They aren't incentivizing. They are instigating. Incentives imply a gain in utility in exchange for support. There is no gain in utility to the public here. I know English, I was educated in England, until I took my A levels to American universities. "As such", ahem...

Try writing unfragmented sentences. Also, in your sentence, a comma after "such as" is grammatically incorrect.

Speaking of pontificating on subjects we can't comprehend, the last worthwhile thing Europeans have done is pave roads.

I will say their meeting is worth it when 50 governments realize they can meet on Zoom rather than fly 50 planes to Columbia.

Regulations are generally good to mitigate damage to the public. Modern regulations are just a way to transfer more money from business and industry to the government to splurge on pork, waste, fraud, and abuse.

Dont get me wrong. I think a healthy amount of regulation is a public good. I also think there is justification to collect fees and fines to pay for inspections, drafting regulations, and ensuring a willingness to comply. But lets not pretend that our government works, regulating industry has become a quid-pro-quo or a pay to play scheme where governments are using regulations to extort businesses for things that dont matter, and neglecting their mandate to regulate adequately. Europe is especially guilty of this, but the American government is ridiculous, and I would bet people aligning with both sides of the aisle would agree. We need reform, badly.

You can tell it's about money more than "the air our children breathe" because they are citing datacenter. As if the datacenter owns the utility. Hint: it does not, and those diesel generators are hella expensive to run (diesel is $8 a gallon in some places), and those generators have hefty fines if they run more than 96 hours a year. This is just instigating a public to back a politician extorting money, that won't be used to fix whatever the politician is saying is wrong.

See, why not use a botnet to submit every possible 32 bit device ID, effectively shutting down these fuckers?

This is ridiculous. To stop ticket scalping, just make a law that requires ticket holders either be present (say up to 2 tickets), or release the tickets back to the venue for a full refund. The venue can maintain a standby list of users who want the tickets and can notify them that seats have been released if someone bought them and no longer wants to go. Original purchaser must show up, and provide 1/2 the names of everyone in their party. If you dont show up, tickets can be refunded and resold at the venue's discretion.

No, they are buying the spectrum.

Or the lowest bidder. I would rather have one of those bitchen Chinese EVs than his shitty Mustang E for the money anyway. Protectionism is wrong. 1 Million auto-workers should not be prioritized over 330 million American consumers who are having their options limited. If there is a regulatory requirement like smog or safety systems missing, fine. But regulations MUST apply to all equally.

Or will they just ME ALSO what SpaceX already has achieved with global high-speed low-latency bandwidth?

Management may be foolish, but that would mean those who went another way would more likely succeed. There is a sort of evolutionary survival of the fittest in the business world and it works (See: Sears, Nokia, Blackberry, Lehman Brothers, etc). If AI did not work, those who were quick to adopt it will be soon to fall. On the other hand, if it does work, those who believe it doesnt will soon be replaced by those who do. Market forces are beholden to no one.

I cant fathom why we have a shortage of Fabs making this stuff. What's worse, the large orders by AI companies are securing favorable pricing, so we are paying more per gig than they are by huge orders of magnitude.

Joe Biden, or Donald Trump. You think either would pass a physical? Or told Mossad no when shown the videos from secret cams of them fucking kids in an Israeli honeytrap operation?

It is somewhat correct. For one like Linux, Darwin is open-source. Many of the commands in Mac OS are also linux commands (grep, cat, etc..). It is a POSIX like OS (both take inspiration from UNIX). Also, both use the same file driven layout. (same slashes, same . notation for hidden files, etc etc etc). It is certainly more like Linux than say, Windows.

This is FUBAR, and something I can speak to with plenty of experience. FSD is good enough that insurance companies are offering discounts to use it. It has a lower crash statistic than a human driver, thats not fucked up reporting, that data submitted to the DMVs which involves mandatory collection. Personally, I have used FSD for over 90k miles on two Model X vehicles. It works, and it works. well.

But to imagine that Elon Musk doesnt deliver:
1. His rockets land.
2. His space internet has 10,000,000 subscribers and climbing.
3. His brain implant has give multiple paraplegics abilities.
4. His home battery created an industry of solar batteries at scale, and they contribute to keeping peaker plants offline.
5. He has the worlds largest EV charging network.
6. Tesla is profitable and out-producing big-auto on EVs. A "Tesla Killer" is now the same thing as an "iPhone Killer".
7. FSD works, and you can have multiple end-to-end autonomous drives yourself, if you rent or buy a Tesla.
8. Elon made SpaceX profitable to the point it no longer needs NASA / US Government.
9. His companies have paid back all the loans and grants the government afforded it.

To your point:

Citation needed. But let's give you the benefit of the doubt. Even if that were true, this is like saying stop pursuing the automobile because it will never be faster than a horse. With all things tech related, the incremental ratcheting improvement will make alternatives (human drivers in this case) eventually seem silly for how incapable we are at driving. 50K road deaths in America will be a thing of the past, sooner or later, and it will be Tesla that delivers that, because they're the ones pushing the envelope.


The guy is off on timelines, but the proof is in the pudding. Maybe you just dont like that a guy who has different politics than you is vastly more capable?

Neither of his two major companies receive their entire income from the US Government. This is an old lie. 60% of SpaceX revenue today comes from Starlink, about 35% comes from Rocket Launches not related to NASA, and about 5% comes from NASA.

Tesla... well they sell cars and battery packs and solar panels, and charging sessions. So.. no.

Maybe they are just looking at the Model Y and thinking Tesla can do it again, and hit a sweet spot of price / value like they have there.

Let's look at the Chinese market in particular. The Model Y is the best selling new-energy vehicle (Chinese auto-industry breakdown) SUV and the #3 best selling overall. It dominates its price point, and has the absolute highest customer satisfaction in china (2.2 complaints per 10,000 vehicles vs an industry average of 19/10000).

There are cheaper products, there always will be. But buying the cheapest isn't always the best value, and Tesla hit the mark on that sweet spot.

To put it another way: You need internet and you are remote. You can buy Hughes Net for $70 or Starlink for $120. Starlink has 10,000,000 subscribers, while Hughesnet has under a million. The same thing in space access is true. Falcon 9 is more expensive than an Electron rocket launch, but not quite big enough for the Artemis launches. But for most consumers of space launches with most payload sizes, the value proposition is again, best to be had. Even Amazon is using it for project Kuiper.

Optimus aims to be the Starlink / Falcon 9 / Model Y of humanoid robotic assistants. Good enough for most people and useful to everyone, while maybe not the best for industry specific applications, the best general purpose. Can you buy a mannequin with actuators for less? Sure. But why would you? Unless you want a Roomba that only vacuums, you'll want an Optimus. That is where the optimism comes from.