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8 months later sounds too short to have taken your idea, I'm guessing launching a product at Mars scale takes like 2 years. This is probably why the always say they cannot take ideas sent by external people... but on the other hand if this came from the CEO, probably could be fast tracked. So 80/20. Do you remember who was the CEO?


Only vaguely related, but the Mars family lived in neighboring River Forest and the factory was just north of me in Galewood (it is shutting down or already shut down and the property is planned for redevelopment, but the neighboring Metra station is named “Mars” which means that in Chicago you can take a commuter train to Mars). Sadly the Mars estate was apparently torn down to be replaced with a pair of bland McMansions.


That’s a shame. Annhueser Busch turned one of their estates into a tourist trap. But you couldn’t pet the horses, which is literally the only reason an 11 year old would want to go near a brewery.


Grant’s Farm? I always enjoyed it as a kid, trains and weird animals.


Silly person, Mars is a city in PA, not a train station in Chi-town.

The Moon is located just east of the Pittsburgh Airport.


It's packaging an existing product differently than a fully new product. Would still require either new machines or adapting existing machines for it.


I'm not familiar with this, but are you saying the Washington Post doesn't post about Washington anymore?


> I'm not familiar with this, but are you saying the Washington Post doesn't post about Washington anymore?

You should probably read about the cuts we're talking about, then. From the OP:

> The metro staff, already cut to about forty staffers during the past five years, has been shrunk to about twelve


Washington Post has always been very strong covering US Politics in DC. That’s probably what drives subscribers more than anything. Reporters there have a lot of access to decision makers in Congress, White House, etc

A lot of that trust in WaPo is gone now and moved onto Politico and NY Times.


It's not a 0 or a 1. They had more staff doing it, now they have less. That means they now do 0.2, which is not 0 as you're implying, but it's still significantly worse than back when it was 1.


Dogecoin was a joke too. A joke with 18B market cap


18B market cap does not mean it’s not a joke to a bunch of people.


His point seems to be that being a joke does not disqualify it from having value.


Or being a scam.


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Yes, and it's wonderful to see. As the article itself explains, this isn't due to government led redistribution of wealth anymore:

> The 20th century infrastructure model was:

> Centralized generation

> Government-led

> Megaproject financing

> 30-year timelines

>Monopolistic utilities

> The 21st century infrastructure model is:

> Distributed/modular

> Private sector-led

> PAYG financing

> Deploy in days/weeks

> Competitive markets


Is this a thing? I have never heard about that, living in QC for the last 20 years and owned and rode dozens of cars. The car salesman looked at me as a rare species when I wanted a manual Soul. I have never seen an no AC or manual windows car here.


Sorry, I'm old. I last lived in Canada 20 years ago. Times do change, but yes this very much used to be a thing. Base model/optionless imports still are, however.

Everything I said about the roads and title washing still applies.



The Hyundai my parents have been driving for the past 7 years does not have AC nor automatic windows :). They live in Montreal, and hate the lack of AC during the summer, but it is what it is - car is cheaper without AC.


I had a $400 espresso machine but finally I'm just using my $50 moka pot. It's way easier and I like the flavour more.


Yes, it was a complete wow moment.


thanks for your comments, got me to play that one, and it's great. very well done!


On the other side, wasps could be so tiny. like you could put thousands of them inside an amoeba volume.

"Megaphragma mymaripenne is a microscopically sized wasp. At 200 μm in length, it is the third-smallest extant insect, comparable in size to single-celled organisms. It has a highly reduced nervous system, containing only 7400 neurons, several orders of magnitude fewer than in larger insects."


The males of dicopomorpha echmepterygis are even smaller, with wide sexual dimorphism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicopomorpha_echmepterygis

I never knew about these either.


For me bottom seems like 25k usd, next February


If it is like 1999, we should see a bull market till FED starts QE then I don't know.


When and why is the Fed expected to do QE?


It should start around Q1 2026, because treasury short terms yields too high


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