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Tax cuts are used more often when the government wants to see more private investment into an industry. Not really an issue with 'AI' right now.

Direct subsidy is more common when the government wants to see a particular outcome; then they can more easily steer those funds to realize it.

10 EC votes to Biden. 0 to trump and no hope of any in this year's election.

1/8 red house seats. The other 7 very comfortably blue.

The rest of the state doesn't seem like it matters much to the only results they'd care about - seats and EC votes.

Republican side probably doesn't care; Maryland voted 65% for a democratic party president.

Not in 3 years each of experience in 'this specific nodejs library' and 'gcp networking' and 'foundationdb'.

Another entry in the 'marketing and technical terms don't mean the same thing despite using the same words' saga.

Good validation of the 'fail early' strategy. If the door came off when they were higher up it would have been worse.

However, this failure seems to have not followed a strategy; the result was just luck.

He understands that if he keeps spouting this stuff the stock keeps going up.

Not my intention, sorry!

Big organisations are stable, mostly due to the often frustrating inertia and lack of risk taking coupled with their existing, mature revenue streams.

Like with any other business, you talk to the sales team and come to an agreeable middle ground.

We don't pay 'list' for gitlab SaaS.

I think this trend to talk about startup practices in large orgs is more executive nostalgia and a complaint about all the processes put in place to catch mistakes that have been made before.

The same people as developers would be pursuing rewrites of rock-solid 20+ year mature software projects because there's a trendy framework.

Large organizations don't have 'startup spirit' because 'startup' companies fail. Employees of large mature orgs with 6000 employees didn't sign on to a company that's got a good chance of not existing next quarter. They're not taking massive risks and throwing halfbaked features into a brand new product with 1 client hoping to get bought by facebook or maybe an insurance company.

If those big companies are really complaining about not having startup spirit maybe they should provide an exit for the VCs and aquihire (briefly because the engineers will all leave asap) a startup!

In general a doctor is going to recommend and proceed with a hip replacement because it has been proven to have a positive outcome on quality of life, even considering the risks associated with surgery.

Someone getting a hip replacement is getting one because their existing hip is substantially impaired.

Yes it's better than their situation immediately before the surgery. It's probably not better than when they were thirty.

Amazing, and I've somehow managed to find each and every one of 'em over time in various comment threads, here and elsewhere.

If there's serious work that can't be effectively done any other way then complex and esoteric cooling setups to overcome those challenges are fine to design and use.

Not sure what needs 1600 cores in one 'chip' but it's probably fairly impressive.