I'm too lazy to read the IPO, by the time I'd be potentially willing to consider SpaceX the IPO docs will be long obsolete.
So Tesla is not a car company, it is an AI company, and Tesla is part of SpaceX, hence the compute contract?

That is just the aspiration of many tech enthusiasts.

No one imagined it is stable. Even those who buy/sell goods/services with bitcoin tend not to hold it. Buy and transfer immediately, receive and sell immediately, it avoids the volatility risk. As mentioned earlier, "investors" tend to know it is high risk/reward, very speculative.

It's not a pyramid scheme. It's a "greater fool" scheme. Pyramid involves some sort of interest or dividends, greater fool involves increasing prices.

75-80% drops are not systematic collapses for bitcoin, its a run of the mill post-run up correction.

The 75% corrections are not as fast as the hyperbolic rides up. They also tend to be followed by rather long plateaus.

We'll see how well this pattern holds, but it's probably too soon to make a call. One thing is very different from those past corrections. More Wall Streeters are involved and more non-technical people are involved. However the more diverse ownership shares the same motivations, then and now, high risk / high reward speculation. Maybe there will be fewer HODL advocates as a result.

A 50% correction, $120K'isj to $60K'ish, is mild for bitcoin. A 75% correction, ie around $30K, would be far more typical. 75% is what generally happens after one of the hyperbolic runs up.

I don't need 4,304 sensors, cameras, touch screens and other do-dads. Give me a good stereo, AC/heat KNOBS, BUTTONS, DIALS.

If we elected leaders won could succeed in building things or fixing things, it we measured politicians by accomplishments rather than by posturing and having good intentions, we could fix things with the tax money already being spent and not need to raise more taxes.

Spending is not the problem, Other countries spend less and have better results because there is accountability.

Gavin Newsom failed in his promises as major. Then ran for governor and won, and failed in his promises as governor. Now he is a leading candidate for the presidency, making the same old promises he's already failed at twice. That is why the US is so f'd up no accountability.

You want to increase taxes? Lets do a full audit on where last years taxes went and how successful that spending was.

You wrote: "The electoral college gave us Trump when 3 million people gave the other candidate more votes"

I wrote: "you would not suggest Clinton was somehow illegitimate"

Does the words "suggest" and "somehow illegitimate" confuse you?

Actually I wrote: "Nope. Just pointing out the double standard, you would not suggest Clinton was somehow illegitimate due to people giving the other candidates more votes."

Yes, your misrepresentations are pretty sad.

I too felt that way about SGU. Aside from introducing me to Flogging Molly - in one of the best applications of popular music to a show ever - I enjoyed the story that SGU was telling.

ON THE OTHER HAND...nostalgia is a powerful drug.
A coworker and I have watched from SG movie, SG1 through Atlantis all the way into SGU; we're in SGU S02E10 and ... it's palpably running out of gas. Atlantis was absolutely an evolutionary step up from the monster-of-the-week very-1990s-feeling episodic SG1. It ended when it should have, while SG1 ran about 3-4 seasons too long.
SGU then was an *absolute* step up in writing depth and character building but already in season two it feels adrift. From episodes where basically nothing happens to utterly-contrived conflicts (let's be honest, the entire Lucian invasion plot was incredibly stupid from s2e1). Also a tiresome (to me) emphasis on personal dramas...blech. That's not what I'm watching the show for "Peyton Place in Spaaaaaace...."
I've read JM's reddit posts on 'what might have happened' which just reinforces that none of this was already-baked, just writer-room ideas basically. Which it very much feels like.
I don't recall precisely the last half of SGU season 2, I only generally recall it ended sort of abruptly. But right now, halfway through? I'm more looking forward to getting through it and us starting our Babylon 5 watchthrough more than the 2nd half of SGU.

In this usage "plots" implies something secretive or insidious. Why this usage?

This seems like a reasonable plan to review and address dangerous bottlenecks in services provided by external actors.

Honestly, if the bullshit around national dick-flexing shows countries generally that it's a stupid fucking idea to rely on multinationals (American or otherwise) generally for critical infrastructure (and in 2026, email is an example of critical infrastructure), then hey maybe there is a silver lining here.

Nope. Just pointing out the double standard, you would not suggest Clinton was somehow illegitimate due to people giving the other candidates more votes.

Like Trump, most people voted for someone else. He never had a majority of the voters.

Bill Clinton 1992 \(43.01\%\)
Bill Clinton 1996 (\(49.24\%\))

Trump actually did better with 49.8%.

Most of Russia's science reputation were Ukrainians, actually.

Technically, a used M1 Air 8GB is about the same performance but cheaper. A used M3 Air 8GB is also probably a better deal. Both offering larger screens, backlit keyboards, better USB/Thunderbolt connectors, etc.

Don't misunderstand, the Neo is amazing, but it's designed to appeal to K-12 educational market buyers. Not so much end users. Its kind of nerfed a little bit relative to the Air, so many traditional users may still go Air rather than Neo.

That $200 delta assumes you happen to have an unused keyboard, mouse, and display laying around. :-)

That said, I got a travel case for the current mini design. It holds the mini, the smaller Apple keyboard, mouse, and cables and it is quite transportable. When visiting a collaborator I often work with, he just provides a larger display when I visit and it all works great. Sure I can't work in an airport terminal, but in a hotel I can probably plug into the TV in the room.

For testing purposes I bought the most modest Apple Silicon based Mac ever made, the 2020 MacBook Air M1 8GB. The Neo is actually somewhat comparable performance wise. I have been completely surprised by how usable the M1 8GB system is. It is entirely usable for typical K-12 and even college use. Slow but usable, so OK when on the road but not the home office, for software development use. For most homework assignments or projects in a CS college degree program it's probably just fine. Depending on the project it might even squeak by in a computer vision class, where final results rather than near real time operation is probably the goal.