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TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



according to muskophiles on twitter star link is some kind of great leap forward in internet tech. regardless of the fact that everything they’ve put up there is literally junk that doesn’t work. what the gently caress is wrong with people

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Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

when i was 18 years old i was a libertarian for like 4 months. i believed in the magical unicorn farts that the free market would poop out if you just let it do its thing. the techno-utopia of muskism works the same way

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

when i was 18 years old i was a libertarian for like 4 months. i believed in the magical unicorn farts that the free market would poop out if you just let it do its thing. the techno-utopia of muskism works the same way

i once saw myself as a howard rourke where my sheer talent and will could defeat the world. i definitely pissed off some university professors by being a jackass

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



infernal machines posted:

much like bitcoin, once the problem has been identified, it's basically solved

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:


nice fraudulent accounting

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Roosevelt posted:

i once saw myself as a howard rourke where my sheer talent and will could defeat the world. i definitely pissed off some university professors by being a jackass

have you defeated the world yet

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

fart simpson posted:

have you defeated the world yet

They have defeated the true enemy.

And since the self is all you can prove exists, they have defeated everything in known existence.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Roosevelt posted:

i once saw myself as a howard rourke where my sheer talent and will could defeat the world. i definitely pissed off some university professors by being a jackass

i’m glad i didn’t read anything by rand until after i’d graduated from school and been a civil servant for a few years. the perspective was useful when going through atlas shrugged. midjack giggled.

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

fart simpson posted:

have you defeated the world yet

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
someone build the satellite deorbiting laser and just point it at all elon's space garbage please

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
elon's garbage is plenty capable of deorbiting on its own, it'll just take a year or two

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Midjack posted:

i’m glad i didn’t read anything by rand until after i’d graduated from school and been a civil servant for a few years. the perspective was useful when going through atlas shrugged. midjack giggled.

i read atlas shrugged in my early 20s, because someone lent it to me. i was very confused at the time, because it's an awful read, and i honestly couldn't understand what motivated the person who told me to read it

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

infernal machines posted:

i read atlas shrugged in my early 20s, because someone lent it to me. i was very confused at the time, because it's an awful read, and i honestly couldn't understand what motivated the person who told me to read it

i made it about halfway, to the part where all the captains of industry absconded from society to build a utopia by hand, and then my bullshit meter blew my head off

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i played bioshock in college and that was more than enough rand for me.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
the real twist there was finding out that ken lavine still thought it was utopia

infernal machines fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jul 24, 2020

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

infernal machines posted:

the real twist there was finding out that ken lavine still thought it was utopia
Dude apparently didn't realize it would be taken as a critique then walked it back hard about being non-commital.

Then Infinite came out and suddenly it was all about examining the horrible racial policies of American Foundational Myths, a man a tower always, how scary socialist uprisings can be what if the oppressed are really the oppressors huh, male guilt

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




lmao those numbers

Not a Children
Oct 9, 2012

Don't need a holster if you never stop shooting.

drat dude I can get a down payment on a lovely house just by buying a lovely car where do I sign up

refleks
Nov 21, 2006



I mean, being honest about the income from credits would mean theyre not a middling car company with loss-leading cars causing accidents all the time and requiring extensive guarantee work due to lovely QA, which they then do not correctly classify as a cost in their accounting.

they would be a prop. trading fund.

much like harvard is a hedge fund with a university as cover

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


more like lmao at the recurring fee stream from self driving when we know for a fact it keeps killing the driver, rendering them unable to keep paying.

refleks
Nov 21, 2006



Two for one:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286673686821515266?s=20

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1286662316717744128?s=20

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
allow me, a man with nearly unlimited financial resources, explain why it's not in anyone's best interest to give the destitute and desperate a few scraps upon which they may survive.

i'm a socialist, btw

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286675982297051142?s=21

MomJeans420
Mar 19, 2007



https://twitter.com/lopezlinette/status/1286691142864699392?s=20

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

lol when did he add the rose emoji to his handle?

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


when he accepted socialism (for the rich) in his heart

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Eeyo posted:

lol when did he add the rose emoji to his handle?

at most it was in the last couple days

tbh it was probably when he made that tweet

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




It has been there for a while, or at least on and off. He had it at least a month or so ago when it was especially eyebrow raising saying something dumb but I can't remember which dumb thing specifically.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

please note that when a wealthy person says they support ubi:
  • they don't want it to be enough to live on
  • they're assuming their super expensive tax accountants will get them out of paying for it
  • they're imagining capturing 100% of it personally
  • they're also imagining vastly lower wages

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

qirex posted:

please note that when a wealthy person says they support ubi:
  • they don't want it to be enough to live on
  • they're assuming their super expensive tax accountants will get them out of paying for it
  • they're imagining capturing 100% of it personally
  • they're also imagining vastly lower wages

they're already 100% or more of income collectively so at worst UBI does nothing

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



is trump just going by physical size? because there's several factories that produce multiples of tesla's production. hyundai's ulsan factory produces 1.6 million cars per year.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Endless Mike posted:

is trump just going by physical size? because there's several factories that produce multiples of tesla's production. hyundai's ulsan factory produces 1.6 million cars per year.

i'm kind of speechless that you still think reality has any bearing on what Donald Trump says

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



trump goes by the size of his words

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



infernal machines posted:

stationary point to point optical links are possible, and mesh networks are possible, but no, to my knowledge no one has done mobile optical point to point links, certainly not multiple point to point links to/from multiple transceivers to create a mesh*, and i'm not aware of any globe spanning meshes with tens of thousands of nodes, so there's no precedent for them claiming they have some way of doing low latency mesh routing at that scale

*all the fanfic about starlink shows each sat connected to at least four others

Google did optical point to point in their loon balloon project in '16 and of course the test data was a copy of Real Genius https://www.wired.com/2016/02/google-shot-laser-60-miles-just-send-copy-real-genius/

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
nice

that's certainly impressive, from the article it suggests they had at least a single point to point link over 100KM

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



im not impressed

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Sagebrush posted:

i'm kind of speechless that you still think reality has any bearing on what Donald Trump says

look, i know, i just want to pretend we have a president who knows anything about anything, okay?

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Endless Mike posted:

look, i know, i just want to pretend we have a president who knows anything about anything, okay?

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1286736816385724416

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


oh look elon added a rose emoji to his name wonder what insane poo poo he's going to tweet



https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286866843307737088?s=20

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



PIZZA.BAT posted:

oh look elon added a rose emoji to his name wonder what insane poo poo he's going to tweet



https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286866843307737088?s=20

oh so tesla will make a two door then?

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