As the defacto leader of the company becomes stretched thinner across his various enterprises, such as SpaceX, The Boring Company, X, and now xAI, there is growing concern about the time Musk has to focus on Teslas’ growth, strategy, and day-to-day operations. It seems, however, that shareholders are eschewing these concerns, and voting in favor of the package.

Tesla shareholders are idiots and deserve wasting this much money on the ass-clown.

:( I don’t get it

Has anyone developed any counter measures to these types of weapons?

Spook is from the german “spuking” which means haunting. Its use in this context comes from the german philosopher Max Stirner who is infamous for the memes where X is declared to be a spook.

Understanding what exactly spooks are is somewhat challenging, and plenty of people get the wrong ubderstanding about what is meany by spooks. But at least in the meme way of using the word, a spook is anything you think is a fairy tale, or nonsense that you don’t care about.

South Korea this year unveiled plans for a $470 billion chipmaking hub.

$470 billion?!?!?!? What the actual fuck, how is a throwaway comment the first time I’m hearing about such a massive investment?

Airplane cargo already exists. The time savings with launching products across the earth are basically minimal.

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However, some big apps and smaller developers are still on the fence because of issues like having to share revenue with app stores

It seems like the Chinese government should nationalize the app stores and provide those services for free. Would go a long way to counteract the software tech monopoly of Microsoft and Apple.

But, the ITIF found that China is using automation far more than expected based on what workers get paid in manufacturing, with 12½ times more robots in use than predicted – a big jump from 1.6 times more in 2017. In contrast, the United States uses only 70 per cent of the robots it should be using, given the wages paid to its manufacturing workers.

This should be an indicator that China’s economy really is different from ordinary capitalist economies. Of course, most people won’t care.

The rise of these start-ups has heralded significant cost advantages and efficiencies. The ITIF report cited Li Zexiang, a Hong Kong University of Science and Technology professor, who said: “People here [in Dongguan] can develop a new tech product five to 10 times faster than in Silicon Valley or Europe, at one-fifth or one-fourth the cost.”

Fully automated communism soon?

Wow, the economics of SMIC 7 & 5nm keep getting worse as more articles come out about it. So not only are they quad patterning (which requires 4x the time, 4x the power, and 4x the masks), but by using etching and deposition to overcome DUV limitations, they are introducing processes that significantly increase defect rates (much harder to control for incomplete, under, and over-etching) as well as consumption of masks due to mask erosion as the etch chemical also acts on the mask material to a lesser extent.

I found this comment under the article. Can anyone more well versed in chip making technologies verify or elaborate? If this is true, then China still needs to go quite a bit further to overcome the chip sanctions.

$900 per month for this tiny ass apartment. Wtf?

Chinese technology by 2030 will become very interesting. There’s been lots of cool stuff coming out recently from China that will be out of the initial phases in a few years. Though I imagine this rail gun launching system will take longer to yield fruit (maybe by 2035?).

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According to additional research I did, the voter turnout was only about 21%.

The article also states that the supporters of the bill had 1.6 million in funding while opponents only had 200k.

This means that the ballot results barely mean anything. It’s a typical liberal “democracy” type result.

Unfortunately, nothing really. The thermodynamics are just severely unfavourable. Water is an amazing coolant, by far one of the best. It takes up an insane amount of energy to vapourise. That Unfortunately also means it takes up a lot of energy to turn it back.

It would make more sense to focus on developing conventional technologies and reforestation in the Sahara. That path is a lot more viable

subsistance farming doesn’t guarantee full-time job security nor does it entail that (for example) the farmer is able to pay for school or healthcare for the farmer or their family.

I’m not defending subsistence farming. We are scientific socialists, and we are all for developing the forces of production here. All I am saying is that these income comparisons suck.

What is considered liberalism here?

I’m attacking the myopia that liberals have when they are unable to comprehend economics on non-market terms. I even have a friend who argues me about how good minimum wage earners have it in the west because of stats like this. These stats were designed by neolibs to defend neoliberalism. It makes the western proletariat look ungrateful and greedy.

I must read about the 400 million people or more that escaped Capitalism!

There are actually 2 billion people living as “small holder farmers”. Their market income is terrible, but that is because they eat most of what they produce, and only sell on the market to aquire goods they cannot produce on their own.

Obviously, life isn’t idyllic for these people, but it is literally physically impossible to survive on less than 2 dollars per day if you are a western proletariat. My rent alone (not counting utilities) is 25 dollars per day, and I am living in a 20m^2 studio. I once lived in a room where I only had enough space to put a mattress on the floor and my bags on the side. I shared all facilities with 8 people. I still paid 15 per day for the rent (not including utilities).

I would joke that people in the global South must be living in cardboard boxes if they actually make 2 dollars (adjusted for cost of living) per day, but the homeless guy I helped out recently told me 14 dollars only gets him and his gf through 1 night/day.

That should tell that most global income comparison stats are garbage.

It makes some sense to compare incomes within one country (even then, there are problems), but across countries things get tricky, especially when you factor in countries that haven’t even fully transitioned to capitalism yet.

labour aristocracy

Not going to get into that, as the extent of imperialist plunder was not even the topic I was commenting on.

It’s important to remember that a lot of this data is biased. It doesn’t consider the subsistence farmers and people who obtain resources without the market. Nor does it take into account cost of living.

If you think about it, people who live “on less than a dollar per day” literally wouldn’t be able to live if they faced the same cost of living as people in western societies.

I’m not saying that these people are as rich as westerners (they aren’t), but the gap is exaggerated by the liberal worldview.

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