No, it won't. I'm so old I actually ran Linspire back when it was still called Lindows. And way back then they were writing articles just like this. And the numbers haven't really changed. They've just fluctuated a little bit.

I'm not saying a lot of people don't run Linux on their PCs. There are plenty of weird nerds in the world. But they're the same people who bought Zunes and Occuluses and smart watches. They buy tech as a status symbol rather than something to use. And not even cool status symbols! If you wanted that, you'd just buy Apple.

It costs money to build an electric train network. But at the end of it, you have an electric train network. The end of all the money spent on self-driving vehicles is a bunch of bankruptcies, evaporated wealth, and a possible recession. It's your basic AM/FM problem. One of these things is real. The other is simply not.

It reminds me of a joke. A VP is waiting for the elevator. A janitor walks by. A few pleasantries are passed. The VP starts to brag about his new six billion dollar project he's leading. The janitor nods and says, "That's way too much money for that project. I could do it for six million."

The VP scoffs and asks the janitor how he would manage that. The janitor says, "Easy, you pay me six million dollars. I fuck off to a tropical island and drink cocktails on the beach all day. After six months, I come back and tell you it can't be done."

The VP laughs and gets on his elevator. Six months later, he runs into the janitor again.

"I should have just paid you the six million. It would have saved a fortune."

Call me when it hits double digits. Otherwise, it's not even noteworthy.

In the past, when I rightly pointed out that the self-driving car promises were just smoke and mirrors, I was called stupid, a Luddite, and ignorant. But the simple facts remain the same: this technology is unworkable in theory and impossible in practice. Just build fucking electric trains.

Pretty sure this is violating, at a minimum, FCC regulations. That makes it a federal crime. The only thing dumber than filming yourself committing crimes is thoroughly documenting every step of the crime and publishing it online and then giving interviews about your crime.

Why are all these articles so surprised by the basic functioning of supply & demand? A third of Millennials have a college degree. Half of Gen Z that's of age to graduate college have a degree. To contrast, ~10% of Boomers have a degree. If lots of people have a degree, a degree isn't worth much. If that degree is increasing in cost faster than inflation while being diluted by the pool of those who posses one increasing, then it's not really worth it.

The reason this was deployed to the Faroe islands is that they are remote and energy is already expensive there. Power from this thing costs ~$1/kWh. For reference, California has the most expensive electricity in America at ~$0.29/kWh. Even the rosy future prediction price is more than twice that!

"A group of suckers that was taken for billions of dollars prove there yet remains greater fools to sell on to."

Fixed your headline.

This is a scam and vaporware. No one should put money into this. For reasons that should be very obvious to anyone who passed High School level science, the proposed mechanism can't work. This is a premise of a bad sci-fi movie, not real technology.

This is technically true only in the sense that ChatGPT is just a bullshit engine chatbot. It's more likely to deliver a result that doesn't work in reality than anything dangerous. It's only AI in the sense that anything is AI as "AI" is just either sci-fi technobabble or a marketing term (so a different kind of technobabble) depending on the context it's used in. It's not a real thing. Not least because the concept of "intelligence" in general is a social construct and thus can only exist in the context of a group of human minds; and the concept of "artificial" is equally... well... artificial. It's a stochastic parrot that's just a more complex (and I mean that in more than one meaning of the word) Eliza. There's no intelligence, understanding, or even more than the most ephemeral and tangential affiliation with physical reality in the bot. Any seeming intelligence in ChatGPT is merely the echo of the minds of the creators and a reflection of one's own social facilities. It's an elaborate form of pareidolia. If you fall for it, as many techbros seem to have, then you've simply failed an elaborate version of the mirror test.

This is just GrapheneOS wearing a mask. Why get this instead of just getting a Graphene phone?

Those kiosks make you do for free what someone used to be paid for in order to fire a worker. It is a moral imperative to use those kiosks to steal whenever possible.

That's simple. Crypto valuations are almost entirely bullshit and based on pump & dump manipulations. While the notional value of the crypto was $7m, the actual liquidity you could extract was only $20k at best. All crypto is a scam.

Sodium laser guidestars and adaptive optics took care of that problem a quarter century ago. The problem is that the company proposing this is a scam that's just out to fleece gullible investors.

This is a scam. It's not a real thing and will not result in an operational device. The key to understanding this fact is remembering that exactly one group have ever used lasers to induce inertial confinement fusion and it's not these guys. This is yet another press-release-as-story "written" by an over-worked and under-informed freelancer that was actually written by the PR team for a company that is, and I can't stress this enough, a scam to part VC suckers from their money.