It's funny that this is why "we can't build things here" and also why the world's two biggest powers are at a standoff:
5-20% more expensive prices for just one type of thing
Readit Newsasdfman123 commented on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Waymos will get cheaper to make as they scale up. The Ioniq version [1] costs less to build. All the sheet metal and mechanical mods for Waymo are done at the Hyundai factory in Georgia.[2] Waymo just mounts the electronics.
Jobs at the Hyundai factory start at $23.66/hour, with reasonably good benefits.[3]
[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/waymo-and-hyundai-enter-partn...
[3] https://careers-americas.hyundai.com/hmgma/job/Ellabell-Prod...
What's expensive about operating a Waymo? Do the capital costs exceed that of the driver's salary?
asdfman123 commented on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
He's 94 years old, it's honestly impressive he was still there.
Still, end of an era.
It's the nominal end of a career spanning 4-5 eras
asdfman123 commented on Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year techcrunch.com/2025/04/29... · Posted by u/GeekyBear
There’s even more than that, actually: if you’re an individual developer you also need 10 people to beta-test your app for 2 weeks, along with having your home address listed online. Google really doesn’t wan’t anyone who isn’t a company developing apps for Android lol
Yeah. I wanted to make an Android productivity tool that helped me but I didn't want to bother (then) 20 of my friends to test it.
Huge hurdle if you just want to build an app.
asdfman123 commented on Someone at YouTube needs glasses jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne
Fun thing to open first thing in the morning as I wait for my coffee to brew at YouTube
The thing that makes us weird to regular people is what's going to make us uniquely positioned to utilize AI. If people only knew the level at which I overanalyze and entertain weird ideas. I always inject these personality quirks into my instructions and get very creative results. In a weird way, I'm starting to appreciate just how weird I actually am.
I don't actually think it's that weird though
"What would the world's richest man stand to gain by cozying up to the Trump administration?"
And when I do this people say I'm overanalyzing
asdfman123 commented on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
It all started because they needed to fill it up after the content shared by your friends is finished.
Well, in theory they could have just stuck to being a humble social media site, even if the traffic were to plateau or drop slightly. Something like what Craigslist did, but slightly more modern.
But of course if they'd done that Meta wouldn't be worth a hundred gazillion dollars now.
People just want a compact solution to generate power, not a whole separate project.