In my opinion you are mistaken , affordability does not mean home appliance.
Hydro is pretty cheap , does not mean it’s fit for home.
Here the best scenario is similar to Singapore - Australia or UK - Morocco remote solar grid.
This innovation is very interesting compared to Water- Hydrogene electrolysis that is a bit expensive and needs metals that are going to become difficult to source in the coming decades.
Appreciate the graph in the article , this time the numbers actually are calculated by engineers from DoE , not by Journalists...
Even if the plan is there , without an “economy of war” and the implication of basically every single American it’s nearly impossible to reach those types of deployment.
Money is not the answer to everything , as pointed we are also going to reach “civilization” types of limits with land and ressource exhaust...
My humble opinion is we should simply consume far less energy and accept a much simpler lifestyle, that would be much easier ...
No surprise, just like Uber , Airbnb etc..coinbase has been overstaffed ever since they raised a major amount of capital many years ago...
Hence , I don’t see what 5K people can be doing at coinbase since some startups in Europe are doing the same with like 100 people...
It’s been known for years : startups overhire and lay-off when recession comes up.
With the “nazi revolution” in the 50’ , most startups rely exclusively on “Social Darwinism” , to solve problems or improve products , by having them fight internally and let the best ideas come to executives. Of course only employees who know how to navigate corporate politics are able to reach them and win those fights..
Those 1000 were not part of it, but they will have no problem finding another position somewhere else.
> I think FB, Goog, etc. could lay off thousands with no adverse effects and in fact an increase in velocity, quality, and quantity of new features/products.
You can add Airbnb,Netflix,Uber they often attend conference to describe their architectures.It’s obvious most of these people have no idea what they are doing have no clear direction. They are just havin’ fun will trying to navigate corporates politics. Even the stuff that is published online it’s scary to see their is no technical leadership what so ever.
To be fair I’ve worked in fortunes 500 as well, 60% of the workforce can be replaced with automation.
Since it’s cheaper and less risky they just keep hiring people for repetitive tasks , it compensate the technical debt.
>I would assume any modern processor would make a context switch a one instruction affair.
Has been the historic assumption, has been proven to be wrong by every possible benchmark.
Consider tech empower[0] for raw stack performance , runtime level threads outperform IO threads since OS thread were designed to be mapped on physicals cores.
This is very expensive and inefficient.
Creating one thread for every request you have ( Apache + PHP ) will exhaust the hardware after a few thousands/qps target.
Runtime can indeed have millions of those “lightweight threads” without killing your machine since they create a pool from physical threads and tap into IO events to efficiently switch or resume contexts. This is by far much faster.
Sigh , those single liner that both illustrate the ignorance and the status of the author.
I’m an enterprise architect in banking , 6 month ago I was hired for IT Transformation.
My mission was very simple « move the bank the out of mainframe »
In 2 weeks or so I presented a Kafka based runtime based with JVM contracts that would enable the bank to perform in a near real-time manner as opposed to « batch » processing while covering and simplifying 90% of banks related scenario ( SEPA , MasterCard , AML etc...)
The project was accepted by directors but devs refused to go into that because much like the authors they are 30 years in the banks and don’t want to learn something else than what they know « cobol ».
90% of our contractors work is spent dealing with mainframe constraint and writing interfaces and top of that piece of crap that can only process data at night or during the weekend.
Mainframe is not there because « it’s superior » , distributed system have largely proven their capability and maturity.
Mainframe are still there because of Corporates Politics and lack of Leadership from top management.
When you are reminded that Citibank lost 0.5 Billions because they spent 0$ on their UI, you may start to understand how much corporates world is rotten to its core and why mainframe is still there.
What rather surprises me are the comments claiming MSFT is suddenly going to go bankrupt because there is a pre-install spyware.
Have you ever worked in a Fortune 500 ?
Do you know how hard it is in those company to get anything done that has not been budgeted and planned years in advance ?
Do you seriously believe Fortune 500 using MSFT are going to suddenly migrate ALL their Azure workload somewhere else like some kind of startups run by 3 devs ?
Yes Azure VMs have spywares builtin , but last time I checked all Europeans companies that are using American Cloud fall under the « Cloud Act » legislation which « legally » requires cloud vendor to hand over ALL the data the company is currently hosting.
I’ve worked in some of the largest insurances in Europe they LOVE Microsoft and Azure , even if there is this spyware issue , they will pretend it doesn’t exist and do business as usual.
Im pretty sure everyone will forget about this news in 1 month or so.
To be very clear , this articles won’t help you much if you don’t fit the criteria’s the OP does.
Having discussed with VC a long time ago , it was very HARD to raise money without a very strong traction.
Very often VC were convinced with my pitch , and my product but would not invest either because they had stuff somewhat similar in their portfolio and often because I didn’t have a “track records” to proof my capability.
If I can recommend one thing to technical founder : don’t listen to this and build slowly while creating your own community ( users , customers etc...) and VC will come , don’t worry.
VCs are like dogs when they smell money they have the urge to come at you, you won’t need to call them.
For non-tech founder it’s the opposite : don’t make anything that is complicated or sophisticated, focus 100% on marketing and prototyping , I had friends raising 10M+€ for products that didn’t exist or couldn’t do a tenth of what was promised , but because they graduated from the most prestigious schools in Paris or London and had invested hundred of thousands in marketing ( 50K€ Website , Dozens of Articles in the Press claiming their idea was worth billions , Attending Conferences to reach out to executives in order to get corporates sponsors etc..)
VCs will prefer a strong team with a stupid idea that a Fortune 500 will be naive enough to acquire , rather than a good idea with an unproven team that would make money quickly after initial build phase.
Im not trying to say that what happened isn’t so bad , I just don’t see how with today international justice cooperation someone could truly expect « privacy ».
Wether this is a from a service provider or directly from your ISP, it’s not possible to get privacy unless your rely on private peer to peer network.
Reminds me of anti-free speech laws that was almost passed in France.
It was designed to help fight « hate speech ».
It enable police to remove literally ANY content from the interne t as long as it was « hateful » of course there is no legal definition of hateful.
I think similar laws have been passed in Belgium and Germany.
I find it funny that has economic growth from the post war era is slowing down and climate change is accelerating our fundamentals rights and freedom are slowly being taken away from us ,bits by bits with more or less the same laws everywhere.
The materials are indeed worth recycling but the process is just too expensive and complicated.
Best examples would be devices like phones/microwave/tv they contain lots of those rare materials.
Industrial simply prefer to sell junks for cheap in bulk to the African continent where very poor people burn those junks to extract the rare minerals.
It’s not as simple as « 100% recyclable = Always Recycled »
In Fortune 500 ? YES , pretty much everywhere.
In Startups ? It's Kotlin or Scala mostly.
JVM is far from being unpopular , but fore sure it's not as sexy as ['React','Deno'].push(...)