In the first term he just was terrible to those trying to cross the border. If you were already in, his first term was largely nothing if you don’t care about others.
This term has been going after people already here, and rounding up and us citizens and looking to remove legal status for those that have it.
We’re they the ones who also ended up leaking personal information about the people reporting?
Yes. Musk’s net worth including his stock is a bit shy of 500 billion, and Tesla market cap is about 1500 billion. His net worth includes all his assets that he could possibly leverage.
Actually he doesn’t. Most of his ‘wealth’ is Tesla shares already. Even if he could toss everything he has just toward controlling more of Tesla, and if the shareholders accepted it at current market value, he’d only have a third of the company.
Tesla is crazy over valued for a company that has only been able to be a car company that is in 14th place, yet assessed as being more valuable than all the 13 more successful car companies combined…
Yeah, the PayPal one is so spot on.
He had a company that I guess was like CitySearch that no one ever heard of and managed to win a lottery of selling it to Compaq who thought they had to do something in this whole dotcom thing.
Then he founded ‘x.com’, a failure of an online bank while Paypal took off. Then, somehow, in the wake of being merged in he talked the company into letting him be in charge, despite his company pretty much the relative failure in that relationship, and he nearly tanked it before being kicked out. Despite this for a long time he got credit as ‘the paypal guy’, despite his only contribution being almost tanking it after losing to it initiallly in the market. Again, won the lottery because he had such a share and eBay tossed so much money at it.
He’s supremely successful at taking credit from others when things work out.
I’d research Chilipad harder if I were in the market again. At very cursory glance it seems like less of an uphill battle. I could be wrong and they could be douchey, or their engineering somehow sucks, but maybe they are good too.
FreeSleep is what I would do if they try to force the subscription on me, but I probably wouldn’t buy the product hoping that I can change their firmware against their will. I don’t want to give money to a vendor I would just be antagonistic with.
If they announced they formally endorsed use of FreeSleep as an ‘advanced alternative’, ok, but that isn’t going to happen.
This is spot on. Note these asshats eventually caved and added local controls when customers kept saying how horrible it was to use the phone. The local controls are explicitly disabled unless the cloud service has recently approved the bed to allow the local controls to work. You have to use the phone to enable the local controls. The phone can’t do anything locally except tell it how to connect to wifi. If you don’t have the subscription or grandfathered in before the subscription, the local controls do nothing.
Well, unless you jailbreak your cover with FreeSleep.
So in my case (I didn’t want to, but not my choice, but at least it was cheap and without subscription at the time), it was about the water cooling/warming. It’s really nice and essentially inaudible.
I think Chilipad is a brand that does it without the online bullshit, though I didn’t get to try that.
None of this should ever require an internet connection, and it’s abundantly clear that’s an anti-consumer hostile forced behavior Eight Sleep did.
The designers were thinking “we want to force users to a monthly subscription”.
So against my preference, we bought one of these. Years ago and it wasn’t so crazy expensive and the basic ‘cloud’ functionality was free. Over the course of the years of the initially decent warranty, the covers sprang leaks and so we got free upgrades carrying us all the way to a generation of the product where they replaced the crappy molded leak prone water mat with decent tubes that seem to be more resilient, all without needing to get in the subscription. As a consequence, I know about their evolution.
From the onset, they were hammered with “phone over the internet control is bogus, add a remote or buttons on the base or something”, and they kept responding with vague “we are working a solution”. Well, they ultimately did, they added earbud-style 'tap N number of times on the side to adjust things or dismiss alarms". Ok, super awkward and still no buttons, but at least it has local controls, right? Well, I go to try it and it just gives the long-buzz error indication. Turns out the app has to be used to activate the bed or schedule a start time before the local controls will let you control it. When they explicitly added a local control loop, they blocked it from working unless the cloud service said it was ok.
This is not “crappy developer stupidly doesn’t know how to make local control work”. This is “developer going out of their way to screw over a customer to force them to keep paying for every single month they want the product to keep working”.
A shame, aversion to buttons aside, the hardware design is really quite good, quiet and effective and seemingly more leak resistant.
Curious why you got a downvote, if there’s a good reason, I would have found a reply more informative…
I suppose I may be overestimating Louvre security. I guess I would assume a criminal might have to be somewhat smart to overcome what I presumed to be higher security than you might find at a typical target for idiot criminals.
I’m not familiar with AWS myself, but they seemed to be referencing something they vaguely characterized as ‘security infrastructure’, kind of as a handwaving for why they thought it made sense to be single point of failure because to enable distribution of it would somehow be insecure…
I frankly wasn’t interested in delving deeper, because that excuse sounds pretty stupid, but I’d be trying to get details I don’t personally need about something I probably shouldn’t be arguing about. I’ve gotten burned too much by someone championing something stupid ostensibly in the name of ‘security’ to try to sign up for another one of those arguments.
I’m also skeptical that any payment processing networks were impacted. I would be surprised, but less so if they couldn’t manage their account online which might have similar effect. I’m not surprised at all of the grocery store or restaurants were significantly impacted. I know a lot of the apps were broken and I could imagine someone used to apping everything leaving their cards at home and unable to get lunch. Might have some aggressively “modern” establishments that are kiosk only and I could imagine them getting downed by aws outage.
outside a single DC?
I’m told that a lot of the companies did all the right things but still got taken down because some dependent Amazon services are tethered to that single DC and only Amazon has the power to change that.
1.1.1.1 went down for a while not too long ago
In the melt down and recut scenario, is it “easy money” though? Seems like robbing the most famous museum in the planet would be inviting one of the most well resourced investigations over gems that I presume could have been stolen from somewhere a little more low profile.
I’m not remotely knowledgeable, but it feels like it wouldn’t be worth going after the louvre specifically without confidence you have someone willing to acquire the pieces intact rather than having to erase nearly all their “value” in the process.
Feels like that would be super high risk for relatively low reward. I would have guessed if you wanted some relatively anonymous gems you’d do just as well with much less risk finding a couple of much lower profile jewelry stores or something.
Problem is that as a provider, if you are sure you are confident you’ll get hit by an outage at some point anyway, it’s actually better for you if a bunch of other big names are brought down at the same time.
Instead of “that one service sucked”, the story is “aws sucked”. If it happens too much people will more widely say “ok they suck for using aws”, but for now the transparency gets them treated more like being affected by an unavoidable external condition.
I’m grateful a lot of sites I like didn’t use aws, but I’m not exactly a common demographic and even I won’t know if she is the services even move or not until another such outage.
Question is to what extent it is the breed versus the owners drawn to or scared away from the breed. These things can be self fulfilling.
Still based on taxes, they know how to make it work.
The basic logistics or the least of the open questions.
If every one gets 2k a month, how do prices react? Social security participants are only a subset of participants in the economy.
If everyone’s compensation is equal, guaranteed, and sufficient assuming prices didn’t just screw up, can you still get people doing work like sanitation? Social security is from a mindset that no productive prior is no longer required. It pays more to someone that made 100k a year than someone that made 50k a year, so your get proportional to what you put in.
With many bearaucracies there’s plenty of practically valueless work going on.
Because some executive wants to brag about having over a hundred people under them. Because some proceas requires a sort of document be created that hasn’t been used in decades but no one has the time to validate what does or does not matter anymore. Because of a lot of little nonsense reasons where the path of least resistance is to keep plugging away. Because if you are 99 percent sure something is a waste of time and you optimize it, there’s a 1% chance you’ll catch hell for a mistake and almost no chance you get great recognition for the efficiency boost if it pans out.