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Indirectly, maybe 8 years after Electron was first started, and not for the company that first invested in Electron. My point yet again: only companies with money to burn can take …

> But both of those lead to Electron, and Atom, and ultimately VSCode You just gave an example of 3 unprofitable projects. That's pretty much my point: great that we got all of thi…

There should be a concept called "engineering privilege". I see some companies do things that are widely out of their core product and engineers there just having fun with a bunch …

> C is great when you need to do manual memory management. Is it still, today? There are other manual memory languages today with better safety records and ergonomics. Plus a host …

It's not "prohibitively" expensive if they managed to pay for flights to the US, hotels and then buy several pieces of hardware. They definitely had more than enough money to buy w…

> Bought something online and didn't receive your product? With PIX you're SOL, with Visa/Mastercard you get a chargeback. Visa/Mastercard aren't handling chargebacks, the banks ar…

A "Pay with PIX" button is just a QR code. You reach the payment page, the merchant website generates a QR code, you open up your bank app, scan the QR code, confirm the merchant a…

External battery banks are a better reducer of e-waste as they'll work for all devices and not just the one cell phone.

That's not cynical. Trump has done the world a great benefit by transparently saying out loud what was hidden US policy for decades.

In the matter of drone production, which was my point, it doesn’t change the calculus. It is evident that short of regime change or popular upheaval Iran can produce or import dron…

Some of them. These were the stated objectives as per general Tommy Franks: * Depose's Saddam government Accomplished. * Identify, isolate, and eliminate Iraqi WMDs Failed. They we…

That'll never happen.

> A US CSG could simply sit in the Hormuz strait shoot down any incoming missiles and keep it open. They can't even do that in their own bases. Most of US defenses have been severe…

> A blanket comparison of Russia's attempts to eliminate Ukraine's industry with US Navy's ability to eliminate Iran's is ... questionable. We've flown 1000s of uncontested sorties…

Production is not a hard problem. Iran, a heavily sanctioned country, already has drone production in other countries. That's assuming no other country would want to sell them thei…

You're making the same argument I am. If Iran had a small increase in accuracy they could hit targets that'd disable a lot of Israel military and civilian infrastructure. A lot of …

> that could be 100 billion USD in deferred revenue, if we assume that LNG is not going anywhere from wherever it's sitting underground, and will be simply extracted and sold later…

A trillion seems large but it's not that absurd. The drone that shut down 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity is said to have caused 20 billion USD worth of annual lost revenue. They said …

Israel is similiarly lucky that it is surrounded by neighbors with US bases that can intercept missiles and drones before they get to it. All of its more competent enemies are very…

Very few countries lack the technological capabilities to produce these kinds of drones. What most countries don't have is, for lack of a better term, the resolve Iran has shown. V…

There is an assumption here that the value in improving defenses is the same as improving offensive weapons. That is not the case in the assymetry that drones provide and Russia is…

Humans today perhaps. People tend to underestimate our abilities in nature because we’ve evolved to be able to shape it. In reality humans had generationally transmitted oral knowl…

It was $999 back then. They could be made cheaper today. Those were Intel chips.

A solution to a problem that doesn't change the current state of affairs, which by your definition makes it a simple solution, is not an actual solution. There are plenty of simple…

I wish more would be done on weight. The 12 inch Macbook was very lightweight, just 2 pounds. Today there's no Apple product that gets close to that: an iPad with the added accesso…