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I realize Korea is an ally, but this seems like tech we wouldn't want to lose the domestic capability to produce. Or tech we wouldn't want to cede the lead on. Why would Darpa pour so much money in for this outcome?
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Same here. I can imagine Boston Dynamics stepping into arbitrary dangerous situations ranging from construction to rescue to military to mining to anything else. Slack's tech moat is minor, network effects are not considerable (not enough companies using slack to connect to third parties) and Microsoft is destroying them.
They've been trying to sell their robots to all of those customers for years, but they're still way too expensive for the benefit. As I see it, they're a very risky venture with their value mostly being in a hypothetical bright future.
It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
A casino is more profitable than a hospital.
If I had $10 million to make something new, I might well build a hospital. I don’t claim deep knowledge of either industry, but I suspect that survivorship bias colors the lucrative casino examples we are thinking of. In contrast, a few hours with Google maps could probably turn up a reasonably profitable site for a new hospital, just based on ballpark supply and demand
I realize Korea is an ally, but this seems like tech we wouldn't want to lose the domestic capability to produce. Or tech we wouldn't want to cede the lead on. Why would Darpa pour so much money in for this outcome?
It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
I think it's time for whoownsbostondynamics.com
It blows my mind that a chat client is worth over 26 times what Boston Dynamics is.
How much value is created by the chat vs by the robots? How many more users does the chat have?
This is a problem solved since late 1990s and is now well into extracting the diminishing returns phase. The market for chat applications is nearly zero sum game for a while.
In case of Slack, its continued losses every year is a good indicator of its zero value.