Indeed, the petroleum industry is renowned for otherwise being awesome companies run by awesome people. Why pay those cretins at Buc-ee’s if you can further enrich ExxonMobil?

True. Transistors are now approaching atomic scales, making further miniaturization challenging due to quantum effects and heat dissipation.

Imagine you have $120k to blow on a car. And instead of buying a Range Rover, X7, Escalade, GLS or QX80 you say “yep, I’ll buy a tuna can on wheels”.

Russians performing some routine sabo-I mean....maintenance

You know what CEO’s and by proxy, stockbrokers enjoy? Stability. Having laws, mandates, and policies stay consistent allows you to more accurately predict cash layouts for large projects. Doing a complete 180 every 4 years makes it really hard to figure out where to spend money on long term investments.  You don’t…

Part of the reason that wealth tends to decline over generations is simply the mathematics of reproduction and inheritance. If the rich guy has two kids and each of them has two kids, and the estate is split equally after each dies, after 6 generations (roughly 200 years) the estate has been split 64 ways.

Petabyte per second absolutely does mean the duration of the trip per packet has to be short - it also means you have to be able to send a massive amount of data in the stream. Latency would be atrocious as well, at any speed at or slower than light. You’re talking a ping of 22m22s. That’s 1342000ms - roughly…

Musk has enough common knowledge of a subject to be able to wow most crowds. I’ll give him his ability to recall data points that have been presented to him, but this belief he “understands” it all is misplaced.

This is basically what happened in Round 1.  I’m not so sure they will make the same mistake twice, sadly.

Elon is reminding me of Henry Ford. When I first learned about Henry, he was an amazing innovator who created the assembly line and paid his working a high wage. Way to go Henry! Then I found out he thought the Nazis were on the right track with fascism. And that he published and distributed worldwide an astonishingly…

Just to add, he didn’t found Tesla, either despite Tesla’s About page.

I’m just hoping that the horrors that they have planned are muted by what is sure to be incompetence and infighting at every level. 

Add Tesla to that list. Musk didn’t found Tesla either; he was the money guy who threw out the founders after and bullied them via a lawsuit into making him a co-founder.

petabyte(bit)/second hasn’t anything to do with the transmission propagation rate, it has to do with the transmission bandwidth. Transmission delay has to do with the transmission propagation rate; as you noted, latency.

For both PayPal and SpaceX, his $$$ buyin agreements specified that he was to be referred to as a “founder”, even though he came along after both were operating. So, his narcissism fits right in with the incoming administration.

the next 4 years will be awesome, I can already tell!

What you are saying is correct but there’s a large gaping issue here though. What part of this statement says I issued an executive order?

He doesn’t need Musk for that. He can find a Heritage Foundation trained staffer who will be far better at it.

A bunch of racist, stupid, ignorant people are the ones who got us into this mess. And when their lives go to shit, and it will under Trump (people have short memories), they’ll blame “Biden and Kamala’s economy” while being willfully blind to the fact Trump can’t run a lemonade stand without going bankrupt, and will…

Musk will last until he has some sort of small disagreement with Trump about something.