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The 2025 date was never realistic. It was bandied to capitalize on the chip shortage of 2021 and 2022 to try to force CHIPS Act through Congress.

The shift from 2027 to 2030 is the first material slippage -- and reflects one or two things (or both!): 14A process technology timeline and/or soft foundry demand from the fabless firms.

PRO-TIP: when unloading the dishwasher start from the bottom and work your way up. Doing so prevents an accidental, upside-down cup or bowl from spilling water on your clean dishes beneath.

Wolf Blitzer was the CNN reporter at the Pentagon that day. He appears in the first video linked above.

Apple's Middle Age 8 years ago
  [A]s a general rule, challengers pursue interoperability while incumbents strive for incompatibility. 
  This is Strategy 101: seek to fight battles where you have the greatest advantage.
Should Apple buy a wireless carrier?

I'm keen to hear a few viewpoints from the HN community: 1.) how technology might ameliorate typical problems 2.) Lagos-based startups that are pursuing the same

Uber literally makes all their money by providing a service that people willingly consume. They are really providing lots of value.

Uber is not making money. They are burning through investor cash in excess of $2B per year in the false hope of breaking the backs of the incumbents so Uber can achieve monopolistic rents far in excess of status quo.

Riders "willingly consume" Uber because of this investor subsidy which conceals the true cost of carriage. When the easy money dries up, it's game over for Uber unless they can go full autonomous sans driver.

Uber is running out of runway and they know it. That's why they're flaunting the DMV in the rushed hopes of getting this Hail Mary to market.

So I'm listening to this Radiolab episode [0] about drones with cameras that can solve crime (traffic and other societal ills) and it occurs to me that with everyone soon to be walking around with DSLR-quality smartphones, couldn't we triangulate all this video/ audio data and provide substantially better resolution to daily life? Think of it as continuous Meerkat/ Periscope localized around an event in four dimensions.

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/

DataLake 11 years ago

What does the bandwidth and storage cost per month?