morganslaw

Couldn't they just expand into neighboring countries and push the others out? Israel has a super well equipped military.

What does this mean for employee salaries? Will it become harder to find new cheap talent? Will our technology evolution be as dynamic as it has been?

I think financialization is something you do in the later stages of a company's lifecycle. It is how you extract the most value out of the company as money, rather than potential.

I think companies have pretty clear life cycles. First they start, they grow, then the plateau, and then fall. Sometimes you may get a few bumps in the road, but generally this is the long-term cycle.

Financialization makes the most sense to engage when when you are plateaued and possibly falling. You can still extract value.

I think that the fall of Sears was a great example of the financialization and extraction of value of a dying company.

Financialization is trading off future potential growth or even long-term staying power for $$$.

Is Cronje rich as a result of his efforts?

Did he also make others rich?

Who benefited the most of his DeFi efforts? Which one succeeded the most?

Pirated software is okay for home users, but in a mission critical business context, you need constant support and security updates. Pirated software, by its nature, will not be as secure as official software, and it will not be as up to date. Also who do you call when you need support?

Basically pirated software is not a solution for mission critical businesses.

Also who do you think is cracking the software? The same people who would find it very easy to put in malware into the software.

If Russia is running on pirated software, it will be a nightmare.

They need to get off Western software and push open source alternatives. they are massively inferior, especially in the B2B software side of things, but so be it. This is what Russia needs to do now.

Is Amazon Go stores sticking around? It is confusing when they say "all physical stores" are closing, but even the Amazon Go ones?

I wonder if there is significant cyber attacks on Russian military infrastructure that is slowing them down?

Could you use Grammarly keylogs to train AIs? It could have infinitely more content than the web has.