Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. A really short sighted view of the Intel/AMD competition. AMD traditionally lagged Intel in process, but at the end of the last century, AMD design lapped Intel and Intel was forced to drop their attempts to lead in processor design, Itanium, and follow AMD's design instead. At the same time, AMD lapped Intel in terms of multicore design. AMD managed to blow their lead of intel yet again, but made the essential move to farm out their fab operations -- just as most of the industry did. The result was they caught up to and passed Intel in process thanks to the Asian fabs. Intel hasn't regained their lead in process, and may never. What occurred was the evening of the desktop CPU market between Intel and AMD, but that market is (and has been) slowly declining vs. non-desktop environment dominated by ARM architectures, which neither Intel nor AMD make.
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  2. I'll bet your car would have looked worse after the 1907 earthquake...
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  3.  @zheuscher  That's just San Francisco's way of saying "welcome".
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  4. A very impractical weapon. Relative to ICBMs, this would have a very slow delivery time coupled with difficulty controlling the weapon, either to direct its path remotely or recall the weapon.
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  5.  @MrMarkOlson  I'll bite. How does curbing your wheels prevent theft?
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  6.  @MrMarkOlson  Not too shabby, I wouldn'ta thunk of that. I not only turn the wheels into the curb but back up/forward to test they hit the curb. A runaway on a hill in SF would be a nightmare. As a side note, I never drove a clutch in SF but I had to in Mexico once on a hilly section because they don't believe in auto transmissions there. I was swearing up a storm by the time I got it parked. Also I grew up in LA so I knew from way back never to leave anything in the car.
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  7. Umm, lets see. It captures CO2 out of the air. But it needs power. That power produces CO2. Hmmmmmmm.....
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  8. So I noticed that nobody stated the blindingly obvious here. If someone came out to put an "out of order" sign or bag on the charger, that someone could have FIXED THE DANG THING!. Especially if it is just a matter of turning the power off and on.
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  9. In california, at least, there is lots of land in the foothills that is not used (not populated, not forested). Further, the windmills don't impact farmland (since you can farm under them), and the fields are so big that they are far from houses. This seems like pure scare tactics to me. Go look at all the land in California that has seas of oil pumps as far as the eye can see.
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  10. 1:49 Why is the ships bridge bouncing up and down? I must have missed this feature on ships.
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  11. Starlink!
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  12. This is stupid. The major part of internet traffic is encrypted now.
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  13. Another company that made a dumb bet on hydrogen. It DOES NOT WORK, FOLKS. It just moves pollution down the street. Electrolysis is like cold fusion. It was impractical yesterday, is still today, and will be tomorrow. Wake up.
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  14. Plugshare is your friend. I escaped this mess by getting a Tesla, but before that I had a Bolt. Plugshare will tell you if the charger is alive before you get there.
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  15.  @triadwarfare  Sure, read what I said.
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  16. I used a wireless charger for a week or so. It beeps when the charge level is complete. If you leave it on the charger, and it is on, then it discharges a bit and the charger kicks on again. And after a short charge to bring the phone back up to %100, it... beeps. And it does this again. And again. And again. In fact ALL NIGHT. Since I charge the phone on the dresser next to me while I sleep, this is a problem. The charger lives in a bottom drawer now, gathering dust. Obviously the person who designed the thing NEVER ACTUALLY USED IT THEMSELVES.
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