Every state should be blue after the midterms.

It depends on which cloud. US cloud services are inherently unsafe. Some other countries have more respect for privacy.

It will most certainly stifle innovative ways to leech more profit while the taxpayer is left holding the bag.

Ah, who am I kidding? They’ll find something new. It will just spark more innovation.

Space feels cold if you have some fluid to evaporate, like blood or something. But servers will very quickly run out of whatever fluids they have if they tried this. (And so would you in their place.)

The only option to sustainably lose heat in space is radiation, which works, but is slow and limited in capacity, so these server satellites would need massive radiators. It’s not impossible to do. ISS also has massive radiators.

So servers in space is possible. How big you can make an orbital server park, I don’t know. I can imagine that with enough radiators, they start catching each other’s heat, so there might be a limit to have many radiators you can put closely together, but I have no idea what that limit might be.

Companies that are too big to fail and need a bail out, should be automatically nationalised.

For decades there has been tension between European data protection principles and US principles that corporations should be able to monetize your data and the US government should be able to access everything. Our dependence on US tech companies had made our position weak. We should have subsidised European cloud infrastructure a long time ago.

Especially the last few years it’s been terrible how many companies and organisations have surrendered to US Big Tech. Even Dutch banks have abandoned their own excellent contactless payment system to surrender to Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

Honestly, that’s always been my hunch about that. Such a baseless accusation doesn’t come out of nowhere; he must have been projecting something.

Thailand is known for its seedy sex tourism, but there are also tons of legitimate reasons to go there. I’ve always had this feeling that the “pedo guy” remark came from Musk mostly thinking of child sex tourism when he thought of tourism in Thailand. Because that’s the part he was most interested in, even if he wasn’t acting on it.

But it looks expensive and has a reputation for being expensive. That’s what matters to him. Do you think he can handle actual money?

True, but nobody is bound by it. There are other ways to sell on PC, there are no other ways to sell on iPhone. And games bought elsewhere will work just fine on a PC that has Steam installed. Anyone can leave at any time, or buy from anywhere. The only way to do that on iPhone is to switch your entire phone with Android. Apple’s position on the iPhone is far more controlling and monopolistic than Steam’s on PC.

The Steam tax might be too steep as well, but these are not identical situations. It’s far easier to avoid Steam if you don’t want it. I prefer to buy from GOG, and only buy from Steam when it’s cheaper or not available on GOG.

But Valve doesn’t have a monopoly on PC games. You can sell your own game, or sell through GOG. On iPhone, Apple has the monopoly and they abuse it.

Next they’ll take 30% on every transaction through my banking app.

If we’re going to tax sin, can we tax hoarding money?

With the advantage that the target can’t easily opt out of it. It’s probably fairly easy to stop wearing clothes from a wool/linen mix (although avoiding cotton/polyester might be harder), so your target disappears.

As a Christian, I object to books featuring rich people, people who don’t help poor people, people who don’t heal the sick, and people who are mean to foreigners. Unless the perpetrators of those unChristian acts get their comeuppance, of course. Can I now demand from schools that my kid doesn’t get exposed to those kinds of books?

This is the big issue. LLMs are useful to me (to some degree) because I can tell when its answer is probably on the right track, and when it’s bullshit. And still I’ve occasionally wasted time following it in the wrong direction. People with less experience or more trust in LLMs are much more likely to fall into that trap.

LLMs offer benefits and risks. You need to learn how to use it.

Only antisemitism? Not other forms of racism?

I bet the only form of “antisemitism” this is about, is criticism of genocide.

Can’t you redirect that email at the DNS level or something? Email for my domain get redirected to different mailboxes, which I can configure at my registrar.

Although personally I’d take this as a perfect opportunity to move away from Google entirely.

This is my main concern. I will believe they can regrow lost teeth, but can they regrow them in the correct shape and location? Teeth can take some weird shapes. We’ve got millions of years of evolution tweaking exactly where and how they grow, and it still goes wrong sometimes. I suspect messing with that process can lead to Cronenbergian results.

Why? More teeth to clean, fill, check and care for.

Which is why I want there to be more European and Japanese EVs. Why must this market be entirely in the hands of Musk and China?