Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old school “you must all work physically in San Francisco” company. I work for one of their competitors now, one that embraces remote work.
> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.
It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.
> 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI)
> The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud
> Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.
> In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through ageing we get back from scientific progress.
This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on that path.
100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED bulb that lasts as long as the tech is capable of.
> The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children
This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are not sufficient for the conclusions you’re making.
> The EFF is politically ineffective and always has been for reasons I don't understand, and no one else seems to care.
Going by the EFF's latest published financials (2022), they took in $23 million vs $16.6 million in expenses. Vs literal billionaires and nation states. Some of the billionaires have more money than the nation states do. David, meet Goliath.
I care. I give them my money. They seem to do a better job at advancing these interests than anyone else. I'm more in awe of their attempts to take on issues of this magnitude given their meager resources than anything else.
Treating remote as the exception rather than the rule, or at least as a fully supported, equal labor force is the most common way I’ve seen companies get remote work wrong.
This is SpaceX, unintentionally or otherwise, making things worse for everyone else within range who uses those frequencies. The band in question (2 meters, around 144 MHz) is probably the #1 most commonly used band by the licensed amateur radio community.
Steve knew the value of communication and respect, and when to give it and when not to, and how that strategically applied to Apple as a company. Elon knows none of these things - ego is his north star.