Zigurd

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811.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
It would make sense for the presidential election in the US to be based on the popular vote. But states running their own election systems enables trying things like ranked choice voting for House and Senate members, as well as state and lo
812.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
To be precise: humanoid robot TAM $0; vehicles TAM ~$2.7 trillion.
813.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
It worked for his Twitter co-investors. I guess they overlap enough with Xai investors for them to think it's more clever than it is a rip off.
814.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Starship has a large number of critical milestones coming: Can it land and quickly reuse the upper stage? If not, it can't make refueling flights without building a dozen or two starships. Can it carry the full specified payload? If no
815.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
TBF the welfare queen trope is well trodden ground. I'm actually surprised to see it brought up more than once in a supposedly sophisticated forum.
816.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Most people in a tech business can easily identify a whale hunt. That is, a business where a small number of customers provide such a disproportionate share of revenue that everyone else doesn't matter. But for some reason they fail to
817.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
It's not like moot and Bannon conspired to foment and amplify incel resentment. Wait...
818.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
"Hard drug" is a loaded term. Nicotine is more addictive than some "hard drugs." That big VC funded vape maker couldn't stay away from child friendly marketing.
819.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Horse. Barn. Gone.
820.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Ambiguity is a thing.
821.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Billions. How often do you see and hear Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation mentioned in connection with supposedly good causes? Alfred Nobel managed to whitewash his image without getting his dick stuck in Russian booty.
822.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
> If those managers currently sold on The Cloud, can instead be sold on how much money they'd save not being on The Cloud... This is more than a theory, it's a trend that is already underway. The cloud remains supremely capit
823.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
True but obv. Only lunatics would use a Russian cloud service. The interesting part is whether and what extent China is different. Also, why Europe should start treating us like Russians.
824.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Falcon nine is the best rocket for accessing Earth orbit and sometimes beyond. Getting a rocket that wasn't designed for it to land the booster is an amazing accomplishment. But Starship is questionable. It's supposed to be big an
825.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
They haven't said it explicitly. But the reason that Waymo can add five cities this year is very likely they are at least at break even on opex. They likely reached that point sometime last year and it seems to have held up. So I would
826.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Vehicle design also plays a role: passenger cars have to meet pedestrian collision standards. Trucks don't. The silly butch grilles on SUVs and pickups are deadly. This is more of an argument for not seeing transportation as a fashion
827.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Waymo is different. Waymo evolved over a period of 15 years into a mature and deployable robotaxi service. Waymo has a hardware strategy, enormous data infrastructure, real time data from 2 billion Maps and Navigation users, a support infra
828.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
If I understand Salt Typhoon correctly it's a masterpiece. The descriptions I've seen indicate that they penetrated lawful intercept. Lawful intercept operates outside network operators network management systems because it was de
829.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Flying out of HK after visiting SZ, I was quietly and quickly surrounded by men with guns after my bag was xrayed. I like nice clothes, especially neatly laundered and pressed shirts. I had an Altoids tin with a few brass collar stays for t
830.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
If you have access to nitric acid you don't need any obscure lore. 3 ounces of a simple concoction a high school chemistry student could make is enough to blow a hole in an airplane. You also stand a good chance of blowing yourself up
831.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
I've seen a few drug-addled people. None of them thought ending apartheid was a bad idea. Even back when it was a new idea. But in 2026? Who the hell would think that and then say it out loud?
832.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
The typical mature technology company in the US earns half their revenue from outside the US. Makes it harder to understand even tacitly supporting white supremacy and ignorant isolationism.
833.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Techno accelerationists don't like to be reminded of their complicity.
834.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
I wrote a Bluesky app in preparation for a client project. ATProto is over-engineered for my purposes, though probably justifiably carefully engineered for the purposes of a big social Twitter-like thing. But since I didn't have to do
835.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Carriers can check a registry of stolen phone IMEIs and block them from their networks.
836.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Briefly, this morning, I had the opposite effect happen to my Gmail inbox in which things that would normally land in the social and updates folders ended up in my primary folder. I don't know which I'd be more freaked out by: a b
837.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
There is never any remote driving involved. That would be dangerous. The current state of Tesla's "remote control" consists of a ghetto V2V hack to move the Killswitch to the chase car. How many years do you think it took to
838.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
Elon is a wizard at unconventional marketing.
839.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
No, actually, nobody remote drives a Waymo. If you don't know how Waymo works, you also don't know how far behind is Tesla. There are fundamental obstacles to Tesla ever being a viable robotaxi.
840.
by Zigurd 9mo ago
There are enough people who FA'ed and FO'ed in the form of ending up dead, or killing others, that we're not stuck in abstract calculations or speculation.

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