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  • SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors

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  • You could probably research the company but from my direct experience

    • Cursor is one of the stronger contenders for coding - bringing a variety of models to tools where coders are.
    • Cursor switched to pay per use, significantly increasing costs and didn’t lose customers
    • cursor charged more for higher end models and didn’t lose customers
    • grok is not currently there, or at least not what I can see, so is a huge gap from an xAI perspective
    • it seems good enough business model to business people to be worth a huge purchase

    Once grok is added to Cursor, I will just have it, along with a variety of other models, and can simply choose it based on cost and effectiveness. It may even be chosen for me since I usually leave it in automatic, and my company is a paying customer where each engineer spends a budget

    Also it’s more like a subscription. Software companies love a subscription model with regular income, rather than selling something you pay for once

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  • And yet that was one of the things I used to like - like an engineer he is able to talk in technical details, focus on minutiae, but lacks social skills. Perhaps a nod toward autism. As an engineer, that personality spoke to me.

    It’s only after people started worshipping him that he hallucinated having social skills or really any talent outside speaking of technology. That’s one person who should have stayed in his shell.

    He was always reputed to be hell to work for also, so it’s not like I ever was tempted toward that

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  • They bought Cursor for AI. Earlier this year cursor switched to pay per use model, so now every engineer is spending dozens to hundreds of AI Bucks. I don’t think Cursor is profitable on that yet, but I imagine xAI are looking to scale that model, both to turn Grok into something that earns an income, and to scale up to profit despite cost of datacenters/training.

    I’m skeptical there is really a profitable market, but it might be the most grounded of his predictions. The technology exists, the business model is successful at a small scale, so they just need to scale

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  • Wow, no. Look at what nasa is producing with Artemis. Business as usual is $2B/launch, way over budget, and years behind schedule. There is no path to launch more than 1-2/year and they depend on reusing old components with very limited supply.

    In contrast Falcon 9 cost nasa less than one Artemis launch has an unmatched record of reliability, drastically reduced launch costs, made reusability practical, and has earned its place launching 80% (by mass) of the world’s payload to orbit. Nothing matches its record

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  • Hopes and dreams are a good thing, that we should all have. I want to buy the claims Musk is selling: he seems to be the only one actually selling a future and I want hope and dreams for a better tomorrow. And he has delivered, even if not exactly what he said exactly when he said it.

    I understand musk is not an engineer, I understand some of his founder credits might be exaggerated. But his ability to weave an inspired vision, willingness to pay for it, ability to inspire others toward it, does deserve a lot of credit for the growth and success of both Tesla and SpaceX.

    Then his dark side came out into the open … and I still want the vision pushed by Tesla and SpaceX

  • Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years

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  • They do if you want to accelerate adoption. People who can afford to pay more have the same disincentives as you do. Why should they pay more? We know EVs are a huge improvement and worth it when the climate is considered, so need to encourage faster adoption.

    Think of it more as exploiting them. Pay a little money for some rich assholeto spend more establishing the market for you. The biggest impediment to lower cost is scale: as long as legacy manufacturers can’t scale production they can’t lower prices enough to establish the market. Incentives are the way out

  • Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years

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  • Seems like EV incentives would be a great help for a purchaser like you. As long as EVs are a niche product for the motivated few, there won’t be much of as used market. The fastest way to develop a healthy used market is higher growth for new cars, then wait a few years. Incentives goose the market for new, but also lay the groundwork for a larger used car market in a few years

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  • I don’t think that’s even a concern. Current cars are already one of the most recycled products and that has barely anything to do with customers. There has to be incentive for the “final purchaser”, the junker

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  • Even in the US, there are now a handful of EVs that are price competitive. For example I believe Equinox EV is similar price to Equinox ICE

  • Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years

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  • For sure, we can no longer afford the affects of our current technology and scale on the environment, especially with regard to climate change and where it impacts human health. EVs aren’t a goal in their own right, but as a much cleaner technology that lessens the impact, and we need a variety of pushes and pulls to encourage a faster transition, all of which the current administration is taking away.

    While yes we need to build out infrastructure, and yes we would have preferred legacy manufacturers to survive the change, building out supply before there is demand doesn’t always work dry well. Using EV incentives help grow the market, drive demand, especially in the beginning where there is inadequate infrastructure and where manufacturers are not yet able to create comparable prices. It’s another lever to pull, and is important. Hopefully we had them long enough, but growth clearly stalled when they were prematurely ended

    And yes, in my part of the US, windfarms killed by trump were important both to lower electricity costs and to clean up our impact.

  • Lets celebrate

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  • Thanks, I’ll give it a try

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  • There’s more reason to incentives than to “help people who can’t afford new”

    • the faster we develop an EV market, the sooner and cheaper used EVs will be available
    • the incentives get us to price parity sooner, so encourage people who don’t want to spend extra, whether they can or not
    • the faster market transition encourages investment in chargers. If you couldn’t be confident in a fast growing market why would you invest in chargers?
    • the faster market transition encourages and supports legacy manufacturers investing in new technology

    EVs are inevitable, but we need to be encouraging a faster transition for environmental reasons. But the incentives were at least as much about trying to save legacy manufacturers as they were about encouraging consumers down that path.

    Note that as soon as the US stopped incentives, legacy manufacturers withdrew from the EV market. Some were just reaching price parity, such as Chevy Equinox, but the few remaining choices will never have the volume to be profitable. Now they’re heavily protected, at the cost of less choice and much higher prices for all Americans, but that can’t last forever and they appear to be digging their own graves

  • Lets celebrate

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  • Dumb question but what’s the difference? As someone who grew up on the orange stuff from a box, and learned to make the one on the right in recent years, what am I looking for? Is the left just baked? I’ve done that. Is it a topping or spice that encourages browning?

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    Voters reject effort to hike Oklahoma’s minimum wage

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  • Many states have higher minimum wage. Here it’s $15/hr. That’s probably not enough for a high cost of living area but my teen just got a summer job for $18/hr, so employers are paying more

  • Ohio will continue to allow child marriage after push to end practice fails in legislature. Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition

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  • Am I the only one who thinks this is not such a big deal? The article says child marriage is already prohibited except a “Romeo and Juliet” provision

    Senate Bill 341 would have ended a loophole letting 17-year-olds marry legal adults up to four years older than them with court approval

    Someone of any age can marry an 18 year old, but if you want to marry a 17 year old you better be close in age and get a court to approve? That already prohibits child marriage while being flexible in limited circumstances. The bill would have only removed the flexibility.

    You could certainly argue it’s not limited enough or I don’t know if courts are too quick to approve, but it’s not like child marriage is wide open

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • But you’re missing externalities. A huge reason we need better regulation is the tendency of corporations to externalize their costs to all of our detriment.

    Climate and pollutions issues are a prime example. In a free market A corporations saves money by evading cleanup costs, polluting, and the rest of us pay. A justly regulated market minimizes those externalities so the corporations covers all its costs

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • In case your attempt to start arguments is sparked from actual ignorance ….

    federal permitting and leasing for wind projects

    • many wind farms are not on owned property. In particular for offshore wind farms there is no land that can be owned. Many projects are in locations leased from the government
    • if turbines are above above a certain height, it affects airspace used for flying, you don’t own
    • even renewables can be bad for the environment. The trope about killing birds has some truth to it, and environmental review keeps it from happening
    • yes, renewables can affect your neighbors and they deserve some consideration
    • yes, it’s conceivable that a wind farm offshore or near a base or a border can have national security implications

    In a nation of laws, things like this are worth considering. However that is different than using them as cover for personal beliefs

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • Easy to say, but look what happens when some oversized oompa loompa ignores them all And just acts for personal gain

    Unfortunately we’re likely to get stuck with more laws, more red tape, more paperwork, trying to prevent the current disaster from happening again

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  • The government paid like $1B for wind farm developers to abandon projects.

    Most of the time government slows things down, but the current administration actively fights against progress or shatter people want. wtf does he care about wind farms in New England enough to shut them down

    I mean the alternatives are not all wine and roses. We pay among the highest electricity prices in the country and a big part of that is depending on wind farms that are already like a decade behind. Previous governments slowed them down, letting everyone be heard, but they didn’t actively oppose