Readit NewsEspecially since I was novice at best before the systemd thing, and my Ubuntu dive involved trying to navigate all 3 of these pretty drastic changes at once (oh yea and throw containers on top of that).
I went into it with the expectation that it was going to piss me off, and boy did it easily exceeded that threshold.
You can not possibly convince me that Harvard’s endowment doesn’t trivially have one year of liquidity in it.
I’m sure it’s not structured to handle a 7% annual draw down for the next 30 years. But it’s got plenty of time to restructure if needed.
At this point, you really do have to question whether each university hire was merit based or not, including the fund managers.
They wanted android developers that used google play services to basically be able to submit the same app to the amazon/fire store (without major revisions), so they reverse engineered the framework used by Google for api/hooks between the apps/apks and the "play-services"/OS levels.
Sort of spoofed the environment to prioritize compatibility in order to make it as easy as possible to grow the Amazon app store.
People don't realize that despite Android being nominally 'Open Source', the closed source Google layer on most phones makes it very difficult to exclude Google entirely from the picture and have a user friendly phone environment (both end-user and app-developer/playstore-user).
Basically only Amazon and China had resources to counter it directly with Android, or you could drop that layer and go the less user friendly route of st like AOSP 'pure' phones.
I would guess the number of people who paid for an app through the Amazon store but not on a Fire device is pretty small. And do you ever really own an app? I have so few that I paid a one time payment for.
Reverting to processing local oil is both cheaper equipment wise (removing the heavy crude vessels and selling them) and cheaper bc you don't pay to pipe oil with the viscosity of sludge across the continent.
Fed quotas are the reason for the current config, configuration, economics.
Every refinery shuts down at least twice a year for a multi-week turnaround.
The minimum cost to stay operating isn't paying to keep the high cost vessels running, but to remove and sell them to a place that has that heavy crude locally.
The heavy oil processing is the larger maintenence cost that you think isn't happening.
Problem is the state of most English education doesn't even teach enough for people to recognize proper unambiguous technical writing, let alone appreciate it or attempt to compose it.