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Comment Paper Co Engineers cost benefits (Score 1) 41

Paper companies have the experience and expertise to assess viability. While trees might consume marginally more water to grow , they do require care to maintain. The wood is kept damp to reduce fire risk and readiness for pulp extraction. Trees little more picky on landscape. This could be a supplemental material for cheaper land use. Trees susceptible to insects and other fungus. An alternative is good risk management , though as noted hemp and others exist. The Paper co s are evaluating with some potential but will decisive viability in due time. Paper and card board is easily recyclable so welcome news if able to improve usage.

Comment Re: Don't ever use hotel WiFi (Score 1) 31

I bring a 4 meter cable since sometimes WiFi performance poor especially affecting connections via VPNs. Usually there is a network cable into TV , if no router port. Need a cable extension adapter. Does not fully avoid a compromised connection if hotel system but beats weak wifi. There are other precautions such as no admin privileges on user accounts etc

Comment Hot child in the city (Score 1) 200

Cities with less green space often retain heat making it difficult to cool if no power. Heat rises so many level apartments get quite hot. Limited breezes. So no AC no fan. A battery can support for a while depending on size. Diesel generators not feasible in most cases. Get a big freezer. Ice can cool for a bit. Wipe cool wet towels. Feet in ice water etc. temporary relief but hard to sleep. Becomes a survival situation so cutting non essential power helps so can spare for cooling including water pumps. Suburbs have more green plus space for solar and or generators. Maybe even a basement. Great Lakes stay cold late into summer if live near one get a shade and dip in.

Comment Re: pay peanuts get monkeys (Score 1) 128

Sabina made a YouTube video explaining how good capable AI likely to be expensive since consumes high resources including development costs. The have and have nots gap likely to expand. There will be high, medium and low tier offerings depending on costs and demand. The average person will not need nor desire rocket surgery capability. Supply and demand will balance allocation of resources. Friction could arise as starting to see AI data centers taking resources from communities. Money usually talks and down trodden gets walked on.

Comment Lottery index (Score 2) 23

Allowing SpaceX on NASDAQ questionable. Retirement Index funds should have some filters to reduce exposure to such speculative valuations. Need a lottery like listing for these new frontier business structures. Governance stacked to Musk discretion contrary investor protections so should be in a different category. Elon gets away with it since moved faster than regulators who are confused by free markets vs free for all. SpaceX and others should be available for the high risk takers but not the average funds.

Comment Trade barriers, investment moat (Score 1) 231

Many industries have built their success out scaling competition. Initial investment seeds yield later. Most recently the heavy loss SpaceX IPO. Chinese companies doing similar. China rare earth mining and refining another example of crowding out competition by being bigger and thus affording to be better more efficient. EVs fit well with battery and diversity from oil. US and Europe could use the cheap vehicles and invest in electricity infrastructure. Then push for local content in vehicles.

Comment Re: Congrats to Mr. Musk (Score 1) 315

SpaceX to me inspiring advancing human exploration capabilities. Bundling other unimpressive businesses sours the attractiveness. Top it off with Elon retaining control disproportionate to his ownership. Not So interested as investment. Others are so Elon pulled it off. Still routing for the rocket teams at SpaceX , Blue Origin and others.

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