Don't forget about all the Chinese words thrown in for good measure!
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The reason real-time translation is difficult: sometimes you have to wait for the end of the sentence.
I don't really see why that would impact them. I think the techbro economies are designed with these kinds of constraints in mind. They don't care about global productivity where they don't control it, and they have the means to secure much of whatever they think they need by coercion or force (particularly after a global collapse like what this article is about). Musk and co can own a private fleet of container ships especially once nobody can use them for normal trade anymore and people are desperate to offload them - if they even really need them in the first place.
They can buy and resurrect entire portions of the economy given their outsized proportion of wealth. Entire countries operate on less. How do you think dictators, feudalism, kings, gangs and every other despot power structure operate and have operated for all of human history? This is way beyond money. This is political power where money is just the means to achieve an end goal. Does Putin live in anything but opulent wealth despite his entire country's economy being in the shitter?
They run entire economies around themselves. You can hope some of their sphere turn on them but what makes you think they don't have farms and advanced technology and pet technology firms and all sorts of shit all ready to go?
It's not about the number of dollars or spending them it is about power. They will create new autocracies with themselves at the head, it's not about the money anymore but what the money has already bought them. For the past decades the only thing that tells them "no" is the FBI and military. They look at what happened to John McAfee and want to ensure it never happens to them.
I agree with the idea of properly owning your device, but its pretty rare I need root access and it's not all that hard for me to enable it if I truly needed it. Turns out graphene has an option built in to limit charging to 80% and I use slow chargers already so I actually don't need it here either.
There are pretty solid security reasons to keep it locked down. It's an attack vector that allows easily superceding the otherwise highest permissions on your device.
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Even beyond all the wishful thinking, Tesla could literally evaporate and it would not meaningfully impact musk in his current position. SpaceX can be arbitrarily juiced by the govt via contracts and since it's not publicly traded we don't even really get insight into it's real value.
Tesla is long overdue to return to earth given it's financials compared to other auto manufacturers. It also is not used as collateral for the twitter buy, despite what is regularly parroted.