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Published over a decade ago but Jeremy Scahill's book on Blackwater and the rise of Prince's mercenary-centric idea of warfare is worth a read.
This family and people like them are pure fucking evil. They give no fucks about the lives they destroy.
Read the book "Blackwater" if you want an idea. Also pretty relevant because it discusses a lot of Erik Prince's political views as well as the DeVos family. Disgusting to see Betsy DeVos in a position of power ESPECIALLY concerning education.
That E3 must have been the highlight of Steve Race's career. He had left the failing Sega just about a year before over difficulties with (among other things) SOJ's refusal to allow him to do these kind of stunts.
Some other funny and silly things Race did during E3 1995 included putting PlayStation napkins on every table at the SEGA party, and releasing PlayStation balloons all over the Convention.
It really is too bad that less than a year after launching the PlayStation both him Olaf Olafsson(the guy talking) and most of the nonjapanese staff at Sony's Interactive Entertainment division got fired, despite the Play Station doing amazingly.
if your interested in more of the story the end of the book console wars covers it quite extensively. Its mostly a book about SEGA and even at that mostly about Tom Kalinske but its got a lot of good background on both Nintendo and Sony as well.
You should read this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt-ebook/dp/B00HVJB4VM
A custom built fiber connection from NY to Chicago that was a straight line. Ripping up parking lots and such to go through to keep connection distance as little as possible.
The reason is to lower the distance as you can not really beat the speed of light.
Satellite has a big issue that makes it offer less than ideal user experience. You have to go from ground to satellite to ground to data center and then back to satellite to ground for every single packet.
What helped me get there was the realization that I was an addict. I was standing in line at the gas station behind two guys and a girl, each getting their cigarettes. The whole time i was silently condemning them in my head "Dont they know they are addicts, that they are killing themselves, that they are throwing their money away." etc..
It became my turn the pay and i sat my chocolate donuts and soda on the counter and paid my $4 and change and remembered that I had just said that morning that i was going to start calorie counting again, that i was going to just skip breakfast because i wasn't even that hungry. That i had specifically reminded myself to not stop by the convenience store. Yet there I was anyway getting my fix, just like the three smokers in front of me had been.
Read Salt Sugar Fat, its not a coincidence that I was an addict, the food I was gorging on was specifically and meaningfully designed to be addictive.:
https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked-ebook/dp/B00985E3UG
That knowledge gave me the fuel to fight my cravings, because fuck them. Righteous indignation became my shield and got me through those first couple of really hard weeks and unto the path to a healthier lifestyle.
Reagan was part of the fascist Christianization crew. Same with Eisenhower. Eisenhower gets credit for turning against them before he left office, with the Cross of Iron and MIC speech.
There's quite a few details you're missing. There's also nuance with mergers and acquisitions. They're not the same.
I read this book a few years back, which was really interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KVI76ZS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_9FFT0N90169W1V3VGEKK
All the cofounders put a lot of work into getting it off the ground - that includes musk.
It's not like PayPal was a successful business before the merger.
I've read a ton of books on this subject, and I highly recommend, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss and Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser.
Read Salt, sugar, fat by Michel moss. It's on audible.
Here's link if you want to read reviews.
it's about how companies hook us on food. There's something called the 'bliss point' It's the perfect ratios of salt sugar and fat. So much more.
Hahahah, after readying the actual book Console Wars, I wouldn't be surprised :) The business behind our favorite childhood consoles is pretty interesting. I highly recommend it: https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE
People wonder why Elon is so hell-bent on acquiring Twitter. He told us during the shareholder meeting that it would advance his plans by 3 years.
This is consistent with what is known about how he calculates things:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KVI76ZS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
Page 188:
"Sometimes he [Elon] wouldn't let you buy a part for $2,000 because he expected you to find it cheaper or invent something cheaper. Other times, he wouldn't flinch at renting a plane for $90,000 to get something to Kwaj [Island] because it saved an entire workday, so it was worth it. He would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in 10 years to be 10 million dollars a day, and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money." - Kevin Brogan, early SpaceX Employee
I read this one which is considered to be the biography of Elon right now. What did I say that was wrong?
Unionization is literally the one thing that could prevent that type of exploitation. And that is exactly what "democratize the workspace" means.
You don't have to take my word for it. Jason Schreier wrote a great book called Press Reset. The thesis is more or less "if workers don't organize, the games industry won't retain talent and the crunch will only get worse".
Eh, it started as soon as The New Deal started.
Read: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Press Reset, the follow up to Blood, Sweat, and Pixels. A video game journalist wrote about what happens behind the doors of various game development companies
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLR61MG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_W98MW6JMWFTQVPSX8P44
>Straubel was already a cto before joining tsla
Which only proves my point further. Mr. Straubel was at Rosen Motors, a hybrid vehicle company, in 2002, just 4 years after college (according to chapter 7 of Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk). He was hired as CTO just 4 years out of undergrad.
A person's capabilities and judgment are what matters, not their age or seniority.
There's literally a best-selling book on all this. I suggest you read it.
Here's an excerpt on Amazon's successful predatory pricing.
Then go read the book it cited. Scrutinize away. Pretty sure it’ll say the same thing.
Edit: I’ll help you out. It makes it pretty clear that Ohanian and Huffman were together doing this long before Swartz joined Y Combinator. Swartz was not involved in major early decisions (not even choosing the name), and is largely absent from the actual founding. He was a partner in the startup, no more a co-founder than Graham. Do some actual reading and you learn things.
> (“Perfect is the enemy of good.”)
I have nothing to add, but it's interesting that this saying (with minor tweaks) can be used in both directions i.e., Good to Great
> Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
If you are really interested - this book tells the whole story
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-ebook/dp/B00BWQW73E
He went through so much hard work setting the Amazon up, it's a fascinating read.
Think it depends on what applications you use. But this will add a decent amount of latency that you do not have if stay on the ground.
If older you might remember the days where we had phone calls sometimes routed over satellite and how aggravating. Today they all go under the ocean and for a reason. These satellites are lower but still are adding latency that does not exist when stay on the ground.
Here is an excellent book that is all about latency. It is a very interesting read.
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt-ebook/dp/B00HVJB4VM
No. I suspect part of it might be age?
I am old and remember when we use to get phone calls routed over satellite instead of under sea. Drove me crazy with the latency.
I shared the book that really points out why fiber is so much faster. It is not like once this is live they would move the fiber connection to satellite.
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt-ebook/dp/B00HVJB4VM
BTW, this is an excellent book and really, really interesting. It really shows how latency is all about money. The one coming will be Stadia. High latency and NOT happening.
Also has more things go to the cloud latency becomes far more important. It is why Google is now using the direct connects to the ISPs and now has over 7500 instead of using the public Internet. Cost a lot more but it removes a lot of latency. But also enables more consistent latency.
>I'm not sure I understand your comment.
I'm citing Matthew 26. If they think they are Christian, they are not. In fact, you're supposed to avoid these kinds of "Christians". It is warned time and time again in the Bible.
>But, dominionism isn't just some tiny fringe element of Christianity. It's fairly widespread in the middle of the country, and almost all of those people voted for Donald Trump.
No, it's not.
They merged in the 60s. We went from Christian values to Judeo-Christian. Remember, Eisenhower was going to sanction them right at the start for their vile behavior.
The strongest lobby is Conservative Christians backed by Billionaires. We're fascist brothers, in the fascist family.
"I declare that henceforth capital and labor shall have equal rights and duties as brothers in the fascist family." - Benito Mussolini. As quoted in The Fate of Trade Unions Under Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini, chapter 3: “Italian Trade Unions Under Fascism”, New York: NY, published by Anti-Fascist Literature Committee, 1937, p. 35.
I've discovered that "Commerce" is not the same as "Capitalism". Benito said that capitalisms history started in the 30s, and, it was newspeaked to being fascist. Even claiming his alternative aligns with Keynes.
Naw, they learned that's the bad way of conversion.
You gotta get 'em at the social level. Convince them NOT going is the negative to begin with -- rather than what's taught in the pews (big business gospel in this case!).
While its not exactly a singular person in the story, the book "From Good to Great" by Jim Collins analyzes companies over a span of 20-30 years that were considered the underdog in their field to becoming the flagship for their market.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others-ebook/dp/B0058DRUV6
they aren't moderating prices, they are manipulating them. They have faster connections than standard users, their algorithms can anticipate and then execute from the time you request your order to the time it fulfills, hopping in the middle of your order and making a very small amount of money in the process.
The Book "Flash Boys" is a great read about it.