Very likely Musk hasn't given a thought to this prospect. Like refuel Starship in earth orbit. Then refuel again in Mars orbit. Go grab an asteroid and refine it back on Mars. Send 20 tons of gold back to earth on Starship. The Mars economy could be sustained this way. Pie in the sky really.
The writing on the wall has been clear for Hong Kong ever since the HK police turned violent against the protesters. Yes it's an outcome of horrific consequences for the people of Hong Kong but they need to rebuild in another place as other great cities have been rebuilt in the past.
Apple is definitely huge enough and rich enough to build out their own cloud service. Very surprising to me that they use Google's infrastructure instead. I would love to be a fly on the wall of that decision making.
Think of how astonishingly amazing it is to be a sentient being in a universe of 100's of billions of galaxies! What could anyone ever do to come close to justifying such a privilege? Sure, work hard if you like but don't forget what an astounding trip existence is.
Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water.
A lot hedge funding is just having a big enough pile of cash to bully smaller investors around. In this particular case the hedge fund ran into a much larger pile of cash and got bullied in return and went running home to cry to mommy. Life is tough in the sand box of who's got the bigger pile.
You mean the Maori that in 1835 set out to murder every single man, woman and child of the peaceful Moriori people on Chatham Island just for sport? [1] Yeah I don't think so.
The weird exception is Microsoft which isn't in FAANG but hit 2T market cap recently. These days both Microsoft and Amazon are primarily cloud server providers.
Somehow I expect that coach's salaries are not a material amount in the multi-billion dollar world of college sports. Player's salaries on the other hand, in aggregate, would be.
Not only that but in any road accident the bigger participant is automatically the guilty party. So huge trucks are very very careful while grandma with her trolley of vegetables trundles merrily along.
My guess is evolutionary selection. One above average male with two or three females would be a more fit reproductive group than a male female pair, and with not much more in the way conflicts of interest.
Whereas one female and a couple of males seems unstable from the start.
The bottom of the ocean is a very large place and prime nodule territory required by humans is likely to be much less than one percent of that area. Sea bottom mining would exist only until asteroid collection becomes feasible. Say about 30 years. The alternative is severely degrading much of the above ocean environment. The modern world economy is filled with trade offs and this looks to be one of them.