Tell me you've never attended without saying you have never attended. Lots of regulat Joes and Janes attend the tech bro parties. Be it as prostitutes, drug dealers, waiters, security, etc. We need a ton of cattle to make this a success and we are so thankful for them.

I know packaging is more expensive these days with like 3D packaging, but damn that's a lot. Are they like building a massive R&D campus with this?

That's amazing, do you work at Tesla or do you have another in for the test group?

Useful life, was that the part where he embezzled billions? Because I'm not sure that's something most people would call useful.

According to the charges, he helped hack into an American system. If there are effects to a country for a crime, that country may very well consider themselves to have jurisdiction. The whole thing is such nonsense anyway, like he is not an American, why should he be held to keep US state secrets? This should have ended with Manning being found guilty. So he helped crack a hash? And he is effectively being imprisoned for this for a decade now?

The OpenAI davinci-002 models were pretty good 2 years ago, especially for like generating a piece of text to some instructions.

People may need to get actual jobs now!

That's fair, also who knows, maybe their Falcon 9 clone will actually be good. Would be cool if the EU made a starship competitor too.

To answer your question, no I did not auggest Ariane was doomed to fail. It's nowhere in the post. Any other strawmen you want me to reply to?

I think you are confusing ArianeGroup with ESA. ESA will be fine if they launch on cheaper craft. It's like with NASA, are they be worse off if they focus on science instead of rockets that companies can do cheaper? Let ESA focus on landers, probes, satellites, etc.

Nobody can compete with SpaceX. Not NASA, not Boeing, certainly not little Ariane. Ariane can sell their Ariane 6 launchers as fast as they can make them, they don't seem to have any issues but if they focused on reusable crafts 10 years ago, you really think they'd be competitive now? I doubt it. Ariane is owned by Airbus and Safran which are doing fine.

So while it did no damage at all to the CCP or Xi Jinping, we now gave them legit arguments to further crack down on information access and we also gave the russians to go 'whatabout' on any interference they do. Nice job guys.

They named a government service after a movie?

Netherlands has reduced its natural gas 'drilling' with over 30 percent in recent years. Not sure what more people want from us. Gas use went down massively too - largely because of Russia.

I would consult your legal department before ignoring such a ban. If it comes out at any time, you think your company would have your back or they would just let you take the fall in a multi million dollar lawsuit?

They got purchased by big banking. First Citizen Bank and HSBC got SVB for dimes on the dollar. (in the case of HSBC for cents on the million dollars). The big banks like the ones that now own SVB continued to run one of the best years ever while SVB is now just another severed head in the trophy room. A logo on some of their buildings.

SVB ran their company indeed like a Silicon Valley Startup: no idea what they were doing, predatory business tactics, and then criminal levels of negligence. SVB owners are lucky they got away with all of their work just wiped out of the face of the earth instead of being in prison.

It is really insane SVB managed to bankrupt themselves using AAA bonds. It's a case study in what happens when you let clowns run a bank.