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Comment Re:Google? wtf (Score 1, Informative) 92

Saying Libre Office replaces MS Office like saying a tricycle vending cart replaces a step van. Sure, you can pedal packages around on your tricycle, but if you are moving lots of packages, comparing a tricycle and a step van is just plain silly. For instance, Libre Office has no support for group editing. Organizations have come to rely on group editing features. Libre Office's focus is on "looking like" Microsoft's products, not actually having the features of Microsoft's products. There is a big difference between these two goals.

Comment 3 years behind (Score 1) 135

They are going to need something like Saudi Arabia's Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant which took 3 years to build in order to move 15 million people to the Makran region that President Masoud Pezeshkian is talking about. There is next to nothing there in the desert along the Gulf of Oman now. I don't think Tehran has 3 years of water supply. This is going to get interesting ... and sad.

Comment Wardley Mapping explains Oracle downturn (Score 2) 29

Providing cloud compute services is a commodity business. Oracle's willingness to transform itself into the broker of a high-volume low-profit commodity is the opposite of what a real tech company would so. And they are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to do this.

Apparently, none of the execs at Oracle have watched this video ... they should. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Autoimmune impacts 5% of the population (Score 1) 49

It is now pretty clear almost all, if not all autoimmune cases are the result of a misfunction in viral infection response. Lupus is 1/90th of these autoimmune cases. Every year a person lives they have better than 1:2000 chance of developing an autoimmune disease as a result of some random viral infection. We could make that number much smaller, we have the technology.

Comment Re:The neighborhood is going to shit (Score 1) 65

On August 7, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled "Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(k) Investors" -- which effectively allowed the 401K fund managers to also pull their money from the market and invest in things like securities backed by loans not issued by banks. So now the retirement fund managers have started loosening their controls and that percentage you quote is being chipped away at, because most wage earners are in the market via their retirement funds. Money is shifting from the stock market to private equity and that trend is going to increase now that 401K fund managers are allowed to do this too. This should be pushing the market down.

Comment The neighborhood is going to shit (Score 1) 65

He has noticed that despite the major investment firms shifting more and more assets to private equity, the market continues to go up when it really shouldn't, Steady-handed investors are leaving and that means the market is becoming more and more driven by emotion. A few trillion dollars has been pulled out of the stock market over the last couple of years by the big players and the market is not doing what one would expect in this situation. We have a tulip market situation, and now we are just waiting for the psychological inflection point that will result in the crash. The last federal government published jobs data was data for July in August. We probably will not get numbers this month, so if the numbers are so bad in December that Trump orders them withheld, then what? Will or won't people panic? It is too hard to know, because they haven't yet when there have been many reasons to panic. We are coming into the holiday shopping season and a lot of people are going to spend less this year. That could be another tipping point when the impacts of those sales failing to materialize hit company's numbers.

Comment Attorneys should be sanctioned (Score 1) 57

Derek R. Fahey, Esq. and Austin R. Nowacki, Esq. of The Plus IP Firm, PLLC should be sanctioned for even filing this lawsuit. This is simply abuse of the courts by a corporate bully who thinks they can get away with this. The entire 33 page filing does not have a single truly actionable claim that is not predicated on the assertion without evidence that the videos were faked. These attorneys either intentionally or unintentionally filed lies with the court, but either way it was their responsibility to NOT do this.

Comment Odd definition of weakness (Score 2) 25

AWS revenues have been growing at + ~$6B per year for a few years and that has not changed. Just because MS is currently growing faster because they have a bunch of locked-in customers whose easy-path is Azure, doesn't mean AWS is "weak". Since Azure growth is coming from a largely fixed pool of customers, it will taper off at some point. There are plenty of things to not like about AWS' corporate culture, but the business seems to be firing on all cylinders when it comes to revenue growth.

Comment A Rogue Country or Billionaire will save us (Score 2) 78

It is going to take a rouge country or billionaire to unilaterally initiate a geo-engineering program like stratospheric aerosol injection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection) to save us all. Pakistan is one of the counties suffering the most from global warming, so maybe they will crack and undertake this mission to save the rest of humanity from their own stupidity. The clock is ticking. Our warming atmosphere is already demonstrating positive feedback on natural methane production and within 70 years natural methane will overtake human contributions to global warming if we do not act quickly to prevent this scenario. At that point, if humanity wants a cooler planet, geo-engineering will be the only choice.

Comment Enshitification of Recruiting (Score 3, Insightful) 106

Companies have farmed recruiting out to other companies that have no understanding of what is really needed and are just going off the job description given to them that often contains impossible requirements to meet. (e.g. 20 years experience in training LLMs). It is as if companies have forgotten that people who are good at something often know other people who might be good at the same thing. The entire process of hiring now revolves around companies like Indeed that create a tremendous amount of noise of false abundance in the entire process and are not providing value to either the job seekers or the employers.

Comment Re:Missing redundancy crashed the Internet in Texa (Score 1) 104

Incompetence. They have redundancy, and unlike AT&T they participate in peering arrangements at many IXPs. They just do not have employees capable of adjusting routing and when they finally do come up with some new routes, they are bizarre and linger for months after the incident. Every time they have a cable breakage in Dallas, PARTS of Austin (200 miles away) and other areas of Texas also lose service. It is like they have no clue how their network functions until something breaks and then they start trying to figure it out. And before they are done figuring it out, the cable is repaired and since everything seems to be working they just stop managing the network until the next incident.

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