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vor 22 Stundendiscuss

Any idea how one can join a board? Eating donuts and bagels with coffee once a quarter for 200k is my dream job.

vor 24 Stundendiscuss

Yes son. Go back to your iPad.

gesterndiscuss

Taxi / shuttle service also needs trained professionals, high fixed cost investment on specialized equipment, 24/7 availability.

I am shuttled to the airport at 4 am and paid $30.

It did not cost 20k per ride. So ambulance providers charge that much because they can. There is no real competition.

vorgesterndiscuss

You are exactly right. There is no freaking way there was no unsafe behavior in a code case of the size of Postgres.

In fact from a porting effort this is the first blog post I would expect. Not that the hey we successfully did it.

vorgesterndiscuss

Robotics is all about edge cases. There are so many applications where we have robots that can do 95% of the tasks flawlessly. Yet it’s not enough. This last 5% is so broad that it’s impossible to close

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

Name 1 case that we can evaluate 10 years after the layoffs.

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

Ha! The new boss of Xbox surely has innovative ideas! Layoffs, how nobody had thought about this before?

In every single case layoffs degrade the company’s core product. Unless they plan to completely change the XBox business (for example to one that sells hotdogs), this move will make XBox worse.

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

I am not interested in teaching you how to google. I gave you pointers and keywords. Now you have to go read. Good luck.

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

There is a nice podcast from the NYtimes daily podcast named: “can we reverse aging?” that covers a lot of this.

(Obviously when we discovered the reset mechanism people started asking why we cannot press the reset button at 70yo)

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

What is the accuracy in this ? Aka if I run the experiment 10 times how many differences will i get? I don’t have a physical sense on what would be a good number.

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

Embryos have to reset after conception to delete all of the faulty dna inherited from the parents. Babies don’t get born with wrinkles for example. They start clean slate without (most) epigenetic damage that both sperm and egg had.

So the embryo a 10 days after conception is not the same thing as at conception. Did God kill it?

vor 6 Tagendiscuss

Wasn’t the same concern with the Toyota Prius when it was first released? Only for all the doubters to be proven wrong by the taxi drivers who kept beating Priuses for decades.

In any case battery failure seems rare but it still is catastrophic and nobody can afford replacement. Hence companies should just provide some sort of warranty / insurance product for the few unlucky folks. Seems like an ideal candidate.

vor 7 Tagendiscuss

In the US last mile is super hard because of the super high wages. The only way to work around it is volume per delivery person.

If you do 2 deliveries per hour (like Uber Eats / door dash), you pay essentially $5/order (assuming a super low us wage of $10/hour and no equipment cost/ gas).

So no in the US, Amazon is not threatened by such delivery services.

Now if you go to China, the equation flips. Which is why Amazon failed completely.

vor 7 Tagendiscuss

If they were targeting 60% margins in grocery they would be bankrupt.

Retail has famously razor thin margins.

But their cash flow came in handy when AWS needed 300B in cash for gpus. Nobody could lend them that amount.

vor 7 Tagendiscuss

It’s not only a faster Temu for e-junk. It can also deliver your paper wipes and bananas in the same order.

Could you just place 3 different orders to 3 different vendors? Sure.

Could you just drive to the grocery for 2 bananas and then to Costco for the big discounted paper wipes? Sure.

But likely you will not. Which is why Amazon pulls a Trillion in revenue.

vor 8 Tagendiscuss

This is exactly why TikTok won. It is so much cheaper to iterate ideas on 10” videos.

You make non interesting 20’ YT video? Well too bad your 80 labor hours & equipment time are lost.

vor 9 Tagendiscuss

You will not have to deal with clutter if you don’t own anything.

vor 10 Tagendiscuss

I don’t remember any time in recent history where demand skyrocketed so fast and so far away from supply. In previous cycles you mostly had supply driven shortages (remember all the fires?).

Maybe crypto surge was the closest to what we observe today? But again completely different magnitudes of demand. No company put 1T of capex for mining

vor 10 Tagendiscuss

Because people are wasting time and tokens doing irrelevant to the bottom line things.

Cool you spent 2 days and $200 building a react UI for your spreadsheet.

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

I wonder how Germany missed the semi manufacturing train? They had literally everything: universities, manufacturing culture, expertise and supporting supply chains, cash.

I forgot, they also had ASML, freaking next door!