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The strategies used to cool something in space are not going to work at all in the desert. The amount of solar power you'll get in the desert is orders of magnitude less, and intermittent. In the desert you will have to deal with rain, weather, and other parts of nature.

Elon has already built tons of data centers here on earth. He knows how to build them quickly. People even build them in tents these days.


California's light rail still exists, as does California High-Speed Rail, which is not light rail.


None of what you're saying is related to what the parent post is saying at all. He's saying, if the immigrants are exceptional, they should be on an O-1 visa, which is specifically designed for exceptional people. If they're not exceptional, then why not hire an unemployed American worker instead?

H1B supposedly is designed to address "shortages", but there are no actual shortages.


Native Instruments is a German company, not American. It seems unlikely that Germany wants them to fail or lose their IP, regardless of whether the US "threatens to invade" (?)


Germany would benefit much more from being allowed to RE American software than from forbidding RE of the much smaller amount of German software.


Elon's MacroHard initiative will replace all this in the next 18 months.


Can it detect sarcasm?


He shoots, he scores!


Another CoC fight.


But a lot of money was not involved here.


In our coming cyberpunk future, Starbucks will just be a brand of vending machines known for burnt coffee and LCD screens displaying scantily clad mermaids


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