Oh yeah, it’s a sucker’s bet, I was just hoping to find a sucker who would take it

Nonprofits can still have paid employees, it’s just that the company doesn’t profit; there’s no owner or shareholders extracting excess value.

Democrats will continue to stack losses if that’s the narrative that they go with

$20 says that or race is the narrative they go with.

Yet.

Bet China will be first

This is just for him to get a basic feel for the various distros, before choosing one to permanently install; setting up a VM properly is probably going to be too technical

Or perhaps the 54 kg is an exaggeration and includes packaging and so on.

Bet $20 the 54 kg includes the weight of the cutting agents in stuff that was already cut to ~heroin strength

Solar panels are also added weight, which reduces range. Any way you look at it, it makes more sense to have the solar panels at a base location you go back to.

I guess an RV, or a camp trailer, makes sense to have panels on it, but that’s about it

On the other hand, my only remaining Windows machine routinely bluescreens with 0xDEADDEAD, which is never supposed to happen (it’s a test code, for a deliberately initiated crash).

I think the last time I got a kernel panic on a Linux machine was 2011, and it was an mp3 player that was definitely not designed to run Linux.

The people marketing it have absolutely no understanding of what they’re selling.

Has it ever been any different? Like, I’m not in tech, I build signs for a living, and the people selling our signs have no idea what they’re selling.

How involved was he in the making of any company he’s ‘involved’ in?

As a general rule, not very. Musk doesn’t create shit, he buys shit then profits off of other people’s work

In freeze desalination, the initial ice crystals before it freezes solid are pure water; you mostly freeze a volume of saltwater into slush, strain out the ice, and discard the liquid (which will be brine; higher in salt than your initial water).

Probably not super efficient, and probably needs multiple steps, but I dunno. Somewhere where the ambient temperature is below freezing, but geothermal is available, it could work at scale, but if you have to refrigerate, you’re probably better off with regular distillation

Seconding SPD, it’s great

What if 37,000 employees sign union cards same day?

If you’re using that real estate as collateral for loans, it needs to maintain its value, or you’ll have to put up more collateral

dunno what Twitter is doing with all those H100s Elon hoarded

Duh. Mining crypto.

It sure crashed its full self

I’ll take the wolves

Regarding point number 2, I have no doubt we’ll be able to develop systems that process visual/video data as well as or better than people. I just know we aren’t there yet, and Tesla certainly isn’t.

I like to come at the argument from the other direction though; humans drive with eyesight because that’s all we have. If I could be equipped with sonar or radar or lidar, of fucking course I’d use it, wouldn’t you?

Just make IDs accessible to citizens at low costs

This is where you’re missing it. The point of requiring voter ID in America is to make it as difficult and inaccessible as they can

Whoever made the chart presumably thought “grade school” meant K-12, which it does not.

Easy mistake though, Fight Club got a particularly lewd line past both the censors and the actress by relying on that misunderstanding