Sure, they had to sell their stock, including the parts needed to make the machines. At that time they were also still at least assembling them.

IIci September 1989, Quadra 700 October 1991, in almost the same case. Two years, one month.

"The market can stay irrational long than you can stay solvent."

Fund managers with more than 10 years of experience knew that trying to short the market during a bubble is just as likely to bankrupt you as to make you rich. The most difficult part of a bubble is no one has yet found a way to predict with any confidence when it will burst.

For fund managers whose bonus is tied to how they compare to "the market" (i.e. everyone else), the safest path during a bubble is to dive into bubble like everyone else. If the bubble did not burst, they all make gains and pocket nice bonus. If the bubble did burst, every fund manager loses a whole lot of people's money but hey! we are competitive with "the market"!

For people investing with their own money, your best bet is to pull out entirely like Warren Buffet did, unless you don't need the money until 10-20 years later, then you have the option to leave them invested in non-bubble related investments and ride through the burst and subsequent recovery.

That statement was stupid, even absurd the first times that it was used — by the Reich wing. The entire reason I'm still using it when speaking to them is to rub their noses in how fucking stupid it was.

You're two steps behind me as usual, but at least you're getting there.

Insert Travolta looking around meme here. This is me, looking for fucks.

If the airlines are acting as a de facto division of the government by providing them with your personal data, then they should be treated as such. That means they should follow simple rules for protecting PII like collecting and retaining the minimum needed.

You mean like when he claimed the iPhone would be all webapps?

Let's face it, Jobs' only superpower was being a super dick to employees. This can only take you so far.

Since he's living rent-free in your head, can we assume you're the one responsible for the rsilvergun-impersonating LLM spam?

Bursting of the AI bubble can't come soon enough. Far too much tech bro nonsense, DRAM / GPU prices way too damn high while unhealthy levels of collateral damage accumulate.

There is too much value in the ability of corporations to custom train models on internal datasets for the whole world revolves around our centralized AI service thing these AI corporations are dreaming about to have ever worked.

To make matters worse generative AI space is stagnating. Going forward cost of local inference is declining at the same time distance in capabilities between centralized corporate models and publicly available weights shrink. Regulatory power plays have stagnated as the public tires of AI scare mongering and so they are out of options.

What is going on currently with the colossus stargates is a destructive desperate hail mary to brute force their way out of the massive hole the industry keeps digging for itself.

True, but doesn’t that going after the top 10% and ignoring the rest kind of unnecessarily greedy?

A zombie servant. Reprogram it to provide solely to you and leave only the most meager remains for it to survive. It takes maintenance to retain such embrace mental succor, so keep it addictive and distracting and nonstop. But remember, if you can’t control the spice you can’t control the mind cucked.

The cars don’t meet the specifications to be sold in the US. They lack crash safety, and other things that does reduce the price and adding them for just the American market would slightly increase the cost as well because it lacks economies of scale. That said the price difference wouldn’t be much and absolutely minor things are being used as a barrier to free markets.

Wait until you find out about American car companies

Yep, because it’s not just EV it’s also gas vehicles. The average went from 30k in 2012 to 48k in 2022 and they aren’t coming down much because of greedflation.

I do most of my shopping there, at Grocery Outlet, and at Costco. I actually do more shopping at grossout, because they are the closest thing that doesn't suck. We have a local market and mini-market, and I'm not a big fan of either one. (The market is somewhere around "OK", the mini market is disappointing.) I got Costco's card honestly just to get fuel quicker as the card is a membership card, and it's convenient for me to stop in there on my way to work.

Winco is an employee-owned co-op, and their pricing seems to be dynamic in general and the prices actually go back down, so I'm really happy with them. Grocery Outlet has beer I want to drink and high quality local dairy products, and an interesting and ever-changing stock of weird shit, and neither of the local ones are scuzzy. I have a chest freezer...

Of course it does. It doesn't have to do with just one thing. Keeping the machine spinning is the reason why even heartless fucks should be interested in workers' needs being met, if they weren't idiots. But that's the problem with such people, if you're smart then you realize that you don't want to live in a world of shit.