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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Cursor investors and employees are the biggest winners of the SpaceX IPO, even if the IPO flops, they will still get much more out of their Cursor shares than they ever had a right to expect. Some SpaceX employees have been waiting over 10
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
There are no "pretty important" companies with the relatively meager revenues SpaceX has got.
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And I had to scroll all the way down here to find a post that wasn't high octane copium.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Hassabis is a genuine prodigy and genius by any measure you would care to pick. Unlike a handful of others supposed tech leaders I can think of. Just how smart? "A few short years" sounds like someone smart enough to know how to m
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Nvidia has a trailing P/E ratio of about 30. Imagine where the stock price could be if he was an S tier bullshit artist like those two.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Do you give up when faced with multiple related problems?
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Have you seen Flock's CEO?
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
So is Tesla. The fly in the ointment is the Tesla demonstrates how long you can keep the scam running. It's been three years since Tesla was a growth technology stock. Now it's an EV manufacturer that has under invested in follow
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
You are directionally correct: except for a grab bag of edge cases, terrestrial wireless will always be cheaper and perform better. The killer aspect of that fact is that the computing and radios that go into 5G networks keep getting cheape
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Well that absolves Elon. Right?
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He only killed a few dozen monkeys with the brain implant. That's nothing compared to denying children food and medicine.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
I am an author of a couple of books that are part of the Anthropic settlement.
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by Zigurd 3mo ago
Blame copyright law. AI training is very comparable to compiling an inverted index, which is considered transformational even though you can recover the input documents from an inverted index.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Impeachment is the equivalent of an indictment, and the subsequent trial and removal is, probably correctly, very difficult to attain. That leaves a vast area of things a president shouldn't be able to do because it's illegal, but
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First recorded Tesla Semi crash kills two people in Nevada(latimes.com)
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
The turmoil comes not only from the fact of tariffs but from the manner in which the US operates tariff policy if you can call it that. It's the equivalent of button mashing your game controller. There is a low upper bound to the effec
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I distinctly remember Apple having produced a video showing off an automated assembly line for PCB production for the original Mac. It's not like they didn't try it.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I have to wonder who aspires to become Japanese or Chinese, or even the superficially plausible goal of me becoming German. It just wouldn't enter my mind. As for social integration, the Chinese people I met seemed astonished and pleas
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Though it was years ago now, I did spend a couple of years frequently traveling to China for fairly long stays. I learned enough Mandarin to get by on my own. The "scariest" thing is realizing you might have to walk for an hour in
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Everyone's looking at Israel speed running reputation destruction, which, TBF, is the bigger deal than what the tech industry is doing to itself, but we're not exactly covering ourselves in glory with techno fascism, social media
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I saw this on Facebook before I saw it here. While it bears a superficial resemblance to 1000s of clickbaity tech stunts this one really delighted me. Some of these should be edited into a remastered release of Blade Runner.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Africa is mostly on 4G networks, and while 3G isn't a majority of the connections, it's still the next biggest share of infrastructure, far ahead of 5G which is relatively scarce. This is in the context of a population that really
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
You're thinking of trains and rail lines. They deployed an obnoxious billionaire to dig tunnels that are useless and to propagandize against mass transit, while building the world's envy of a rail system. On the other hand, the Ch
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Let's assume you're not lumping all data centers in together in bad faith. Just like Elon's tunnels are not a subway system, a repurposed crypto mine isn't a real AI data center. There's a right way to build, fund,
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I see the inscrutable Chinese have left you without any specifics.
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Only one of my books has been translated into Chinese, so what do I know?
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If it were true that data centers are building "American dynamism" and China wants to suppress that, surely they would be building data centers the way they build trains. They're not. And that should make you go hmmm.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
The public seems to be aware that it's a hype driven grift, much more so than when it was a flood of DTC dot-coms, or plowing fiber to nowhere. There's so much money sloshing around that people correctly believe the potential for
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Persecuting or favoring investors on a political basis "and to repress academic work they find politically objectionable" has come to America. The only business people intellectually weak enough to not be a threat are real estate
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Meh. If anything Elon is even worse than Zuck at making random big bets at the wrong scale, based on the desire to have a platform. Xai. Cyberetruck. And just so you don't think I have perfect hindsight, I'll predict that Starship

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