I think it's increasingly clear that Musk has drunk his own kool aid. I'll grant that he is good at seeing opportunities for shaping the future albeit mostly other people's ideation that he takes over. But when it comes to executing those ideas his great successes have been where he gets out of other brilliant peoples way (see Gwen Shotwell). Twitter is going to end up being his downfall.
Russia is ultimately a kleptocracy with the real money made from resource extraction - oil, natural gas, metal, etc. From that point of view any other industry is extranious because it doesn't add to the oligarchs bottom line.
A lost folks in general (and SV in particular) operate on the principle of "got mine f you". They're comfortable so now we don't need to do anything to make anyone else so. It's a symptom of the greater issue of a lack of empathy.
Weather prediction is the realm of relatively well understood differential equations based on physical properties. Where deep learning can play is in inference of what's going on between observations on the map and timeline.
We're well into the cargo cult layoffs. CEOs need to look good to their bosses and your job is a sacrafice they are willing to make. I'm sure there are some who will make their decisions based on real data and analysis - but they'll make thier decisions independently of other firms actions. Seeing all this clustered behavior suggests little analysis is really being done here.
It's come to mean interactive maps web maps, usually tiled image based. This is still a very specific thing in GIS where most published maps are still static documents - and often meant for printing on large format printers in the ALEC world.
Manhattan used to have hundreds of miles of street level trolley - but mostly powered by underground center third rail because overhead wires just didn't work with the density of lines and equipment. When the system needed to be cleared after snowfalls they used horses and later ICE trucks to plow. See any book on the Third Avenue Railway system for details
Poetey is bigger then ever. We just call it pop music. Certain types of poetry are much less popular but that's because they don't have product-market fit.
He was being followed. The minute he boarded a boat the USCG would be enroute with a cutter to intradict and perform a thorough safety inspection in international waters, perfectly in line with their law enforement and maritime safety duties.
The GM streetcar conspiracy basically gave dealerships to already politically connected individuals in return for killing off streetcars - the payoff being that the busses that replaced (poorly, hence encouraging private car ownership) would be bought via the dealerships. Car dealership owners are often car dealership owners because of adjacency to power, not the reverse.
It's a trust thing - the more trust the less it needs to be a meeting. Unfortunately most companies and client relationships are low trust and need facetime to build towards that high trust environment.
You've made a key mistake. Slides are made of text and images but use the narrative language of TV and movies. Storytelling (and all slide decks are stories) using the tropes of written language results in terrible powepoints, the timing is all off. Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you have a deck that needs to be a doc you've found yourself in a meeting thay could have been an email.
Tech jobs != Silicon Valley
The jobs may come (_may_), but they won't be the same jobs you get in the valley. They will be the backroom, grunt jobs that companies want to make cheaper - cost centers. Profit centers will stay on the coasts.
I learned to code in isolation on QB back in the day - having interactive help right in the IDE was amazing in my pre-internet days. Later on I found the quickbasic version that let you compile executable (it may have been VB 1.0 IIRC) and from there on to FreeBasic (a qb compatible front end for GCC) and, well, here I am, doing this for a living from this.