So where will the counter-coup come from?
]]>My take was that Musk was looking for how they would invest $6billion to provide a more permanent solution than just a one-time gift of food.
]]>I think Tesla has significantly advanced progress towards electric vehicles, and SpaceX has significantly advanced rocketry. I regard both of these as good things. And Tesla and SpaceX would not be where they are without Elon Musk.
As I understand it most of Musk's trillions come from his Tesla incentive deal being triggered by the sky-high Tesla share price. I suspect that similar progress would have been made with a much less generous incentive deal - in other words Musks trillions do not actually have a good reason for existing.
]]>Beyond a certain point of wealth the only thing you can do with it is to drive vast projects or just sit on it. A few of these projects are probably worthwhile but most are either evil, pure virtue-signalling, wasteful or are just window-dressing. It seems to me that the people who do manage to successfully play the trillionaire game do not generally know what to do with it.
]]>(I admit I am a bit biased since I have not yet read the other contenders)
]]>Late to the party but how about: The times they are a-changin'
]]>But our celebrity culture and royalty-obsessed media will inevitably make this a totally over the top event which I shall do my best to ignore.
]]>I thought WebAssembly was supposed to be compiled to its own virtual machine and to be faster than JavaScript, rather than sitting on top of JavaScript.
]]>Comparing the last general election to the previous one, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2019/results BBC says
Tory share of vote was up 1.2% Labour share of vote was down 7.8%
There are many opinions about the reasons for that change (personally I think Corbyn was toxic), but I don't see how you can expect it to democratically result in no change of parliamentary majority?
]]>But SS/SH is trying to be orders of magnitude more efficient and capable than the Falcon family. If it succeeds then its revolutionary nature makes it very difficult to predict what the launch market will be like in 10 years time.
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