I hope the Mars portion is just as successful. It will be good to provide Space X with some completion. Even better that the competition is another domestic company.
And better still that it's two giant egos behind the companies that already clash sometimes. That type of rivalry can sometimes create innovations that wouldn't naturally occur without that form of competition.
He thinks the market is going to shit the bed and sooner rather than later. Rather than risk his and his clients money on short bets and try to time it, since metrics he'd normally use to figure such things out don't seem to be matching up with reality, he's cashing out for now. Presumably he'll be back in once he thinks the market finds a new support level.
That's my take as well. The guy understood markets that held some tenuous relationship to reality. What this move really signals is that the market is so detached from reality that even someone with absolutely impeccable instincts on such markets is skittish. Something big is gonna happen, but he can't trust that he can read the tea leaves precisely enough to time it right. If he misses by far enough before the crash, his clients will be pissed that they could have earned more. If he misses the other direction, he'll be flayed alive by them. Best bet is to bow out.
Even the best poker player sometimes folds.
This desire to tell people "fuck you, I got mine" is incredibly damaging.
You and me are fine with current browsing. A lot of people would like AI assist. Let them have it. Freedom to choose what you want is good.
We're fast approaching a point where AI and good can no longer be associated with one another. We're having it crammed down our throats from every direction, and there are a lot of us that aren't at all interested, yet get forced to use it at jobs, or because we haven't managed to escape a bit of software that has decided to push AI on us at all costs. When that happens with other things, forcing someone to do something against their will, we call it hostility. Why is it *NOT* considered hostility when it's AI being forced on us from the tech companies?
What kind of cheapskate doesn't at least use a $20 for that?
One that didn't have time to stop by the bank?
...$1 bills only last 5 years, whereas coins last decades. So, coins are a more cost-effective solution than $1 bills over their respective lifespans.
But you can't snort cocaine out of a hooker's ass with a coin. At least, not without some other rather expensive tools involved.
But without nickles and dimes, how would we get nickle-and-dimed?
Inflation dictates that nickel and diming is now dollar and five dollaring.
This concerns me from the standpoint of using FireSticks for TV signage purposes.
Our workplace uses the "ScreenCloud" software to turn a number of our TVs around our offices into digital sign-boards displaying things like employee birthdays and general office news, calendar info, etc.
We already had issues where Amazon decided to lock down a newer model of FireStick to the point the ScreenCloud app refused to run on it anymore. At first, the makers of ScreenCloud expected us to "root" each FireStick and do a bunch of steps to it in "developer mode" so their app could keep working on one. Then, Amazon locked them out of even that work-around. It seems the two companies got together at that point, and the result was a requirement we buy some more pricey variant of the same FireStick that's designed just for use with ScreenCloud!
They're getting to the point where it's cheaper to buy a load of used mini-PCs, load them with simple boot->screencloud (or equivalent), and use those instead of the firesticks. We used to use Raspberry Pis, but those became unobtainium at some point so we switched to just whatever mini or micro-PC was available cheap yet still had HD output. In a pinch, we've even used retired laptops strapped to the back of the TV.
It's all connected. We need to start thinking about how these systems are lowering our pay and costing us our jobs.
Some people do nothing *BUT* think about this. But what can we do about it? The corporations are in control. Our government doesn't even pretend to be effective any longer. Individual humans mean nothing unless they have nearly a trillion dollar net worth. The game has been rigged by those with the most tokens to make sure those with the least tokens get taken advantage of. There are no avenues for change. You can't convince those getting massive kickbacks for keeping this systems stagnant and rotting to change course because it would be detrimental to their own profit potential. And we all know that profit is the only motivation any of our decision makers understand.
At some point we need to stop thinking about how fucked we are and start looking for solutions. And sadly, the solutions available to use are beginning to look very bloody and brutal.
What country? I seem to remember some countries have instituted policies that require "social" web applications to thoroughly verify the age of all users. Australia, for example, passed such a law that takes effect next month.
One alternative to YouTube is uploading your "shitty but fun songs" on your own website.
I'm in the USA, South Dakota specifically. FWIW, this happened at the precise same time all the Porn sites started closing down if you're not using a VPN, so it may be a state led thing.
I've put several things up on my own sites over the years. Was using Youtube to catch an audience though. Slowly, the avenues for non-professionals to get any traction even within small niche audiences are dwindling back down to nothing.
Which version
The older Russian one is a terrific film, if you can get past the twenty minute silent car ride at the beginning of it. The Clooney one is... disappointing by comparison.
And while Wall Street is used to financing fast-depreciating assets such as aircraft and autos, it's worrying that private credit funds are increasingly using GPUs as collateral to finance loans.
Seriously? GPUs as collateral? Can you use something that will depreciate to nearly zero before the term of the loan is up? Or are these extremely short-term loans? Are banks just impressed with the big number of greendbacks a company has slung at GPUs and utterly ignorant of how little than number will mean in ten, or even five, years time? Again I ask, "What in the actual fucking fuck are we doing?" I feel like the entire world is caught up in snake oil salesmanship to the point of destroying the entirety of functional society, just because a very few people might make some money off of it. WTF?
I've noticed this kind of thing a LOT lately. Evidently this book is out called Nudge that tells its readers to annoy the shit out of their customers until they 'install the app". Because evidently running in the background and draining your battery constantly harvesting your data and monitoring your location is more profitable than actually selling the service.
Nudge is riding the data-cattle trend, and there are a *LOT* of companies trying desperately to be a part of that trend.
I would think you're exaggerating about the Google stuff, but this past week they decided I wasn't an adult and "need" me to upload my state issued picture ID (Driver's License) and my credit card information to "verify" my adult status just so I can continue to upload my shitty but fun songs on Youtube. Uh, sorry Google. You aren't that much of an authority figure to me, and I certainly don't fucking trust you with one of my credit cards. Guess the world will just have to suffer without my music.
Same on macos and linux, it's not a windows specific fault. In fact there is a lot of legitimate software which provides "paste this into terminal" instructions, for instance homebrew on macos (https://brew.sh). This then goes and retrieves a shellscript and executes it with no validation.
This is a general purpose computer fault. The fact is general purpose computers are not a suitable tool for the masses, they are highly complex tools only suitable for those who know how to use them safely. Most people would be much better off with an appliance.
I remember a time, not so long ago now, when folks started talking about licensing actual PCs, and everybody else could have tablets and chromebooks. It may seem harsh, but if security matters it may be time to discuss this again. It wouldn't even have to be a difficult bar to cross for security. "You receive an email with a link in it from someone you don't know. What do you do?"
"You see a pop-up ad telling you your system is infected and to click this link to clean it. What do you do?"
A series of five or six questions like that would weed out the most egregious users, and anybody with a moderately technical aptitude would pass. We still treat computers as toys, even though they're running the world. It's probably time we get over that mentality and start treating them as the dangerous tools they are. Motorcycles are fun too, but you don't just hop on one and roll down the highway the first time you see one. There's a process to it. And yes, this would probably mean that classes would be much more popular in the vein of, "Don't be a dumbass and click everything you see." Frankly, that would be a good thing.
So... you don't have a wife?
Did for twenty-five years. (Currently separated.) She wouldn't buy shit like that though. She's never been the showy, trendy type.
Well, yes, that's exactly what it is. And I've often wondered how many avant garde artists were trying really hard not to bust out laughing.
And how many have let the approbation go to their heads and forgot that it's a joke, not the brilliant statement about the self-inflicted alienations inherent to modern society that they told an art dealer it was.
You ever see the Family Guy where Brian writes the stupidest book he can just to prove that literary circles are stupid and then gets sucked into his own success? I'd imagine that story came from somewhere.
Moneyliness is next to Godliness. -- Andries van Dam
