GenerWork (u/GenerWork)

GenerWork commented on Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices thebignewsletter.com/p/se... · Posted by u/connor11528

GenerWork · 6 hours ago

>“I actually think we’re capable of taking whatever pricing we need,” said CFO Hugh Johnston in 2022. And the company did just that, raising prices by double digit percentages for seven straight quarters in 2022-2023.

I hate to say it, but was he proven wrong? People are still buying junk food and soda (their primary products) despite prices going up. Looking at Pepsis profit margin, it seems to have hovered between 9.5% and 10.5% since 2021.

GenerWork commented on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/nreece

coldpie · 12 hours ago

I also would have preferred to keep it in the country, but the fact is that Amazon does more harm and is a larger threat to Americans and your children than China is. Hence "Of those two choices... I pick China."

I would love for there to have been more than those two options, but this is where we ended up after decades of not enforcing anti-trust law, thanks in no small part to Amazon.

GenerWork · 10 hours ago

>Amazon does more harm and is a larger threat to Americans and your children than China is

Yeah, I'm going to need some examples as to how Amazon is worse than China.

GenerWork commented on GPT-5.2 openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg

ssl-3 · 4 days ago

There certainly is.

To posit a scenario: I would expect General Motors to buy some Ford vehicles to test and play around with and use. There's always stuff to learn about what the competition has done (whether right, wrong, or indifferent).

But I also expect the parking lots used by employees at any GM design facility in the world to be mostly full of General Motors products, not Fords.

GenerWork · 4 days ago

>But I also expect the parking lots used by employees at any GM design facility in the world to be mostly full of General Motors products, not Fords.

I think you'd be surprised about the vehicle makeup at Big 3 design facilities.

GenerWork commented on Europe Is Under Siege noahpinion.blog/p/europe-... · Posted by u/alephnerd

GenerWork · 7 days ago

It's kind of wild reading the writings of a neoliberal who wishes that the clock could be turned back to the Clinton or Obama administration. I think the worst part is that his own cherry picked quotes don't really support his thesis. His quote from the Economist doesn't even really focus on free trade, it focuses more on how China is outsmarting Europe.

GenerWork commented on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S. statnews.com/2025/10/31/w... · Posted by u/geox

pmontra · 10 days ago

Warfarin needs blood tests at least every 2 or 3 weeks. I bet those tests are not cheap in the USA. Furthermore you can't have any food with significant amounts of vitamine K or its precursors. There are pills that cost more but don't require any of that. And actually they cost very little or zero, at least in my European country. Prescription only, of course.

GenerWork · 10 days ago

>I bet those tests are not cheap in the USA.

Within 5 minutes of searching I found a PT time with INR test for $24 [0]. Add in the testing fee and it's probably around $30.

[0] https://www.ultalabtests.com/test/prothrombin-time-with-inr-...

GenerWork commented on Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027 theverge.com/news/832366/... · Posted by u/DamnInteresting

andy_ppp · 14 days ago

I think the costs in the contract when Intel don’t deliver the volume and yields will effectively mean Apple ends up owning the remains of the company.

GenerWork · 14 days ago

That would be an interesting play. Acquire a chip design and foundry company all because they couldn't meet the purposely stringent deadline, and then use their expertise and assets to produce AI chips for yourself.

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GenerWork commented on Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN phys.org/news/2025-11-phy... · Posted by u/naves

fooker · 18 days ago

Not before efficiently converting a large amount of mass into usable energy.

GenerWork · 18 days ago

How could we harness this energy and make it usable?

GenerWork commented on The gruesome new data on tech jobs businessinsider.com/grues... · Posted by u/pseudolus

xnx · 19 days ago

Why use Figma at all instead of going from prompt to code?

GenerWork · 19 days ago

I find it to be sometimes easier to utilize my Figma library to design what I want as I generally don't have to do rework. It gets annoying after awhile to waste tokens and context dealing with stupid small things like "Hey, the icon in the icon button is wrong." if you do prompting. Pulling in the same icon & icon button through a MCP is generally easier.

GenerWork commented on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/cyclecount

star-glider · 19 days ago

Sure, because I think that, ultimately excessive regulation stifles innovation. I mean, heck, the EU is looking to effectively dismantle GDPR because they're worried that it's going to cause them to miss out on the AI boom.

My point was just that Apple is such an outrageously bad actor (and the USB-C and Airdrop rules so beneficial) that these rules were getting even a very pro-market person like me to at least be open to the idea of regulating some of these out-of-control giants.

GenerWork · 19 days ago

Your last paragraph doesn't really make you come off as a libertarian at all. If Apple is truly a bad actor, then the libertarian response isn't to have the EU force them to use USB-C on iPhones, it's for people to move away from iPhones to other choices, which means Androids.

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