It's not about scale. Fiber is inexpensive to make. But it's just more temperamental than copper. You need to keep the ports completely dust free. It's not ideal for a normal home and doesn't carry electricity so you can't power a device at the other end of the plug with POE.

There are $700 gaming monitors with those specs already. There will probably be $300 gaming monitors with those specs in a year or two.

Like a bike messenger? Why does a delivery rider need home internet?!

The world is full of troubleshooting trees. Even going to the doctor is often a memorized branching diagnostic steps.

LLMs are excellent at that. I've often wished I could just get the tech support app that the tech support call center people use to fix my problems. Like, why do I need to call and wait half an hour for someone to read a script?

Instant support, even if it's just following the tech support tree would be a lot of help I think and resolve a lot of stupid problems. "have you turned it off and on again?"

This is the problem a lot of people apply to every piece of technology that comes along.

"It can't safely fly a plane full of 300 people! It's useless!"

Ok, yeah, sure... I guess. But most things in the world don't have that degree of confidence needed. I used an LLM this morning to remind me of a plot thread in a TV show I haven't watched in 15 years. It got it right, as I remember it as well and it's infinitely easier than scrolling through 300-episode summaries.

That's a nice arrangement that OpenAI wants. "Invest in us when we're small and fund our development... and then keep all the money once we hit it big." You mean to tell me that Microsoft wants a return on their very large and very high risk investment?!

I mean, you could very inexpensively integrate a GPS chip on there. You could put it into the firmware that the signal has a private key that encrypts said signal. It would likely get hacked eventually but by then probably not be export limited. So from a hardware perspective this isn't impossible.

So it's not impossible. But it wouldn't work because a Server GPU, inside of a rack at the bottom wouldn't get signal. You could maybe... maybe... build a big enough antenna into every GPU that it would at least pickup what continent it's on within a margin of error. So mayyyyybeeee it's possible it would still work. But probably not.

The risk is relatively high. Because a lot of lost phones end up in the seat back hinge area. So, you move a seat up for landing and now you have a lever practically designed for bending fragile phone cases in half. A lost phone just sitting on the floor is one level of risk. A lost phone potentially inside a levered lamp is another order of magnitude risk of fire.

You would be surprised. My wife lost her phone on a flight last year. It fell out of her pocket and into the seat crack. As required, we had the flight attendant help find it. It took a surprisingly long time to find. It turns out it wasn't in the seat at all, it had managed to slip out the bottom and the people behind us must have then accidentally kicked it another row back and it was kind of bounced/wedged against one of the seat legs on the outer wall side upright. Very tricky because we weren't looking in the right row even. It wasn't somewhere that was inaccessible, we just could not find it.

I guess the reason they care so much is because if it got into a hinge mechanism someone putting their seat back would definitely crack it open. The chances of a phone randomly igniting are nearly zero. The chances of a phone getting pried in half catching fire are very high.

The 787 battery fires just ended up with a metal box that vented outside. Maybe planes need a little mailbox slot that's laptop sized in every plane.

They might have well as called it the "Starlink Subsidization Act of 2025"

It makes no sense for the US. Sovreign wealth funds make a lot of sense because they can take surplus income from tax revenues and invest it in a productive country like the US. Or they can be used even out income from a limited resource so that one generation doesn't get all of the oil revenue while future generations have to make up the deficit in revenue once that literally dries up.

But the US is in a very different position because we have such a large and diverse economy that if we need dividends from successful business enterprises, we can simply tax our domestic businesses and citizens.

Look at two scenarios.

1A) The government gives you $200 tax break thanks to tariff revenues.
2A) You put that $200 into an S&P500 fund.
3A) You get taxed $20 later to pay for a new aircraft carrier.

1B) The government puts $200 of tarrif money into an S&P 500 fund.
2B) The government takes $20 out of the S&P 500 fund to pay for their new aircraft carrier.

Scenario A is actually the traditionally conservative argument: the state should give people any left over money and the people should decide how to spend/invest it.

The problem with Scenario B (The fund) is it's practically engineered to funnel money to the wealthy. IF the government gives me $200, I might spend it on a SPY etf, or I might go down to my local small business and buy $200 in books and "invest" in their business by boosting their sales.

The only organizations that a US Wealth Fund would invest in are going to be public traded large corporations who probably don't even need any higher valuations and will only serve to boost the stock portfolios of the upper class. Aka they're going to boost the likes of Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla and Apple.... hmmm, who was it at the inauguration? Coincidence? The CEOs will see their stock options blossom. The small business that could use local cash being spent will get nothing.

Why would a country like Singapore though have a wealth fund? Because as a micro-nation they have a lot of cash from their ports coming in but not a lot of opportunities to invest domestically. The US can just tax Google profits. Singapore can't just tap Google profits for tax revenue.

Gaming monitors. 240hz at 4k.

I'm really excited Intel is competing so that I can buy CUDA cards for cheaper.

*The paradox Intel and AMD face in the dGPU market.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Services have been working well for enterprises for like 30 years.

Most high end VFX houses doing the work for blockbuster films have substantial Virtualized Desktop infrastructure (mostly from Teradici and less Parsec).

"Won't work" is silly. Especially because most of these will be going to people who just use an internally hosted extremely basic win32 application where latency could be measured in seconds and nobody would notice. And the vast majority of these will be deployed to office buildings which already have multiple multi-gig fiber dedicated ethernet connections.