Monday, December 14, 2020

What makes me laugh today is.....


Texas and the Conservatives clucking about how Oracle/HP/ and Tesla are moving there. Pro tip - We aren't sending you our best!  And Texas is acting like it's the score of the century. So funny. You can have these dinosaurs. Obviously Tesla is not a dinosaur, they are just a welfare queen. Good riddance.

Oracle is flatlined for the past 10 years. Amazon and others are eating their lunch. They aren't yet Intel, but they are definitely on the downslope. You can have Intel too if you want if it would make you feel better! I say these companies are a net suck.

Oh but wait - Schwab is also moving there. So surely I am wrong. Nope - that's another loser. Revenue down 19%.


3 comments:

  1. "[California] isn't sending you our best ..."

    California runs on the efforts of unsexy companies more than it does Bay Area darlings.

    These moves still mean fewer jobs of a kind that many Californians would want.

    Sometimes pulling up roots and shaking off some of the old ties makes other changes possible.

    Maybe Oracle can stop being a welfare rent collector with its recently implemented "development taxes" on corporate users of its Java JDK after moving to Texas.

    Perl and all of the stuff associated with an arcane B-code environment may make some things bizarre, but we're not paying for Larry Wall's retirement.

    Also, I'm pretty sure that Switzerland would be happy to take Intel. :-)

    Hospitals are no fun, BTW.

    And no, it's not The Rona, it's an arm injury sustained while on vacation.

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  2. "Maybe Oracle can stop being a welfare rent collector with its recently implemented "development taxes" on corporate users of its Java JDK after moving to Texas.'

    It's a fair statement. But welfare queens never stop being welfare queens. They just find a new source of income. Which is what Texas will soon find out. Elon is moving because he knows he has simply exhausted California's coffers. And it super funny that no one seems to understand that at this point. When I have a minute I will explain why.

    Same offer applies to intel. Once these companies become so imbedded into governments.... They are pretty much lost. No one would miss Intel at this point. Everyone can have these losers.

    "And no, it's not The Rona, it's an arm injury sustained while on vacation."

    I was wondering were you had gone. I actually became a little worried. But don't get all weird about it.

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  3. Capital of Texas RefugeeFriday, December 25, 2020 2:11:00 PM

    "And it super funny that no one seems to understand that at this point. When I have a minute I will explain why."

    I already know, but the bigger thing is that so much of the economy, from local to multi-national, depends on some kind of government-industrial grifting for jobs that this is all seen as Business As Usual.

    And so it doesn't matter because the scale of the grifting, the attractiveness of the grifting, and the bullshit arguments for moral suasion related to the grifting are so powerful that nobody talks about how these arrangements are more costly.

    It's essentially a variation of the Circle D "jobs for our people" versus Circle R "better competitors" discussion, and the "jobs for our people" contingent has been winning over the past few decades.

    And this may have even been tempting for us had I not established a rule that continues that we will not become fat and dependent on Government Cheese.

    Getting nice tax breaks and a better quality of life from the Swiss is one thing, but becoming a Swiss government bureau ex officio is quite another.

    But Intel tied in tight with the Swiss?

    The major thing that's prevented China from developing its own chip tech has been easy access to good enough chips outside China. Now that ARM is going to be NvidiARM and essentially American rather than British, that puts more pressure on China to develop chip tech independently.

    Whereas if we'd get China addicted to Swiss government cheese, we might have a China that's less likely to mess with foreign relations, especially those of neutrals and quasi-neutrals.

    But as for Oracle, they're really good at missing the fact that the world eventually has to move on from SQL and from monolithic database engines, and that they haven't leveraged their acquisitions properly to move on.

    Berkeley DB ... seriously, where did that go after all these years?

    Even MySQL is a mess, and that's really one SQL for another: lots of companies prefer the "Community Edition" over the Oracle-supported version because the open-source product works better.

    "But don't get all weird about it."

    AHAHAHAHAHA :-) :-) :-)

    It'd be cute if the girlfriend had a matching brace and splint, but she's actually competent at skiing, whereas I haven't done much of it even on the water.

    That I'd even try to do something that risky when I obviously suck at it did get her attention though, which of course I'm enjoying. :-)

    Merry Christmas (or Happy Buddha-mas) and all that, of course. :-)

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