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Why is it not smart?


The classical answer would be RCA, who famously bought Carpetland, Banquet Foods, and Hertz car rental, and was bequeathed the moniker "Rugs, Chickens, and Automobiles" by the investment community.

Buying a stake in Nokia is admittedly different than taking it over and managing it, but the danger there is very clear. Distracted management that strays away from core competence can easily kill the golden goose driving revenue.

The contrarian view is that Berkshire Hathaway is able to hold an array of successful manufacturing and service businesses (Kirby vacuum cleaners, Dairy Queen, Clayton Homes, and the prominent Sees Candy) without losing management control of GEICO and their other insurance holdings.

Hopefully, Nvidia sees the example of RCA and Gulf Western, and will not lose focus on their core competence.

RCA famously birthed the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. I think that focused trade regulation would prevent a repeat of that event in modern times.

Edit: It appears that RCA bought Coronet Carpets, not Carpetland.


There were two nots


Would be crazy if a country made Bitcoin to weather sanctions or other economic interventions.


Try Aerospace. Completely solved window management for me.

Also for dev, set up your desired environment in a native container and then just remote into it with your terminal of choice. (Personally recommend Ghostty with Zellij or Tmux)


What are your differing use cases for each editor?


My work setup is simply too complex and uses too many plugins to work in Helix as of now.

For all personal work and just quick text editing I use Helix. If I could use Helix for everything I would


Have a Glove80 on the way.


The $5 million option gives you privileges even better than a US citizen since you do not pay taxes on foreign income while being a US resident. They should make it an annual fee.


9 months residency. They seem like very different products to me.


Technically, these guys aren’t residents since they’re only allowed to stay 270 days a year. Not sure what the deal is though.


Suppose you can stack them. Stay on $1M Gold by default then pop on the tax-free booster ahead of a major liquidity event.


Normally, >6 months per year is the definition of residency. Any other country will consider these people US-resident.


As part of this deal, is Intel doing any GPU fabrication?


Reminds me of Windows Vista.


Two different companies. Figma is not 37Signals.


oh, woops. thanks for correcting me, will edit my comment.


Impressive


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