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The two largest vtuber agencies/companies are publicly traded in Japan.

https://finance.yahoo.co.jp/quote/5253.T?term=2y

https://finance.yahoo.co.jp/quote/5032.T?term=2y

The stock prices are not great all things considered- I think that the vtuber audience needs something new/different to broaden beyond it's current market base AND I think investors would rather put money into AI related stocks than IP/vtuber related stocks.

Apple too. They solder in the SSDs and memory.

The best forums still have users and traffic. For instance, for Toyota Land Cruiser owners, the best information has always been at ih8mud. Reddit doesnt hold a candle to Mud for the depth of information available (for that community.)

These photos were originally by Lorenzo Kikisch for Type 7 magazine

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYbpfliUfs/

Did you look at Patagonia Inc. as an example? I wasn't aware of the new book but am more interested in it now.

the system is designed so that VCs keep winning

The way around that is to not take VC money. There are some (not many) startups that got to unicorn status by bootstrapping and not taking outside money. It's harder, yes, but in a way a more pure effort.

The Mozilla Foundation owns the Mozilla Corporation. The Corporation hires the engineering staff that does the bulk of the work to develop Firefox (the rest are community/volunteer contributors and partners.)

Agreed. Recommended.

Many here at HN find that site hard to read, not just the original commenter.

"Flying Geese" paradigm

Can you name any one of these that are successful or prominent? I am not aware of this paradigm.

Apple, if you are reading this, I'm not investing into new hardware until you fix the mess that is Tahoe. My M1 MAX is doing fine atm.

The R1 is a body on frame, so a traditional truck chassis.

This new R2 is a unibody- so more of a car, less so a truck

You may want to attribute the site/article to yourself.

China executes 11 members of Myanmar scam mafia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gdrvy9gjo

China executes four more Myanmar mafia members

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4e9eqz4rxo

I am still on Sequoia and dont plan to move to Tahoe.

The famous case I always bring up is the accident with the USS John McCain. The US Navy tried screens but due to this accident and other reasons has gone back to mechanical controls. Cars can have some screens but key controls (HVAC, car safety, windows, etc.) should be mechanical.

https://www.naval-technology.com/news/us-navy-to-replace-tou...

Good Riddance to Alan Dye.

Tim Cook- if you do one thing before you retire- promote the right person to fix both MacOS and iOS. They're both in need of a lot of work to fix.

I would argue peak car was a little earlier, maybe the 2000-2010 decade. Fewer screens to fail, analog buttons and dials. Airbags, and ABS for safety but without the additional computers/screens.

I've been on Apple since the 1980s. Apple IIc was my first Apple.

Since a few years ago, I've chosen to stay at least 1 full version behind the current version and I've never regretted that.

Miyake has a line called A-POC which makes clothing out of a single piece of cloth. So it's a product line at IM.

Once an underdog, the Emerald Isle is now on top.

You have a gift for writing.

As for your job search, I would recommend that you look way beyond your home country if you haven't started doing that already. There are markets where there are jobs and while finding work overseas is not easy, there are markets where ML/product/research roles are still open.

I used to be first to try out new Apple products. Now I wait for OS upgrades and will let others try new Apple products or major software updates. Too many times Cupertino has let users down with poorly tested software. This problem with the Airpods- it should have been caught if this many people are experiencing the same problem.

Apple doesn't deserve the share price it enjoys.

Acupuncture is widely used across East Asia for multiple issues. If it didn't work, it would not be used. But it does work, for some people, for some issues.

I regret being born too late to work somewhere like Bell Labs, SGI, or Sun.

For each of those firms there was a 'golden era' and then a time when the company coasted on their laurels, and then the slide to irrelevancy.

They never did afaict. Eventually smartphones became ubiquitous and I think most S. Koreans bank on their phones using apps. As for those who bank on computer, I dont know what happened when Active-X was deprecated. It was a poor decision by the S. Korean govt. to hang their hat on that technology.

Back when I worked for Mozilla, I had the chance to go to Seoul to meet with various companies and some governmental ministries. This was when Korean banks and ecommerce sites required Internet Explorer and Active-X controls for secure transactions. This meant that MacOS users or Linux users couldnt do secure transactions in Korea without emulating Win/IE.

Today, no U.S. transit agency still uses BYD busses, because none of them managed a service live longer than about a year.

This is a fascinating data point. This should be more prominent.

It's not that simple.

China has supported key industries (like EVs, batteries, solar, semiconductors) that it views as strategic. Each country should do the same for their own situation. There is no such thing as pure capitalism- and what you see is 'protectionism' is to a lawmaker a way to ensure that the local company survives and provides jobs for the local region/state, etc.

And as the other commenter mentioned, auto manufacturing plants were retooled to make tanks and jeeps in WW2 and so no country that cares about their own military survival should cede auto manufacturing to another country, let alone China.

it would be great to be able to get one in the USA.

Allowing in Chinese EVs into markets where there are important domestic auto manufacturers will be very bad for those domestic manufacturers. (US, Germany, France, S.Korea, Japan, etc.) Outside of Tesla, none have EV brands competitive with the Chinese firms and if customers in those non China markets migrate to Chinese brands en masse, it would be tremendous disruption and the failure of many storied domestic brands.

It is important that the US have strong auto companies. Same is true for Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, etc.

China should have strong car companies for their domestic market. The problem comes when they end up destroying other/outside markets.

Look at solar panels, drones, batteries, for similar comparisons.