It's too bad that AI is only going to solve climate change and cure cancer, it would have been great if it could also cure asthma and solve rampant corruption.
Anyway, now that half of HN readers are SpaceX shareholder, directly or indirectly, how do we exercise the supreme power over the company, granted to us by capitalism, to ask the board to replace the turbines by another form of energy production in line with science ?
That half of HN readers will only have Class A stock which does not hold enough power to overcome Musk's Class B stock that he owns. But you don't need capitalism to ask the board to do something. You can ask Musk on X.
The first person who builds a successful meme around "fossil fuels are woke and for weak men, only solar-nuclear-punk is for real american machos" will have a vastly positive contribution to the world.
It's still incredible to me that the conservative narrative on this topic is basically that sitting your fat ass in an air-conditioned truck is seen as manly and cycling uphill in the rain is a proof of weakness.
No. I think people who seriously took part i SpaceX IPO just bought a very expensive lottery ticket, while pretending that it's "being an SpaceX shareholder".
But it's fun to gamble (a bit) ! My personal limit for lottery ticket is 2€. I hope not too many people invested more than that.
And to be fair, SpaceX is probably the one thing for which Elon deserves the most praise.
There is a universe in which he has not been distracted into madness by twitter (and maybe kept Mrs Riley at his side.)
For all I know, we're already on Mars in this timeline.
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It's too bad that AI is only going to solve climate change and cure cancer, it would have been great if it could also cure asthma and solve rampant corruption.
Anyway, now that half of HN readers are SpaceX shareholder, directly or indirectly, how do we exercise the supreme power over the company, granted to us by capitalism, to ask the board to replace the turbines by another form of energy production in line with science ?
That half of HN readers will only have Class A stock which does not hold enough power to overcome Musk's Class B stock that he owns. But you don't need capitalism to ask the board to do something. You can ask Musk on X.
He'll only listen to you if you're a racist conspiracy theorist though.
The first person who builds a successful meme around "fossil fuels are woke and for weak men, only solar-nuclear-punk is for real american machos" will have a vastly positive contribution to the world.
It's still incredible to me that the conservative narrative on this topic is basically that sitting your fat ass in an air-conditioned truck is seen as manly and cycling uphill in the rain is a proof of weakness.
You think Elon Musk would be stupid enough to give away control? He still has >80% of the vote.
No. I think people who seriously took part i SpaceX IPO just bought a very expensive lottery ticket, while pretending that it's "being an SpaceX shareholder".
But it's fun to gamble (a bit) ! My personal limit for lottery ticket is 2€. I hope not too many people invested more than that.
And to be fair, SpaceX is probably the one thing for which Elon deserves the most praise.
There is a universe in which he has not been distracted into madness by twitter (and maybe kept Mrs Riley at his side.)
For all I know, we're already on Mars in this timeline.