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How about we get Congress to do their jobs?

Note that this launch has been ready to go for weeks and the FAA were stalling SpaceX. Elon joked that it's easier to build self landing rockets than push papers through the FAA. I really hope if Trump wins he guts that regulatory body.

Super confusing as to why not? How else would they achieve their goal.

Google giving Fandom powerful rankings bothers me too, since their intrusive ads clearly go against Google ranking factors.

Still, I'm glad for some competition. However, even after browsing their site, is contacting them the only way to get something up and running?

If Google isn't allowed to use search data to train LLMs, would the same apply to X and the tweets found there?

Interesting to see these companies before they became "infinite money generators". I'm sure Zuck today could call upon 500 engineers if he had something that urgent he wanted done.

On what planet would Elon not get a piece of this new for-profit company?

BlackHat SEO's have insiders at many of these companies that'll publish your article for $X amount of money. Or edit existing articles and insert your URL.

“instead of giving users a real-time live view of distant celestial objects through an eyepiece they use pre-determined image settings (for ISO and exposure) and then live image-stack for clarity, pushing ever-improving images to connected smartphones and tablets”

What’s the point of even getting this? Just go look at Hubble images at that point.

Cool map. Taco Bell is no where near economical anymore though.

Nope, the 12 gets the full $1k. Go check yourself.

ATT is offering $1,000 trade in for Iphone 12 - 15, an amazing deal for those with slightly older iphones. Obviously it pays off over 36 months, but I don't see myself switching anytime soon so it works out. I think the others have similar deals too.

>And that's where we diverge, dogmatic approaches like this don't leave any room for discussion or arguments, you have a belief which is not too dissimilar to a religious one... In reality allowing absolute free speech including people calling and encouraging the death of others on a massive scale is detrimental to civilization.

We had that for decades and civilization was just fine. Hell, don't we supposedly have that today with Twitter, yet civilization is just fine. What happened after 2016 and 2020 was infinitely worse, with huge segments of the AMERICAN population unable to express their views.

Who are you to dictate what society/civilization is allowed to think/view?

The one thing I'll agree with you on is the removal of financial incentives from these websites. I do want all viewpoints on these websites, but I of course understand the removal of financial payments for posts that "go viral" praising Stalin or Hitler or something.

Easy for who to spot? Who elected these "spotters"? Which cultural norm is the accepted normal for what is and isn't considered crossing the line? Is it Islamic? Ancient Roman or Aztec? Modern Chinese? White American Liberal? Each of those has radically different views on what is and isn't considered "hate speech".

Hate speech is an arbitrary term used to censor political opponents, as there's no logical way to discern what is and isn't hate speech. I used to think that was obvious, and even others like Noam Chomsky agree with me, but I guess not. So no I don't see any issue, I'd prefer everyone have equal access to free speech, world wide.

On a slight separate thought, I've always wondered how much of a minority I am in that thinking these days. 10%? 5? 1? It's literally that "Yes, you are all wrong" meme come to life.

Why is it that modern liberal ideology is so censorship heavy? I want all of my "political enemies" to be on Twitter, I want the heads of Iran, North Korea, etc to be on twitter, I want "misinformation" to be on Twitter because the "solution" to all of the above is infinitely worse.

From what I've seen on new-twitter, no speech liberals used to say is now banned. It's just been opened up to the right, which I guess is the problem?

Yup exactly. Why go through all that headache, which has existed with Nuclear since day 1, when we could just mass produce solar and plop it down on the infinite empty desert land out west.

I used to be radically pro-nuclear, but after seeing some of the data of solar growth and realizing we could just scale things up (like building iphones), I'm fully on board with the Elon strategy of solar + powerbanks for storage.

Jensen said that this is the future of gaming a few months ago fyi.

I completely agree, but that same entity cannot state they support free speech ever again. If they own their censorship, that's completely fine, but this backtracking with "cool Zuck" schtick is ridiculous. The stain to their reputation on free speech is permanent.

Wow this is really cool. I'd love to have specific channels for Ai, NBA highlights, etc, all of which are readily available on Youtube.

He obviously hasn't. The tech community is in for quite a shock with Tesla robotaxi's come out in a year or so and blow out the competition. One factor not discussed often is how much smoother FSD is compared to all other self driving. Especially noticeable when going from FSD to the free AutoSteer or GM Supercruise.

While I completely agree with the legislation, why isn't this going through congress? Update the CAN-SPAM act to be more substantial.

Wouldn't want to presume without seeing any data and barely using Wix, but I wouldn't say Wix is known as a ranking hero platform lol.

They tested Google's ability to index and render JS, but not how well those sites ranked. I know as an SEO those results would look completely different. When you're creating content to monetize, the thought process is "why risk it?" with JS.

Seems to be by design at this point. I don't even blame the higher ups at Microsoft for forcing Xbox to go console-less and 3rd party only. After 10+ years under Phil Spencers watch, almost every franchise Xbox was known for went to complete shit. Halo Infinite cost an estimated $500 million and might literally be the biggest entertainment flop in history.

1) Not sure what their plan was, but Bush said it was his major goal of the 2nd term.

2) Yes, if you want that. I'm sure there were options to invest in Bonds only or whatever else. Point was you had the choice and it wasn't just redistribution.

3) No, the whole point was to give choice. There's probably some stipulation where a certain % has to be in bonds as you near retirement age, but we're talking about a dead bill 20 years ago.

For those who don't know, the majority of debt comes from Social Security and Healthcare, both of which Republicans tried to fix in the past (2004 SS, 2017 Medicare) to make them somewhat viable, and are the only party even somewhat discussing these issues. The 2004 attempt in particular would have made everyone reading this substantially wealthier by allowing us to "invest" our SS, instead of pooling and distributing.

People who mention military spending don't understand we actually underspend given our GDP. As a percentage of GDP, we rank somewhere in the mid/high range of countries (this is the best way to measure, otherwise try comparing Vatican city budget vs Chinese military budget...).

Elon said Optimus robots, once fully integrated with the economy, will be a major deflationary factor and would allow for GDP growth to overcome the debt issue. Hopefully we don't need to rely on something like that and can actually fix this issue.

Top 5% account for 50% of all healthcare spending.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

How long until we have injections to boost confidence, help people get over phobias, etc?