesn't matter how not remotely close any competitor is.

Shahed where originally designed and manufactured by Iran. Russians initially bought and licensed them. And I assume are now improving upon the original design. Russian is top down…

> I'm honestly not sure what the moral of this story is. That people will go with what is easier and works? That open source and open standards don't win by default? That it takes …

> The trouble is that AMD just didn't take AI seriously. Until a couple of years ago, AMD was in survival mode, fighting Intel on one side and Nvidia on the other. Two rivals that …

> Why should middle class in the West vote to allow outsourcing to cheaper countries? Because you can run but you can't hide. If you institute protectionist policies, you will in t…

The same could be said about Apple. All their chips are made by TSMC.

Stock brokers track perfectly the transfer of people rights to stocks millions of times a day without any decentralized ledger. In fact, a SQL DB has worked quite well for many yea…

Don't they own GitHub which employs most of Electron's contributors?

Originally, SQL was sold as a way to make programmers redundant by allowing business people to write their own reports. In theory, with SQL any executive could write his own report…

This is not a good argument. It would be the equivalent of me asking: Does the trash pickup service, repairing potholes or patrolling the street cost more if the home owner just mo…

He doesn't have to move far and away, he can go live to the other side of the San Mateo bridge and pocket at least a million dollars on the house price difference. And as others ha…

I never say it is fair to evict them. What is unfair is to have a two tier tax system: one for nubs and one for the established. The noob faces a double whammy, he needs to put a l…

>> So a retired person should be forced to move from his little 3 bedroom house because some Googler decided the house next door was worth $3.5MM and his property tax goes up to $7…

>> They don't need the highest property tax, too. Prop 13 doesn't change the property tax rate, it changes WHO pays the full "nub" rate and who enjoys a "nobility" rebate. It disin…

I don't know if this has happened to other people, but I sometimes read a whole book and at the end I realize I do not know the names of the main characters. I can recognize the na…

Audiobooks are purposefully read a slower than normal pace so non-native english speakers can follow along. So, if you are a native speaker or you are fluent in the language, liste…

Intel's Client Computing Group – 55% of 2016 revenues Intel's Data Center Group – 29% of 2016 revenues Source: Wikipedia That is 84% of their business.

Leaving aside the GPU market, if you believe AMD is going to take and sustain a sizable share of the CPU market in the next 2 years (in particular server, mobile and high-end deskt…

Where can I get a save investment that pays a 4% annuity that rises with inflation? I'm genuinely curious. My father is retired and has some savings and that would seem like the id…

Let's take your own reasoning and let's apply it and see where the numbers fall. The Bart cost was $1.586 billion (according to Wikipedia) or around ~$10 billion of today's dollars…

All big infrastructure projects are very expensive, always miss their deadlines and go way over budget; it is the nature of the beast. I'm not saying it is ok or that it could not …

Cronyism is a subtype of nepotism.