I work at a university and I see that professors routinely try to sneak things by for travel reimbursement. We are stuck in the dark ages and most forms are paper and submitted manually. We are finally getting Concur later this year and am cautiously optimistic.
I assumed the primary feature of Flatpak was to make a “universal” package across all Linux platforms. The security side of things seems to be a secondary consideration. I assume that the security aspect is now a much higher priority.
It's interesting on my mother's side of the family, most everyone lived well into their 80's and 90's. The execution being for my Mom and her sisters who smoked heavily. Her brothers both died in their 60's but were in the Vietnam war and were definitely exposed to Agent Orange and both had brain cancer. My dad lived until nearly 80 after smoking since he was 12 years old and 2-3 packs per day.
I believe the idea that China’s population was overestimated came out of the COVID vaccine rollout. Supposedly, the central government asked local officials how many doses they needed and then sent money based on those numbers. That gave some people an incentive to inflate the figures to get more funding. Later on, when the government looked at school enrollment numbers, they noticed there were way fewer kids than the number of vaccine doses that had been requested for children.
Yi Fuxian claim gov data showed 140m children were vaxed but there were only 110m kids registered in school, suggesting 30m fake/shadow kids. But school registration does not include 40m kindergartners... which syncs up to 140 gov claim.
Not surprised. Unless the item is on sale (which can be very good deals) their pricing is no better than a standard supermarket and usually far more expensive than a Target or WalMart. And they quickly gave up on the scan and go where the smart shopping card read everything in the basket and automatically charged your Amazon account, so it was back to regular checkout.
I think most customers nowadays pre-pay for fab capacity. TSMC is running at 100% capacity for their N5, N3, and N2 nodes. Apple certainly makes extra commitments to be the first to use a new TSMC advanced node. They will be the first to ship an N2 chip by a few months when they release the iPhone 18 Pro.
However, I'm talking about booking wafers from a fab that hasn't started and won't make a single wafer 3 years from now. The scale is different. Imagine Nvidia, Apple, Google, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon telling Wall Street in their earnings report that they sent TSMC $5 billion each this quarter and won't receive a single wafer for another 3 years from the investment. I fully expect this to happen soon. I'm almost certain that you'll hear in the upcoming earnings reports that big tech sent Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix billions in advance payment to secure memory supply years from now. I think this is likely the same for chip fab capacity soon.
> I'm almost certain that you'll hear in the upcoming earnings reports that big tech sent ..billions in advance payment to secure memory supply years from now.
And this would be no different than investing billions in R&D (Ex. Meta and AR) for future payouts.
Or, Apple buying 10000 advance CNC machines for their manufacturer. In this case timeline for future payout is perhaps much shorter but the pertinent point will be Apple invested in Capex upfront.
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