If it's a toss-up between a de-facto Chinese takeover or a de-facto Israeli takeover, then the question is not what the resignation is trying to distract from, the question is why a vital strategic manufacturer is being taken over by a foreign power at all.

(Obviously, there's good reasons for a foreign power to want to have absolute leverage over how US businesses work. Whether those foreign powers are "hostile" or "benign" is irrelevant there and so of absolutely no consequence to the discussion. What matters is that the US should not place critical industries, on which essentially all other parts of their economy have become utterly dependent, in the hands of anyone not subject to US scrutiny or US law. As it stands, I dislike how corporations work, boards have accountability to nobody outside themselves and majority shareholders - which are also usually themselves. That's not an effective system.)

I'd certainly investigate the entire corporation. If the guy is abusing his position of authority (which means that any "consent" given is a fiction) and the employees actively support this, then there's a good chance that the behaviour is rampant in the company.

There is, however, a flip-side. He's undoubtedly led the company to produce some superb products and has pushed them in a well-identified direction. Far more so than virtually any other US corporation. There's very obviously something about his personality and mindset that is actually wanted to have a successful business, and this something is lacking within much of the western business community.

Basically, much of the western world is stuck in Harvard MBA Land, and companies operating under such principles invariably collapse from complete incompetence. They're popular because those with MBAs are usually brash, arrogant, controlling, dominant, and abusive - typical sociopathic traits - and sociopaths in the boardroom tend to be very good at producing stable management structures and very high stock returns. Just not successful busineses. But who cares, if you get rich?

This does not mean we need more sex offenders or Chinese spies running US megacorps. It means we need to find out exactly what in his attitude allowed him to identify successful patterns, we have no reason to want or desire any other aspects of the guy.

Don't forget to account for attrition -- satellites are known to stop working and/or decay out of orbit over time. In the worst case, SpaceX could start losing satellites faster than they can replace them. But even in the "everything went exactly as planned" case, having an orbiting array of ten-to-twenty-year-old GPUs is probably not going to be the money-making asset people imagine it to be; it would be like trying to selling CPU time on a network of Pentium 4's today.

What's the benefit of launching a nuclear-powered data center into space, over just leaving it on the ground and running it there?

It's funny - I was just going to ignore you at first, because clearly you have nothing to say beyond irrelevant ad-hominems.

Then I took a look at your comment history. Just... Wow. You've certainly mastered "noisy little dog" energy, haven't you?

Get a personality, dude.

You misunderstand their actual raison d'etre: Serving as a counterexample to Chrome having a monopoly.

Sure, we only care about exactly one of their products, particularly since Manifest V3 made Chrome unusable on the public internet. But let's be serious, you can only do so much gratuitous fiddling with one browser before people rightly start complaining about issues as petty as themes. Mozilla, accordingly, keeps trying to find some not-quite-browser niche to make them relevant as more than Google's cover story.

To be clear, I agree with you completely in spirit - Don't change what's not broken. That's a hard sell for CEOs trying to pretend they're worth their annual bonus, though.

At least it's not the typical paranoid schizophrenic guy posting the same manifesto on every story.

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

Elon's smart enough to know it won't work -- but he's also smart enough to know how gullible his fan club is. He's discovered that he can convert bits and pieces of 1960s sci-fi novels into easy money and online adulation.

I suspect SpaceX would be putting a lot less money and effort into mitigating the negative effects of its data centers if their host states had remained red. Regulation of the AI industry is already having a positive effect, and it hasn't even been written yet :)

Whether SpaceX's current efforts will be enough to mollify their new blue overlords remains to be seen.

WTF does that mean? I'm by no stretch pretending she's innocent, but I'm curious how they phrased "Sorry for kidnapping you for almost a year on the Orange Turd's say-so, but don't you dare do absolutely nothing we can prove ever again! And don't come back because, um, reasons!"

Singapore isn't exactly known for being light on crime. If they had anything supporting the allegations, they'd already have hung her.

Well yes, but I'm suggesting if an airline did actually say "okay we'll help you", then that might lead to repeat or preferential business because their competition are going the opposite way to be assholes. They wouldn't even need to make the process streamlined unless somebody signed up and went into their settings to ask for it. But the sort of person who flies a lot would actually like it if booking was easy rather than an obstacle course of bullshit.

It's now more accurately known as Microsoft 364.

Yep. It's incredibly annoying.

Many executive contracts list fireable offenses. Relationships with subordinates is normally on that list. If this affair is true, it gives HR more than enough legal justification to fire him quickly. An affair with a Chinese spy might take a while to determine how that may have affected the company.

"One $250 million dollar hookerbot, or 250 million one-dollar hookerbots?"