It is going to fun to go through the Russian archives in 2040 and watch the now front line 3 letter agencies chiefs squirm from retirement. The archives of the 1960s that were examined showed russia could have been pushed over with a feather. That Russia is about what we see, beyond a nuclear missile force, not much. They send the worst possible troops to meatgrinder because if they would send Moscow's favorite sons the war would end. If the west would really mobilize this Russia v west would be over in months, but that is one and done profits. Now if putin is being honest with his needs, he is going to wake up one day, figure the winner is no winner at all, launch the missiles and put us all back to 1790, if we are not all dead.

Putin does not care to understand the western system, else he would run to make the oil partnerships and tell his alligned states to cool it. . He cares about his grievance, and if Trump or Biden/Clinton/Obama win, he only cares about the effect on NATO.

Humm NJ.... where dreams go to die.

Wait we give the IRS a lot of money, and the goverment gets worse every day. The urban assholes become even bigger urban assholes as we spend money there. Burning money on no results is modern society, we took it from poor sucker in the third world, he did not need it.

This is a guy who bought failed airlines in the start of the deregulation era, and because of that has used the tax code not to pay income and cap gains for decades. Sounds fishy, no perfectly legal, the tax code is a new deal for tax accountants. IRS public spokesmen openly say the IRS is used as a weapon by politcal apointees, since 2012 do not care what the IRS says about anyone but me.

Its all a game, Trump is moderately successful billionaire with a public hobby, short circuiting the liberals. Quite entertaining as a constitutional conservative with a libertarian social bent , will vote for him because he is short circuiting the liberals and corporate media thought process. Got civil rights liberals eating the CIAs, NSAs, DOJs messaging, and begging for more. Nobody is out there wanting to put him into jail except insane does not matter constituency groups, the democrats just are providing a bit of friction to the biggest comeback story of all time. The story is better this way.

You do realize as the owner of the IPOed company, there is no benifit from any trading, you can do all the non forward looking marketing one wants to do and SEC is all the risk. The IPO you let the stock run up, and 120+ or 365+ days later you take something with a cost basis of a penny and sell it for $3.00 - $300. What the price is really does not matter. Ok say your IPO was said to be worth 3B and it only goes off at 1B and is gone after a year... you get a tax advantages of a 1B dollar loss that might have cost 52 Million dollars.... Big deal.

You seem to think you are the only one with antiauthority tendencies. There is a lot of grievance out there, Biden has not exactly hit the goals that he made a big deal about. DC cannot get anything done, securing the boarder went from really bad goverment effort to a funded campaign to walk north. You think to the average person 2016-2020 looks worse than 2020-2024.... I am sure trump voters will turn out, they have taken the bullshit from the media for 8 years, they are rather quiet, they want to toss biden and prove 2020 would have never happened without mail in fraud.

Trump voters will eat your babbies, for sure. They will want 8-5 jobs that pay a wage, whatever the democrats are offering, a few hours at uber, to scrape by isnt their desire. The auto companies have 200-300 days of inventory, they are going to lay off just about everyone this summer. The dealers have cried uncle. The democrats do not even bother say "learn to code" anymore from Vegas to Pittsburge, their EV bet is a push at best. Michigan's big gretch, has not even step foot in the western part of the state, Biden has not touched west of US-31 of michigan in 12 years outside of very controled events, where the UAW membership isnt invited.

Michigan is not even getting the campaign biden spending, they wrote it off in Jan... one state down. Wisconsin, has a industrial slowdown, and 92% with not show again in Milwaukee, that is two. Georgia.... clown show at the DA office shows what you get with democrats, local clowns doing clown things.... that is 3. You got to be able to walk into a state and be the man, we got waddle in if not tired between 10:30am - 11:15am

Reddit spent $804 M to make $713 M. Truth spent $52 M to make $3 M. On the site of news for nerds. we all know setting up the technology costs (good thing, pays most of us on the site). Whatever truth does or not does is in the technology on the site today, going public gives it enough cash to attract content providers. We have been here with Rumble, we have even been here with Facebook, we have been here with twitter/X, insane valuations. You want not to have an option to buy any of those on the IPO?

The philosophy and art departments have had this problem with the sciences wing forever. They get all the budget, building their bridges, space ships, nucellar power stations and world wide networks while we get the short end of the stick talking environmentalism, communism and theology. PHD in math and physics chairman, with 2000 patent holders in his department and a billion dollar information exchange deal to defense contractors - "Duhh....." Computer science emeged from math because that is where compute was first sponsored, physics jumped on to high end compute to model everything.

None of it. As a small town ISP you park yourself next to a CO in town and buy a good trunk to the high spot in town and have 16 fibers installed the first time you order a 10G citcuit... perhaps you may pay a 15k install charge but structure the deal to get the first year of 10G bandwidth for free. The LEC knows they are going to get you the next 3 10G circuits, and they dont have to cover the installs for every farmer with questions. Their additional costs is nothing, they already have 16 fibers ready for 100G going to three other COs, they just do mpls assignments and vary what service cloud the CO uses for your traffic. ISP get the first 100 customers going and then you should be cash flowing for the next 300 until you reach market saturation at the 1G level, then you use a few customers with high silos and offer an even lower tier rung to use the circuit that never really hit 10% untilization except for the school districts computer training cache filling.

Perhaps if you got a subdivision who looked forward and installed fiber, you pick up the HOA as a customer just to get the service point. The LEC if they have fiber in the area and enpoint is in the same vault, you may jump into something burried. By state law or regulation, the LECs have to give access away at support costs + 15% margin over what the fiber books at per mile. Alot of that rural fiber is installed and is at year 15, the LEC really for tax purposes wants it to be worthless except for the keeping it alive, a near zero cost for a passive optical network.

You spend nothing on a trench, that is for the LEC to figure out, your competitor is starlink and the excess 5G bandwidth. It is very hard time for this business model outside the port charge is dirt cheap on 10G at just about any CO. Customers expect a very high service level, but at least you no longer have to be a cable company to make a few bones on delivering ESPN and Big10. What fraction of 10G you guarantee and what you peak to, is a dance between you and the provider going through the local CO.

A 4 Billion dollar factory has 12 billion dollars in OPEX in HR and power spend over the next 20 years. Since the main input on that is domestic natural gas from TX and AZ the value will come back to the federal and state partners. I am not concerned about chances of the value for the taxpayer, I am concerned about big empty holes in the ground like the SSC, where the money is spent all inside the beltway on a half a decade of conflict, before the real players get started. https://www.scientificamerican...

The investment is the EPA hall pass. Somewhere buried in the legislation is the administration can wave some emission standard. Ohio use to be the center of the radio manifesting world. Was extended to PCB for early computers...then the EPA got involved and pushed the jobs to texas and overseas. Making AZ the center of the chip world avoids the state a hole in CARB and what they drag into NV, despite the workforce for such plants being all over southern CA.

Making chips in TX and AZ is 100x less paperwork and delay prone... back to fruit trees and migrant picker slaves for CA. Lets imangine if trump wins and cancels the program because it is associated with Biden...that would be good payback.

I remember limiting database forms, queries, edit pages and reporting to about 250kbytes per page to remain spunky across the T1,OC3 corp wan. These were very data dense things, about the same as a service now page today without the style and formatting options of today.

That it has only grown by a factor of 10 to 100 over the past decade is an amazing small amount of growth when bandwidth to the user is up 100 to 1000 times.

Physics at scale is about being within a power of 10.

I worked in a department that officerly was missing 4 Sr. Engineers for the 3 years of covid. I had 4 enginners with 10 years at the company, perfectly ready to slot into those roles, spent better part of a quarter million dollars a year of my time and fuctional peers time on each of them to promote them with a full knowledge of the enterprise, its systems, how to do projects and "the culture". Then we got new leadership after covid burned itself out, fine this is part of the gig, clueless leadership lands for 11-16 months then moves on. The 4 enginners had followed leaderships guidance and moved to wherever best suited them long term. Well, things changed. Myself as the person who took time with the best and brightest was shut out of evaluations, more because I knew who was working for the past 4 years and who spent covid meeting. The fact that valuable employees were project less was because these cats chewed through IT work very quickly. So quickly we were giving the term cap x budget limited. We automated, we instrumented, we developed opensource vs paid subscriptions and we documented to a modern scorable standard. We gave management the way off the costly cloud train.

The the one size fits all edicts have returned, back to the office, the terribly overscheduled life, and the change tickets constantly being kicked down the road for a "risk" management cannot quantify. All five of us have left, don't really care how the enterprise is doing, at least in the group of 20 we treated each other as adults. We all get people call us with our job descriptions and our pay rates from 10 years ago, sort of ask the recruiters are they quoiting in 2016 money?

We had several conversations with our CIO, we do not bring along Jrs. from our internal staff. His people made internal staff go to greener pastures all of 2023. Perhaps most of us will be back in on consulting contract to fix the big dumb boat has happened in the past. Things evolve and die off I understand that, but fat and stupid is no way to live ones life.

All the wealth is competing to do the same thing, impress the rest of the family. When everyone can direct billions at will we get Saudi or northern VA.