Like a multi-billionaire being described as being “poorer” because their assets took a downturn

“Less credit worthy” which is functionally poorer from an accounting perspective.

Plunge 4 whole percent.

On a $4.3T market cap

It’s more the “man who sells widgets was insidiously tricked into selling to the largest widget market in the world, forced to get rich against his will”

It’s happening following a sharp downturn in the tech sector

That’s not a coincidence

I mean, this is the Trump Intelligence Bureau, so I’m taking it with a grain of salt.

Mostly just seems to be Huang trying to sell hardware in China by end running the US sanctions. And rather than actually sanctioning Huang, we’re getting this hysteria aimed at his girlfriend.

I’m really curious how we don’t know where he lives yet.

A of these guys own a ton of properties and only declare one of them a primary residence due tax purposes.

If Elon lives anywhere, it’s on a private jet. I doubt he spends more than ten days a year at any single building.

You need a bit of a hype cycle to get people to notice.

It’s like a bank robber lining up hostages, except the hostages all deserve what’s coming to them

Thanks. I’ll see what I can find

Hey, while we’re sucking off Linux Mint, can anymore explain why my box basically bricked itself with

/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 isn’t setuid root

Off a routine update? I’ve found conflicting guidance online, the AI prompts are (predictably) not very helpful, and since I’ve lost Internet everything has to be done by juggling a Windows laptop with a dozen help guides open on one hand and Linux on the other.

I swear to God, this is what makes me regret using a Linux system. One bad update and it’s a weekend running down obscure errors.

AT&T was effectively a government-supported monopoly

It was certainly a monopoly. But hardly government supported. The government has issued major sanction against the company no less than three times.

• The Kingsbury Commitment, which forced AT&T to divest its stake in Western Union, stop acquiring competing independent local phone companies, and allow other companies to connect to its long-distance network
• The 1956 Consent Decree, requiring AT&T to stay out of the emerging computer/data processing market and license its transistor patents royalty-free
• The 1984 Bell System Breakup, which formally split the comment company eight ways.

Solar R&D was hardly private. You’re completely excluding things like the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advanced Solar Energy Research and Development Division.

The NSF has always languished in funding and has historically failed to deliver major breakthroughs, much less any kind of physical rollout, of a public solar/wind energy grid.

If anything, it has operated as an echo chamber of the fossil fuel industry, downplaying the efficiency and ultimate profitability of a renewable grid.

Hardly a subsidy.

And yet, my point is, even they’re still subsidizing solar orders of magnitude more than nuclear!

Show me the solar powered submarine.

Show me the solar powered aircraft carrier.

Show me any meaningful federally contracted project to implement solar power for domestic or international consumption.

At the very least, I can point you towards Georgia’s Vogtle 3 and 4. Nothing like that exists in the renewable space.

In Soviet America, Anthropic Boycott You!

YouTube algorithms are flush with AI boosters in gaming subs

You’re never going to own an industrial scale datacenter

I suspect we’ll see these features opened up for US-allied actors against their foreign competitors.

You can guarantee US auto companies are going to be free to reverse engineer software and manufacturing techniques of Chinese companies, for instance.

But you’re not going to be allowed to use Grok or Meta to hack your Tesla or BMW, pull out the OS, clone it as freeware, and offer a substitute unconstrained by subscription fees and gated upgrades.

Intel is down, AMD is down, SpaceX is going down slowly.

Off of stratospheric highs. They’re now merely overvalued, rather than extremely overvalued

Buy The Dip

Viruses are client side

Not the entire time. The original computer architecture was big central processors that took commands from remote consoles.

Personal Computing wasn’t a thing until the late 1980s. Even then, it only lasted 20 years before the Internet enticed people back into Cloud Computing and SaaS.

Ffs, the whole appeal of the Internet browser window is that you just make requests from foreign systems and they do all the work, returning you the finished result. Client side code has been bad system design for decades.

Pipes are inefficient. If you want water, you should buy it from my big lake. Also, I should be able to set the price of water. Also, fuck these three people in particular, for using water in a way I don’t like.

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