simonebrunozzi

It's a long story, but Italy's gold is not really Italy's, in the normal sense. Italy lost WWII, and has been a de facto "vassal" of the US since then; the US has several military bases in Italy, and has a very strong influence on anything related to foreign policy, etc. Don't take my word for it, there's not a single link to prove this, but a bit of research should make what I say at least plausible.

Just to give a small hint: the 1998 "strage del Cermis" [0], in which a US aircraft mistakenly cut a cable supporting a cable car and resulted in the killing of 20 people. The pilot, Captain Richard J. Ashby, and his navigator, Captain Joseph Schweitzer, were put on trial in the United States and were found not guilty.

Try to imagine something different. An Italian military aircraft flies in the US, and mistakenly kills 20 people. What would have happened to the Italian pilot?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash

It is possible that they might have licensed some of these patents. Either directly, or through a shell company to hide that it was for Tesla.

Very impressive prototype. Certainly an attempt to disrupt a specific segment of the car industry - "race cars", or "sports cars", or whatever you want to call it.

A few considerations, just my own thoughts.

1) I would bet that the actual car shown in the demo weights less than what will eventually be sold to the public. I am not an expert, but the way in which the car reacted to the air boosts suggests a relatively "lightweight" vehicle. Plus, I would imagine perhaps a smaller battery (again, for demo purposes).

2) It is a nice "exercise" as a game, or an expensive hobby for billionaires. I doubt, as Elon hinted, that using these thrusters will be allowed on public roads. Perhaps just on circuits?

3) Overall, Elon said that Tesla's strategy will no longer be about cars, but about robots and AI, and then proceeds to show a car that will cost billions to develop, and might not be the commercial success that justifies the investment.

4) Twitter (now X), Tesla, SpaceX... things are moving, tricks are being shown, and who knows, perhaps next year everything will be merged under ElonX, and he will finally be happy.

> when it weighs 1.5 tons.

Are you referring to the Tesla Roadster? Because, if not, I am pretty sure that most EVs, except for maybe small compact EV cars, usually weights 2 tons or more.

Hmm, without googling: I'd guess something like Stellaris, given how popular it is? (never played it, but I'm a fan of the genre)

I am pretty sure it is not from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

And Thunderbird Enterprise! A pity that Thunderbird is still full of unsolved bugs, and it went from being an amazing email client to one of the worst ones. What a pity.

Except, we don't have the technology to even get to Mars. Forget about colonizing. [0]

[0]: https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

True AGI will arrive when an LLM will be able to provide ALL remaining mistakes in Donald Knuth's books. And kill one more amazing thing in the process.

Is Mullvad spending a lot on marketing, or is Proton?

How beautiful it is that the author gives a two-line summary of the post, right at the beginning:

> In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer.

I know now that it will be joyful to read it all.

It is so dumb to think of an immigrant as someone who steals a job from a "local", American or else.

When I left Italy to work for Amazon I was 30 years old. Until then, the Italian government (but really, my parents' taxes) paid for my education and healthcare.

Briefly after I became a "productive" member of society, I moved to a few countries and eventually ended in the US at age 35, and worked there for ~10 years. The US got the equivalent of half a million dollar, perhaps more, for free, and had the luxury to use it for these years.

A skilled immigrant is a gift to the country he/she moves in.

We should tell our politicians to stop this BS.

This is bullshit:

> sign the petition

> Adding your name says you want Orkut to create a new social network focused on

> authentic people, real connection, and genuine belonging.

A petition is useful when in a certain nation, the rule of law says that if you reach a certain number of signatures, something will happen.

A private company, asking people to "sign a petition", is just a clever, and hideous, trick.

I have nothing against Orkut, or this new thing. But please, don't fool me with this BS.

I'm sure that the vellum scroll is amazing when seen and touched in real life. I experienced something similar in Assisi, and I can assure you that pictures do not pay justice.

Data centers in space are simply bullshit. I think we should all stop accepting that it is mentioned like something that has to happen only because Elon says so.

Reminds me of Core War (1984) [0].

Although, in Core War you could write your own code. Here it's just AIs. Both interesting, in different ways.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Hey, Eric! What happened to the island? https://time.com/archive/6735546/hes-the-master-of-his-domai...

Are you back in Sausalito now for good?

A good framework would have been this: for the options you received, let's see what you did. Did you trade them 3 years later, resulting in $X amount? Then, let's assume you would have done the same with the missing stock options. I would guess that the amount would be really negligible - in the tens or hundreds of thousands, at most. Ethically, I think this is where I would consider it fair to both parties.

Then, you neglected this for ~30 years. It's fair to say that Nvidia doesn't owe you anything at this point.

> Then, in April 1996 - by which time I’d expatriated to the Kingdom of Tonga...

This is why I still love California so much. The chance of things like this is just much higher than in any other place on Earth.

I'm Italian, too. A country with a weaker energy infrastructure is prone to being controlled better.

Italy lost WWII, and became a de facto protectorate/colony of the US. I wouldn't be surprised if behind the nuclear referendum in the 80s there way to gentle hand of US services.

I can't claim to know more than you; but I think I know enough about corporate america and Meta and Zuck that the idea of multiple lawyers, instead of just one, is at least plausible.

Thanks a lot for this. I really appreciate you correcting your previous statement.

And, please, if you find what I do annoying (posting submissions frequently), let me know here, or email me (it's in my profile) and I will be happy to hear your arguments.

Yes, the name is absolutely a genius move.

I would bet my money that there's a dozen lawyers at work, right now, in Meta's HQ, to get a sense of what options they have to harass, shut down, or do something else to the creator of this app. And I would also bet that Zuck is furious about it.

Why did you lie?

I posted 3-4 things in the last 2 hours, not 50. That's probably why I haven't been flagged.

If you believe me, I do it by hand, and I do it for things that I genuinely believe can be interesting for the HN community.

And yes, a secondary benefit of my submissions is that they also act as a sort of bookmark, because obviously when I submit something that I deem interesting, it's also good to be able to easily retrieve it later.

Great! I thought it was about this, and you saved me the time to look for the exact comment. Wow, 19 years ago... Time really flies.

I don't think so.

Bending Spoons need "great" deals to go after, such as Airtable, etc. Dropbox has a market cap of ~$8B, and it's not "cheap" compared to revenues, etc.

If Dropbox goes "down" in the next few years, perhaps you will eventually be right.

There is no easy way, as a society, to "label" certain wealth as obtained with illicit or unethical activities.

It would be... interesting? (and dangerous?) to be able to meet someone at a party, and have a notification such as "this dude earned a billion dollar by scamming people".

I would agree with you generally, but in this particular case, the distinction seems important because a significant percentage of the world population believes that agents can be self-aware, a-là Terminator etc.

> Frankly, I was hoping for a deeper, more interesting conclusion.

Pretty much this. There was a lot of build up in the first paragraphs, only to conclude something that, at least in my view, is remarkably uninteresting.

Wow, after a lot of code, the animations at the bottom of the article are really mind-blowing. Super well done.

> Through chatting to Shad I came to realise there are only really three paths open to me. I can start using generative AI to feel like I’m “keeping up” or “competing”, but then I won’t enjoy the work. I could stop making things entirely, but as any creative person will know that’s never really an option. Or, I can keep making things the way I enjoy, keep learning, keep doing it the hard way, for no real concrete reason other than I want to do it. That’s why we make games. That’s why we make anything.

So, a very long blurb to simply say that you can avoid using genAI and just do things "the hard way". And why? Just because he wants to do it.

Frankly, I was hoping for a deeper, more interesting conclusion.