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It's the exact same thing with almost every "technology" company out there today. We're sinking our best and brightest (and also plenty of perfectly useful and adequate) talent into getting people to look here, buy somet
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If anything, most of organized religion is about preparing to die. The complete opposite of our current materialism and obsession with keeping personal entropy at bay.
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Calgary. It amazes me that despite the Chinese money laundering, the Trudeau Federal government willingness to back residential real estate through monetary, immigration, and legal policies; and just the general Canadian willingness to pre
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If anything, in tens of thousands of years, when anthropologists dig up the remains of the 2000s civilizations, you will make it that much easier for them to date us.
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> it's not "the West" who wants to cut Russia out, it's only the US The US is really overplaying its hand under Biden, it's quite sad to watch such a complete mishandling of foreign policy and energy policy. Thi
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I always say that if you're interested in the Metaverse, I have many acres of land in Second Life for sale, and as many Linden Dollars as you'd like. This whole Metaverse thing reminds me of when IBM purchased 12 islands and opene
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Probably just as well? That seems like a page from the usual Western feminist perspective that if a woman isn't pursuing STEM, wanting to be a corporate "girl-Boss", or a she-preneur; she's surely a victim of a barbaric
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It's because one of Amazon's products is for the government: employing a huge number of people with no education or credentials, in a job that pays above minimum wage. In the Earnings Call in July of this year, they said they now
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> even without Jeff Bezos It's honestly because of Jeff Bezos that Amazon can succeed without Jeff Bezos. People honestly do not give Bezos enough credit, not just for what Amazon has achieved, but for what he has achieved within Am
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> Can you describe an environment where this wouldn't occur? What would happen if an organism in that environment was able to hoard resources? Only in a religious context where they see a benefit to vows of poverty or simplicity. We
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> I don't own any Lenovo products Exactly. Lenovo has viable and desirable products that you could purchase if you were so inclined. That's not the case for Boring and Neuralink. Boring makes a D-grade tourist attraction and
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Why does the civilized world allow Starlink then? They've proven - that with just 1,500 objects in orbit - can cause 50% of all close encounters in orbit[1]. They plan to have 10X more objects in space soon and will probably account
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> Facebook is in more legal trouble than it can handle and that the company no longer has much good standing in society (which, for a "social" media company, is a bit of a problem). Is it? I've always liked the perspectiv
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> Relative to revenue, carbon tax won't be that significant for SpaceX. Are there any public statements on SpaceX's financials? The rumor from their last round is that it's a classic Elon money-burning enterprise - and pr
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You say fearmongering from politicians, I say an excuse to spend billions more of tax dollars to the benefit of their cronies. Exhibit A: Canadian PM Trudeau who has signed contracts for boosters all the way up to 2024, in amounts that exce
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The military contracts that a company whose CEO has huge ties to China is expected to get? I realize the US security and military apparatus has gladly been turning a blind eye to Musk's ties with the CCP, but at some point reality impo
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Anyone who feels strongly about it is welcome to boycott Tesla and buy another vehicle from . . . I guess no vehicle for you since it seems every car company is based in areas that are more protective of life, but I suppose that's good
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At what point do we just admit that this is being done intentionally by governments? The easiest way to tackle climate change is to drastically reduce the population. Short of genocide - which only authoritarian governments can pull off -
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Unfortunately - and as we can continue to see - there is nothing stopping scientists from being political mouth pieces. "Trust the science" comes with a huge asterisk: only the science of the approved scientific speaker by the ap
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> The biggest emission reduction is when a person switches from using an ICE car to a EV car. Not at all. The biggest emission reduction is when a person doesn't buy a new car at all. The greenest car is always the car that won&#x
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Unfortunately, and also "Led by Tesla" - the EV metrics that people have been trained to look for are now: range, 0-60 times, and such. Things like weight, battery capacity, or chemistry - all which have the largest impact on emis
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FTC should have obliterated Tesla from orbit the minute they called cruise control "Autopilot", and the Tesla beta opt-in fund "Full Self Driving", and any time Elon made any claim that the vehicle was going to be self-d
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> Amazon is clearly abusing the process. It's not clear to me. I'm actually quite worried about SpaceX's increasing presence in space put simply because Musk has shown very little care for risk - especially if it's t
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> I agree, religion offers simple ways to classify actions as good or bad. Following the church teachings or priest's guidance was enough to make an individual confident they are a good person, doing good things. The unfortunate thi
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Should add that unlike any professional oath or body, Catholic priests will literally die before breaking the Confessional Seal. They will never follow any government or politician order to break it, and even the Pope himself cannot order
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Also: Tesla can make a nice car, but doesn't like doing so very often. Please look up the pre-delivery checklists. Tesla is not like a regular manufacturer where you can walk around a vehicle and determine if you want to accept it.
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And while ICE cars are generally in use when this happens, EVs seem to love this doing stuff while not in use and in your home. You can never quite turn off an EV. I'd love to see what the actuarial tables look like in a few years for
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> Definitely the TSLA stock price increase is being reflected into the massive investments into AI. Actually the best indicator of stock price increase has been if an unknown buyer comes in an buys huge amounts of OTM calls expiring that
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It's amazing, isn't it? Somehow the dancer in the robot unitard wasn't an "emperor has no clothes" moment, or more aptly a "Nikola pushing a truck down a hill" moment. That's on top of the news that
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Jeff Bezos. I'll put it to you another way: if Tesla vanished tomorrow, life wouldn't really change. There may be a few brownouts in a corner of the planet as Tesla batteries vanish and power generators kick in, but life would la

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