“anyone who tried to harm the robot would be identified and arrested.”
But what if you sneak up and dress it like a Dalek, maybe with a speaker that yells out, “IT IS THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!” That cannot possibly be a crime.
Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.
I’m not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.
Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they’re doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.
Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.
Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you’re a Nazi.
To be fair, those are Mission Impossible chase scenes really disrupt traffic.
https://mastodon.coffee/@TidalFlats/110940255733069000
Putin:
I thought I had him in a box.
And then he got out like a fox.
And then I saw him in a house.
And I then he went to Belarus.
So I will track him here and there.
Say! I can track him anywhere!
I do not like this Wagner man!
Thank you! Thank you, SAM-I-Am.
The 127C is the critical temperature. With other superconductors, if you get the material below the critical temperature, its starts superconducting. From the descriptions I’ve seen, the meaning of critical temperature is the same with this material, so it should superconduct at 23C just fine, presuming it is a superconductor.
Yeah, but you can use it for demand smoothing: store the collected solar during the day and use that at night.
There’s a region of Venus that’s not horrible. It’s basically a band in the atmosphere where the ambient temperature and pressure is relatively Earth-like, so one can arguably be outside with just an oxygen mask.
Never mind that a long lasting floating habitat has not been built on Earth, much less thirty million miles away.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus
it gets dumber
In six months, ChatGPT will be talking up Brawndo, because it’s got the electrolytes that plants crave.
Nothing beats the bandwidth of a ~~VW bus full of mag tape~~ man with SSDs taped to his stomach.
Edit: You guys don’t have strike through markdown yet?
Remember to put the Star Trek fight music on the arena speakers.
But don’t tell Paramount ahead of time, so we can another lawsuit in there.
And he’s on a H1B visa and can’t leave.
if you make millions of Legos in mass production it reduces costs to make them dramatically to a point where the Lego Group has basically no operating costs to make them anymore
That’s how economies of scale work in general, across many, many industries.
On a somewhat related note, your Lego example is more gloriously intricate than you may realize. So, you’re spend a lot of money to make a machine to produce Legos at close to zero cost. What happens if someone the next city over thinks they can make a better machine and undercut you?
One way to protect yourself is with the law. You set up intellectual property protection for your Legos and sue everyone who makes “Lehos”. This works for a while.
But problems come up. Intellectual property protections have a time limit. They also have a jurisdiction limit, as some guys in a different country, say, Xhina, don’t respect your country’s laws and start making those Lehos.
What do you do? How does your company survive?
Well, you can leverage the other valuable part of your company, the brand reputation, to do things that Lehos can’t, like make deals with other intellectual property holders to make themed Lego sets. So, you strike deals with Disney to make Star Wars and MCU sets, with Warner Brothers for those Harry Potter designs, with Microsoft/Mojang for Minecraft Legos (because they’re a perfect fit). That’s something that some random plastic injection mold company in China can’t do. You’re motherfucking Legos, not dipshit Lehos. You can do that, as well as open company stores and theme parks that are tourist destinations.
So, Legos survives, and not just that, but prospers.
there’s only so much John Oliver anyone wants to see in a day
That limit is not known to science.
But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!