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by scarab92 2y ago
I often hear progressives stating this line about Elon being born into money, but as far as I can tell it isn't actually true. He was a poor university student like everyone else, had student debt like everyone else, and his business s
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by scarab92 2y ago
He is smart, and progressives in general lose credibility by claiming otherwise, but short tempered. Also, this headline is misleading. This wasn't said by Walter Isaacson who actually wrote the biography on Musk. It's a random du
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by scarab92 2y ago
Must have trained on Reddit
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by scarab92 2y ago
I remember when TechCrunch used to be influential, instead of this high school gossip rag.
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by scarab92 2y ago
I'm glad we're atleast looking at Musk's own actions now, but no, supporting the right isn't evidence of Nazism nor is it Nazism to not feel guilty for actions you didn't do.
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by scarab92 2y ago
I think that's called guilt by association, which is a logical fallacy. Also, Musk is estranged from his father.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Not really, agencies are merged and split and have their remit changed all the time. If there were a way to efficiently manage 2.5 million staff in a single department, then we'd likely do that, but it's more efficient to speciali
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by scarab92 2y ago
USAID has no ability to investigate or enforce sanctions, so that doesn’t make sense.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Unlikely. No one really cares about temporary low-value ad-hoc arrangements like the one between Starlink and USAID. It's too small to matter. The FAA and EPA have been much much bigger headaches for Musk. USAID was just a juicy target
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by scarab92 2y ago
Musk isn't a do-things-by-half kind of guy.
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by scarab92 2y ago
That's a good question, but not a legally necessary one. President has the discretion to make that call.
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by scarab92 2y ago
You’re clearly wrong. Trump, and every president before Trump, has had the authority to do exactly this.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Outrage is demand driven, rather than supply driven. Even if you solve all the worlds problemns, journalists would just stretch the truth further to find new things to be outraged about to keep the readers "happy".
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by scarab92 2y ago
I believe they have the technical challenges solved (at least on paper), and the Singaporean and Australian governments have both approved the project. I'm a little surprised Singapore approved it, as it'll need to supply about 10
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by scarab92 2y ago
The SunCable project is still moving forward. There was a disagreement between the co-founders. One wanted to use HVDC cable to transmit power, the other wanted to use electrolysis to produce Hydrogen, put that on ships, then burn it in Sin
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by scarab92 2y ago
Perhaps, but SEA is a very expensive place to run GPUs. High power costs, no free cooling. Why wouldn't DeepSeek (or whoever) just export these to Northern China where power is cheap and the air is cold?
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by scarab92 2y ago
It's hot and humid, which means no free cooling and no evaporative cooling. It's all refrigerative, which is expensive. Colo costs are 2x to 5x that of the US, depending on your power density requirements. Absolutely no one is dep
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by scarab92 2y ago
Malaysia has sufficient land and water to produce more power as needed. It's just a matter of investment. If anything, the stable power demands from datacenters make business case for new builds stronger. Also, it's not like these
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by scarab92 2y ago
There's definitely something fishy going on. Singapore only has about 2% of global data center capacity. It's floor space, power and transit costs are at least twice that of the US and EU making it an unattractive place to do mode
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by scarab92 2y ago
I'm also curious as to why transit is so extortionately expensive in this region.
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by scarab92 2y ago
No it isn't. That's just the journalist unprofessionally injecting their political ideology into what is supposed to be a factual article. Malaysia has an opportunity simply because Singapore can't keep up. It doesn't ha
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by scarab92 2y ago
> He hasn't "given" society anything, we pay these companies for their services He’s given society new products and services that didn’t exist before, the option to purchase from those companies, and the tax revenue from t
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by scarab92 2y ago
He did found Tesla, like I mentioned, and I didn’t mention the other two companies. You seem to be acting in bad faith here.
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by scarab92 2y ago
> Didn’t he buy into all of his companies? No, he founded them. Tesla technically existed on paper before Musk, but they didn’t even have a working prototype, and their facility was a home garage. In all practical terms he founded Tesla
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by scarab92 2y ago
Maybe 100 years ago, or in remote villages in developing countries. In America there's such an abundance of opportunity that talented people generally aren't going to be constrained by anything other than ambition. Certainly not b
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by scarab92 2y ago
So that they can become contributors to society. Economically, they still won’t be net contributors, only the top few percent are, but you still want them to contribute to the best of their ability.
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by scarab92 2y ago
Strawman. No one said anything about racism.
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by scarab92 2y ago
I mean, that belief is clearly true. Look how much Musk has given to society. PayPal / Tesla / SpaceX / OpenAI / Neuralink.
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Australia’s superannuation system is how retirement funding in the US should work.
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by scarab92 2y ago
No Child Left Behind incentivised teaching to the level of the lowest denominator. That's a not just a problem in education. Lowest denominator thinking is endemic throughout America. Don’t be surprised if countries that seek excellenc

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