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dating myself here but I remember in the 90s reading a really funny spoof article about Microsoft announcing they had developed nuclear weapons. Didn't even se
by deater 1y ago
dating myself here but I remember in the 90s reading a really funny spoof article about Microsoft announcing they had developed nuclear weapons. Didn't even seem that implausible at the time.
I would have linked it here but none of the search engines are turning up anything at all, and in fact I don't think it's even possible to find stuff like that with search engines anyore.
- deater 1y agoI had thought maybe it was on the old 0xdeadbeef mailing list, but no luck, but probably it was this from rec.humor.funny which in the end isn't quite as clever as I remember it being. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor.funny/c/4zIyBq1-1_E/m/onTQwSsI5zoJ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor.funny/c/4zIyBq1-1_E/m/...
- lumost 1y agoThe funny part about our 1990s memes on big tech, is that today’s big tech is 100-1000x larger. NVidia is worth more than Germany.
- krautsauer 1y agoWe're not for sale, but still… numbers? Nvidia's stock price isn't even a 10th of the gold reserve, as far as I can see?
- umeshunni 1y agoAlso, comparing GDP (rate of production) to valuation (area under the curve) is silly. Like comparing velocity to distance.