Andrew McBain

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@JamesSurowiecki "because he knows retail investors are far more likely to overpay"- How could you possibly know his private thoughts? Elon has publicly talked about his dislike of mega-banks controlling large public companies. This public claim is consistent with his other public comments.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@JoernWiedemann @SkylineReport The point would be that showing a correlation between CO2 and temperature doesn't establish cause and effect. It's totally plausible that CO2 is rising in response to pre-existing higher temperatures, not the other way around. That's what Paul's graph shows anyways.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@SkylineReport Showing a correlation between CO2 and temperature doesn't establish cause and effect (which caused which). You would need a time series "the squiggly lines" to do that, and in your graph those lines show CO2 being captured in ice AFTER temperature drops.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@SkylineReport It's well known that CO2 stored in the ocean will move to the atmosphere at higher temperatures. You can run that experiment at home with a jug of carbonated water, a PH meter, and a stove. But if you did, you would see that temperature can obviously affect CO2 concentration.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@SkylineReport If you zoom in on the graph, you can see that the arctic temperature starts to fall first, and then the CO2 starts to drop. The obvious conclusion is that temperature is driving CO2, not the other way around. It logical since CO2 dissolved in water changes vs temperature.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@GosPaly62410 @SenWarren There are more ways to profit than just money. Do you not benefit from being able to ask a question and getting an instant answer (often at no charge)? Or being able to generate some content (like an image or text) in like a minute?

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@SenWarren Won't that just make the cost of AI credits higher, and then slow adoption? Or was that your plan?

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@RepDeluzio If a billionaire pays in proportionally more, are we going to let them take out proportionally more? If not, how is that fair? I wouldn't want it done to me, so why would I want to do it to others.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@BenjaminDEKR @ijoshuajohnson That's because 2 years is probably about the right timeline for his delivery system, Starship. Making the satellites is already a solved problem engineering wise. All that's left is just the exercise of doing his specific design.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@ijoshuajohnson @BenjaminDEKR You are overlooking the fact that each site on the ground has to individually go through permitting and get built. It's a long and expensive process. But if you get a permit to put up a million satellites, you can just build them on an assembly line and launch over and over.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@BenjaminDEKR There wasn't demand for them in 2002. And they didn't have a large re-usable rocket to launch them cheaply. It's only in the last few years that demand for computing has skyrocketed, and cost to launch has decreased to the point of making it economically viable.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@OrevaZSN I'm pretty sure you have to work pretty hard to turn $300K into like $300 billion.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@dsantacruce @ewarren Unfortunately, what Elizabeth is proposing here is that a few wealthy people own all the AI and then she Taxes it, ostensibly to distribute the profits. It does nothing to fix the underlying wealth gap.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@ewarren Wouldn't it be better to just make sure ownership of AI isn't totally centralized? The future you're proposing still has all the wealth generation in the hands of a few people, rather than most of in the hands of the public.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@Roger_Negan I am pretty sure that throughout history many men fought numerous wars to secure their rights. Many wars of independence in various countries. The removal of kings/nobles in Europe. Wars in ancient times to free one's people from an invader.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@ewarren - "Tax AI data centers.", this is misleading because it implies they aren't taxed, when in fact they are already taxed just like any other business.

Why crush one of the few industries driving growth in the US? Are you just openly working for the Chinese now or something?

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@SSWorks In what way is it "fair" to make someone pay more in when they won't receive any more benefits for doing so? Is "fairness" paying into the system a lot more than you get back? Seems like it's just popular to use the government to rob other people.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@MetamateDaz Who is doing that? It's pretty normal if you are working in a respectable job, that your employer just takes you at your word. Not once have I ever had to provide a note. You all must not have the best workplaces.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@tonyannett In FL your property value is not reassessed at current market value if you do not sell, transfer, or modify your house. So, you essentially pay about the same rate (with mild increase) no matter how much property values go up. If it's different where you are, time to move.

[Andrew McBain @forseeus]

@SenSanders Just to inform the rest of us, what exactly was USAID doing in the past to prevent Ebola, and was it effective?