Well, they brought Intel on for the Terrafab so depending on how involved they are, the knowledge they need is there. SpaceX and Tesla know how to build big vertically integrated factories as well, so the combo could work.

The satellites very well could be cheaper given land costs, power issues, water issue, cooling issues, NIMBY issues etc etc. They already mass produce satellites cheaply, and these satellites are more simple than starlinks other than they have a lot more solar panels and a bigger radiator.

The issues with the satellites being successful completely hinges on starship succeeding and being rapidly reusable. If they cant get to that point, then the satellites will cost too much to launch.

The 5 year GPU obsolescence isnt an issue, they’re only going to have a 5ish year lifespan anyway before deorbiting.

If starship works, the data center dishes will work, but just because they work, doesnt mean there’s enough people out there to use the AI inference compute they want to launch. I think thats where its going to fail. Not enough people want to use the pricey AI, and these crazy valuations assume people will. Its the same problem at all the AI companies.

All that being said, the IPO was still crazy overpriced.

I’m wondering what the Vegas bookies would give for odds on the bill banning forced prison labor.

This isnt about NATO, its about attacking Ukraine from another spot. NATO wont do anything if they do that.

160km detour is quite a long time to see something happening and get a drone there, that’s brutal.

In the more short/medium term, is it more important to isolate Crimea this way so they can’t support the front lines, especially via the Kerch bridge, or as a way to push them out of Crimea sooner?

It happens up here in Canada as well, so not just a USA thing, at least with the telecoms.

And ya it really sucks.

I got a mini dish for emergencies as I live in an area where natural disasters can occur.

My plan was to just keep it around just in case in a paused state and on occasional trips, or in case of emergencies id have it.

Then they stopped letting you pause it and charged $7.50 CAD/m to keep it in standby, but it came with unlimited low speed, but enough to do emails or browse websites. Kinda shitty but okay, having data always working wasnt terrible for the $7.50, and could even toss it in car for road trips where there’s bad internet for music streaming.

Then a couple weeks ago, they emailed saying its going to $15/m and it would no longer work while in motion.

Fuck that. I canceled.

Its definitely to juice the IPO revenue numbers.

Edit: oh, and the free pausing, to paid standby to the price increase on standby was all in under a year.

Billions have been given to telecoms for ages to build out infrastructure to rural areas and it always fails. The ISPs say oh its so expensive, we only got this tiny fraction done, and the government nods their heads and gives them billions more when they say theyll do it next time, and the same thing happens over and over.

You’ll get noticed as well if you come into a shit show and can properly address it over time.

Seems fair to me. A search engine’s whole purpose is to surface real information, not made up stuff.

Its very different than a chat bot, which also needs better rules around it, but I’d definitely hold search to a higher standard.

When a Kraft Dinner box becomes a Kraft Snack, and a new Kraft Dinner Family box appears that’s smaller than the original Kraft Dinner box and costs more.

This is the important part to anchor the statement.

Its meaningless to say $11.74 then and $100 now without some reference to what it takes to earn that same $11.74 and $100.

edit: unless you’ve just been hoarding all your wealth as cash since 1970, in which case you got fucked.

I said for local AI, I didnt say for gaming.

The infrastructure thats needed isnt always there, nor the people to run or build it.

You cant power it only off solar now because its so far north the array would need to be crazy big, and wouldn’t be enough in the winter.

Also even as you go far north summers can still be hot and you’d still need a way to cool it during those times which will require the same water flow capacity even if its for less overall days, so you now need to build 2 cooling systems instead of 1.

It still seems crazy to build these things where they often do, but going somewhere really cold isnt simple.

Edit: also sovereignty of the data center. A US company would prefer to keep it in the US which would give Alaska as an option.

Theyre doing that too

https://financialpost.com/news/economy/carney-government-circling-airport-privatization

Just drink from the bottle, its 1 glass.

The Two Week War^TM will still be going on during midterms and he’s gonna try and cancel them due to being at war, and he’ll point to Ukraine as proof its okay.

A boom in local AI as people buy the crazy expensive video cards for pennies on the dollar for home usage?

I guess that’s possible ya, in the rush to having to deal with it shit can happen. And ya, I’m just glad they fixed it.

Ya for sure, I’d probably be annoyed by that too. I just never understood why they even bothered to say, we’ll quarantine them below the universally accepted incubation period, and then reassess and hold longer if needed, which they ended up doing.

Why not just say we’ll hold them for this known incubation period, and then reassess if we need to hold them longer. Just seemed completely unnecessary to say what they originally said.