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It’s just not insane to imagine that ONCE AGAIN the people making the technology might not have any fucking clue what will come of it

Seriously does anyone besides Jules Verne have a decent track record of predicting “The Future”?

lol oh color me shocked, another ape is loudly declaring “this is the way the world will be”

North Korea

“Lina Khan had good principles”??

Yeah might as well cancel your subscription if you’re not gonna read it

There are active lawsuits

Well, there’ll always be room for people who want different UI/UX. Humans are too visual to ever move to “pure voice” and so we’ll inevitably have nice screens and thus UI preferences (technically you get preferences with voice too but it’s weirder)

Ehhh if you squint, everything they announced today was announced in 2024.

Doesn’t seem like they changed their ideas much (I’m sure some iteration occurred but still) and the issue was the tech didn’t took 2 years to become workable

Feature set is borderline identical

Both the EU and China put enormous risk on misstepping. If you raise the cost of distribution, even just through time-cost, don’t be surprised when it fucking costs

I just can’t imagine another computing device from a competitor company that 1) threatens the smartphone 2) apple couldn’t copy and mass produce at higher quality

If there’s truly an existential threat to its device business, Copy Well

Are they competing with Google?

America is soooo big and soooo sparsely populated

Went out of their way to show actual usage of these features on actual devices in actual people’s hands

You don’t service them, you let them deorbit and send up a new one

You also don’t try to send a Data Center to space. You send smaller satellites that are essentially individual racks. Cheap, marginal, easy to decommission

Eh everyone’s claiming to be an AI company these days

Yeah but like didn’t it bankrupt them?

Meanwhile the USA barely blinked at the Space Race spending

Isn’t Collective Bargaining a cornerstone of the Union pitch?

A heavily unionized tech industry over the last 30yrs would be an interesting counterfactual.

IMO the ability for individual employees to negotiate for themselves is a positive? As is being able to get rid of bad performers

Unionization would hurt the startup ecosystem, at least at the margins, no?

The only reason the US Gov had the expertise and resources to fund DARPA in the first place was because it was a massive capitalist country with enormous wealth

Idk…

The original “revenue thesis” was that SpaceX, with landing orbital rocket boosters, can undercut all competitors and essentially have a monopoly on payload-to-orbit, and that their lower prices would massive increase the market.

Seems a fine business.

But then a couple years ago they say “actually with this brand new technological edge we can spin up a monopoly on an entirely NEW industry, Space Internet” and within a short timeframe they’ve got billions in revenue off this entirely new service.

It’s hard to predict the future but if Starlink is the last “new space industry” that spacex has borderline-exclusive access to, I’ll be shocked.

The valuation is speculative, yes, but they have such an incredible cost advantage in a nascent space that id be hard pressed to bet against them.

It’s reminiscent of everyone claiming Uber could never succeed, citing the size of the existing taxi market. TAM can change radically when costs move down orders of magnitude, in ways that are hard to predict.

Based on what?

Yeah but “intelligence” is very valuable and people are willing to pay

I’ll be curious to see how many new vibe coded apps make it to a 2.0

Have you noticed an increase in valid applications?

Presumably AI is helping some-to-many reasonable candidates apply to many more positions

Not even 4 years old yet. This tech curve has been insane

Presumably this drug (like all the others) is dirt-cheap to synthesize and the only reason anything is expensive is a government granted monopoly that’s nominally encouraging innovation

Someone doesn’t understand why we have nice things. “Increased productivity”, the thing you don’t give a shit about, is the only reason you’re not living in the dirt and dying of a tooth infection before 35.

If you wanted to live with a QoL of the 1940s you could do so today working 2 days a week. Of course you’d have no air conditioning, shitty food, no running water, etc etc.

You don’t have to LIKE corps but you should at least understand your world before calling for the guys with guns to get involved.

Capitalist competition at its finest

“Bubble”

they literally provide value

Shareholders are investors who give valuable resources to business

Oh wow that photo is from years ago but you’re correct, this is the first flight of that design