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Comment Re: pay peanuts get monkeys (Score 1) 127

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.

Comment Re: Rent-seeking (Score 1) 480

Careful what you ask for. If cables in Irans exclusive economic zone perhaps some rational if standard assessment. IIRC 13 miles from shore common. However internet service providers can also charge Iran hefty connection fees so could bounce back and forth. If Iran does not reciprocate then get shut out. IRGC probably wants shakedown funds over high bandwidth. Getting to greedy this early before a peace deal might backfire with building support for countering.

Comment Re: Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves... (Score 1) 19

Demand outpacing supply since a small scale production and new. Will catch up in due time. Then demand declines as main areas stocked. There are other solutions using simple motion sensors and speakers along with solar attached to poles. The wolf design seems to be more popular with broader sounds, plus appearance.

Comment Re: Check your elitist privilege (Score 1) 108

Suspected correlation from lead gas which was stopped quite a while ago. The trees take many years to grow into eventual firewood so there should be more focus on which wood is more prevalent. The Guardian article mentions broadly and varies by location. Careful at your campsite. Forest fires a bigger risk. Surprised paper companies have not flagged more lead in their feed stocks. Paper companies could be a good source for monitoring.

Comment Re: No wonder (Score 1) 122

Domestic content minimums are used elsewhere some to Apple s frustration. Vehicles are large portion of economy so self reliance has popular constituents support. Alternatively systems that set quotas so over a set level tariffs kick in. Japan does this with rice so can allow many suppliers but not over crowd market. Easier to adjust and monitor vs content percentages. The Jones act getting attention due to fuel supply chain issues. A balanced trade with China worth considering since they can buy agriculture yeah the farmers and other US goods and services. But do not over do it. Banning Huawei from Telecom since sensitive infrastructure with less supply options differs.

Comment Re: Making China Great Again. (Score 1) 293

The international trade by shipping cost advantages are now amplifying risks. Local ability helps reduce. Petrol amazing energy and product input source but refining and distribution complex with difficult risks to counter. Power mongers have gone to great lengths to control with low regard to human rights. The Shaw insertion by petrol backed influencers led to the IRGC regime who r also exploiting control. So loosening petrol grip on society with alternatives broadly welcome which EVs , solar , wind and other renewables help. Even if some use cases petrol still necessary reduce over reliance. Lesser of evils. A painful way to go about it is during a crisis but otherwise lower incentives. China has been more proactive having such exposure.

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