View Poll Results: Who is Elon Musk

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  • An absolute Einstein level Genius

    2 9.09%
  • An absolute hustler Ponzi/pyramid schemer

    6 27.27%
  • Good intentions but poor conceptually

    2 9.09%
  • Seeks credit/wealth from others existing ideas

    7 31.82%
  • Klaus Schwab/Elite puppet distraction tool

    1 4.55%
  • A Jules Verne visionary ahead of his time

    4 18.18%
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    It doesn't sound that unreasonable TBH.

    Given the amount of Data they are talking about, I remember the absolute fleecing we got from doing Salesforce integration and bulk upserts and the datasets we were dealing with were a fraction of that.
    Did you read the article? You get precisely .3 % of the data for that money. That is less than when the API was free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post

    What is it you think a Conservative movement is?
    I'm running short on time, but did want to reply briefly to these points most.
    To be honest and completely sincere, I hold your explanation made a few months back of what conservatism is as being the gold standard. I even green blinged you on it.
    Trump did not follow any policy other than what is best for trump and what grift could he get away with that day. Any resemblance to it being a conservative policy is merely coincidental.
    No wall of text will convince me otherwise, not that, that will stop you trying


    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    Yes, Trump's maximum attack mode going against DeSantis isn't great.
    I assure you, this is Trump lite - he is just getting warmed up. I do not envy ron meatball santimonious one little bit Sugi runs to check on popcorn......

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    Quote Originally Posted by sugilite View Post
    Did you read the article? You get precisely .3 % of the data for that money. That is less than when the API was free.
    Sure - but how many tweets does 0.3% comprise? More than enough to take a representative sample for whatever it is you are looking at.

    As we both noted, there does seem to still be a mechanism for free usage of the API, so long as it's approved by Twitter.

    That doesn't seem unreasonable to me, especially considering the value of API access to Twitter and the amount of resource (CPU, Disk, Network etc.) that using it must take.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sugilite View Post
    I'm running short on time, but did want to reply briefly to these points most.
    To be honest and completely sincere, I hold your explanation made a few months back of what conservatism is as being the gold standard. I even green blinged you on it.
    Trump did not follow any policy other than what is best for trump and what grift could he get away with that day. Any resemblance to it being a conservative policy is merely coincidental.
    No wall of text will convince me otherwise, not that, that will stop you trying
    Sure, I remember that - but the explanation was specifically about where are the Right Wing Philosophers - and my point was what it's hard to be a conservative philosopher.

    The things that Trump did - and let me be charitable and accept your premise that it was all for the greater good of Trump - was to repeal excess regulation and red tape.

    That always tends to favor the smaller businesses (Costs of Compliance don't scale linearly - bigger business benefit from the economies of scale when dealing with compliance costs).

    His main campaign point 'Build the Wall' - could be considered an aspect of Conservatism - JBP discussed this a while back, essentially part of the Conservative ethos (apart from the individualist aspects that I tend to champion) is 'Everything in it's proper place' - this is the Order part of Conservatism. Enforcing things like a Border is a Conservative value (unless you are the UK Conservatives... But don't worry, Rishi will *totally* fix it... this time...)

    Quote Originally Posted by sugilite View Post
    I assure you, this is Trump lite - he is just getting warmed up. I do not envy ron meatball santimonious one little bit Sugi runs to check on popcorn......
    That depends on a lot of factors. It's possible, if Ron does decide to go for the Presidency, then I suspect you'll be right. but we don't know that.
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    Bannon seems to be not a musk fan, says he is owned. Hmmmmm


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    Harbour Bridge Tesla fire: Witness describes moment driver is pulled from wreckage https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/harbou...KALKJ4BAA522Q/

    Not sure I would have been brave enough to go near a burning Tesla!

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    ***Breakung News***
    Skipping the normal ten year phase of empty promises before lacklustre implementation a new Tesla product has started to be delivered before consumers even bought them. Musks secret AI development TwitTalk fully conducted market research and product design itself. The totally AI run Tesla Model 8 Giga factory produced the new cars and self delivered them with sixty generation full self driving to customers it predicted would buy them.
    The AI automatically deducted Twitcon coin from customers account s while they slept.
    Are you a new model 8 owner, better have a look in driveway.
    The cars have a 2000km range that auto recharged from earths magnetic field when carvis in motion and is fitted with Martin Baker ejections seats.
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    Tesla about to trial FSD beta in China, first major market outside the US to begin trials ( UK has already started testing) my prediction of self driving Teslas in NZ 2024 likely to play out.

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    Not for nz roads sport, with usual optimistic Tesla timing, maybe 2027 actual.

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    I see starlink has arrived in NZ.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    I see starlink has arrived in NZ.
    Has been here for ages, just had to wait for a sufficiently large disaster for people to desperately need crap internet because there were no viable alternatives.
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    I moved to my current location 9 months ago from rural to rural-ish. Long story short, no bloody mainstream broadband to be had. So i figured, no worries, I'll go starnet. Went online to order it and oh, a waiting list for equipment. They wanted a hefty deposit with no time frame what so ever for delivery. Ok i thought, ill contact them to get an idea of a time frame. Oh, no way to contact them = a fuck off starnet from me. Went with the literal only option I could find, stratanet. They are ok, just pray you do not need support though as it is pretty much non existent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by neels View Post
    Has been here for ages, just had to wait for a sufficiently large disaster for people to desperately need crap internet because there were no viable alternatives.
    Did not know that. Wonder if the govt will still plod on with rural infrastructure or just pay musky and go the maldives instead.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    Did not know that.
    They were trialing it on Stewart Island 18 months ago. Works pretty good but then so does Skinny wireless which is a shit load cheaper.

    Once they manage to get it to work on a boat at sea they will sell a few if the price is right.

    EDIT - A bit of info - https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/d...musks-starlink

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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    They were trialing it on Stewart Island 18 months ago. Works pretty good but then so does Skinny wireless which is a shit load cheaper.

    Once they manage to get it to work on a boat at sea they will sell a few if the price is right.

    EDIT - A bit of info - https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/d...musks-starlink
    Ta for the info. The Ad on titty says the hardware is down from over a grand to a couple hundy. I'm sure the govt will be off to the maldives.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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