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I think some of this is true and some of this is secondary to their bad choices.

If they hadn't fucked up their process and gotten complacent from the absolute lack of competition in the space, they'd be fine today. And, if they were fine today, they'd have had money to continue to support more money-losing/commodity endeavours that could have had good payoffs as long as the fraction of their expenses weren't meaningful to the business (e.g. mobileye, altera, 3dxpoint, Intel arc).

The main issue is they squandered the golden goose and then all other endeavours that were worth doing but riskier also suffered.

It was just a lot of bad management and bean counters going unchecked for a very long time. Their board is equally at fault for signing off on the destruction of the business for so long.

The 15 year comment was moreso a reflection of how they've been running, broadly.

Intel pioneered dram, but that was a long time ago, agreed.

Their more recent exit from 3d xpoint was very unfortunate in timing, though. I think that could have been a very cool technology to use in the current age.

This guy is seriously evil. He has just absolutely speedran becoming a POS. No surprise him and Musk fight.. they're fighting to see who can hurt humanity the quickest.

> which Intel doesn't manufacture.

Doesn't manufacture anymore*.

This company has been run so far into the ground over the last 15 years. Such a fall from grace, with so many decisions that just seem to never be correct.

It was a bubble.

Bubbles don't mean the tech won't one day be great and materialize into something great.

They mean there is a mismatch in valuations/equity/debt to revenue today, putting far too much emphasis far too quickly on potential revenue some time tomorrow.

It's okay. The downvotes give me a good pulse for where this place is at these days.

Don't worry, we're well moderated and free of bots here.

In addition to making us feel better, eating the rich takes them off the table and might allow democracy to slowly work again, whereby decisions are made by the people for the people. Lots of damage to undo ahead of any of this, though. And it starts with eating the rich... Or at least looking at wealth taxes, banning lobbying, getting money out of politics as best we can, etc.

We cannot solve/tackle climate change when we don't even have functional governments that actually try to genuinely support their citizens needs.

> Just not so much here.

They're here, too. Just quiet about their beliefs so they can talk about their passions. I'm mixed on this because we're giving a subset of bad people a safe space to talk about their not-bad parts, which is adjacent to giving them a pass. I don't know how to reconcile this because I'm also not the thought police.

In some ways, I wish everyone wore the basic foundations of their heart on their sleeve so I could at least filter out the evil from my life more readily and try to make space for some people with bad ideas, but a willingness to change.

Aka monopolies...

It's google trying to ask for forgiveness rather than permission, the news cycles making money on the cockup, and HN whiteknighting for Google because Google pays their wages directly and indirectly.

A viscous cycle all around!

Exactly. There's a whole gestation period where the mom tree carries the baby tree to term. Then the baby tree needs years to mature and develop. And because the dad tree was lost in the great google felling of 2026, the baby tree will be raised in a single tree family household, which will put additional strain on its development.

> it's one of the most pleasurable places on public internet to be

I think we have different definitions of pleasure.

This is a relatively dry place for any kind of conversation other than hyper logic conversation devoid of empathy or humour.

On certain tech topics, it can be very informative. On anything where there is a conflict between the topic and how the base makes money, there's a lot of down voting and sad rhetoric. As a result, you rarely get to discuss the harms of AI or certain oligarchs, e.g. musk, zuck, bezos, Russia, Israel.

This is a place mostly for reinforcing your own beliefs, rather than finding new ones, unless it's around a very mild topic.

> That'll be another $20.

That seems arguably pretty cheap compared to the human alternatives.

I do get super annoyed at how specific you've got to be with these tools. They are like almost like malicious compliance geniuses lol.

While I don't disagree, if we are to believe Anthropic's valuation claim, it squarely falls under "megacorp" territory.