I am a technology aficionado and a seasoned software architect, convinced that progress is not about creating more but creating better and more sustainable.
@fatmogs1@thetimes No inheritance/estate tax (common in several rich nations): Australia, Canada, Norway, Singapore, Hong Kong (SAR), and others like Austria/Sweden (abolished earlier).
High headline rates: Japan (top), South Korea, France, UK, US.
@fatmogs1@thetimes For reference, the UK is one of the countries in the world with the highest inheritance tax.
Pay tax on your income, on your everyday purchase, on your home when you buy it and yearly afterwards, then pay tax 40% tax on what you manage to keep when you die...
@Buckleygkml@GuntherEagleman The overwhelming consensus when Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44B was that he was paying way too much, often described as one of the most overpaid tech deals in history. To this date the revenue does not make the purchase price look good. He was right to hesitate and verify.
@Mikeachim And this is huge as well
Estimated global sea-level drop ~4.3 million km³ of water to refill.
Spread across the rest of the world’s oceans, that volume corresponds to roughly about 10 m of sea-level decrease globally.
@real_0xFF @Bhavani_00007 If you are going to copy/paste password, install privatebin in your infra and let uour team share through this.
Aws secret manager otherwise is a strong secure solution
@_TheWhiteLion__@missmommymolly@MrPitbull07 In many European countries, gratuity is included by default the bill (it does not show up on the ticket). The restaurant has to give for example 15% of the bill to employees in France.
If you are delighted with the service you can tip on top of that, or not. Tip is not expected.
@PeterSilliman@MatrixMysteries The bank that made this loan only needs 10% of the cash (about $11k) and can lend $110k.
(Yes the loan is actually 90% virtual money - it did not exist before)
When they charge 10% interest on $110k they will double their actual money every year.
Interesting...
> Be me - Elon
> Just nuked the timeline with a Kardashev Scale reality check "I have a plan"
> Meanwhile, China’s out here printing solar panels like it’s counterfeit fentanyl, absolutely curb-stomping the US in the sunshine Olympics. We’re bringing pocket knives to a laser fight
> Bro we are literally about to run out of atoms for NVLink cables and you think the Nevada grid is gonna save us?
> Realize AI is now the most expensive cocaine habit in human history
> Current US grid: ~500 GW average, already sweating like a vegan at a Texas BBQ
> One frontier model run in 2028 gonna slurp more juice than the entire country of France role-playing as a lights festival
> Earth data centers already out here committing war crimes on rivers for cooling water
> Do the math, smooth-brains... we’re about to need the entire grid just to train Grok-7
> Chips? TSMC and Samsung sending me the same email every quarter: “Dear Elon, lol no ❤️”
> Fine
> Tesla Terafab incoming - 10 million wafers/year, built next to Giga Texas, powered by whatever the fuck I want because I own the rockets
> Power situation?
> Earth: crying over natural gas permits
> Me: quietly lofting 500–800 MW of thin-film solar per Starship flight like it’s Uber Eats for the vacuum
> That’s one fully functional orbital gigawatt every week if I feel spicy
> Orbital data centers = infinite free sunlight + 3 K cosmic microwave background heat sink
> Translation: your Earth rigs are space heaters with a gambling addiction
> My orbital rigs are perfect blackbody radiators running at 100% duty cycle while sipping starlight like it’s martinis at 3 a.m
> Latency? Starlink lasers already do 100 Gbps cross-continent
> In two years we’ll be doing petabit
> Your query goes up, answer comes down faster than your GPU finishes complaining about spot pricing
> Phase 1: xAI orbital constellation makes Memphis supercluster look like a Raspberry Pi someone dropped in a puddle
> Phase 2: every AI company on Earth begs for rack space on my satellites like it’s the last helicopter out of Saigon
> Phase 3: Kardashev Type II by 2045 or I’ll personally apologize to the Sun for underutilizing it
> Groundcels seething in replies: “b-but atmospheric losses” “b-but launch costs” “b-but orbital decay”
> My brother in Christ I own the launch company I am the atmospheric loss
> Stay poor down there fighting over lake water I’m moving humanity’s IQ to orbit
Most people don’t know that Tesla has had an advanced AI chip and board engineering team for many years.
That team has already designed and deployed several million AI chips in our cars and data centers. These chips are what enable Tesla to be the leader in real-world AI.
The current version in cars is AI4, we are close to taping out AI5 and are starting work on AI6. Our goal is to bring a new AI chip design to volume production every 12 months. We expect to build chips at higher volumes ultimately than all other AI chips combined. Read that sentence again, as I’m not kidding.
These chips will profoundly change the world in positive ways, saving millions of lives due to safer driving and providing advanced medical care to all people via Optimus.
Send an email with three bullet points describing evidence of your exceptional ability to [email protected].
We are particularly interested in applying cutting edge AI to chip design.
Thanks,
Elon
@Rightanglenews I still don't understand why they complain that Elon Musk is not elected. There are millions of public workers not elected, and Elon is probably one of the brightest of them. Please someone who understands the rational explain.
It is unlikely that Elon Musk referred to the Ponzi Scheme to accuse people of a scam, but rather to alert people that the system must be reviewed before it collapse.
"People should not focus on the finger when it is pointing at the moon."
Unlike a Ponzi, these systems aren’t scams—governments back them, tweak taxes, or raise retirement ages. But without more workers or reforms, they’re on borrowed time. Demographics don’t lie.