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Yes, many US politicians have a JD. That helps them become 'smart' politicians, that is to become corrupt while being legal. That legal training helps what to say, how to keep layers between them and the money, etc.

'98% of the company's legacy code' is very vague. How many code bases? How each code base is connected to any supported Cisco product? How many KLOC the company's legacy code?

It is a reasonable thing for them to cash out. Of course, for long term investors, it is a different story.

Hamas doesn't rule the West Bank though.

> and it really helps if they're someone who has an existing history of making this size and kind of trade.

This is the strategy many hedge funds used before some of them got busted. Raj Rajaratnam, a HF billionaire, mentioned this somewhere.

Do you need to work as an apprentice for 2 years before you get that electrician license in your country? In many states of US, it ranges from 1 year to four years.

What are the ways to make models work on AMD, Intel, etc faster? Do AMD, Intel, Tenstorrent, Qualcomm (due to their Modular.ai acquisition) combine forces to take on CUDA?

Every ex-Google Deep mind should start a start up, get funding from VCs and Nvidia. Sell the startup back to Nvidia. That's the best play for those who are capable of this kind of AI startup.

Nvidia invested $500M in Firmus a few months ago. It is interesting to note how Nvidia is investing in every start up that deals with AI, data centers, etc in order to keep the train going.

I am not against trades, nor am I against overhead. HVAC trade is something I follow. Many honest HVAC trades people on their YouTube channels say how many companies are ripping off of customers: recommending full replacement instead of fixing it; using tools like ServiceTitan and apps to add more line items to rip off customers; etc. r/hvacadvice on Reddit attests this new phenomenon. This is not about how home owners find trades expensive. Fellow trades people also agree with it.

I understand about overhead. Diesel price, truck depreciation, commercial space lease, dispatcher salary, non-uniform demand, workers comp, taxes, ...

Absolutely, one should charge 200% if they want a service at 3 am or during weekends. I would even charge 50% extra if they have a furnace in the attic, crawl/inaccessible spaces. 100% extra, if their attic/crawl faces have rodent feces. Home owners should better put these stuff in an accessible mechanical room. Accessibility is an important factor, and helps trades people to troubleshoot faster.

Earlier they included Cloudera and Cognizant.

>But what is the incentive for contractors to participate, and how does it overcome the enormous disincentive of "You are training your replacement"?

They don't need any local companies to participate in this program. This company can hire engineers with an understanding of code (even better, engineering/safety principles behind the code) from the industry. Further, they can go and recruit intelligent people who graduated from trade schools but couldn't get that apprenticeship from local unions. That's all they need, as long as home owners are compensated for any screw ups.

The first line 'Partnerships with home-service companies ...' tells the whole story. No local company with decent trades people on their payroll wants to work with home-service companies, it's always the lowest bidder who wants to get that job from home-service companies. Who are these lowest bidders? Someone brand new, who couldn't get enough clients.

If residential HVAC has more monitoring controls, it is easy to diagnose 99% of the time. What needs to be monitored: supply air temp, return air temp, suction pressure, suction temp, liquid pressure, liquid temp, compressor inrush amps, compressor amp draw, blower motor cfm, blower motor amp draw, further info from ECM and VFD modules if ECM blower motor and VFD compressor are used, etc. Many modern HVACs have some kind of error codes to show what is going on; however, every manufacturer wants his own set of codes, and their special communication prototol, their special thermostat, ...

One can extend similar controls to plumbing and electrical too. That requires a total revamp of how residential electrical/plumbing/hvac is done. This is similar to any field where robots have taken over: the field itself changes in order to accommodate robots.

is it instant ACH?

Large companies will take the same route as Meta and Microsoft. Small players will go for local LLMs with the right hardware.