There's nothing to own here but the domain name. The server hosting is donated, the admins and channel ops are all volunteers.

The mistake the new idiot Lee made was assuming the value was in the userbase when the value was the volunteers. And the volunteers didn't like this "explanations" for heavy handed tactics. They started leaving and advertising their channels were moving to new locations so confused users didn't result.

The Lee did the same thing he did before, he employed heavy handed tactics against the volunteers because he again mistakenly assumed the value was the users.

Let me give you an example I've seen of this in several times in the Civil Engineering business. A construction company (or public company not in engineering) buys a well known engineering company with a strong backlog. Thinking that employees are assets and the value of the company is the name and the owners, like construction, they promptly put in place employee hostile policies from the construction industry where the typical employee is an unskilled laborer that is a dime a dozen.

The result being, all the experienced engineers flee the company. The engineering division of said company now promptly fucks up a bunch of projects and eats huge overages on fixed fee contracts due to the loss of experience and within a year the millions of dollars spent on said engineering company has been devalued to zero as the name is now shit and everyone worth anything is gone.

Whether you want to blame Gavin or not polls show the majority of Californians want Diablo Canyon shut down.

It's just like Germany, a country electorate that wants to meet carbon emission goals but also wanted the reactors shut down even more so the first goal went out the window.

I like SpaceX and think their achievements are crazy spectacular for a private space company.

But SpaceX has taken hundreds of millions in government R&D money. This is easily verifiable.

SpaceX has 1400+ starlink Satellites in orbit and will exceed 1500 with the, iirc, May 25th launch. It's an astonishing feat.

This doesn't include any of the commercial or government launched satellites which probably adds another double digit.

Blue origin took a defense contractor measure last year or the year before, i don't recall exactly when, and invested in significant numbers of jobs in traditional NASA locations (Alabama, Houston, etc) to try to get congressional support behind some pork.

It appears to have worked as the congress-critters are trying to force DOD and NASA to give them money.

Nothing like a little red state welfare for billionaires.

That's a really big IF. Like impossibly big IMO.

The linux kernel has several billion dollars invested in it (probably double digit billions at this point) Microkernels are easy to start but end up costing just as much as Linux has to serve the same markets with equal performance.

Like others have said, they would have been better off to buy QNX, BSD license it, and take the hundreds of millions spent making that micro-kernel work as a leap ahead. Instead they took a project with a grand total of a few hundred hours behind it and try to reinvent everything from scratch. Because if they didn't develop the whole thing in house it's obviously no good.

I've always wondered if they do this because they won't hire experienced developers only people right out of college.

Creating Micro-kernel OS's is trivially easy. What's hard is to make the result something other than a steaming pile of shit performance.

Every micro-kernel developed to date spends 90% of it's development time poking holes in the micro-kernel to improve performance above big pile of shit. Some of MS's best OS designers spent a decade poking holes in the NT kernel to improve it's performance enough that literally anything else including DOS didn't eat it's lunch.

MK's are easy to create, they are a mountain of work and hundreds of millions in development to make usable. This is exactly what Google will figure out over the next few years when they kill the Fuscia project. Google really needs to find out why it has NIHS (not in house syndrome) and address the cultural issue causing it and stop reinventing the wheel over and over again (and then killing this new wheel because it's not as good as any of the others).

The purpose of FusciaOS is for Google to get rid of the GPL licensed Linux. That and Google constant not is house syndrome where they constantly reinvent the wheel because the previous wheel wasn't developed by Google.

FusciaOS is the result of Google lingering issues with NIHS in both Android and ChromeOS along with their dislike of GPL software (or preference for BSD license).

But I tend to agree, it will be around a couple years, they will realize the level of investment needed to bring it even 50% of the capability of Linux and they will abandon it like everything else where they don't get a huge return in a couple years.

Oracle is the king of reacting to others by announcing the same thing. I tend to believe this is exactly that along with the number 1 you listed.

Oracle has probably been looking for a way to claim they offer Arm instances like Amazon for a year now.

Oracle is shit. Their licensing is awful, their cloud services suck and they are evil.

Given the windows surface ARM version (along with significant issues with the x86 version) is completely locked to windows I would bet they've locked the boot so it will only load a signed windows boot like they've done with their other products.

https://github.com/Sonicadvanc...

This usually ties to the fact that Qualacomm will not create or allow the creation of drivers for other OS's and their tendency to spin custom SOC's for each PC type device. You'll note in my link that less than half the hardware works on anything other than Windows for the Surface ARM version.

ChromeOS IS Linux on the desktop and it already has a significant share of laptop numbers and practically controls education along with comprising a significant number of sold laptops per quarter.

The former announcements about WinX we all about trying to counter ChromeOS's gains, particularly in education. But MS is simply not capable of spinning and maintaining such an OS at reasonable rates with Windows as the backend.

Google can afford chromeOS because it's almost entirely OSS and is Linux on the Desktop leveraging all the work that's been done and continues to be done.

You want them to fund a foreign corporation to build capacity outside the US? Are you serious?

So your suggesting Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all contribute funding to Intel, with whom they compete, to build US fab's. I wonder why they are reluctant.

Tax payer funded initiatives in tech are common. The chips in the computer you are using right this minute benefited from previous funding and R&D initiatives created by the US government. The existence of EUV lithography is because of US government funding along with dozens of other technologies created through similar R&D or direct funding created by Congress.

You might be ideologically opposed to the idea, but don't act like you haven't benefited from previous incidents.

12 Million sounds like a lot until you consider how many elderly there are that are moving to nursing homes or in residence with their adult children. It's not quite as simple as you make it.

As others have noted China has gone through 3 generations of single child families. As that moves through the system each decade halves the number of couples of child bearing age. For example the number of potential child bearing females in their 20's is half the number in their 30's. And it halves again with the numbers in their teens.

Even if China mandated that every couple have 3 children at this point a population collapse is pretty much a given unless they allow massive immigration of adults. Originally this was the plan with the one child policy, by halving the population with each generation they could concentrate more and more wealth in fewer numbers of people.

The US economy is driven on consumer spending. A 35% decline in consumers would be devastating to the US economy. Our economy is designed entirely around growth, without that growth the economy stagnates and then will begin retreating.