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>What exactly is needed apart from the source code here ?
Deep technical knowledge of the propriety Microsoft file system
Deep technical knowledge of Linux Kernel and device drivers
Deep software engineering experience to build complex software that millions of high performance systems are going to rely on.
Deep experience with dealing with the open source community and the Linux kernel development process, politics and infrastructure
The financial ability and personal circumstance to commit to a full time unpaid job supporting the software
- things that anyone can pick up
The value is definitely lower, but rather than eg. BP mothballing a pipeline project until a new regime, or waiting for it to be 'nationalised' and claiming compensation/insurance they are selling it - to the same oligarchs.
The oligarchs presumably don't care that it would be more efficient in a Ricardian sense if the pipeline was operated by BP - when they just got a $bn infrastructure project for peanuts
There was a system (Israeli IIRC) called Glass Tank. You wore a VR headset and as you moved your head around you saw the view from the external sensors in that direction.
Looks cool but it's easier to just look at one of the multiple multi-purpose screens in a modern AFV.
Imagine if instead of looking at the rear camera screen in front of you, you had to turn your head 180deg so the goggles could show you the crunchy you were about to reverse over.
The job of the DoD is to spend a $1Tn defense budget in the USA.
It can buy 50,000 more Humvees and park them in the desert after already retiring the program
It can buy a couple more nuclear aircraft carriers in case the current 16 aren't enough to defeat the Venezuelan navy
It can pay soldiers more and invest in veteran care (Joking!)
It can ship pallets of $100 bills to Iraq and lose them
Or it can bankroll a disastrous failed product by the company that corporate America and the American govt relies on for Piss-Poor-Powerpoint-Presentations
At least this won't actually kill anyone
Taiwan makes the fancy 5nm stuff for your new iPhone
China makes the stuff that runs the engine in your car - and your tanks and your power grid. The new fabs being built in the USA and Europe will be chips for the next gen of iPhones / servers
So that's all OK then.
> it proposed replacing the word "landlord"
In an interview with the Admiral from the Falklands Special Military Operation who is now "First Sea Lord".
He was saying that some army bod was complaining that they don't get such good titles as the navy. The sailor explained that the Army equivalent would presumably be "First Landlord" and that might not be quite as respected
This is a New York union fight, it won't have all the fluffy communal love and hugs of say the N.U.M.
The electricians union is going to step in and demand that anybody who services a computer is theirs and Fruit Stand Workers can't take the back of a machine, then the communications workers are going to demand that only they can do phones.
It's why general union like the Teamsters are so big there - they negotiate with companies and governments to be the only union in a closed shop - in return they are generally very accommodating to the employer.
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