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What a difference a day makes. Yesterday the ransomware guys were on the top of the world pressing their advantage. Today their servers have all been compromised and all their crypto wallets have been emptied and the entire group has now sworn off doing any more ransomware heists. Nothing like a nation state rattling your cage to have you re-assessing your priorities.

Low interest rates also play a big part.

Not to mention that the Chief Medical Officer of British Columbia, Dr. Bonnie Henry, came to the same conclusion even before the national level bodies had decided. Dr. Henry implemented the strategy by stopping second vaccinations so more people could get first vaccinations.

Particularly a human with a pocket full of stones.

“They chose us because of the quality of our network and the distribution and reach of our network,”

Oh and Elon and Larry are pals from way back and Google invested $1bn in SpaceX when Elon suggested they might make a satellite constellation for the internet.

Even still, this is still cool new wrinkle that comes as pleasant surprise.

Is this ex capex?

The obvious solution here is the world's first green transportation, a regular old sail boat.

The first successful landing of the F9 was in December 2015 so we're only five years and a handful of months since then and the Starship has just had its first mostly successful landing. Sure not from orbit but they are experimenting with the hardest part now.

SpaceX's competitors must be just crying in their beer knowing that launching on the Starship will eventually (sooner than you think) be even cheaper than the F9.

Progress in rocketry has now blinked into warp drive.

My recollection is that hominids have been using fire and cooking for about 500k years. In which case if they wanted to reshape the landscape with fire it likely would have been long before 85k years ago.

A nicely prescient article given the pipeline shutdown on the East Coast.

That's where nailers come in handy. Using a hammer is kind of like coding on an Apple II.

It's worthwhile to google for "highest IQ in America" and then check these guys out on YouTube. When I did this I found they were palpably no where near as smart as say, W.O. Wilson or Richard Feynman. Perhaps IQ tests don't measure wisdom and you need a bit of both to be effective? Not sure.

Apparently Sun Records was on the look out for a white kid who could sing black music and they found him in Elvis Presley. It wasn't by accident.

It was fun while it lasted.

"I think therefore I am." -- Descartes

Descartes was a deep skeptic and this statement was the one thing he could irrefutably believe must be true. Everything else is various degrees of speculation.

Hey you're one of the very very few sentient beings, in a universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars (read that in Carl Sagan's voice), that knows they live in an enormous universe. Other people is not the context of your life, existence is.

I'm sure linux will run on these chips as well. If I'm not mistaken linux has already booted on the M1.

It was still born.

You could call it a deviant standard.

Well this would certainly diminish the jockeying for position of those hoping to succeed the CEO.

The real reason to end the death penalty is because it's hypocritical for society to declare killing as a most serious crime and then turn around and kill the killers (and others usually, traitors, double agents etc). That's a "do as I say, not as I do" situation that even a five year old would understand.

Stopped drinking alcohol from 2-3 drinks a day to 2-3 drinks a month. Something about alcohol causing my airways to block? Not sure exactly why but has made a big difference.

I learned early on with an expensive microprocessor emulator, just have the code raise the voltage on an IO pin as a print debugger rather than spend days debugging the emulator.

Heat the swimming pool during the day and then use the heat pump at night.

Bureaucracy run amok.

I thought I would be going back to Ubuntu with 20.04 but SNAP put me off so I've stayed with Linux Mint. This release looks like it's another step further away from what I prefer.

Yeah, who thought that was a good idea? I did the right click thing a few months ago.

The author asks,"Is one of these facts untrue?". Clearly the answer is that the second "fact" is not a fact it's just provocative ranting from the mouth of yet another journalist who's trying to get clicks by invoking Musk's name.

Most people's view of economics serve primarily as an intellectual Rorschach Test and in this case both Musk's and this author's perceptions seem wide of the bull's eye but in opposite directions.

Economics has almost no "first principles" of which Musk is fond and so he lacks a reference point. The author on the other hand seems to be one of those who makes up their reality out of whole cloth. In short a "hedgehog" according to the book "The Signal and the Noise".

Surely we can do much better than Nathan J. Robinson.

Because they don't have a boss. They are the master of their domain.

Perhaps the issue here is that Autopilot and active safety features are more likely to be activated in highway driving rather than city driving which is messier.

These stats might look quite different if the metric was accidents per hour of driving rather than accidents per mile of driving.

In addition, most people's safety concerns are more about how safe the car is when it's in an accident. A car accident you walk away from unhurt is an inconvenience whereas an accident in which you're injured can have lasting quality of life implications.