vivalahn

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by vivalahn 11mo ago
I could be wrong but I’d assume what the OP is trying to say is that the leadership of these companies does not want these fabs to actually open and work. That something transpired maybe between them and govt.
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
I think as part of my 2026 goals I’ve got to learn how to shitpost half as good as some of the people that make the HN front page. These blog posts have a solid self-fellating energy to them replete with quotes from brand names that’s just
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
Yeah and using people who write as inspiration is really weird to me. I’d rather look up to people who are slightly too busy to write 2k words a day because they’re actually doing things.
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
Why did where he works have an impact on what he said, for you?
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
Unfortunate. But nothing we could nor can do about it.
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
I’m going to reserve a thread on this post for folks who want to share horror stories trying to implement their own LINQ providers.
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
You can’t have any of this, literally, without manufacturing at home. You can’t do R&D of any sort if you don’t have the capability to produce things, to send an email or walk over to the company making it, speak with someone and have a
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
> We should be forward looking in what we can do outside of manufacturing. For example?
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
Talent and ideas move so easily to the US from Canada*
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
I looked at the Jeep awhile back but their safety ratings were absolutely terrible. I’ve been in car accidents aplenty so that was a deal breaker for me. Just about the only real electronic thing in my Lexus is an ECU which rarely goes and
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
The next org you went to, did they also use the Five Whys or did they get by with Four True Colors instead?
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
BBM itself should not have been a lock-in. It would have taken incredibly little effort to open it as a desktop messenger that can seamlessly interact with people who have BBM numbers for example. I doubt they learned their lessons. Apple w
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
You’re almost there! But let’s unpack that further.
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
Other nations can use their resources to accelerate forward by building the infrastructure needed to extract and refine resources, ending further ahead over all due to all the other industries that are enabled. It’s not a simple game of who
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by vivalahn 11mo ago
Another road that leads to BBM it seems. It’s utterly bizarre how BBM could have been the iMessage and WhatsApp and who knows what else. But rich out-of-touch people thinking exclusivity is a perk in a commodities market just shows how busi