Agathos

"Dr. Fauci admitted that vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase vaccine hesitancy in the future."

Or, paraphrased: Look what you made me do.

> Restaurants, bars, plumbing companies, landscaping companies, accounting firms, etc.?

Do any of those businesses owe taxes before they've collected their first cent of revenue? That is the situation a software startup is now looking at.

Toyota has a lot to recommend it, but discounted prices are not one of those things.

"Warp Drive" dates back to 1947 (John Barret, "Stellar Snowball") according to sfdictionary.com (a resource I love for this kind of question).

Other phrases like "Space Warp" go back even further (Nat Schachner, "The Son of Redmask", 1935).

30 years ago, I wasn't playing 100-hour games because they were shorter. Final Fantasy IV (or II as we called it back then) was 30-40 hours, and we thought that was huge.

It's the Alpha team all the way down (or actually their successors, by now).

DEC -> AMD (Dirk Meyer, Jim Keller)

DEC -> PA Semi -> Apple (Daniel Dobberpuhl)

I think a lot of people looked at his last prediction that Tuesday morning, observed that 70 > 30, and assumed that meant it was a lock. And then spent the last six years blaming Silver for their own innumeracy.

The irony is there may already be a glut of 28nm capacity. But that embedded chip you're waiting for isn't fabbed at 28nm, so everybody loses.

The first time I had to fax something I put it in face down, like in a copier. And sent a blank page.

The billionaires' tax he mentioned is dead anyway, so that part of the discussion is moot. It was floated a couple of days ago as a possible addition to the reconciliation bill, but it's not in the framework announced this morning.

Whatever happened to Transmeta, anyway?

> When and how will the taxes help you and me?

In the US? On our 65th birthdays. Military spending is big, but Medicare is bigger.

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law." - Óscar Benavides

Oh wow they still have CueCats to sell?