Also unsure how "fastidious" can be used as a description of a virus.
TIL that the archaic definition of "fastidious," based on the original latin root, is "disgusting" or "disagreeable." Which, to be fair, is a label I would apply to a virus that causes something as horrible as Lupus.
They are not returning Starships back to Earth and reusing them.....hell I have doubts they'll be able to land it in one piece at all.
The most recent test proved capability of doing this.
Elon is a tool and a con man, but I never understood the hate boner people have for SpaceX.
Shocking how that finally got prioritized for the nation. And quick.
"Africa" is a continent, not a nation, and the very first sentence of the summary says this is "after more than a decade of planning."
The summary says merchant fees will reduce "by an average of 0.1% over several years" so I'd say the chances of this making anything cheaper at point of sale is on par with the sun going supernova in the next several minutes.
Oh sorry we can't allow healthcare because a black guy instituted it.
"Racism" is not the answer to every fucking political disagreement. The black guy in question did just as well as a percentage of the electorate (or better) than the white guys in the three presidential elections since he left office.
The government is currently shut down because, apparently, the "affordable" care act is so affordable that the emergency subsidies put in place during Covid now need to be made permanent, or, apparently, even people with six figure incomes can't afford it. I don't see "skin color" being at issue there, do you?
This guy specifically invited this result with his "All copyright is void because Covid and we say so" bullshit, and his surprised Pikachu face and heartfelt appeals are infuriating. He hasn't just damaged the Archive, his moronic actions killed the idea of format shifting being legally acceptable.
$10 for a hard pull seems crazy, hopefully the rest of the banking industry destroys these rent seeking assholes.
Any single senator can object to a UC request
You mean "unanimous consent" requires unanimity? Quelle surprise.
That would be 1.4M users worth $1000 each in a timeframe short enough to make a profit and not find a better investment. They must be counting on that 1.4M users being worth $10000 each or more on a longer time frame. Good luck. You can only sell so many hallucinations.
It's actually worse than that... your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude. 1.4B users, not 1.4M.
It doesn't matter how much he spends on infrastructure, at some point he has to charge people more or cut his costs to run these models.
At a trillion dollars a year they'd need to increase the cost by a factor of more than 4 and increase the paid user count to 1/8th of the entire planetary population just to cover capital spending. If you charged corporate America $30k a year for each employee made redundant by AI you would need to replace ~20% of the entire productive US workforce to cover just those costs.
A million little girls want a pony.
Oddly enough, buying ponies for those million little girls would cost less around 1% of the proposed annual spend here. You could also buy a backhoe for a million little boys for another couple of percent or so.
"Corporate America" typically has non-management advancement tracks. When I worked for Siemens, engineers were well compensated, senior engineers were more well compensated, and principal engineers made more than the managers they grudgingly agreed to work for.
Nothing on TV these days comes close.
Try Bluey. Seriously. It's a parenting show disguised as a children's show.
People do want EVs. Look at Norway, almost every car sold is an EV. Put in the infrastructure and people love them.
It probably has more to do with the subsidies, the ability to park for free, drive in bus lanes, ride on ferries for free, etc, than it does for any innate love of electric vehicles.
Was there any person out there that wanted a tablet that is 18 inches?
*Raises hand*
I actually want one that is 20-1/4", the same size as a sheet of tabloid sized paper, but I'd settle for one about 14", the size of a sheet of letter sized paper. In an ideal world, it'd have an e-ink display.
If you know who, can you go beat them with a rubber hose.
Fuck you, too, I guess?
The weight will be insane, there is no avoiding it... it's just a matter how terrible it will be, not a question of IF.
A portable 18" LCD monitor weighs about 2-1/2 pounds, and I'm sure you could take some of the weight out of that. Fitting a hypothetical 18" ipad into a roughly ~3lbs envelope seems reasonable.
Aside from a few niche areas, this will struggle to find a problem, where it is an optimal solution.
Niche at first, but I think engineering and manufacturing would eat them up in the long run.
I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by 4 o'clock. -- Henny Youngman
