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lukateake··on Ohio One Construction Timeline Update
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.

lukateake··on How to properly load a dishwasher (2020)
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.
lukateake··on Heat dome brings yet another heat wave this time covering most of the US
I feel that the usage of terms like “heat dome” and “polar vortex” obscure or distract from the human-centric causes of climate change. Lazy reasoning stops at these boogeyman terms. Welcome someone more familiar with linguistics to opine.
lukateake··on Larry King has died
Wolf Blitzer was the CNN reporter at the Pentagon that day. He appears in the first video linked above.
lukateake··on A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Trading Towers
So that's why my diamond optic cables never achieved product-market fit! http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/indrf.html
lukateake··on Apple's Middle Age

  [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?
lukateake··on Amazon Health
Am I shadowbanned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273567
lukateake··on Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
Did you read article? The first 4 paragraphs are about Pishevar's behavior toward an Uber employee. And at least one incident occurred at an Uber event (2014 holiday party). To say that this story has "nothing to do with [Uber]" is inaccurate or, worse, willfully blind.
lukateake··on Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
Without looking at Crunchbase, please name one other investment of Shervin Pishevar that has the cultural reach of Uber. I suspect a randomly selected person would not be able to do so. And Uber has a well documented history of hostile or discriminatory behavior that hews close to the article's topic.
lukateake··on Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
One other data point, the HN link originally had "Uber" in it but then it was subsequently omitted in an edit. Why the edit?
lukateake··on Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
HN policy has always been to leave the title intact.

And I, for one, find his affiliation with Uber to be of particular interest given Susan Fowler's story.

lukateake··on Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
Why omit "Uber" from the title on HN?
lukateake··on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs
When you put it like that, ransom1538, I'm not going to click the link!
lukateake··on Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
Your link is throwing a 404 for me. I found it here: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf
lukateake··on The city that won't stop growing
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
lukateake··on Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them
A quick HN search (via Google) didn't turn up the article for me; please link. Thanks in advance!
lukateake··on Redesigning Google News
Stats, sir. Stats. Plus, some killer search functionality obviously.
lukateake··on Redesigning Google News
I've missed Google Reader for a long, long time.
lukateake··on FlexBox Cheatsheet
Someone here at HN once directed me to the resource so I'll do the same: https://flexboxfroggy.com/
lukateake··on McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (2015)
Starbucks?
lukateake··on Uber continues self-driving vehicle testing in SF in defiance of DMV
> 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.

lukateake··on Diamonds Suck (2006)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...
lukateake··on Facebook Tax Bill Over Ireland Move Could Cost $5B
Serious question: who pays an effective rate of 40 percent? Many of these huge corporate entities are in the single or negative digits.
lukateake··on Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
I will now be adding this comment to all of my code: HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/BURN_BA...

lukateake··on New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutting Coal
That's just over four miles of track (21,346 ft.) for the run length of the railcars down that slope. (Thanks, trigonometry!)

Now I wonder how fast these railcars move.

lukateake··on What is Ethereum?
https://angel.co/ethereum-1
lukateake··on What is Ethereum?
Stats: https://stats.ethdev.com/

Transactions go live on Monday, if I remember correctly.

lukateake··on Former Apple rival IBM could become the biggest buyer of MacBooks
Please list enterprise-class software titles that are Windows only and impeding a corporate IT switch. I'm looking for some incumbents to slay. :-)
lukateake··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
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/

lukateake··on DataLake
What does the bandwidth and storage cost per month?
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