Yes, the Raptor 3 is turning out to be a challenge. They're making progress on it, and it's important that they do, because those engines are key to the performance and economics of everything SpaceX. But they now have a long record of solving such problems.

Competing on price is somehow a "scam".

You are rapidly becoming the poster boy for AI Derangement Syndrome.

My first reaction is that if one company is selling at half the price, that company will go bankrupt at twice the speed since every transaction was already a money-loser. Customers are absolutely the worst thing for these "businesses."

But is revenue really significant? I can see how neither reducing the price to $0 or increasing their price to 10x what it was, might not really have much of a different impact on the bottom line, compared to all the debt.

Ah yes. gweihir. The resident AI denialist.

This one has been lurking on any given firewalled network interface for 7 years: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/...
This one is a subtle race in openvpn: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/...

Two examples of either making the kernel demonstrably more secure, or identifying and correcting non-trivial problems. There are hundreds more, in case you'd like to get some of the shit out of your head.

Make IBM Great Again: go back to .. leasing computers?!

Don't care. You've had time: this is no surprise to anyone that's been paying the least bit of attention for several years now, and isn't still stupidly indulging AI denial. The excuse window has closed: if your business is security and you didn't know at least as 18 months ago that you could expect to see exactly what is happening today, you're a seat warmer and no one cares what you think. And you're going to be obsolete soon as well.

Nobody remembers or cares that a B-2's toilet cost $23k, so the Pentagon is updating to a newer, better form of government waste that kids today will better understand.

My ISP offers failover wireless Internet service for my cable internet at a reasonable cost. I haven't adopted this yet, but I think it's pretty admirable that they do it, and it solves more than just the power loss problem.

There is a future where essentially everyone has large battery capacity at their residences and commercial facilities, and it will probably become mandatory. Sodium Ion battery tech is coming online in a big way, and it directly addresses the numerous issues that hinder endemic battery deployment today, including safety, reliability and (ultimately) cost. At that point, the obvious thing is: everyone gets batteries and the power system relies on their existence throughout the grid to solve its storage and reliability problems in a mundane and low cost manner.

Malware is any software that runs on your computer but is intended to serve the interests of someone else.

Calling it malware isn't so much inaccurate as it's unspecific. Not all malware is adware, but 100% of adware is malware.

I'm sticking with stone knives and bear skins.

What, exactly, is unpredictable about a sedentary human falling asleep? People do that while driving.

These robo-car companies imagine attentive humans, amazed and alert at all times, enjoying the thrill of this wonderful service, eager to swipe away with their payment devices.

I don't think Google should be required to provide anonymized search data to rivals. Firstly, that's effectively their intellectual property.

Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. I'm sure the others will do something transformative with the data.

And thus the beginning of shifting the entire government bureaucracy to AI?

Based on what you've written, your PayPal experience is largely as a payor, and not a payee. That's certainly the most common case.

The other side of the transaction is very different. PayPal is heavily biased toward the former. That's a problem, because PayPal is quite unforgiving for payees. A big part of the problem is that payees are often ignorant, reckless or outright criminal, and their heads are often filled with small-business-person shit. People think they're clever or take things for granted with PayPal and get caught: accounts get frozen or shut down when people fuck around, and people do a lot of fucking around.

They frequently don't see it as fucking around. But that's a chronic condition, especially for business folks. You'll notice the lack of details seen from PayPal haters. When they do share, you'll learn all about how fast PayPal picks up on all the screwball things people try to pull, and how little patience PayPal has for the nonsense in the heads of these people.

PayPal isn't perfect. Handling money is complicated, and PayPal has made mistakes. But you can safely chalk up about 99% of the PayPal hate you see to payees that learned the hard way that their bullshit won't fly with PayPal.

We can bust on Microsoft all day and all night, and they deserve it, but the fact that their ability to find and fix these problems has greatly increased is a good thing. Software is incredibly complex, and no software more complicated than "10 GOTO 10" is free from the potential of security problems. Microsoft's QA has gone downhill in recent years, but now it's getting better apparently (even if it's after the fact). They are not going away, so this makes all our lives better.