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d45d97a1 | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 It really is amazing that Elon Musk is firing all these people from Tesla at exactly the same time he is asking shareholders to approve the $46 billion payout to himself.

Amazing on several levels.
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d45d97a1 | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 "Father of SQL says yes to NoSQL"

In which it is observed that if you want large scale you have to settle for eventual consistency.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/sql_cocreator_nosql/
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d45d97a1 | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 "Honda unveils $10K electric N-Van e with 130-mile range that can power your home"

If we were a different people this is the kind of thing we would not just legalize, this is the kind of thing we would subsidize.

https://electrek.co/2023/09/29/honda-unveils-10k-electric-n-van-e-130-mile-range-v2h/
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 David Frum sums up the Elon Musk decision to disable Starlink so that Ukraine couldn’t attack R...
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d45d97a1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @98042630 I said earlier:

It strikes me that if Elon Musk acted as he has, as a citizen of China, or Russia, or Saudi Arabia, he would be in prison (or dead) by now.

He depends on the American system, but as a free rider, not understanding it.

Even more ironically he does seem to love those countries where he could not survive.