If I had to bet, I'd say Bezos's wealth won't increase today. Amazon is -2.35% in pre-market right now. He will instead probably lose more than any of us has ever made.
I get the idea of the counter but it gives a little too simplified view. There's still risk involved even with Amazon.
Oh I agree, the counter is a nice novelty toy but I know its not realistic. I'm comfortable with what I make and what I invest in, at some point there is such a thing as too much money for a single person (not a social statement, just a statement about my situation).
Yup, exactly. What's your new R&D spend going to be going forward, now that you have to maintain an edge in so many new areas? It really is a mediocre saving for a company this big.
Or you can just use a regular colo company and not even think about batteries, generators, buildings, security. Hell they'll even rack your gear for you.
I think Ben Horowitz recently said something to the effect of "not every company that's done an ICO is terrible, but every terrible company has done an ICO." Pretty much captures it.
He raises many good points about the potential downsides of 5G. US telecom corporations are rushing to beat China Telecom companies & South Korean companies to the punch. The US is definitely not going to have the same dominance in 5G that they had with 4G, especially if they take hazardous paths to a nationwide rollout
There are no US based mobile infrastructure companies competing for 4G or 5G installations. Qualcomm is lower level supplier providing components and competing with MediaTek, Samsung and Chinese.
There is only 5 major players left: Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE and Samsung. Two Chinese, Finnish, Swedish and South Korean.
I don't know based on what you are saying that, but all US cellular operators already told shareholders their billion dollar plans for 5G as far as last year.
I don't know what was the cause of him getting fired, but he certainly SHOULD be fired for such a sleazy sensationalist piece:
> When you do a search for "5G is Safe" on Google and Bing, you get a number of negative stories and a laundry list of why some people believe it's unsafe. Companies may as well begin to market a 5G mobile phone with a skull and crossbones on it.
Really, the entirety of his journalistic research is a Google search that somehow justifies him to reproduce conspiracy theories as facts? Technology similar to 5G "has been already weaponized"? Good riddance.
I guess we read the article differently. Because he didn’t seem to be saying 5G was dangerous, more that this was the public perception, and that vendors are doing little to manage the PR around this.
It's fine to observe that search results pop up a lot of pieces and discussions about 5G health concerns. And those may lead to adoption problems whether they're true or not. But if you're writing a good column, even though it is an opinion piece, you should probably then point out things like: XYZ studies dispute these health effects and that these sort of concerns have been brought up with pretty much every new radio technology.
If you just say there's a bunch of scary information out there (without even pointing to anything specific), you leave the impression that there's likely some truth in all of it.
Dvorak at least was a pretty high profile tech columnist. But he's tended toward a clickbait style even before there were links to click on.
He did say that topic having a real lack of studies was the main problem. 5G radiation is not the same as previous cellphone radiation which does have "XYZ studies dispute these health effects".
Sometimes presenting both sides of the argument would require making up an other side of the argument or propping it up because it doesn't exist or is bad. In that case presenting both sides of the argument would be sensationalizing.
I read this as him saying that the industry is trying to make unstudied radiation ubiquitous in our lives. The industry is not used to this pushback. The PR that results is bad.
Critical reading does not mean reacting to your first impression on the article. Especially when discussing whether the work of a man who's been covering tech since 1980 was censored over it.
That maybe the case, but bad enough to get fired over? That’s not clear to me.
The way modern writing works, I would expect he got paid very little for writing this. You’re kind of asked to push out X many blog posts a day, there’s not a huge amount of time for research... or even re-reading/thinking over the implications of your work.
Please let's not just surrender to "That's how modern writing works." I suppose it is at some publications, perhaps including pcmag.com. But there are plenty of thoughtful, researched articles and columns out there to read. That column has maybe a tweet's worth of content.
It’s not how things work everywhere I’m sure. But it seems likely in this case. As such, the content doesn’t surprise me, and I would put the blame solely on the author in this case.
Meh, the chief economics editor for ABC Australia wrote an article on the corporation tax reforms that made some pretty serious mistakes and she wasn't just simply fired even though many conservatives called for her head.
As I read it he's saying "the safety of millimeter waves needs more research" which isn't unreasonable. wifi doesn't use millimeter waves - the safety of wifi's frequency range is very well researched and has been for a long time.
From my short experience with wireless charging, I'm not a fan of the overheating issues and its definitely the reason why I wouldn't choose to use this over connecting a cable directly.
I primarily use a wireless charger and I haven't noticed any heating issues. It's in a phone stand form factor, though, rather than an attempt to be both paper-thin and lying flat like Airpower, so there's much more area for passive air-cooling.
You can find cheaper $15 ones in a similar form factor on Amazon from Seneo, but it seems to be a crapshoot whether any specific unit will last long-term or have misaligned coils that give off an annoying whine.
On the cheap side, I've had luck with the Comsol Wireless Charging Stand. I've used them with both a Nexus 5 & a Galaxy S8. Unfortunately it appears to have just been discontinued (currently on clearance sale), though I'm not surprised as it looks like a knock-off of a Samsung design:
At least with first generation Qi devices I think it was the device and not the charger to blame. I have a branded Lg charger and my Nexus 4 would occasionally overhead on it depending on how it was positioned. I eventually abandoned it and gave it to my wife who used her Nexus 5 with it for years and never complained of overheating.
Personally I've always liked the simple query language Graphd/freebase had. I'm interested to see how the performance is like in comparison to other triple stores
Yes, MQL really was an eloquent query language, especially when writing JavaScript for the browser. For the curious, most of the documentation seems to be gone, but there are a few examples here: https://github.com/nchah/freebase-mql#mql-and-graphql
(Note the graphd release doesn't include the MQL query engine)
