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Comment · 3 years ago
I see it more as scratching an itch.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is the trade off worth it? Is removing the pain of building with Cgo worth giving up the dependability and support of C based SQLite?
I don't see how but I'm curious to what others think.
Comment · 5 years ago
They could be but if network connection was a prime cause Microsoft would have highlighted that fact. Have they shown that is in fact the primary issue?
Comment · 5 years ago
> They do, in fact, appear to have the money.
$5.4 billion is indeed a huge number but gives no information as to the availability of the $1.5 million. Without knowing what the cost is of what they must accomplish with the $5.4 billion no conclusions can be drawn.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've had some experience dealing with the Weather Service when trying to develop a weather app using https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api#. It was a frustrating experience and my initial impulse was to vent about that. But I'm choosing not to do that mainly because it seemed at the time that every person that I dealt with at NWS was trying to do the best they could.
The situation that NWS is facing is basically that massive tax cuts coupled with growth in defense and social programs has left most other areas of the federal government hollowed out. The amount of money needed to fix the problem being discussed here is minimal but after decades of budget cuts across non-defense and non social-welfare programs there is simply little left to invest in improving services.
Comment · 5 years ago
Over the years the problem hasn't been a shortage of revenue, its been runaway costs. Adding further revenue is just wasting more money. Cut the costs of an inefficient bureaucracy (the MTA) and bloated labor structure (the transit workers union) if you want to solve the problem.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's also why I don't trust sales figures on individual products from companies with a portfolio. Sales tend to get credited to products that the company wants to show as gaining traction while really the favored product was an add-on to a bundle of established products that had their license renewed.
Comment · 6 years ago
That looks very interesting. Thank you.
Comment · 7 years ago
This highlights the commoditization of parts that will be part of EV market changes as well as the plug and play nature of EV assemblies. Massive changes to the current ways we build and maintain vehicles.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you for the correction. I was referring to Jensen and Meckling https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=94043 but the basis was Friedman.
Comment · 7 years ago
The idea of trusting any institution whose naked reason for existing is making money is absurd
How ironic that the idea that businesses only exists to make money for their owners came from the same institution as the article.
Comment · 7 years ago
Original source has a question mark at the end of the title.
Comment · 7 years ago
The only thing saving Google from an antitrust decree is the lack of an antitrust enforcement will in the US government.
Google is taking advantage of it's monopoly position in browsers to help another business area: advertising.
Comment · 7 years ago
Consider the breath of human knowledge before and after the invention of the printing press.