Tech – The Musings of the Big Red Car

Austin By God Texas — Chips, Dips, Tesla, and Tech

Big Red Car — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:13:41 +0000

One of the things we learned during the Pandemic’s early days before we became obsessed by lockdowns and mandates was that the United States had a great number of strategic industries in which our supply lines started in China, thereby making us vulnerable to the whims of an enemy. Yes, I said an ENEMY. Chief […]

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Tech Worker Unions

Big Red Car — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:32:50 +0000

Further to the blog post I made the other day as it related to the tech worker union situation at Kickstarter and BuzzFeed, I had a couple of very informative emails from folks in the trenches and I’d like to expound on several things. Kickstarter Union — Woke Or A Joke? First, I stand by […]

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Kickstarter Union — Woke Or A Joke?

Big Red Car — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:41:56 +0000

It was 79F yesterday in the ATX and 46F this morning. We’ll see 60F by the afternoon. Winter is brutal in Austin By God Texas, y’all. Brutal. So, I have been reading up on efforts to create unions at tech firms — talking to you Kickstarter, Uber, Google. While I used “Kickstarter” as the click […]

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Mussolini Made The Websites Work?

Big Red Car — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:40:59 +0000

Amongst the few redeeming elements of Fascist Mussolini was the notion that he made the trains run on time. In the eCommerce business, the tech equivalent is the efficacy of websites. You will remember that Obamacare, famously, had a huge fail on its website construction. This was the Mother of All Website Fails. From an […]

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Big Red Car — Fast Site

Big Red Car — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:31:53 +0000

About a month and a half ago, I got hacked. That made me focus on the Big Red Car website. It was very frustrating. Lots of time on the chat with support from a bunch of different places — talking to you, AWS. I changed a lot of things — hosting, security, analytics, CDN, cache, […]

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McDonald’s — The High Tech Company

Big Red Car — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:09:04 +0000

If you haven’t been following McDonalds you should be. Let’s take a look at that Big Maccer, shall we?As you can see, McDonalds stock price has been steadily inching higher and higher though the revenue has not been cooperating. Hello, America! What’s going on, Big Red Car? What happened has been a new 52-year-old CEO […]

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Rent The Wrong Way

Big Red Car — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:56:39 +0000

I have never rented anything from Rent the Runway, the unicorn women’s “unlimited closet in the cloud” fashion site, your secret door to the latest in the rag trade. You can rent clothing by the one off, on a subscription basis, and buy the clothes at a discounted post-rental price. They send you (gratis) a […]

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Tech, Taxes, Tariffs, Trade — And French Wine

Big Red Car — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:23:10 +0000

France has imposed/threatened a “digital services tax” on the likes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — all American companies. The tax is 3% of gross revenues from digital services earned in France, but only for companies with more than 25MM Euros in French revenue and 750MM Euros in worldwide gross revenue. The tax money […]

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The Brannock Device v Nike Augmented Reality

Big Red Car — Thu, 09 May 2019 15:28:47 +0000

Big Red Car here on a cloudy ATX day thinking about shoes. The gold standard for measuring feet — since 1927 — is something called the Brannock Device. It can be purchased from the company on their website www.brannock.com. You know all about it. Here is the Brannock device in all of its ambidextrous loveliness. […]

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The Unions Come For Tech

Big Red Car — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:24:01 +0000

Bit of a gray day out here in the ATX which is a great day to be viewing the bluebonnets. Bluebonnets do not belong to a union. If they did, they would require more rain, no? Today, however, we speak of the unionization of tech companies. A pal of mine (tip of the hat to […]

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