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billzybop t1_iwydb9q wrote
Reply to comment by viper12a1a in Do you know how to make $20B in the Tech business? by braddamit
That doesn't change the fact that Musk overpaid and then burned it down.
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Reply to comment by fv7061 in TIL the first confirmed victim of Takata airbags was 18y/o Parham. As she drove around a car park, she lightly bumped another vehicle making the airbag inflate, sending metal pieces at such tremendous force that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat by ahm713
My girlfriend was working for them when Joyson took over. They laid pretty much everyone off, then called them 3 weeks later to offer them their old jobs for 1/2 the money.
Before they went bankrupt a lot of their employees had license plate frames with "TAKATA" on the top and "We Save Lives" on the bottom.
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Reply to comment by Hot-Praline7204 in NASA invents ‘incredible’ battery for electric planes by HaikuKnives
The OLED screens that are starting to appear in consumer products were first developed 15(?)ish years ago. It takes a long time to go from "developed technology" to finished product. There are also possible unknown issues that may keep this tech from scaling up to useful production. On the other hand, when you see lots of promising developments in a field in a short period of time you can be pretty sure that some of them are going to work out. So you can't bet for sure on this tech, but it's a good bet that something in development now will work out.
billzybop t1_iwymylj wrote
Reply to comment by viper12a1a in Do you know how to make $20B in the Tech business? by braddamit
He overpaid for it, it now has no revenue, almost no employees, and he's begging for programmers to show up. Not really sure what you call a business with no income and no employees.