🏭 Lights-Out Lessons: Why Auto Plants Prove We Don’t Need Humanoid Robots In 2014, General Motors gave me a tour of the giant Lake Orion plant North of Detroit. Because of automation, the facility was using only about a quarter of the space it was originally built for. Factories have gotten dramatically smaller over time
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Tim Snyder provides a rich background on Ukraine and it’s relationship with the kingdoms before Russia, all the way up to the modern day. He also argues that the war in Ukraine isn’t really about “getting the band back together” (Soviet Union), it’s more about embarrassing Ukraine and showing his own people that Russians are
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From time to time, I still go back and watch this series of reporting by Simon Ostrovsky from Vice News in 2014 during the Russian invasion of Crimea. I remember watching it each day as the situation in Crimea was unfolding. Simon Ostrovsky is such a bad ass for just wondering around and asking Russian
The last few days of news have pained an interesting narrative. This is not financial advice, and it’s also not timing the market, it’s just analyzing data. I’m analyzing the current state of affairs. I haven’t seen this narritve discussed on Bloomberg or CNBC, two financial news sources I pay attention to. Here’s what I