Nope, I'm an Android person and I'm not an investor in Apple for what it's worth.

They're a public company...not a charity. If you were a shareholder, would YOU want Apple to eat these sudden supply chain cost spikes?

I wouldn't.

A bunch of companies that have no hope of being profitable in the near-term hoovering up huge amounts of capital as well as causing significant global market distortions for anyone needing memory or storage. I guess the question is which of these black holes should be getting the most short interest?

Try getting admitted to a Chinese hospital without a fat wad of cash in your pocket up front. I double dog dare ya. If you have no money, they will let you bleed out in the waiting room. If you are in a city/town without a local hukou, you're double fucked.

The number of sock puppets shilling for China here is rather astounding.

It's probably legacy CA software on the mainframes, not VMWare product.

Broadcom is an absolute abomination when it comes to rent seeking from legacy customers for their predatory IP purchases.

I think it's becoming less likely over time as Broadcom burns those bridges. I'm personally aware of a few that definitely have exited VMWare entirely (for the same reason they exited their legacy CA tools entirely).

There are some pretty big names that use Openstack at significant scale in production. There are more, but here are the ones that come to mind:

Walmart
PayPal
BMW Group
Intel
Bloomberg
Volkswagen Group
Comcast
AT&T
Verizon
CERN
Disney
China Mobile
Deutsche Telekom
Telefonica
Banco Santander
Swisscom

You can either roll your own or partner up with Canonical or some other professionally supported version.

Check.

The adblockers work just dandy with Firefox.

Roku quality has been circling the drain for years. I only keep it as a front end for my Jellyfin media server.

From the summary:

A former Google worker (laid off more than a year ago) says he's still job hunting, according to the article, and "he's learned it's not enough to just apply in this competitive market. Workers really need to network and leverage their connections to get seen by hiring managers and stand out."

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Thank you, Captain Obvious. There's bots screening resumes and bots submitting them. If you want to have any chance at all of getting noticed, you absolutely need to leverage your network. Simply applying online is a fool's errand.

I'm going to work a few more years and then "retire" early (from technology work) and do something else. I have zero interest in participating in this jump into the abyss of AI mindset.

There are PLENTY of other things to do with your time that don't involve living in a closet, paying high taxes, and dealing with all the social ills of the Bay Area. There are other types of work and other areas of the country that are growing. Widen your net.

We don't buy video games or mobile devices for our middle school aged children. They get to study, read, exercise and participate in athletics. That seems to be working out for them as they are both at the top of their class and in the high 90'th percentile for pretty much every topic in standardized tests. I see other parents using phones/tablets/gaming devices as a mock baby sitter and/or letting their kids doom scroll on youtube for hours at a time. Those kids are not doing very well and and many seem to have the attention span of a goldfish. Seems like a lot of parents are raising a generation of baristas.

It will be interesting to see which whales break first and start to unload their portfolios into something with actual value. It's only a matter of time. And now that the regulators have begrudgingly wrapped a thin veneer of governance around the trading of these "instruments" it will be even more interesting to see who skates and who winds up in jail when it all falls apart.

The "foreign" clinics are actually IN China. You can spout off about whatever you'd like, but I've been inside one of the "best" hospitals in Beijing on more than one occasion to visit others, but I wouldn't go there and have seen with my own eyes that the care and cleanliness are not up to western standards.

People will wait in line and pay MORE to go here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Than get immediate care at a lower price in any domestically staffed and operated hospital. And that's in Bejing. If you believe otherwise, you have either never lived in China or don't know anyone who has that can tell you what it's like (or both).

I have lived and worked in China for a number of years. The hospitals and medical care are not remotely close to US standards in terms of quality of care or even basic cleanliness of the facilities. And that's in Beijing, not some 2nd or 3rd tier city off in the hinterlands. It is undoubtedly cheaper, but I wouldn't go to a Chinese hospital for any sort of critical care unless I absolutely had to....regardless of the price. It's THAT bad. People in China go out of their way and will pay MORE to visit a "clinic" run and staffed by doctors trained outside of China and with significantly improved facilities and outcomes.

I don't believe for a second that this was the first time, nor do I believe countries will hesitate to go this route when they're at war. Kamikaze drones are effectively doing the same thing. They're getting basic coordinates and turned loose.

It's a slippery slope and it's a long way down to the bottom. Buckle up.