Simple answer is that SpaceX doesn't have an opening any time soon. They are fully booked.

Of course the Amazon service competes with the SpaceX owned Starlink service too. So you could argue that SpaceX wouldn't ever do business with them. But I don't think that is the case. SpaceX has launched many things belonging to competitors. As the summary points out, this was a last minute change. SpaceX has several contracts with several committed launches. They can't just add another launch that would be scheduled just a few months from now. If they were capable of doing that, that launch would be for Starlink satellites or high profile news worthy payloads.

Elon could care less about making money. His goal has never been to make money. He most likely could care less if he even has a successful company. His goal is to fix the lack of innovation and remove unnecessary government regulation from giant industries. All his ventures have forced the industries they compete with to get off their ass and start modernizing things. Zip2 forced cheaper and more streamlined local news and advertising. PayPal upended the banking industry and leaded the revolution to instant money transfers. SpaceX proved how fast a private company can iterate and become viable in a space race. But not just the speed, they proved that cost could be greatly reduced, re-usability is a thing and safety doesn't have to be sacrificed. Tesla proved to the world how easy it is to manufacture an electric car. How capable they can be. They have shown the viability of AI and Self Driving.

The Boring Company, Starlink, Solar, and the Twitter deal... all things pushing other competitors forward. The whole Twitter thing caused Twitter to make several changes.

Elon (whether his companies and/or investors agree or not) is all about keeping innovation moving forward. Every move he makes, every comment out of his mouth, every tweet we see. All simply to make people thing and move forward.

The user-facing login page has always been an API. Just because there is a different API now available means nothing.

A "user-facing" login page is just a client (or even proxy) to the existing login API. It makes no difference if that API parses data from a HTML form request, XML or JSON. It is all the same. The underlying authentication method is all that matters. In most cases the APIs meant for server-side consumption are much more secure. Especially when it comes to a brute for attack.

I don't see the problem here.

This means nothing. We have no idea of the amount of unreported or classified "supercomputers" that exist in any country. We know that it is highly likely that companies like Amazon (AWS), Google, Microsoft, IBM, Walmart (yes! Walmart), etc vastly exceed the computing power that any country or government has. A "Supercomputer" is mostly irrelevant for the scenarios a state might need computing for. They would be looking for massive parallel processing which the mentioned companies would have and greatly exceed what any supercomputer could do.

So main point as mentioned in the beginning... this means nothing. But also corporations or similar entities have much more power (computing and more) than any single governed state. I would bet my life on Google or AWS individually having more computing power than all the governing states of the world combined.

Then of course there is the AI and other algorithms these entities have developed. But this is just about computing power.

I don't see any struggle here. Their "goal" is 2030 which is 11 years away. They have only put 7 years of work in.

In R&D like this, you don't fail.... you just don't succeed immediately. They knew this. The deadline/goal proves this. It is trial and error. They will most likely find something eventually. It will most likely be something that has already proved "problematic" but with some new additive or refinement process.

Why is this news?

How many light bulbs did Edison make?

Now that theater chains are offering these same services I believe they have succeeded in their goal of making a subscription service available to the people. However it is not their service so if their end goal was to be profitable (I don't see why anyone would ever think that was possible) well then they failed.

Yes the web is an open platform. Google is not changing that. In fact they are embracing the fact that the web is an open platform. No one is forced to use their services. Also their services are not preventing the rest of the web from being available. They are doing what has been done for years... advancing the technology.

BBS's were archived into the web if relevant. I don't hear anyone crying about Gopher or USENET. Forcing people to use SFTP and SSH vs FTP and Telnet doesn't seem to be a big deal.

The Internet evolves. Things that need to be preserved will be preserved. No single entity has ever forced the Internet to do anything. It just evolves with available technology and the will of the people.

Oh and if you think the will of the people is BS... well we still have the same old shitty email that has existed forever. No matter what alternatives are forced on people, they keep their email.

Then you are not a good counselor. Good counselors don't tell people to not do something. Good counselors help guide people to make their own decisions as to what would be the best fit for them.

With that being said, you have a very limited view of what IT is.
You mention "things like HVAC tech, aircraft engineer, electrician, or something involving industrial controls or construction"
These positions/careers/vocations are no different than IT. At best you may be implying some of those positions are independent, not working for a company. If that is the case, then they are definitely not reliable jobs. However a majority of them are probably for business/corporations that pay well, have balanced schedules and also include benefits. Just like most IT jobs.

If you are in an IT position that is overworked and shitting on your health, then go find a new company to work for. There are plenty.

"Your attempts to fend off disaster go ignored" If this is the case then you are either not doing your job or again, find a new company to work for. Or maybe just stay there and don't put in any of the time that makes you "overworked" because apparently it doesn't matter.

"If you love tech....make it your own...do your own thing and love it. Stay away from corporations."
should be...
"If you love tech....make it your own... figure out your own thing and love it... don't be afraid to find a new love"

18650 (18mm x 65mm) is a size. Implies nothing about the battery technology. Also Tesla is now using a 2170 (21mm x 70mm) cell which is not only 50% larger in volume/capacity, it can also deliver about 2x more instantaneous current due to the adjusted proportions.

One thing I would like to add. It is highly possible these and other EV batteries are treated more like SSD's. You may purchase a 480 gig SSD, but it really has 500+ gigs available. This "extra" capacity fills in for failures and makes you think your drive is reliable when it may not be.

If an EV predicts your mileage. You use that as the number. It tells you nothing about the actual battery capacity. Also you can't really check batteries for pass/fail cells like a sector on a drive. Some could be at 90% some at 99% and others at 75%. The car will just give you a random estimated range that is associated with capacity which was most likely a very conservative number in the beginning.

This isn't news but really just standard practice. News would be comparing the real world battery life and degradation against all available EV batteries and then comparing those figures.

A warranty means nothing compared to real world figures. I have several products warrantied for life. In most cases it costs more to ship the product in for replacement or repair than it does to purchase a new one. Then there are the standard 1 year warranties on electronic products. I'm sure 99% have far exceeded their warranty period.

All this is saying is that a piece of technology didn't catastrophically fail.

I don't remember clicking that authorize cookies thing for Facebook. But I do just click yes to them all since the internet can function without cookies.

Oh and until you tell people what you actually have, it will always be vaporware.

Maybe the simplest answer to your question is... Tell people what you have.

Kickstarter or similar services are a great way to judge interest in a project. If you truly have something people will want, they will gladly donate to and share your idea. Of course this still requires marketing, maybe a break even type of thing. However with a niche offering like this, if you don't have a name or any way to prove what you can do, then don't expect much traction.

Said in another way... if you aren't already known it will be very hard to become known.

That being said, we can help without more information... New languages and/or compilers crop up every day.
Have you invented a new language or just a new compiler? -- this is not clear at all.
What makes you different from the others?
How is it better?
Why would I switch from what I am currently using?
What is the learning curve to switch?
What is is compatible with?

Most references to US law imply that they would need to return the merchandise or pay for it if it is an obvious error in pricing. However this all probably depends on how they received the discount on the merchandise. If it was a coupon code or certain methods of clicking, then they are probably ok. However of they say used something like the Chrome inspector to change prices submitted to the backend then they are probably liable for theft and/or hacking.