Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree with you. We should be doing something like a VAT or even tariffs then start lowing income taxes over decades IF the goal was to reduce global exports. Be more aggressive with foreign policy and "invest" in Africa to counter China's influence. Hell even standing on "moral" grounds would of brought brownie points going agents China. However, that bridge was crossed, gated, and mined.

Honestly, at this point, I don't think Trump in Putin's pocket anymore. I seriously think they ARE friends and Putin is just giving him help becoming a ruler.

I wonder if there is money getting stuff from China, shipped Antarctica, then back to the US with a 10% hike. It might barely break even, but it be very funny.

The side of the ship could have a picture of a penguin sliding on ice with the slogan "Smarter than the average world leader"

Just talking about my rich (rest in piece) grandpa, there was a program where you pay $2000 a month and you have a personal doctor on call. He wasn't a billionaire, but getting insurance was going to cost him almost twice that having to use "in network" stuff while this doctor had personal connections with hospitals and other specialists. I am 100% sure this is why, with my grandma's liver problems, they lived to their 80's.

I talked to the doctor once and he with other doctors started this program because he could never give personalized care with the people he had to see each day and having to have a large staff to handle billing, insurance, etc.

This doctor hunt all started when he was trying to figure out why you couldn't get doctors to do home calls like back when his mom was sick. This is something I couldn't even close to afford, but if I was a doctor, having 5 to 7 patients directly paying you seems much easier than the 100's in a regular office.

I am so going to look up the recipe of sugar of lead... ahh.. blocked.

Honestly I am more concerned of an artist taking a few hundred's, picking the best, and touching it up a bit better in photoshop to claim as his own. Most watermarking algorithms have been figured out so even then it might be even harder to figure those out.

I think the superhero movie argument is even makes this case. Only reason I went to the theaters in the first place was to find the next installment of the Marvel franchise. Even then it was one of those "restaurant" theaters.

....holy shit what rock have I been living under to miss such glorious trash...

I have to kind of agree. It feels more like "I don't care if China or Iran start fumigating the gays but boy howdy if the US starts doing it then it matters!"

I mean all these governments, US included, could easily put in a law to collect "anonymous" genome data for "heath risks" I don't see why his data is any better.

Imagine not only being dumb but to post but also ignorant of history

Democratic Republican FlipFlop

Don't just bring up the Democrats failings if your going to just ignore the Republican ones.

Honestly I am kind of surprised it took this long. You could, in theory, train an AI just on the amount of anime slop or even 80's cartoons of one style to get the same thing.

Yea that's what scares me the most. Someone connecting the internal logic to the debug "thinking verbose" output. Being able to manipulate the thought process console output would be scarry crazy.

I have to argue that point with Putin being "capable and intelligent". He spent better part of 20 years installing yes men throughout the government to the point where the officers on the ground were just plain bad. Not to mention he had heavy government ties when it switched to the Republic.

I rather someone be "capable and rational" and listen to advisers that have experience rather than say "Oh we can rush it like the Germans did!"

Not arguing your wrong I am just glad we got to this point. I just want people to see there is money in it so someone can keep investing. Just seems we got plenty of engineering talent just sitting around for something like this but its beaning squandered away because they can make more money owning a Wendy's

I can believe it. There is a reason why superstition is rife on sailors but not in shipyards. You can build a ship the best you can but doesn't stop a random iceberg or bird to sink it all. You cannot fight chance but you can feel better about it.

Yea but could you imagine even doing this 20 years ago imagine the cost being close to just over a million? I am not saying its not more of a publicity stunt though. I want to see like some random ass, "I got $4 million from my aunt ,when she died, and currently living off that trust" numbers. I am not saying they are making a profit as even with 11 passengers, even $4m a person seems a bit low.

This is like when the first cars were on the road where you had to get them custom built and hire a mechanic. The amount of money needed to own a Learjet AND a pilot on call per year is easily one trip.

The Oculus Rift started like this but it took Facebook money to make it cheap AND good enough for the masses. I am not saying this is good or bad. Just eh. The real question is what happens AFTER Jeff Bezos. There is nothing in any business book that says a rocket company will ever be successful so I have to assume he listens closely to any safety issues. I cannot believe any other CEO/CFO would do that or just start cutting.