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Yeah. And on the other hand, Chinese culture tends to embrace and optimize progress. I blame the French for infecting western universities with the de-growth mindset.

Incredible how the first instinct is just to complain about progress these days. The degrowth mindset is really taking hold.

There is a huge amount of "space" available even in low orbital shells. Which also naturally decay.

Fair point

Good case in point of my original comment.

I think labeling all things right-wing as bad is part of the problem. The left goes too far, and pushes people to the right. That's why Trump got back into power.

US EVs were "lightly" subsidized compared to what the Chinese govt has done. In the ballpark of 250 billion dollars by the Chinese vs maybe 10% of that by the US.

Article is pay-walled, but is this mostly about spectrum? The existing Iridium fleet can't even come close to competing with Starlink...

Glad to see your sentiment. I’m so tired of the reflexive self flagellation of a lot of Americans. It’s often based in ignorance.

Wouldn’t mind it myself

Datac enters bad, big cars bad, nulcear bad (yeah those were people of the same ilk that ruined that industry).

Keep it up. China will win, as we flagellate.

NYT editors are so subtly deceptive. It's disappointing.

You sound like a good candidate for EU citizenship.

The solution is not to ban large vehicles. Self-driving vehicles are what will solve this problem (slowly, as the current fleet of human-driven vehicles phases out). In general, having humans drive vehicles is incredibly dangerous. Small cars too.

Developers claiming their valuable data was “stolen” to train models is so dramatic.

*jams head in sand angrily

Well the posts here will be rational and well-informed, I'm sure.

/s

Quit posting trashing. This isn't theft.

Do you have any idea what actual authoritarianism looks like? What an insult to people who are truly suffering.

Everything is a conspiracy now.

Of course this is a real deal. Compute is the most valuable resource in the world for these companies at the moment.

It has nothing to do with Grok, at least not the current iteration. SpaceX is the only company that can concievably launch large scale orbital compute.

You make it sound like they’ve given up on Grok, which I don’t think is accurate. I think it’s been mentioned the Grok 5 1.5T model is currently training on Colossus 2. And their recent deal with cursor is part of being able to eventually compete with Anthropic for agentic coding.

California is an incredible example of how to drop the ball when running a powerful state. Texas is of course on the other end of the spectrum in terms of regulation and being business-friendly. Something more in the middle of the two is obviously ideal.

You're using the word corruption without any solid evidence. The decision for the rule change has been clearly explained.

yeah fair. in the end, more competition is great

Why don't you start a company that fixes problems you care about, then?

how dare you come in with rationality in the face of ELON BAD

Imagine thinking the rivalry is about hardware and not software... Same for IOS vs Android.

I love Werner’s rant on how dumb chickens are. Although when I owned chickens, I was surprised to find there seemed to be a lot more to them than he suggested.

Still my favorite rant.

oh please, get over it. I supported a local old lady who airbnb'd out her guest house. I shopped at the local grocery store. and I left.

you would drop that buzzword 'colonial', as though Brazil isn't a former European colony, just like the US. And they... gasp... used slaves for much longer.

I was in the southern cone of the country, first world lifestyles there. Brazilians are proud, they'd be insulted by your savior attitude.

Yeah, I was just living off $1k/month in Brazil just to see if it was possible. It definitely is. And was in a beautiful, safe area.