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That explains the opening line: >Sometimes the most irrelevant piece of a project becomes its absolute protagonist.

Sam Altman's parenting experience is surely extremely different to most peoples. Can't imagine he has changed more than one diaper in his lifetime.

Why not just return Ceuta to Morocco?

In Europe many billionaires are idle old wealth. They don't work, they inherited the money.

NASA FIRMS is good for tracking where the fire is. As well as the site another user recommended, I was following this one: https://feuxgironde.fr/

The situation in Bordeaux right now feels close to apocalyptic. I left yesterday. Two hundred thousand people are evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed, and the fire about 10 mile…

Poetry morphed into rap.

Curious that Tesla stock fell in price at the moment of the Starship abort. For what possible reason would a failed rocket launch affect the fortunes of an electric car company?

Can I bet you 437 billion dollars?

So about $25bn for Mr Musk. Expensive.

Down quite sharply in response to the aborted launch.

Down to $124 already today...

I honestly thought this would be about Teledesic!

I don't think Mr Musk cares, do u?

Whats the point of taking passengers if they aren't going to be paying attention. Leave them on the ground and take someone who actually enjoys the experience.

There are quite a few providers of inflight wifi via satellite (or even cellular towers). Speeds are not usually as high as Starlink but it is ridiculous to say they have zero comp…

Claude kind of sucks, to be honest.

Plenty of room to keep falling.

Okay, but listening to a book is not the same as reading a book.

Some of us are, yes. I've noticed it when interviewing interns. A surprising number seem unable to think on their feet or solve problems without immediately reaching for chatgpt. I…

That's really not correct, simply based on where their satellites will be and the orbits they must follow. Do you work there or something? The whole thing is an obvious scam. None …

The US has already killed a few Indian sailors, I am not sure they would blink at causing an oil slick.

It still would only work close to sunrise or sunset. You cannot get hours of extra light this way.

Absolutely impossible to do that in any viable sense.

You could turn the mirrors around and reflect sunlight away from the planet. That might be useful. Imagine using it during a heatwave.