Remember when VCs used to worry about concepts like escalation of commitment and protection of capital?

Those days seem to be long gone. I guess they must have some expectation that the govt will bail them out if they get too big to fail.

Just add it to the list of reasons why it sucks to be a US taxpayer right now.

Musk us particularly dumb, even for a nepo baby.

How dumb? This will give you some idea: https://www.planetearthandbeyo...

Came here to say this as well. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Welcome to late stage capitalism.

It's been a few years since I did a physics course, but to the best of my knowledge, the speed of light hasn't increased in the last 25 years.

LEO Iridium phone calls had too much latency to really feel natural for me. Unless these new sats are going to be even lower orbit, I doubt new fancy electronics are going to fix much.

Unless AI speech prediction is waaaay better than I think - to the point where it can finish both sides of the conversation early.

But if that's the case, what's the point of a call at all?.

... since their main starting point seems to be based on the idea that algorithms can't generate nonsensical sentences.

Ooh, look. AI slop defending AI.

Follow the link I posted for the methodology for calculation of the 17x. And if it does fall down under your 'scrutiny' please do post your 'logic' so we can all laugh at it.

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says. It's not just a bubble but an epically sized one. https://www.marketwatch.com/st...

CIS isn't a made up acronym, it's an prefix directly from original Latin.

But you sounded arrogant and sure of yourself when you spouted complete BS, and with the zeitgeist ranging from Trump to LLMs, you certainly nailed the modern era nicely.

The novelty us that it doesn't use a laser or laser speckle or any coherent light source at all.
Or even a high speed camera. Pretty big improvement on the old laser mike...

Grover's algorithm apparently scales by order sqrt(N).

So I guess for 4 kb RSA, maybe that becomes 1.4 million noisy qubits and 10 days.

Both those numbers seem crazy large to me given where current state of the art Quantum computing is.

Holding a quantum state for a week while Grover's algorithm runs all it's iterations seems very, very far away to me.

To the tune of $1.3B a quarter? Who told you that?

https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/... BYD made $1.3 Billion profit in the first quarter of this year alone... But do tell us more how EV manufacturers can't make profits.

Vonnegut wasn't the first scifi I thought of when I read TFA.

It's an AI Computing Network in the Sky.

When it becomes self-aware it'll shorten it's name to Skynet.

"Hollywood" blockbusters that were filmed at Pinewood UK and would presumably attract this tariff:

• - Avengers: Endgame,
• - Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens,
• - Avengers: Infinity War,
• - Spider-Man: No Way Home,
• - Jurassic World...

I don't think the Trump administration understands how modern films are made.

Don't know about iOS, but the Android baked in VPN doesn't support wireguard, openvpn and quite a few others - so people have to use apps when they need to connect to those types of VPNs.