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Except for during Biden, they've been asleep for almost 50 years.
by herpdyderp 21d ago
Except for during Biden, they've been asleep for almost 50 years.
- abixb 21d agoLina Khan @ the FTC was the best thing about the Biden administration, for me.
- elictronic 21d agoI miss her. Actual government for the people.
- timcobb 21d agoI miss the Biden administration
- jacquesm 21d agoLarge numbers of people outside of the United States probably do.
- mushi_shi 21d ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 21d agoNo, just people that prefer the largest economy and military power in the world to be as stable as possible.
- Gigachad 21d agoChina and Russia are loving things right now.
- nozzlegear 21d agoI miss him from inside the United States too.
- platevoltage 21d agoThat's a sad thing to have to say, but yeah.
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- Danox 21d agoI miss every administration back to Roosevelt.
- timcobb 18d agoI dunno, Nixon, :thumbsdown:
- dakolli 21d agoThe president who helped kil 15k children? Why do you miss him, he should be in the jail cell next to trump.
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- timcobb 17d agoNot here pls
- smelendez 21d agoI think failing to take advantage of the charisma of both Lina Khan and Janet Yellen, and not making them public-facing economics gurus like Alan Greenspan or Larry Summers historically were, was a huge tactical mistake by Biden.
- tiahura 21d agoYellen was objectively the dumbest Treasury Secretary ever. When everyone and their dog realized inflation was getting out of control, she thought it was transitory. She literally gets an F- as an economist. And some former Roomba employees may have thoughts about Kahn.
- Grombobulous 21d agoKahn was right about Roomba. Amazon was going to torpedo all the superior competition on the Amazon platform where almost all robot vacuums are sold in the US, plus as the e-commerce monopoly, Amazon was going to instantly have access to an army of cameras inside people’s homes to analyze personal information related to purchase preferences. IMO allowing Roomba to hit chapter 11 was still a better option for the consumer than handing them to Amazon. They’re still in business as an independent competitor on the market, consolidation was successfully avoided. Yellen, I don’t have much of an opinion on, but she absolutely wasn’t alone in that opinion (the nuance of that opinion being inflated by this hyperbole), and the treasury is a lot less involved than the federal reserve in doing anything about inflation, anyway.
- kaonwarb 21d agoiRobot is now 100% owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics of China. (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1159167/000115916726000006/exhibit991.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1159167/000115916726...)
- Grombobulous 21d agoYes, that's a very good company to be the owner of iRobot, because they are just a robot factory and not a near-monopoly e-commerce retailer. They are essentially on equal footing with other robotic vacuum manufacturers. iRobot didn't go out of business or get absorbed into a larger company lowering competition in the marketplace. It's also not the FTC's job to ensure that companies, especially ones with zero/trivial national security or domestic labor force value, remain under domestic ownership. Amazon itself is not really a "domestic" company, it's publicly traded. Anyone from any non-sanctioned country can buy shares of Amazon.
- theendisney 21d agoNow that you mention sleeping. I imagine one could do cool sleeping startups that clone something but exist only on paper. The sleeper startup is only launched the moment some ham fisted mega corp aquires the original and all the customers are looking for a way to abandon ship.
- gmueckl 21d agoWon't work. Businesses need a proven track record before they can buy. With no established history of successes, this plan is already dead on arrival.
- theendisney 20d agoDepends who does it. If someone with the track record and budget pulls the rabbit out of the hat swiftly existing customers would at least investigate. If you maintain a list of shortcommings or good new features it could sound like a sweet deal. If the company was aquired to shut it down it would work even better. Marketing is increasingly expensive. Any hype is valuable. One might as well design the product for the promotion.