"TSLA is about robots, not cars" is thrown without irony to anyone that questions the car business.

In 6 months post-IPO: SpaceX purchases Tesla

Merger in all stock deal? That could happen... Have to get to be bigger than everyone else.

This was a banter, but... https://www.investing.com/analysis/would-a-teslaspacex-merge...

(article from today)

Ladies, ladies, stop with the quarreling. Both countries are equally terrible when it comes to gastronomy.

You can't. Iran only needs to be credible in their threats to make crossing the strait too risky. And for that you only need a few missiles, drones and mines every so often.

Asymetric warfare is a hell of a hole to dig oneself into, ain't it?

Please figure out a way to communicate this to our completely inept leadership. We tried. They're too stupid and rich to care.

Funily enough, that could describe pretty well the first sapiens that learned how to make fire.

They need to come up with either spinning ships or suits that compress you enough to activate the bones (they are piezoelectric so they naturally catch calcium ions when under stress).

With fusion it's gonna be harder, I think. First you need to pump energy into it to get the fusion itself. This involves energising supermagnets, vacuum pumps and heating and controlling the plasma. We are not even here yet.

And once you get to that point, you need to harness the output energy of a million degrees plasma through something that yields a pretty high efficiency (so that pumping energy into the plasma is not only worthwhile, but makes financial sense) and requires a reasonably low maintenance.

I see fusion more practical as a rocket technology (which is just basically impossible) than as an actual energy facility asset.

As soon as activity is detected and reasonably atributable to sha256 being broken, bitcoin goes to zero.

What?

Quantum computers don't break SHA256, nor would this attack be "reasonably attributable" to a SHA256 break.

In fact, if you have funds in a wallet that has never spent a transaction before (only received), it's still reasonably difficult for a CRQC to steal your funds. The trick is, the moment you've ever spent a transaction, now your public key is known (and therefore breakable).

(Yes, I'm aware of the literature on quantum search vs hash functions, but it's not a complete break like RSA or ECC.)

Well, lobotomies were all the rage back then...

:) Good joke, but lobotomy was only introduced by Egas Moniz in 1935, more than a generation after Queen Victoria died.

I think the incentive to share progress is still orders of magnitude higher than the incentive to keep it private.

I agree, but I do feel like there's a bit of a lag. The shape of this lag has changed over time, and maybe we're in an era where the lag is growing

That's a bit of falacy. If inflation target were 0%, people would still have an oportunity cost of doing nothing compared to deposits, bonds and other "zero risk" investments. You just stop punishing people that has their wealth in form of cash savings.

2% is an arbitrary number that just looks good and seems to work. The issue is that that target is very much not set into stone, as central banks often disregard or take too long to take action when inflation shoots up. And never, ever do they try to compensate afterwards with a lower target for a time.

You can have a government spend way beyond its income making inflation spike, eroding their own debt at the cost of cash savings purchase power and the central bank just sit put and wait until inflation runs too hot to then increase rates that then cut way before inflation is on target. As we are having right now in basically every country on earth.