perhaps he'll start calling OpenAI the xAI graveyard like he used to do for Apple and Tesla

I stayed in school for a couple of years to get my MSEE after getting my bachelor's. It was like being in Montessori school again and I loved it. It was the first time I had really manage my time over the long stretch - not just to get through this week's test, but to make my overall project successful. My advisor was more or less hands off, but available if I got stuck. Otherwise, it was up to me. That was 25 years ago. About 5 years ago I made the transition to leadership roles to be that advisor to the new guard, but I still value an MS if it was done with the right intent. A lot of colleges today will throw you an MS if you just take a few extra classes, but when I see a well-planned thesis that the candidate can demonstrate true understanding in an interview, it tells me (along with many other things) that they can manage goals, timelines, requirements, and do the validation work to tie it all up. It's nice when I don't have to spend their first 2 years at the company developing those skills in them.

To me the whole point of the MS is to give you something to figure out on your own and make you learn how to manage it. Taking a bunch of classes only makes you better at getting through this week and temporarily memorizing enough formulas to get through a final. There's little true understanding in that.

Neither you nor i are representative of the whole world.
I spent most of my life using primarily public transit.
That wouldn't work for you but it does for billions of people.
In some places small cars, scooters & bikes are more commonplace. That doesn't make pickups & SUVs useless elsewhere.
I've been hearing about how impractical EVs are since the Nissan Leaf shipped.
Since then nearly 20 million EVs has been sold worldwide.
While it's still a small fraction of the total passenger fleet, it's growing significantly every year and within 2 decades they should outnumber ICE.

Those 8000 jobs may result in payroll savings of $2B but how much did the Robot Boy Genius "invest" in his terrible clone of where Second Life was 20 years ago?

Too bad they couldn't both lose. OTOH, Musk is as big a liar as Altman, so neither of their testimonies should be believed. Which make it hard to come to a just decision.

"drone"? What year are you talking about?

Apart from his "kung fu" sessions with Ghislaine, Musk has no training & no chance

how far are they going when they leave?
in any case once they get outside the city they live in there are plenty of high speed charging stations.
that said, i've been hearing for years that most of the charging networks - except for Tesla - don't do a very good job of maintenance so that's a concern that has to be addressed

What?

Audrey Henson of the Drey Dossier is fixated on him & what she's been posting is very worrying

They weren't peaceful, but they were introverted. Now, as a matter of survival, they're doing their best to try to drag down everyone else.

So, yes, Damn Trump for provoking this.

That design assumed a dispersed network. The networks have gotten increasingly concentrated. If there's only one connection, you can't route around it.

OTOH, SpaceX might reap large increases in business, because they would be the only route that wasn't broken. (I don't think Iran has orbital capability.)

You're assuming that everyone is one extreme or the other. And not only is this wrong, there aren't only two sides, no matter what the news says.

OTOH, Flock *seems* to be an example of the "benefits of the surveillance state". I.e., we only hear about the generally approved of uses. If you were to believe that those were the only uses, I'd think you a simpleton. And it's impossible for me to make a decision that they're a good thing without knowing what those other uses are.

"Torch the data centers?"
cut their wires

If Larry Ellison isn't on your list, you've not been paying attention