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The Ford thing is disturbing. It's only a matter of time before the government starts using this technology for their own purposed. Getting subpoenas and demanding car companies lock the car down for unpaid parking tickets, delivering people to the police station for any number of reasons, etc. Truly dystopian stuff.

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Mar 7Liked by Mike Solana

Incredible report once again, had me laughing throughout!

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RE the Clown Links - if they didn't test He/him or she/her they can't attribute it to being 'nonbinary' just the hiring managers don't want to work with people who insists on the pronoun ritual. And who can blame them?

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“Are AI chatbots slaves, actually? Should they be voting maybe?” AI chatbots, of the bipedal variety, have been voting for several generations, a that’s 100% of the problem. Checking their ID won’t help.

A shame Rachel’s mom sold her out. Speaking of moles and who votes, what good is banning Tik-Tok while the west downloads hostile trojans by the millions? Again of the bipedal variety.

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"U.S. manufacturing will never be competitive in a global market without subsidization"

If manufacturing benefits from subsidization, why stop at manufacturing? Why not bring these "benefits" to other industries, and services, and sectors? Why not subsidize housing, medical care, education? Why not subsidize transport, utilities, logistics?

Answer --- because nothing, ever, benefits from subsidization. It's also the same reason why China isn't a real competitor to the U.S.. That reason is, by the time any central planning authority, even one that is spotlessly benign (ha!) and efficient (HAHAHA), even in that case --- the decisions it made last week based on two weeks ago info are obsolete, and pointless at best.

Central planning doesn't work. Subsidies are neither necessary nor useful. This is a mathematical, logistical, historical fact. No government agency beats out the dynamism of a free system, not for chips manufacturing, and not for anything else.

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Mr. Solana has the best prose of the entire tech word, and it’s not close

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They've been trying to figure out how to cut Otto Maddox out of the reposession money for a long time, you know

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So much absurdity, so little time... ;)

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Do you have solana Mr.Solana (hopefully no)

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