The problem is collecting. You would think being the government that would be easy but...

Then again it's canada. In America if this happens to you it's 50/50 whether you get any compensation. There's a guy who spent something like 20 or 30 years in prison and was given a few million bucks for it only to have it taken away. And there are dozens of people currently rotting in prison because a judge won't border their release even though they have already been exonerated.

People do not realize how utterly fucked up our prison system is. It's mostly focused on the really poor and that's only about 15 or 20% of the population.

For now anyway. Massive automation push going on...

is why I oppose the death penalty. Flimsy evidence convictions are extremely common.

When she turns 26 she's either going to have to get a 9 to 5 job for the insurance or live without it. Sooner or later she won't be able to live without it. Everybody needs healthcare at some point. It's why civilized countries have universal Health Care systems.

It's possible being in New York if she's making enough money that she might be able to afford Obamacare but the Republicans have pretty well sabotaged it so it's very expensive. It's still a lot cheaper than most of the options if you're self-employed. But the extended subsidies are gone.

So by all means tell me how it recovers from that when it has negative revenue?

I guess it is possible that a third term of trump would send a shitload of taxpayer money to SpaceX. But a third term of trump is also going to mean the end of democracy and the American economy is going to collapse just like Russia's did after Putin got in charge.

So it's kind of a heads you lose tails you lose situation

The only thing they had that they could point to and say would generate enough launches was going to be starlink internet and now they have somebody entering into their space (pun intended).

I'm sure they can ride the AI hype train long enough though to dump the stock into our 401ks using nasdaq's top 100... I'm just not so sure letting them do that was a good idea.

I have people telling me that I should just move my 401k into a structure that lets me pick individual stocks but for fuck sakes that's not a 401k that's a day trading job. The entire point of a 401k is I can just put money in it and not think about it so I can do my job.

Very quickly running your model on the kind of hardware you can afford with the amounts of electricity you can afford just aren't going to be able to match what the companies are doing. It's going to be like having a 3D printer versus a CNC machine.

I think we are done with seeing the cost of hardware go down over time. There are too few companies making hardware and nobody can compete with them because if you try they will just lower their prices briefly until you're out of business. You won't even be able to get the bank loans because the banks are going to know your competition is planning on doing that.

Banks love to throw good money at bad but only if they can expect the government bail out and a company trying to compete with Nvidia or micron isn't likely to be able to pull off a bailout. They're going to collapse too quickly for too big to fail and they probably won't have enough cash to be politically connected.

All of my technical documents are in the style of HP Lovecraft but I don't use AI.

with a quarter trillion than putting a shitload of people out of work.

We're all going to be plumbers. It's plumbers all the way down.

Actually the funny thing is we could all be pretty well off doing basically silly things like cutting each other's hair. Modern automation means we don't have to work nearly as hard as we do. But we would have to reorganize a lot of things and give up big cars and the suburbs most likely to get there. Definitely the suburbs. They don't have the population density to sustain the services they need. And if you do away with the suburbs I don't see where a big cars fit in.

It's a weird thing where we trade 50 hour work weeks and 10-hour a week commutes so we can have a pool party once a week and drive a $80,000 SUV. It doesn't seem worth it to me but I'm in the minority I guess.

The YouTube algorithm is extremely punishing. If you miss one of your regular uploads schedules then the algorithm ruthlessly punishes you and your views collapse. That's because a typical YouTuber even a popular one is going to have only about 30% of their viewers subscribed and even then YouTube doesn't always send notifications. A lot of them used to use Twitter to get the word out about new videos but Twitter is basically dead since Musk bought it...

On top of that you have a wide variety of trolls and scammers constantly trying to either steal your channel or take it down. If you get three copyright strikes meaning three people report that you infringed on their copyright that's it game over. Most professional YouTubers have a backup channel for just that purpose but that means maintaining two channels. You can't just copy your content to the other channel because you won't get views. You need the backup channel there soaking up some views and case your main channel gets taken down by a scammer.

And YouTube just does not give a fuck if you're a little channel gets taken down. Just about every single YouTube channel I know of has had their channel taken down at least once. The bigger ones create a little social media buzz and YouTube will eventually have a person respond. Their automated system will always side with whoever reported the copyright infringement no matter how ridiculous it is. If you're not big enough to create social media buzz when your channel goes down then you just lose your channel and that's it.

I understand why kids want to be YouTubers or tiktokers because when you're young celebrity looks fun and actual celebrity probably is like if you're a movie star or a rockstar or whatever but being a YouTuber is a miserable job. Especially in America without a proper healthcare system

If you pay attention you're going to notice most of these aren't American. The ones that are are usually the skeezier ones that do a good job scamming their audiences. Think the kind of people that sell colonial silver.

With the American healthcare system being what it is it's very hard to work for yourself. You need to make a tremendous amount of money to afford access to healthcare. It's a drain on everybody that we don't really notice because we've been living with it for so long. Like if somebody put a 50 lb ball and chain on your legs when you were born and everybody had that same ball and chain at a certain point you wouldn't question it

Dedicated to keeping him from making decisions. I used to see that with IT where you would have an owner who is a complete moron so you would have all sorts of little IT things designed to make the owner feel like they were doing stuff when they weren't. Like fake copies of databases for them to pour over when they were bored.

Basically if you're going to have a mad emperor you need to corral them. Personally I think just not having emperors would be a better solution.

Was the best investment Elon Musk ever made in his entire life.

Means the ability to consistently supply power to the grid and meet everyone's needs. Like everything in the English language the term gets used for different things. Although I haven't heard it used as requiring 95% of time before. Maybe if you're talking about a single means of power generation with no storage...

Doesn't matter. Wind and solar can provide base load. They do need a little bit of battery here and there but not all that much. Because when the sun is down the turbines are still spinning.

You're contradicting yourself in that first sentence. The thought has crossed my mind that Japan does have plenty of land for wind and solar I just don't think anyone has done the math. But if that's the case nuclear is basically worthless except for a handful of military applications.

It allows you to Levy fines and collect them. If people don't pay the fines you arrest them and make a lot of money locking them up. If they do pay the fines then if you're a rich asshole you can cut your taxes while maintaining government services you depend on.

We have been cutting taxes on the wealthy non-stop since Ronald Reagan. Cities are starting to run out of money to run the police to protect the wealthy. We have been covering that up by robbing Peter to pay Paul taking money from one state and giving it to another so that they can fund their police. We have cut taxes now so much that even that system is breaking down.

So if you are working 60 hours a week because you're underpaid and too tired to cut your lawn or paint your house or you can't afford to do author of them and you certainly can't afford to pay somebody else to do it then you are going to pay a defacto tax on that. Then you're going to work more hours at your shit job and maybe pick up a second or third shit job so that you can pay those fines and lather rinse and repeat...

It's basically a sign of our civilization collapsing.