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Comment Re:What will he do with that money? (Score 2) 242

Yes, and he's also been saying that we'll have full self driving cars by the end of the year for the last 15 years or so. He said that his tunnel in Vegas would be full of self driving Teslas. He said that 10 years ago you'd be able to summon your Tesla from across the country. He said he'd build a hyperloop from LA to SF. He said that we'd have humans on Mars by 2021. He said that he'd have a fleet of over 1,000,000 fully autonomous robotaxis driving around by 2020. He said Tesla owners would be able to let their Teslas be used as taxis that would pay for themselves when the owner wasn't using them.

Elon says a whole lot of stuff. The vast majority of it is absolute bullshit that he's spewing to further his wealth and power. The fact that anyone believes anything that comes out of his mouth anymore surprises me.

I remember a time when Slashdot used to get excited about pushing the bounds of tech and engineering to tackle big problems.

Maybe people are just tired of him spewing absolute bullshit as fact while stealing our money, destroying our government, literally hurting and killing people, and just generally being an unlikable little troll that no one would even care about if he hadn't managed to leverage himself into a fuck ton of wealth and power?

Comment Re:It's not really greed at that point (Score 1) 242

The very concept of a 'wealth tax' is just retarded.

I start a company. It grows. I hire more people. More growth. It's popular, great place to work, sells a bajillion widgets. One day someone decides it's worth $500mm. The next day they seize 80% of my company?

This is different from property taxes how?

We tax unrealized gains there already. Why not do that with wealth as well?

Comment Re:Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 1) 316

> America First!

Funny how both of the times in America's history that phrase has been popular, it has been pushed by foreign dictatorship that wanted to weaken America by undermining its democracy and shoring up fascist friends of those dictators.

Putin pushes and like clockwork people are using it in posts advocating America abandon its promises - promises that were made because it was never in America's best interests to see a country like Russia invade Europe to begin with.

The slogan of cowards and traitors. Again. Like it was in the late 1930s.

Comment Re:Could It Get Worse? (Score 1) 316

Indeed --- ICE is trained-to-purpose. Invading border-jumpers SHOULD feel terror, from the minute they approach USA border, to the second our anti-migrant drone explodes in their face. And surely one can design an anti-personal drone to detect "enablers" & pimps   with EMPATHY toward such narco-Mex mules, and also zero-in on those rabid quislings.

Comment Re:More power for my AI overlord (Score 1) 86

Batteries are not a sufficient answer here. But when you add in a grid connection they work. The weather will be different in different places, so some places it will be windy, some places it will be rainy, and other places the sky will be clear. I think this works even in Britain, and that's North of Ontario.

Comment Re:Sensible ruling (Score 1) 86

"If we were to tweet something completely made up, there is a chance of legal troubles"

Then nobody could tweet/post/display FICTION. But ... that's a ridiculous constraint. Shakespeare & Joyce become Web-illegal. Better to simply admit that  *.ai/LLM/Japechats are "engines-of-fiction" rather than knowledge vendors(?) . LLMs are not "truth seekers" as Aristotle ( & common sense )  requires of intelligence, synthetic or otherwise. 

Comment Re:Big Mistake (Score 1) 26

Other companies are selling them because they're not run in the same way Steam is. Steam might not be perfect, but they've shown an inclination not to go for the "profit at any cost" model. Newell is happy to put "Do no harm" over "Maximize value for what a psychopath thinks shareholders are"

Additionally a sizable number of physical gift cards are for brick and mortar services. Not all of them. But a sizable number.

Steam isn't doing anything "wrong with their gift cards", they're just choosing to opt out of being part of a way to defraud the vulnerable. There is no difference between their cards and anyone else's.

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