Unfortunately the time has passed where "good" will be good enough to avoid catastrophe. The only question is when it hits. It might be less than 20 years away based on the magnitude of El Niño this year.

Comcast's problem is that PONs are significantly more reliable as they don't need all the active equipment distributed across the service area without adequate backup power. They have a lot less system that is more expensive to run, and being the only player was what made their system work. $50 is a reasonable price for service, less for customer acquisition.

A single plant is more efficient, but adds a decade (it feels) to the timeline.

It is useful in a couple ways-- first off Apple has demand at a $2k price point, which they must be thrilled about. As for supply, while I am sure it is constrained Apple tends to order about 2x their sales projections and then cut the rate as sales start. This at least suggests they have fairly well used infrastructure. As for the "few hundred per week" production, if real then it might not be a huge boost to the bottom line, but I would be surprised if production doesn't ramp up at least an order of magnitude soon.

Most Index funds likely have >10% exposure to AI, and there are all kinds of secondary risks, today. When Anthropic and OpenAI go public the risk likely doubles. It is incredibly hard to protect yourself.

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Does not have to be an LLM; could be a worm propagation model or something maybe 1-2MB in size. Doesn't need to be fast, just persistent.

Home assistant is pretty easy these days, visual scripting, drag and drop UI, and HomeAsssitant Green that even takes out the pain of installation and updates. Apple could make it a little better, but it isn't anything like five years ago.

With Russia's highly centralized systems maybe Ukraine has found a reasonable soft spot that they can hammer. They need to find these if they want to survive.

Yeah, but I remember the "censorship" of the early 90's. It was generally pretty banal, focused on things that most people took for granted-- you couldn't spout off nazi rhetoric... but Fred Phelps of the Westboro "Baptist Church" was free to spout his hate. I only became conscious to self-censor around '98 when it started to become clear how easily information could be linked back to a person despite somewhat anonymity the internet of the day provided.

Today it borders on 1984.

Starship is going to need at least 10 successful orbital launches before it is considered only marginally higher risk than Falcon from a customer perspective. It you get it for half the cost then maybe it is worth it, but it depends on how easily replaceable the cargo is.

The question is ultimately if you would have been better served with doing your own investigation rather than relying on AI, did you retain the knowledge, and was the information complete/accurate.

Badly written, but additional interties have come online with several GW capacity. The meaningful part of it is greater bi-directional capacity leaving fewer stranded renewable on resources.

Some utilities use batteries for stabilization, California also uses it heavily for demand shifting. Stabilization can be for the grid, or even more local needs with switching transients and the like.

RMP likely has excess generation and doesn't want to pay customers for energy.

My sister-in-law uses one... but she works for Samsung. There are some cool little use cases, but novelty is dominant.

For Apple, given the high cost of RAM and storage this is a great year to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Demand is going to be terrible no matter what they produce, so take some gambles and see if anything can carve a real niche (without losing margin).

All I can say is it is really hard to put the genie back in the bottle. The data and sources have not been treated as illegal to gather, so they WILL be used... by many different parties.

It is not something anybody who has been here a while would advocate for, but eliminating the problem and threat is a Herculean task.