> this is a nice story but it doesn't describe anything about the inverse, the high intelligence people, and the regions of high competition in the system.

So you're saying there a lot of competition of very smart very educated people in places like wall street?

I agree, and they're all fighting to get what 70 years ago you could get by selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. It's a bad deal, doesn't mean it's not competitive.

I don't really understand where you're going with the rest of the post though, sorry...

Debian.

They were morons because they closed their consumer unit, now they have a glut of wafers and no way to make actual dram chips that can sell to people.

The FIRST rule of dealing with billionaires is when they say "Don't worry, I've got the money", you need to worry because they don't got the money.

Story I heard through the grapevine about Trump: He wanted to buy this yacht, and the whole interior was done in elephant leather so it was grey, and it would have been illegal to do it again so it was a one-of-one. Well Trump says "it's gotta be brown leather", and they're like "WTF" and he's like "MY MONEY, MY PREFERENCES, FIX IT"...

Well, they go through the whole thing and replace ALL of the leather, and they're not getting paid, he's making notes, saying not good enough, fix this, fix that... No revenue, clock ticking, they're on the ropes...

They declare bankruptcy, guess who buys the fucking company. Trump, and he gets his boat for pennies on the dollar.

They're all like this.

I guarantee you he didn't show proof-of-funds. He just showed up with an LOI and basically just said "MONEY? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO THE FUCK I AM????" and they fell for it.

> buying

That was a letter of intent 😂

It's a nice demo, but of course they're showing off a solution to the easy problem here. Power density in EV motors is pretty insane, and battery discharge rates as well - since they need all of that in order to fast charge.

I was thinking is it's probably possible to fit prismatic cells in the wings if they're re-engineered a little bit, then you don't need that giant nose. Whatever weight you were holding in fuel is the weight of batteries you can hold, so your range is 1/4 or 1/5 of what it was.

You know where this could potentially have an application would be like trainers or club aircraft where you go up and putter around, but nobody's really trying to GO anywhere in particular - and you want to save money on fuel...

Also catastrophic failure in EV motors & batteries is more-or-less unheard of so that eliminates one source of anxiety.

Okay so everyone's familiar with naval mines.
Put it on the ocean floor, ship passes over, boom.
And they're godawful hard to get rid of.

Now imagine aviation mine.
Throw it in the woods next to an airport, private jet flies over, rocket launch, infrared targeting, boom.

Okay now imagine being able to arm it remotely...
It's sitting quietly there listening to commercial satellite traffic, it's waiting for an activation code. Someone posts some picture of a cat or something, it gets relayed over satellites, in it there is the exact sequence of bits that the mine is looking for, presto it's armed. Next climate conference attendee to pass overhead is finished.

Ray Dalio said this was gonna happen, 4 years ago.
Back then it looked far off, these days it looks imminent...

I'm cold. Does anybody have any wood to start a fire?