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I'm not sure why I should care about SOTA LLM development being in the US.

Are they enjoying the tech companies products? They are using them, but that's a different question.

There are no US-wide property taxes. However, almost every home in the US has to pay property taxes to at least one level of government. That's what pandaman was referring to when they said the city (which would be levying the taxes) would want the footprint overstated so they could get more tax revenue

Public utilities tend to pass on all their costs to their customers. If the data centers crumble, that just means the remaining customers (business and residential) each will have to pick up a larger share of the debt payments for the buildout.

So the drug traffickers that cut the fiber have no problem with your Starlink dish outside your home, and don't break it and/or threaten you? If they care, that seems like an oversight they will soon correct once enough people start using it.

The CEO and other execs will get paid more if they increase profits (usually in the short term). But that's very different than your claim that the articles of incorporation force them to do it.

I'm not aware of any articles of incorporation that demand maximization.

You know this, but Apple also locks you into only supporting so old a phone when you submit to the App Store.

There's no reason code complexity or engineering time has to increase. You can just use the older version features everywhere instead of forking the supported versions.

Maybe he's no longer popular, but he had a cameo in Iron Man 2 and hosted SNL. That speaks to popularity.

Also, is favorable/unfavorable a good measure of popularity?

Steve Jobs was. Elon Musk is.

Outside of tech Warren Buffett seems popular.

I'm trying to understand if you think that you are rich or not. Every time I read it I flip if you are serious or sarcastic.

requires 30% black ownership

Of SpaceX or of a special South African Starlink reseller that SpaceX owns 70% of?

it's not clear if StarLink shall be able to find customers rich enough to buy their services.

Of course they will. If the prices are too high they can just lower them to whatever people can afford. It's not that expensive to cover Africa's customers.

Why?

Are you guys seriously worried that Google is gonna steal your secret handshakes?

Do I really think Google will retain that information for "debugging purposes", and 2 or 10 or 20 years from decide to make a service that identifies me from my hand biometrics because it will make them more money than the class action will cost them? Yes.

They can. But you will lose a substantial percentage.

Even if they hit the stated goal job creation numbers, it would be over $150,000 in subsidies for a single job. Is that really worth it?

If they sold 100 million copies at $60, that still be would be an excellent ROI on $1-2 billion.

Now they come with exclusive digital items

why is Mike thinking he is investing if he is betting on a literal sportsbook?

But he's not, that's a big issue. If you download DraftKings, it's obvious you are gambling. If you download Robin Hood, and buy shares of Apple, it's obvious you are investing. If you then open Robin Hood and trade oil futures? 0 DTE options? What about when the same app shows you US commodities markets where they are binary options on if the US FIFA team make it to the round of 16?

The main difference between a car like this and a kei car is the ability to drive it, at least for a short while, on the expressway. If this could go a couple miles at 45 or 50 mph that would work in lot more situations where two neighborhoods or urban areas are connected by a short stretch of highway.

If it's the same system I saw, it's branded with the airline, but hooked to the government passport database. And if you read the disclosure, the airline promised to delete your data within some small number of minutes or face stiff penalties. Stiff enough that I believe that there is no additional information on you from using that system.

They have a privacy section. Not the best most reassuring:

You’re in charge of what gets captured, and a glowing indicator light lets others know when you’re recording. We prioritize on-device processing, so you’re in control of permissions when third parties request camera or microphone access with internet connectivity.

There is no way that Elon Musk wants to be leasing out compute. He'd rather be using that compute to power Grok.

It is not an espresso. The temperature and pressure are lower than an espresso machine. The results would be considered analogous to more American style coffee. Meant to be drunk from a full mug (~177ml to ~298ml), etc.

It's marketed as a coffee machine that makes a single cup with a single pod at a time.

(Apparently you can tweak a Keurig to approach an espresso, but it's not the default).

Creamer is a liquid made with oil and sweetener that approximates the taste and mouthfeel of milk and sugar. Or really a flavored syrup, not sugar. They often have hazelnut or vanilla flavoring added. You would use it by pouring it in your coffee, at about a 1:1 ratio with how you would use milk.

I'm surprised you associated it with espresso. Creamer and drip coffee machines go together. Milk and espresso machines go together. I've seem drip coffee machines with real milk, but I've never seen an espresso machine with just creamer.

It tends to exist primarily in office environments, because it can stand not to be refrigerated and was the first lactose-free option. Therefore it was easy to buy one bottle and solve the problem of "stuff to add to coffee".

Shorting SpaceX when you own the same amount of SpaceX in an ETF doesn't require any derivatives and is a fairly safe play. The amount of interest you have to pay will vary a little bit, but it should cost a very small amount net.

The biggest issues are the effort and tax implications of balancing the SpaceX short.

They probably won't be on the S&P for years, because of profitability requirements.

I thought you could not compare tokens across models because their cost and speed was so different between models.