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BINGO... you got it in ONE... doesn't matter that it doesn't compete NOW but the FACT that they CAN and HAVE shipped a product = R&D pipe lines, the road map AND the market are all open... GAMERS built NVIDIA... If NVIDIA thinks it too big to care about it's gamers market... they will be humbled by what comes next from China...

The three most fertile subcultures in Western societies are the Amish, ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Premier League footballers.

My brother, @elisonk the Real Lesson from American/western Industrial Policy, should be building Institutions, Not Individuals. It’s true that America did not industrialize through laissez-faire. The state was an active midwife, land grants for railroads, tariff walls for manufacturers, Pentagon R&D that seeded Silicon Valley. But to cite that history as justification for today’s discretionary handouts to individuals with proposals is to confuse industrial policy with patronage. The difference is not whether the state spends, but how and to what end. US intervention was vertical, it targeted sectors with demonstrable positive externalities and scale economies, rail, steel, semiconductors, the internet. The support was conditional, rules-based, and tied to sectoral outcomes. Handing public money to individuals absent a sectoral strategy or competitive process is horizontal patronage, it picks winners based on proximity to power, not productivity. One builds industries, the other builds clients. Opportunity cost in a constrained fiscal space America’s 19th-century land was abundant. The opportunity cost of a grant was low. Uganda’s fiscal space is not. Every $1M allocated to an individual proposal is $1M withdrawn from universal health coverage, agro-industrialization, or domestic revenue mobilization. In public sector economics, that expenditure is only defensible if its social rate of return exceeds the foregone public investment. That calculation requires due diligence, not political instinct. Moral hazard and the asymmetry of risk Railroad barons could go bankrupt. Pentagon contractors faced technical audits, cost ceilings, and performance clauses. The state socialized risk, but private actors still bore consequences. When individuals receive public funds with no clawback mechanism, no equity stake, and no collateral, we manufacture pure moral hazard, the state absorbs the entire downside while any upside is privatized. That is not industrial policy. It is fiscal irresponsibility. The question is never merely “did the state spend?” History shows states must spend. The question is: “Did the state create institutions, infrastructure, or public knowledge that outlived the recipient?” Railroads became common carriers. The internet became a public platform. DARPA research became the semiconductor industry. These were public goods that raised productivity for millions, long after the original contractors were gone. A check to an individual with a proposal, absent institutional anchoring, competitive selection, and public-interest conditionality, produces no platform, no spillover, and no legacy. It is a transfer, not an investment. To conflate America’s industrial policy with discretionary patronage is to misread both history and economics. One used the state to correct market failure and build systems. The other uses the state to bypass systems and manufacture failure.

@aliza_pearl 100%. The power and money access that place gives really messes with minds

@sourced We need them in that house.

Having impressive grass to grace stories and beating several odds didn't translate into humility for these ladies. A sobering lesson.

@Iam_Ambros @michaelokecho Has anyone read their contracts and permits?

@michaelokecho You realize the government had blocked Starlink’s entry because it the government cannot control it like other ISPs?

Starlink is more interested in your data than in your business, your data gives them more money than you can pay them.

@Hirolla256 @nikita_helene Slowly slowly... he got soup now the rest will follow

@nikita_helene We over talked for this man and he when he hosted an Ugandan, he cooked unpeeled matooke, mashed them and poured uganda waragi. Then said it was dessert. I’d not have allowed that

kenyans ‘drinking’ soup out of a mug reminds me of seeing my daughter trying to eat an orange for the first time. bites into it without peeling it. we have to teach them how to consume new and unfamiliar foods

@AsiimweDicta @blue_jin7 @nikita_helene Sales chaps have one rule and one goal

@blue_jin7 @nikita_helene This is the explanation that makes sense

ugs snapped up all units in Pearl Marina: NO launched phase 2 due to high demand: NO +400 units sold out quickly: NO they're struggling to keep up: NO kla's most sought-after gated community: NO attracting middle-class buyers: NO Ugs aren't keen on flaunting their wealth: NO 🤦🏾‍♀️

@delahDee @Owishemwe I think these are faith levels... not confidence

@Owishemwe Mind you his just a nurse passing around tabs in a pharmacy

This confidence is what we need to remove the dictator

A lot of people think NuHealth is “just a health app” until they realise there’s an entire ecosystem behind it. Patient app. Doctor portal. Admin systems. Pharmacy integrations. Health records. Social health features. Spent months architecting this whole thing from the ground up. 🩺📱 nuhealth.co.za

@AusbelMumbere @VanessahKurora Heh, enjoy those moments

@VanessahKurora For now?

Just a chill Sunday, no school fees to worry about, no 5 page school requirements to break the bank. Life is good mahn. If you like, have 10 children.

@jaybug1313 @Gert_LeNinja Surf boards?

@Gert_LeNinja You prefer these ones 😭😭😭😂😂😂

South African women are not serious about having feet

It's just that Africans are so gullible. Other than that, there is nothing new on this continent. You can always predict how political realities will unfold simply because our leaders are so predictable. They don't even try. If you pay attention, each African country is on a loop within its context. A repetitive dynamic that the citizens continue to allow and treat as a new thing each time it happens

South Africa’s private sector largely exists because the State is extremely incompetent. There are very few private companies that are extraordinary, most of them are simply doing what our tax money should be doing already.

Polsia raised $30M for "AI that runs your company." We did the diligence — on their own data: - Fake ARR (real ≈ $0) - Fake customers (94% dead) - A human-graded Claude wrapper, not autonomous - A god-mode kill-switch on every company you build 🧵👇

@Hirolla256 @kabderrick Those two ladies just don't like cars as much... I think prime A3 can never catch them

@sourced @kabderrick Those two ladies will also buy Rolls Royces

You’re closing borders because of Ebola, but inviting people from South Sudan and Congo for conferences at Munyonyo to discuss Ebola? Naye bantu mwe? Among doesn’t even head Ministry of Health!

@TheMutaD @Samwyri Bad roads have radicalized people

@Samwyri 😂

Actually now okay with people who cook stories cooking one where they implicate the contractor in some capital offence. Something like funding some fictitious rebel group to topple the government. Maybe that’s when the will get attention or the contractor getting jolted.

Boss: “what can we do to make the workplace more enjoyable?” Me: “alcohol would be nice”