It's alright, no matter how bad that feels, it will never be as bad as all of us who missed the BTC boat when it was a little baby a few years ago. People spending it frivolously and treating it like it was worthless toy money since it was pretty easy to get. Then look at it now...
I gave away 10+ bitcoins on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. lol (on a different account... I was an early adopter of this website, too)
They would have been worth almost $200,000 at the peak of bitcoin's value, but I don't feel bad about it because there's no way I would have held them until that point. I mined them myself when they were worth like $12 each, and I definitely would have sold them when it hit $100.
S3XY is kind of funny. tesla should buy ford when they declare bankruptcy so they can get the "E" back (Ford owns the trademark on E for cars, apparently).
Telsa is vastly overvalued, and I'm a long term tesla stock holder (bought it when it was $50, sold and bought it a few times). They might get to this valuation when they increase their sales by 10x. I most recently sold at $950. Tesla is doing great and kicking butt, but the other companies will eventually build great cars. Just like IBM was overtaken eventually.
At $25bn market cap, would it be worth Tesla/Elon's time to just buy Ford - get the E - and then sell Ford to Renault or another European manufacturer looking to get scale through mergers?
>The proportion of people who will change habits based upon convenience is high.
Good point. Another key thing is economics. Nice vegan eco-friendly locally sourced sausage there buddy. 10 bucks? No thanks.
If the people with power to do so cared about animals and the climate, they'd do everything they can to make sure their vegan products are affordable to poor people. They need to be at least cheaper than the meat products. But that does not seem to be the case.
Not surprising. There won't be any Chinese people coming to riot and destroy their businesses if they don't.
Just like how many small businesses are forced to put up signs supporting BLM and signs saying they are minority owned and asking to not be looted. Because there is an implicit threat of being destroyed if you do not support BLM.
Diversity is good, but when it comes to stuff like the kernel or other system critical stuff, the color of your skin does not make you a better engineer. What do people even mean by diversity anyway? Addition of black or brown people? If a team of all Indian engineers adds a white person to the team, does that make them less diverse? Anyway, we need to be careful about this. Sadly, when management makes a poor hiring decision under pressure to add diversity and things go sour, people end up wrongly blaming the individual.
Torvalds is correct to play it safe here, because signalling for diversity ends up sending a signal to a significant portion of the free software community that the kernel development now prioritizes diversity/race/skincolor over the function and performance of the kernel. And fortunately/unfortunately, the kernel doesn't care what color skin of the hand that writes and debugs its code.
The color of your skin doesn’t make you a better engineer. But a community that excludes a portion of the population does limit the number of great engineers to draw from. Diversity helps improve the community and create a world where people who’d make excellent engineers aren’t pushed away.
