I did not assume you traded stocks. I was telling you, your comment was telling me you shouldn't. That that you should stop. Your comment made it sound like you misread the TFS.

Please don't trade stocks mate. They stated in TFS how they are proposing to buy it.

Tell me you shouldn't trade stocks without telling me you shouldn't trade stocks.
$56B offer. Half cash means $28b. $20b from TD Bank and $8B from cash on hand.
The other $28b in GameStock stock presumably by issuing new stock.

After the Cold War, I am convinced if we want no more girl schools blown to bits, every country should have nuclear weapons. The only ones warrish enough to use them is us, really. Everyone else should have them to keep our stupid government at bay.

I was hesitant of the charge time fear, but having lives with an EV for 8 years (first Model X in 2018), I can say that the obsession with charge time is ridiculous unless you are a long haul trucker. My cars charge overnight, every night. I have a Tesla wall charger on every parking space in my garage, and my wife and I charge our cars to full, every night. I use a supercharger... 8 times a year? Seriously, how often do you drive 250+ miles a day? Even the Model 3's standard range cars do that. It is such a better way to live where every day you have a "full tank of gas" when you turn on your car. Not everyone can afford the capital outlay for solar panels, but we did and it makes our drives effectively free. Seriously, the maintenance, the running expenses, has all been unbelievable. Stop squeezing every ounce of longevity from your batteries and just accept the fact that you MUST sleep at some point, which is a great time to charge up your cars.

Computers do think. Computers do not do consciousness. Consciousness is not a prerequisite to thinking. Thinking is a prerequisite to consciousness.

A surgeon is a skilled profession, not a knowledge profession. I won a court case with AI, when my lawyer was pushing us to settle. AI found an argument, and we got a positive result.

AI models are better than our ability to trust them. Already. They are certainly better than the average person in most knowledge professions, and for the few that it isnt, it's just a matter of time. Computers are better thinkers than we are. That is just obvious.

No. Not while we have illegals to care for instead. We give them the benefits we should save for our citizens

This tax is not a billionaires tax. California has very strong safeguards around taxes. They have been trying to repeal prop13 for years. What this law actually says (which is never what its title is), states that the tax can be applied to anyone the legislature determines it should be applied to, so while its billionaires now, it will be you later on (if you live in CA). If you were a billionaire, you can just move. That is not who this law is targeting. Just like the income tax which was a tax on the ultra-rich, it will move down the ladder. If you support this law, history has taught you nothing. It will not give you free stuff, it will just lead to a larger government burden that provides very little from and takes a lot from everyone. Mark these words. Its on Page 27 of the bill if anyone wants to read it.

One problem with jurys in our hyper-polarized world is you can almost guess the outcome to a certainty based on where it is tried. If this was tried in Tennessee, my bet would be on Musk. Since it's in Oakland, Sam Altman will win.

I do think the slashdot crowd which is generally anti-Musk is rooting for a can of worms here. Do we really want to set Sam Altman's precedent which is that you can found a company as a non-profit and then decide way down the line to convert to for-profit? Because unlike S Corps, non-profits can have retained earnings.

They aren't incentivizing. They are instigating. Incentives imply a gain in utility in exchange for support. There is no gain in utility to the public here. I know English, I was educated in England, until I took my A levels to American universities. "As such", ahem...

Try writing unfragmented sentences. Also, in your sentence, a comma after "such as" is grammatically incorrect.

Speaking of pontificating on subjects we can't comprehend, the last worthwhile thing Europeans have done is pave roads.

I will say their meeting is worth it when 50 governments realize they can meet on Zoom rather than fly 50 planes to Columbia.

Regulations are generally good to mitigate damage to the public. Modern regulations are just a way to transfer more money from business and industry to the government to splurge on pork, waste, fraud, and abuse.

Dont get me wrong. I think a healthy amount of regulation is a public good. I also think there is justification to collect fees and fines to pay for inspections, drafting regulations, and ensuring a willingness to comply. But lets not pretend that our government works, regulating industry has become a quid-pro-quo or a pay to play scheme where governments are using regulations to extort businesses for things that dont matter, and neglecting their mandate to regulate adequately. Europe is especially guilty of this, but the American government is ridiculous, and I would bet people aligning with both sides of the aisle would agree. We need reform, badly.

You can tell it's about money more than "the air our children breathe" because they are citing datacenter. As if the datacenter owns the utility. Hint: it does not, and those diesel generators are hella expensive to run (diesel is $8 a gallon in some places), and those generators have hefty fines if they run more than 96 hours a year. This is just instigating a public to back a politician extorting money, that won't be used to fix whatever the politician is saying is wrong.

See, why not use a botnet to submit every possible 32 bit device ID, effectively shutting down these fuckers?