If they can deliver. But hey, we’re the VCs now. Not everything succeeds.

Fill every hole the US leaves open. I’d do the same if I were Xi.

Are eggs gonna get cheaper now?

Also: what the actual fuck.

They’re probably showing up on this chart. They should keep going.

Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00907

A shutdown would be preferable than a sale of the active app and userbase to Elon no?

Yes

Among other things:

• anti workers rights
• anti immigrant
  • with exceptions for his own businesses
• anti safety nets
• pro fascist
  • he’s began propping up Reform in UK and AfD in Germany
• pro corporate

Basically your bog-standard right-wing corporate fascist grab bag. He’s using his platforms (in all meaning of the word) to push that internationally.

Check the first comment on this turd nugget from last week: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1877066245192794146

My first instinct was to poke fun but it’s actually important to keep breaking this overpaid influencer’s false image. He’s actively using it to push his harmful agenda.

“We’re under attack from the front left and front right. Respond accordingly”

slow-clap

Yes

They don’t need the very best to make profit for a very long time, especially in a friendly regulatory regime. Check IBM for reference.

They own the social media market and have enough capital to acquire any plausible competitor, as have done in the past.

Losing top talent is only a significant price to pay if the firm or its competitors are still building new stuff that affects their bottom line. Meta is happy raking in the social media-ad profits. Google is happy raking in the search-ad profits. They’re all busy getting more money out of the markets they’ve monopolized, not competing.

LMAO, employees are about to find out why a union would be a good idea. Gotta speedrun growing class consciousness.

The financial support is there so I think it’s a matter of time for local manufacturing to catch up. It’s happened in pretty much every area they’ve been in. Restricting chip imports puts higher pressure on iterating faster towards homegrown capabilities.

It would be interesting to see whether China will undercut ASML on the world market once they have competitive EUV, or wherever they’ll keep it for themselves.