I think people approach it wrong. The framing of solving our loneliness is kind of transactional in a way. Good relationships are not transactional. You got to work on yourself to be curious about others. If it’s genuine, people will reciprocate and relationships develop. You also won’t care as much about putting yourself out there, because the act of getting to know someone is what you like. Greatest thing that ever happened for my social life was hearing Ted Lasso quote “Be curious, not judgemental”.

He’s providing starlink for free to Iranians right now afaik.

Fair point. And he provided free coverage for a long while with Ukraine [0].

I'm tempted to speculate on reasons, but I think I'll just leave it and admit that yes, he did a good thing here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...

I agree with you and made a comment in another related thread. I think there’s just a subset of people online who don’t realize it’s a value judgement or just take issue with others judgement of value in owning a truck.

I always find this talking point so weird. Trucks are great and people want them. There is no ultimate truth here where people can't see the light and evil corporations are making us buy trucks. Theyre making trucks because we want them. I love mine, and admittedly don't really "need" it.

This is a fun reply because the easy flippant response is "okay then the propaganda got you." Something neither of us can prove or refute.

Pickup trucks are popular in the US and the Americas broadly where they are heavily marketed. Pickup trucks are less popular in places where they are not marketed as heavily. Even outside the auto industry, there is a general consensus that marketing works. Make of that observation what you will.

I mean I don’t doubt that marketing has some positive return for anyone selling something. But are they marketing me to buy a truck or to buy their truck. There’s a huge distinction.

People only want them because of the stupid loophole that lets vehicles over a certain weight bypass regulations.

If the massive cars cost what they should, people wouldn't buy them as much.

In Chicago there were a lot of major roads where driving a pick-up truck was illegal.

Such as?

If you mean the tax write down for certain weights then I didn’t even get that so I don’t how that applies.

Not everyone thinks like you. Some people like trucks so they buy em

I’m not an expert in finance but doesn’t 290 billion in net debt sound like a lot? It’s more then a third of their market cap

Most of the big players started working on hardware for this stuff in 2018/2019. I worked at MSFT silicon org during this time. Meta was also hiring my coworkers for similar projects. I left a few years ago and don’t know current state but they already have some generations under their belt

Yeah I worked in the hardware org around this time. We got moved from under Xbox org to azure and our main work became AI related accelerators

> We got moved from under Xbox org to azure and our main work became AI related accelerators

Since I prefer games to AI, this makes me rather sad.

You know, I prefer games too but I’ve suspected that the AI boom improved hardware for games and AI rather than just AI in isolation.

Very cool! Catapult/Brainwave is what got me into hardware & ML stuff :)