iPhone adoption in the enterprise wasn't because of IT. When consumer preference is strong things tend to happen.

The problem with that is those networks are pretty tiny if you don't count sports. Mr. Beast has more viewers the CNN's top show.

To get those types of numbers you would have to be charging from a grid that is nearly 100% coal. Real grids heavily favor EVs.

Yeah I probably should’ve mentioned that the more solar/wind/hydro you use to charge an EV, the more the efficiency goes up, thanks.

Surely there is more to the story. Why would big banks lend in these situations if they always end in bankruptcy?

As the article says, leveraged buyouts of retail end in bankruptcy only 41% of the time, and most of those bankruptcies are presumably not a total loss for the banks. So it's just a matter of pricing the loans to ensure the successes cover the losses.

(Why do private equity firms want to be in this business? Because the 59% that don't fail often generate very good returns.)

> (Why do private equity firms want to be in this business? Because the 59% that don't fail often generate very good returns.)

The way they limit their own exposure to risk seems to increase the odds of the targeted business completely failing, though. I think that's the part people have a problem with.

Agreed. I'm sure there's edge cases I don't know about, but in general I think it would be better to simply not allow leveraged buyouts and let businesses that would fail without the buyout fail.

What kind of rates do you need to charge to cover 41% bankrupcty odds? Home lending would fall at an order of magnitude lower rate.

I tried to look into this, and as far as I can tell the terms of LBOs are just so opaque there's no good way to tell. Maybe patio11 will do an article on it some day.

Exactly what are you using in React land that has lasted for 6-7 years. No components to hooks transition? No styling library changes? No state management changes? No meta framework changes? The React ecosystem is the least stable thing I have ever worked with.

Hooks were introduced in 2019. so, seven years ago.

Even only looking at React provided hooks, they added a lot over years and best practices around things like useEffect have changed a lot.

If you have a complex app from 2019 that you haven't updated, it is virtually guaranteed that it has memory leaks and bugs.

I don't really agree that "best practices around useEffect have changed a lot". It's more that that particular hook was used a lot when it didn't need to be so the team finally wrote some guidelines.

yeah same... i have always tried to useState and minimal effects, those have not really changed in 7 years

It looks like there are several ways to reinstate these tarrifs at the Executive level https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-got-it-right-ieepa-d...

The important thing is that Trump can't do the tariffs beyond 15% on a whim anymore though. Like imposing tariffs on Canada because of an ad displayed in Toronto.

will it bring back the de minimis exemption for Canadian exporters? Have a friend who's ebay business has been destroyed.

This seems like an incomplete analysis since many countries with pay-as-you-go schemes borrow money to fund them sometimes, which contributes to general inflation.

It looks like the next release of Django will take seriious strides to solve a lot of the n+1 headaches, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/#model-fi....

Also, I doubt solving Instagram-level scale issues is on the top ten list of concerns for this project. Just getting something out there and gaining users is way more important than solving far future scaling issues.

Oh I agree 100%. Use the right tool for the job. I'm just saying, the "<hyperscaler> uses <framework>" logic is rarely useful to justify anything.

It seems like you have an unfalsifiable belief. If one side raises more money and wins, it because of the money. If one side raises more money and loses, it is still the money because the other side spend it more effectively.

You almost got it. We all lose as long as money determines power in social relations.

Does node or Go have a full-stack framework with any real usage? Those languages seem to have people that like piecing together libraries than using frameworks. Other languages all offer popular frameworks; Ruby on Rails, Java Spring, PHP Laravel, ASP.Net.

The modern approach is to have a node-based fullstack framework like Next, SvelteKit or Astro, plus backend API services.

I’m afraid i am one of those people :)

They are full-stack but not complete frameworks like the other. Where is the ORMs, authentication, form handling, etc? Will your bespoke choices hold up in 10 years?