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mircea_popescu: car cleanning doesn't randomly switch your tires out with popsicles.
mircea_popescu: other than that, they probably should move to c# or w/e.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the only problem is the notion that power rangers = "core", somehow.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well i dunno, 've not been following so close.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahjaha oglaf is becoming exquisitely better with time
mircea_popescu: the fall guy, whether a natural or juridical person, is not "that which doesn't deliver at all".
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, apple also delivered to some degree. that's not the contention.
mircea_popescu: how about gigavps, for his bfl-will-deliver based items ?
mircea_popescu: people readily forget that the asicminer on mpex deal fell through once asicminer wouldn't sign properly. which was clear enoug writting in the wall in 2012 for mpex investors never went into it. and so...
mircea_popescu: basically, poor but smart chinese boy has figured out that if he uses dumb but prideful white boy as his own hand puppet, he can let HIM get all the "certifications" which are worthless anyway, then let HIM underwrite all the credit, which is what the investors want to do anyway,
mircea_popescu: the way foxconn is using apple as a detachable glove / investment point is exactly copied after the manner some chinese guys used "friedcat" / asicminer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im starting to get some appreciation of the chinese scam by now.
mircea_popescu: so i would humbly suggest that the naked emperor lives in a cage.
mircea_popescu: in spite of what was it, elsa the she-fox going around endless rows of nude chinese pubescent girls with a whip and two cobras.
mircea_popescu: in the same vein, it would be interesting to know how much of computing expertise lies in ibm as opposed to its gates contractors.
mircea_popescu: "apple's the world's largest buyer of some classes of items. while not the largest in any class of any import, and not the largest buyer in any sort of general perspective, one could select some items by a criteria more or less alligned with "items apple buys" to make apple apear like the largest buyer of items apple buys"
mircea_popescu: "Apple is the world's foremost manufacturer of goods. "
mircea_popescu: fuck you i've been studiously ignoring the whole mother thing in favour of may 1st "young eager sluts" day forever.
mircea_popescu: obviously it should alternate, however... us has been stuck on motherly for too long.
mircea_popescu: "motherly" in the sense of, prioritizing survival over performance.
mircea_popescu: more along the lines of, "if you had to do surgery in the forest, how'd you go about it"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not like i'm running, you know ? but if i were, this'd be the play. not arguing the structure's not stupid.
mircea_popescu: the importance of electing presidents that don't actually love the country. not in a motherly way, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: it's a do or die sort of measure. either the country picks up, a la china, or else it goes to shit.
mircea_popescu: that'd be my presidential platform. 1 thing : electronic products are a point of strategic interest, may not be imported. cya 8 years later.
mircea_popescu: but hey. "thank you for your leadership & we recognize each other for another 59 wasted minutes"
mircea_popescu: 1trn of expenditure in one quarter, no need to "stimulate" anythin
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the us suddenly has an economic basis. all those fabs need to be built right ?
mircea_popescu: the turmoil this will induce in china takes it off the map. their military is very powerful in a defensive stance today. it will be offense capable in 2-3 decades, but it's not there yet.
mircea_popescu: all this idiocy with "reindustrialize on shale oil" bs, when the correct avenue is directly obvious. ban chinese made electronics. problem solved.
mircea_popescu: decimation mebbe so. why would a us company care about china "antitrust probe" ? they can probe themselves up the ass.
mircea_popescu: and besides, admit that europe invented the most important thing of the 80s ?! NOWAI
mircea_popescu: i don't think the usians were going to use the same chips as europe no.matter.what.
mircea_popescu: but my point being : on the basis of an order from someone whose yearly gross revenue is 40% of the value of the order
mircea_popescu: here's something i don't understad. so, qualcomm side : in q4 2014 it announced a 2.4 bn deal with csr plc, to deliver chips. then in q1 2015 it announced massive share buyback. from apple side : they moved the modem chip order from qualcomm to intel. from csr site : 50mn operating profit on 1bn gross revenue.
mircea_popescu: of course... they sold ~3bn of chips last year. it may be that on the contrary, they told apple to pack it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller hardware css is usually done with a broom, or a mop.
mircea_popescu: pretty much every single thing they say is wrong. how the fuck did conde nast manage to collect every idiot in america on the same site ?!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller dude going through that reddit thing you posted.
mircea_popescu: i am absolutely convinced that 99% of the soi dissant software engineers are in fact "web experts" of the "i dont no biari (i know a littel java.)" ilk
mircea_popescu: while i expect your 90% figure of ee's working for govt is only met if you actually count every us public company as an agency of the usg (a position not exactly undefensible, people still do the same to stuff like gazprom etc, notwithstanding the ru oligarchs actually have a lot more independence than the us "ceo"s of public corps),
mircea_popescu: or moreover : hardware has lengthy history, hard to undo by a bunch of libertards. the person doing hardware css is known as "the cleaning lady" and doesn't get much pay.