The ICE guys still get paid:

While there is some FY2026 funding for ICE, the agency received a $75 billion infusion of funding over the next decade through the already-passed “Big Beautiful Bill,” so a lapse in funding at DHS would not cease operations there.

Even if this funding doesn’t show up, ICE will still have more funds than the FBI.

Note that this doesn’t impact ICE, as they were so special they already got massive funding independent of this discussion.

Hence why the GOP doesn’t care that much.

I guess the same way email can have html as an attachment for the same thing a plaintext does, evidently some of these mails suggested a mailer actually pdf encoded the email and attached, as well as the plain text.

So when someone replied with plaintext the base64 encoded PDF that they were replying to got ‘quoted’, meaning the unredacted email they were replying to is in there, just messy due to font confusion in the provided format.

Some of the reactions are some in an effective way, and I assume this example is one of them. The problem being evidently they didn’t think any what might be in big base64 blobs in the PDF, and I guess some of these folks somehow had their email encoded as PDF, which seems bonkers…

Also some of their own manufacturers got caught up on this stupidity of electronic door latches too

A door handle should not require reading a manual, especially not if it works one way day to day but an entirely different way in an emergency when people are least likely to think of perusing the manual (which is also electronic in the Teslas, I believe).

The normal handles might shift the coefficient of drag by 0.01 by the most generous estimate I could find, and the Lucid Air has a coefficient of 0.197… It’s insignificant. A flap-type door handle that is recessed is probably exactly the same as the ‘cool’ flat handle look, and if not an air baffle for the lower half would absolutely make it the same as the weird ones

Reading the actual quote, he wants to take over the elections but only in 15 states. He’s blatantly saying he wants to take over states that Democrats might be able to win, leaving the red states alone.

He’s not taking about primaries, and in fact he said 15 states, so he only wants to take over voting in startes that are difficult for him.

Keep in mind these are dual socket systems, and that’s CPU without any GPU yet. So with the CPUs populated and a consumer-grade high end GPU added, those components are at 1500W, ignoring PSU inefficiencies and other components that can consume non-trivial power.

For USA, you almost never run a 20A circuit, most are 15A, but even then that’s considered short term consumption and if you run over a longer term it’s supposed to be 80%, so down to 1440W. Space heaters usually max out at 1400W in the USA when expected to plug into a standard outlet because of this. A die-hard enthusiast might figure out how to spread non-rendundant multiple PSUs across circuits, or have a rare 20A circuit run, but it’s going to be a very very small niche.

But then there are the differences.

Let’s say the COVID vaccinne triggered a whole lot of new pharmarcies that specialized only in vacinnes. Still good news for Moderna. Except those new pharmacies can’t quite afford the vaccines they set up their business to work in. Moderna’s stock is so high though, that they can leverage that stock to get money to invest in those new pharmacies to give them money so they can buy the vacinnes.

Then the pandemic passes and those pharmacies have no business and fold and their market cap collapses to zero and Moderna spent a bunch of money they didn’t actually have on now worthless equity, and their revenue and perceived value drops back to pre-bubble levels. Except even lower because they incurred liabilities that they didn’t have pre-bubble.

For the crypto bubble, nVidia went out of their way to keep their financials out of it. But for AI they’ve been giving their biggest customers the money they need to buy nVidia’s product. Basically a cyclone of big top line numbers self-funded but enough to drive the markets wild for nVidia stock. The big players have likely already ensured billions of more secure assets that won’t pop as hard and so “why not?” to play with the extra ‘free’ money to see how big the numbers can go.

start focusing on TVs that actually last now…

That only makes their “people need to refresh their sets for our bottom line” even worse for them.

BTW, 30 years ago TVs were expensive and still failed. There was a viable TV repair industry because it was worth spending the money to repair and easier to repair.

Anecdotally, my Plasma and my LCDs have been more problem free than when my family had CRT TVs back in the day.

Certainly his use of LLM was stupidly egregious, but he found that even by those standards the math results underpinning the LLM were way off.

Yes, they connect by PCIe and thus the physical mismatch may be overcome, but they also are now drawing 15kw. More wattage than any circuit in my residential breaker box can handle.

Even if you did, there’s not even a whiff of driving circuitry for a video port, so your only application would be local models, and if the bubble bursts, well that would seem to indicate that use case would be not that popular.

No I would expect that these systems get rented out of sold to supercomputer concerns for super cheap if a bubble pop should occur.

The server boards would pretty much have to come with them. Also, and if those cpus go as high as 500W, and as a result a lot of homes might not have a powerful enough socket to power them. Even without GPUs, might need something like a dryer outlet to realistically power.

Though a claim that the right voters just didn’t show up would help if magically the GOP carried the district in just 10 months when there is almost nothing free and fair that one could imagine causing such a rematch to change to the tune of a 14 point swing …

They have already leveraged their stock beyond their entire pre-AI market cap. There is no return to the old days now. If the AI boom goes bust on them, they have left themselves impossibly exposed. They will owe more money than they can possibly pay back.

They took what should have been a slam dunk to sell shovels for a gold rush with a nice fallback to previous viable business into an existential threat to their business.

A lot of the “AI” layoffs were using it as a plausible excuse for layoffs they wanted to do anyway. So I don’t anticipate a lot of them coming back.

Someone compromises your password. Now they can “find hub” to know exactly where you are. If they are a criminal, they can wait and strike when you’re online data says you are vulnerable.

You lose your unencrypted device. Someone launches your browser and logs into your bank…

Advertising knows your financial situation and might, for example, present a higher price because it sees that you generally are willing to pay more.

It’s not that you have something to hide sure to dubious behavior, it’s that all these others will exploit that knowledge to commit crimes against you or have unfair advantages in their relationship with you.

OEM license revenue represents a tiny tiny bit of their financials these days. They could just charge nothing for it and business wise no one probably notice much of a difference.

It is foundational to a lot of what they do, but older devices are just as good for their subscription and tie in revenue. Hell I use my work subscription for office from Linux, complete with OneDrive filesystem synchronization. Microsoft gets all their money from my headcount even as I don’t even use Windows.

But that capex could bite them hard if revenue falls to follow from it. That’s pretty much the only exposure investors care about.