There are two kinds of poverty: absolute and relative
Elon is right that we can solve absolute poverty. In fact, we largely already have, especially in the developed world.
Relative poverty is about envy. It’s a spiritual rather than economic problem and will always be with us.
Software engineering is such an addictive job.
If you are making progress on a problem and have no distractions, it can be hard to put it down.
You think about the problem in the back of your mind even when you stop.
🇷🇺 WHATSAPP WON’T BE GHOSTED IN RUSSIA
Despite Meta’s “extremist” label in Russia, WhatsApp isn’t getting the boot anytime soon, according to Anton Gorelkin, deputy head of the State Duma’s tech committee.
Gorelkin hinted the messaging giant might even cozy up to Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet watchdog, to stay in the game.
With WhatsApp so popular in Russia, blocking it would be like banning tea in Britain—unlikely but entertaining to imagine.
Source: TASS
🚨🇸🇻 FORESIGHT AT ITS FINEST: BUKELE HAS TRANSFORMED EL SAVADOR!
Under Bukele’s visionary leadership, El Salvador has seen unprecedented transformation.
Bitcoin holdings have now surpassed $600 million, cementing El Salvador's status as a pioneer in crypto adoption.
From economic innovation to national pride, Bukele’s strategy has positioned El Salvador as a trailblazer in modern finance.
Grok-3 just proved Riemann's hypothesis. We decided to pause its training to check its proof, and if the proof is correct, training won't be resumed, as the AI is deemed so smart that it becomes a danger to humanity.
Elon Musk, 13 years ago: A fully and rapidly reusable rocket is barely possible. SpaceX is going to try to do it. We could fail, but we're going to try to do it.
“The pivotal breakthrough that's necessary, that some company has to come up with to make life multiplanetary, is a fully and rapidly reusable orbit-class rocket.
This is a very difficult thing to do because we live on a planet where that is just barely possible. If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy. If it was a little higher, it would be impossible.
It's just a very tough engineering problem. I wasn't sure it could be solved for a while. But then, relatively recently, probably in the last twelve months or so, I've come to the conclusion that it can be solved.
And I think, SpaceX is going to try to do it. Now, we could fail. I'm not saying we're certain of success here, but we're going to try to do it. And we have a design that, on paper, doing the calculations, doing the simulations, it does work.
And now, we need to make sure that those simulations and reality agree, because generally when they don't, reality wins.”
National Press Club, 2011
Hurricane Milton is now a Category 5 storm.
There are simply no words to describe the extraordinary intensification we have witnessed in this storm today.