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It’s a cartel just like the OPEC oil cartel.


Is there anything that isn't functionally a cartel at this point?


Yes, anywhere there is a race to the bottom. That is why you see cartels rise up, like unions are cartels. Things that are not cartels generally have ever diminishing margins.


I see the rising of cartels more just the inevitable consequence of market systems where some players just getting bigger and bigger. Then when only a few large players are left, they collude (either openly, or just by unspoken agreement). So less of a race to the bottom, but a race to the top.


I think we agree. To risk being trampled by a race to the bottom, they choose to rise above by forming a cartel.


I don’t think they are letting go of these rockets; they are definitely being retrieved back. Otherwise, rival countries like China will end up retrieving them.


737 Max also had stellar records and then they started crashing one after other. Boeing has earned this reputation. Also as per information from twitter pilot did called mayday immediately after takeoff, so high chance of technical issues in aircraft.


The two are not remotely comparable. The 737 MAX entered commercial service in mid-2017 and had fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, both with aircraft that were only a few months old, out of a total fleet in the tens of aircraft.


There is a loyalty if they keep winning, if they stop running their competitors will beat them. I don't switch between cursor or windsurf daily, i keep cursor only even if windsurf has some marginal improvement in workflow as i know cursor will have them in short time. No need to switch, But if they stop improving they will get eaten away. They have already taken lot of developer market share away from vscode and vscode copilot.


Biggest advantage of markdown is that it is directly understandable using llm, as it is native text format, all others cannot be copy pasted and fed to llm and you have to write some translation between them.


Databricks is Oracle-level bad. They will definitely ruin Neon or make it expensive. In the medium to long term, I will start looking for Neon alternatives.


Definitely agree, their M&A strategy is setup to strangle whoever they buy and they don't even know it. They're struggling in the face of Iceberg, DuckDB and the other tectonic shifts happening in the open source world. They are trying to innovate through acquisition, but can't quite make it because their culture kills the companies they buy.

I'm biased, I'm a big-data-tech refugee (ex-Snowflake) and am working on https://tower.dev right now, but we're definitely seeing the open source trend supported by Iceberg. It'll be really interesting to see how this plays out.


Number one rule of combat is that you need a very good homegrown industrial base. In order to be great country it needs to be combat-ready. If you apply that lens, what Trump is doing will start making sense. He is trying to revert globalisation and free trade in order to make the USA manufacturing superpower again. Not sure whether this will be successful or not, as China already has an order of magnitude advantage in manufacturing.


What are you talking about? Microsoft Teams took over everything else during and after the pandemic. The reason for Skype being left behind was that everyone started using Teams in enterprises.


Even if the OP had purchased Tesla from an official dealership, but he will still have to wait three months for the part. Nothing in the blog will change if he has bought in an official country. Additionally, Tesla does not have official dealership models; they operate through direct sales.


Wow, this is a truly terrible experience and a disgraceful display of customer service. Not picking up phones and not responding to customers is unacceptable and will undoubtedly deter many potential buyers from ever purchasing a Tesla.


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