"However it is a pity that they cannot be disrupted. I have not had experience with platforms like Carvana.."
Where I see the street is littered with unused bikes for sharing (sometimes a trip hazard if you are not looking where you go while on the iPhone SE talkin) and unused cars parked for sharing. They multiply. The disruptors must be using a utility function with payoff after the sovereign wealth fund managers backing the thing cashout at the top, retire and die. And then there is no return on investment after WeWork's hard partying and snort.
That Kashogi affair exposed how backward the Kingdom is at executing. Sourcing out to CIA after consulting the U.S. President first could've been an option with perfect 2020 hindsight.
The latest Aviation Week podcast on the dumped $4B plus Boeing M&A deal for the commercial arm of a Brazilian smaller player has one industry insider analyst put positive spin on the 737MAX8. Business as usual.
Not hard to imagine scenario after political wrangling where initiative is launched and the first thing the new entity does is buy Oracle for HR very special edition which eats up all the budget for the first years of its life. And nothing is left to the original reason for being for that entity.
"Use the $5 billion to build housing for homeless people."
Homeless people are outside the circle of social distance and, therefore, social sympathy. Just sayin' the way to lower the cost is to produce more and sell more reprints of the manual at scale.
The creator of ARM speaks well of RISC-V and considers ARM yesterday's old news and has moved on. Comparing MIPS to ARM in essentials of architecture is MIPS more beautiful? ARM I understand is a mess that has evolved for its niche.
"For one, no labor could be hired to perform many farm duties, and certainly not for the amount that farms pay foreign temp workers."
The opportunity is definitely there to roboticize the backbreaking work those faceless poorly dressed "peasants" are subject to under the watchful gaze of new bossman from investor capitalized Communist Party China. Isreali robotics firms have demo proofs of concepts years ago. Even Elon Musk has posted YouTube clips of potato size sorting machine.
In the case of the second Boeing 737MAX8 crash that murdered more than two passengers for which the finger of blame points towards MCAS the blackbox audio recording will never be heard in evidence although it sits somewhere possibly in a Government's office.
"could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?"
Can you get data on this from a Monte Carlo method of study on match
play between sighted and blind players playing go and chess at distance
and blind which requires a mental model of the board state and
translations?
Where I see the street is littered with unused bikes for sharing (sometimes a trip hazard if you are not looking where you go while on the iPhone SE talkin) and unused cars parked for sharing. They multiply. The disruptors must be using a utility function with payoff after the sovereign wealth fund managers backing the thing cashout at the top, retire and die. And then there is no return on investment after WeWork's hard partying and snort.