I am very much pro solar, wind, and geo renewables. However these sources need to demonstrably reduce the price of electricity to households. especially after this latest US election where the message is loud and clear. Voters absolutely do not want the virtue signaling of prior administrations nor the object incompetence and corruption of the current administration.

in California, for instance, there has been a tremendous build out of solar and battery storage, which is great. but then the politicians have fumbled on transmission in California has the highest electricity prices in the nation. how can you make a compelling point about renewables being economically viable in that scenario?

And to make matters worse, California regulators are pushing forward strongly on electrification measures, even as the price of electricity remain stratospheric. thatâ(TM)s the sort of tone deafness that gets the electorate turned out and droves. good thing those regulators are appointed I guessâ¦.

In addition I would like to have a conversion between American units and international units. Like the power consumption of one American house would be equivalent to six Costa Rican households (not real ratio)

SpaceX spent about $10-15 billion on the current number of starlink sattelites. And now they need to spend billions more on a third rate cell phone leasee ? Given that there are only three actual networks, Verizon, ATT, T-mobile and that you can get a Mint plan for $10-$15/mo before taxes, and cell signal coverage is not really a problem for 99% of the population 99% of the time.. I really don't get the business case.

Feels like a Virgin Corp sorta play. They wanted to brand a bunch of stuff, where it was just their brand and nothing value-add. Virgin mobile, Virgin money, Virgin America airlines. But who really wants to be Musk or X-branded?

Plus one here. Iâ(TM)m more or less already blocked on my phones default browser âoei.e login to read this post.â

But hereâ(TM)s the thing, its too much friction for me to switch browsers and the relative value of Reddit to me is infinitesimally low. I can get the same answer from other sites and of course AI summary.

IMHO Reddit vastly inflates their value to the marketâ¦but then again I value FB at nil and yet they seem to be doing fine over the years

What I cannot wrap my head around is that trillion dollar Google, trillion dollar Facebook, etc are all still just advertising firms.

There was a certain amount of money in advertising in the 20th century for print, radio, TV, etc. In the 21st century Google, Facebook, and some others captured all of that. But how was that bucket of advertising dollars enough to make these mega-corporations? Not like Time-Warner, or New York Times group was worth a trillion (adjusted) dollars back in the day.

Bet there is a Beowulf cluster in the basement of University of Toronto under a pile of magazine covers featuring Tasya Teles.

The buyouts are a solid indication that Skydance is looking to reduce headcount. Announcing a 5 day RTO policy at the same time shows that the management also views RTO as a pathway to reduced headcount. Less about being quiet and more like being very conspicuous.

They primarily manage company-internal CAs for big businesses, which they seem to do well. AFAICT, they noticed that their security infrastructure was compliant for managing a global CA, and thought they might as well also have that as a product. However, there are some operational differences between an enterprise CA and a public one, including that companies want to issue client certs to employees but nobody really does global client certs. That means that they had an intermediate CA for global client certs that they never used, but it was in the standard trust store, and nobody tested that it was handled right until Wayne just went through the standard trust store making sure a new certificate weakness detector didn't give false positives.

So eMudhra correctly handled all the certs they issued, and all the certs they used to sign them, but they got some extra CA certs trusted that they didn't really need, because it would make their side business more similar to their main business, and this caused a major problem.

Chances are that they actually got a real random number out of a HSM for the bad CA certs, but accidentally made the certs with the index of the random number instead of the actual number. (That is, they got the 4th random number and made a cert for 4 instead of the number.) I wouldn't be surprised if they stored the correct private key, which would have made leaf certs that didn't validate because the intermediate was wrong, but they never used it to find this problem.

It would be nice that if instead of a full competition, space race, there was cooperative competition, similar to, but better than, the International Space Station. Plan the first lunar base together, but each country works on their own rockets, landers, etc. Share the cost, have a vested interest in making space accesible

Bring India into the fold, as well as Japan, ESA, etc.

Russia is excluded.

The email wasn't even too good to be true. The nasty phishing emails are the ones where the recipient is supposed to get a real email on the topic, but it's because of a publicly known event and outsiders could easily make up the content, so they just need to find a bunch of likely recipients.

I think the "you've been assigned the mandatory phishing training" emails should come from an external sender and contain a link to get into the extended training, and you should only get the short refresher by finding it through verified sources. Not only would this be a good placement test, it would test that official communications are actually hard to fake and possible to verify using the process in the training.

"In response to the embarrassing data breach that hit the news recently, we've assigned every employee at the company an online training session about phishing at this link. By sure to take it immediately, because it's a legal requirement for our settlement and delays could affect your employment." --Russian Hackers

I mean maybe Starlink would be able to put some price pressure on other carriers. But that Mint mobile is like $10 month (= taxes and fees, etc etc) that's a pretty competitive market. I would much rather buy from an affable Canadian than a ...well the other guy

And in 2026 you have to be pretty remote not to get some version of a terrestrial signal. Even the times I was on vacation, away from urban areas, but not like wilderness remote I could tether just fine with my off-brand cell service. When I am actually in wilderness I'm not dragging a laptop and I'm fine without service. That's kind of the point. ( Requisite "What happens in an emergency" Well, I'm not that guy in sneakers and shorts All-Trails-ing up Shasta in the late afternoon without knowing the weather. I'm fine outdoors.)

"Buy on the rumor, sell on the news" old but pretty accurate description of herd mentality of stock trading. Now codified in algorithmic trading.

Recall that Moderna stock (MRNA) is up over 600% YTD and that is based on the "We cured cancer** " rumor narrative. A little pull back when this is narrowed to "only" better outcomes on certain cancer in combination with an existing drug and at exorbitant expense...I think a little pullback on the stock price is warranted. Its also a little weird to me as a lay-person that this is tied together with Keytruda.

More interesting is that the tools and techniques around mRNA are still progressing in meaningful ways. As others have posted, the mRNA research started on therapies like this melanoma treatment, with covid interrupting to an extent.

"NATO turned what was originally intended to be a mostly peaceful show of force like the temporary invasion of Georgia into a war of attrition."

That's a pretty wild assertion. Like did I totally mis-understand the movie Red Dawn ?!?

As a thought experiment, let's say the supposition above was correct? After being rebuffed in Kyiv, rather than demonstrating Russia could & would walk into Ukraine any time and call it a day. Putin pursued a bloody, multi-year ground war, and calculated attacks against civilians. That seems to contradict the 'peacful show of force' bit.

Nah, there's no nuance here. Putin wanted to topple the Ukraine government, take Donbas to add to Crimea, and then install a puppet for awhile. But he blew it. And here we are. He's not super smart, he's not super brave, he's a --clown

Not for nothing, but this is the unlock schedule. There will be twice the number of shares tradeable in 2027 as there are now.

October 9 328.4 million shares (7%)
October 24, 328.4 million shares (7%)
November up to 1.3 billion shares (28%)
Dec.8, 2026: 797.6 million shares
2027: Elon Musk’s 6.42 billion shares unlock in stages, with Musk’s block fully tradable on June 12, 2027

Same reason no (rational) person will sign up for Sam Altman's crypto / retinal scan ...scam. These guys are not trustworthy, particularly so for the 'plebs' like us. I wouldn't give my kid's SSN to Musk for $100. Probably a scam, or likely something that it will be narrowed or have strings attached to make it far less meaningful if not down right pointless.