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by ssssvd 2y ago
You nailed it. In our case, EBITDA margins were "pencil on a napkin" at best — only because the CFO is usually the sanest person in the room. At the same time, Elon's moves and Meta's "year of efficiency" were
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by ssssvd 2y ago
My Lebanese friends are Armenian Gregorians, so I tend to consider their perspective relatively impartial — though, as you rightly noted, it remains anecdotal. As for 'Jewish policies', there are, of course, issues around settlers
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by ssssvd 2y ago
There's definitely a "peacetime" / "wartime" divide. There's also an overreliance on pedigree. But above all, it's the pressure of being a public company (which often means losing the founder). As a n
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by ssssvd 2y ago
UK was horrible. No real protection for workers - just layers of mandatory legal mumbo-jumbo with zero actual chances for people to keep their jobs. It was like ripping off the band-aid 1mm at a time for four months. Spain/France were
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by ssssvd 2y ago
I have Israeli friends across the spectrum (except maybe ultra-orthodox, but including Ukrainian/Russian olim). I also have friends from Lebanon (not even Arabs). They all share different stories, many of them very ugly ones, — and not
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Had been advocating slower hiring & targeted reductions in a mid-sized tech firm for years after COVID, but it happened much faster under a newly appointed CEO. Under new leadership, we executed 1/3 layoffs framed as a "cultur
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by ssssvd 2y ago
I brought both so you wouldn’t have to stress over which one to deflect with.
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by ssssvd 2y ago
French land army is 77k total, with maybe 30k actually combat-capable — the rest are admin, logistics, and training. Add 9k Foreign Legion, but only a fraction of that is high-intensity capable. With rotations, France can probably field abo
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Would the investor even outlive the investment though? Imagine building data centers in the UK — only to get Brexit halfway through. Any long-term, shared investment relies on continuous, guaranteed political and economic unity. Today it’s
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by ssssvd 2y ago
You absolutely could go bare-metal with emerging local platforms and a Chinese stack — that’s the path Russia (and obviously China itself) is heading down. But... Equinix? US. Digital Realty? US. NTT? Japan. Interxion? US. CyrusOne? US. Tha
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Worth noting that Europe is the only place where someone could have actually been a Nazi, historically speaking. Plenty of other countries managed to avoid both Nazism and sweeping free speech bans. And let’s not forget — the actual consequ
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Imagine GDPR, but for infra — that's the stuff of nightmares. "EU Committee on Kubernetes." By the way, that's exactly what China and Russia did — no AWS, GCP, or Azure there.
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by ssssvd 2y ago
"Don't rent from Amazon! Buy from Dell, HP, SuperMicro, Cisco, Juniper, Intel and Nvidia instead." It's all American below AWS/GCP abstractions as well.
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Wouldn't you implicitly support Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, Dell/HP, Snowflake/Databricks, Datadog, etc. with almost every sale though? For many European businesses, infrastructure and platform costs likely exce
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Funnily enough, this is exactly Putin’s own logic — just flipped. “We had to support those rebel Ukrainian states so Ukrainians fight them, not us.” “We had to preemptively disarm Ukraine, or we’d be fighting Ukrainians inside Russia within
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by ssssvd 2y ago
So what’s the plan here, exactly? Keep Ukraine on life support for a decade, hoping Russia collapses under sanctions? Cuba’s still standing after 60 years. Iran after 40. The USSR took decades to fall — and none of them had China bankrollin
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Except Putin doesn’t need to outrun America — he just needs to outrun Ukraine. There’s a finite number of Ukrainians, and an even smaller number of Ukrainian men actually willing — or physically able — to fight. 20% of the population alread
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by ssssvd 2y ago
You can’t fully defeat a nuclear power. You can, at best, drive it back — if you’re willing to pay the price. And that price means Europe will have to absorb a dramatic, sustained drop in quality of life — plus forced mobilisation. Even the
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by ssssvd 2y ago
And what exactly is "The West" these days? A glorified open-air Continental museum, a failed British Empire with an army the size of Belarus, and a bickering hegemon half-convinced it should retreat to regional power status, house
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by ssssvd 2y ago
It had been honoured — or at least not directly violated — for 20 years. And in international affairs, 20 years is "forever." Between 1918 and 1938, how many treaties were signed, broken, rewritten, and ignored by how many powers?
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by ssssvd 2y ago
He hasn’t managed to lead much of anything so far. The British will happily switch sides the moment they can play those Continental fools against each other again — it’s practically a national sport, and it always works. When the real troub
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Ukrainian nukes were about as Ukrainian as Texas-based US nukes are Texan — they were Soviet weapons targeting US cities, with launch authority and maintenance cycles controlled from Moscow. After independence, Ukraine had physical possessi
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Ah, the formation of German-lead coalition to oppose Russia AND US, how fresh. Surely third time will be the charm.
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by ssssvd 2y ago
The hilarious outcome? Americans eventually build something they consider "smarter" than themselves — French philosophers agree, but only because it lets them place themselves one step higher.
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Here's a bridging argument b/w the OPs and the commenters. Anglo-Saxon thought (utilitarianism, behaviorism, pragmatism) treats truth as probability. If an LLM outputs the right tokens in the right order, that’s thinking. If it pr
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Why on Earth would one need 3000 people at Klara - a 20 years old product? 5000 people at Spotify? What are all these people doing there? But yeah, AI as a union buster is an interesting angle to consider. I think what AI promises to CEOs i
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by ssssvd 2y ago
You can do exactly that right now - just stop working. You don't have to. Nobody ever had to. Would the overall productive output of humanity for goods that matter drop significantly if you opt-out? Probably not at all. The problem, th
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by ssssvd 2y ago
How many 100s of billions had been invested into Atari Graphics? What administrations supported Atari Graphics as a nation-wide top-level project? The key difference in AI is the combined investment of industry champions AND nations states
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by ssssvd 2y ago
Property rights require legal framework supported by a legitimised monopoly on violence (which is, almost universally, a nation state). Disenfranchising people means delegitimising the state means wrecking the frame of ownership rights. Tha