Elon Musk - The Master thread

He means Gibson Rickenbacker, from the movie 'Cyborg.' ( Jean-Claude van Damme) And others. You basic larger than life He-who-is-not-like-us character.

And the documentary isn't old, it still serves as the public illustration of the Red Pill concept in real life. There isn't a Red Pill movement in the financial world even if people use the line. There has always been people telling others to wake up, but always there have been and will be those who insist on living in their own delusion. It may be earthshaking to THEM when they are forced to snap out of it, but it's pretty meaningless to everyone else.

Great old Phillip K. Dick short story. It became the feature film. 'Total Recall.'

'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/We%20Can%20Remember%20It%20for%20You%20Wholesale%20-%20Philip%20K.%20Dick.pdf
 
ScooterMan101 said:
Red Pill, Red Pilling is no longer about that old movie, it is about Moving over to the Right , in regards to Politic's .
It is used in context regarding the ever increasing number of people who are leaving the left ,
and moving over to the Right .
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Not sure what sort of news bubble you are living in, but:

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#ILeftTheGOP Trends as Former Republicans Share Why They 'Cut the Cord' With the Party

BY EWAN PALMER

Thousands of people have taken to Twitter to explain why they stopped supporting the Republican Party using the hashtag #ILeftTheGOP.

The topic was among the top trends on Monday morning as users posted their reasons for leaving the party, with many placing the blame on President Donald Trump.

The hashtag took off after columnist Cheri Jacobus tweeted that she left the party in 2016 as they nominated Trump and asked others to share when they "cut the cord."

Author Susan Bragwell described how she left the GOP when they became the "bootlicking, compromised, spineless, faithless, big government lackeys and cultists for an immoral, inept, would-be mob boss."

She added: "#ILeftTheGOP because they no longer represent me or my values as a Christian or a conservative. They're p***y-grabbing, lying, hateful, immoral weasels. I'm a happy Independent, now. No party owns my vote. It has to be EARNED!"
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One of America's most prominent conservative columnists wants Republicans to lose in 2020

Updated 11:40 AM ET, Tue June 2, 2020

For the better part of the last four decades, George F. Will has been at the intellectual center of American conservatism. Now he is calling for a full-blown rout of the Republican Party at the ballot box in November.

While Will has harsh words for Trump -- "this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron" -- he saves his true condemnation for the members of Congress who have enabled the President.

"In life's unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Congressional Republicans have made theirs for more than 1,200 days. We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation's domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for ... what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world's most risible deliberative body."
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May 31 poll on party affiliation: 28% republican 31% democrat
May 31 poll on who voters will vote for: 41% republican 49% democrat
 
JackFlorey said:
Not sure what sort of news bubble you are living in. . . .
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If you did you'd have angry mobs slay them, so you could have them driven before you. And you could hear the laments of their women.

Guess what, it's from reality. While of course so many low IQ's continue to gravitate and weigh down the left, you note the real support is waning. You can do all the stamping your feet you want, but no about of 'I'm not listening, nyah nyah nyah' can't change that. Of course if you'd do more of THAT instead of posting, this would make the rest of us happier.
 
It's great knowing that your brand new Tesla e.v. was built in a tent.

Tesla will need more plants soon. Its main plant in Fremont, California, has reached and even exceeded capacity, with many of the cars being built under a permanent tent-like structure that was added as it sought to increase production of the Model 3, now its best selling car.
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Yeah, Elon, i probably should have put this in the 'It Had to Happen' thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0tYYjcOPsU&t=248s

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markz said:
Dauntless said:
Yeah, Elon, i probably should have put this in the 'It Had to Happen' thread.
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That is typical for a guy like that to be doing that upgrade. There should be laws against it.
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If you watch the whole video he only did it for the show, it came off before it was over. Mainly the woman, though. She says nobody is impressed by a Tesla, they're like Toyota's. Everyone has one. Well, where's mine?
 
While I am supposed to be the anti-renewables jerk I like to try and keep this Elon Musk thread positive, Elon Musk makes most people happy and gives hope.

Here is new news and pictures on Starlink's new "UFO on a STICK", looks good.

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/ufo-starlink-terminal?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


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Thought I would *ADD* to this post, cos I just cracked open a beer and I am bored.
article quote "Every deployment of 60 satellites can deliver 1 terabit of bandwidth, which could potentially support 40,000 users streaming high-definition content simultaneously. "
1 terabit of bandwidth = 1,000,000mbits
1,000,000mbits / 40,000 = 25mbps each, 25mbps is plenty of bandwidth to high definition video.

Folks should know that Google has been very busy in the new video codecs world, their new AV1 codec is out which is the next major video codec technology over their previous VP9 video codec and is truly next generation.

It should be basic common knowledge for people to know that they can save 50% of their internet bandwidth using Google's AV1 codec which is from the same group that created VP9, when watching video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
Wikipedia quote In 2018 Facebook testing that approximates real world conditions, AV1 achieved 34%, 46.2% and 50.3% higher data compression than libvpx-vp9, x264 high profile, and x264 main profile respectively.
Most smart-TV devices only support old x264 so they can effectively cut their internet bandwidth usage in HALF if they get a an AV1 device when using YouTube and Netflix.

Netflix and YouTube are ITCHING for you to use AV1 codec because it saves them a ton of bandwidth and money.
For example if you go to your YouTube playback account settings you will see almost the only options there are to only use AV1 decode if you have a supported device
https://www.youtube.com/account_playback
AV1 settings
Always prefer AV1
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There is a video codec competitor the evil H.265
Almost all the major tech companies see it as a "wall street vampire squid" organisation/vicious patent troll sitting on old dated compression algorithms and standing in the way of people getting affordable high quality streaming, IMO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
Wikipedia quote The licensing fees are one of the main reasons HEVC adoption has been low on the web and is why some of the largest tech companies (Amazon, AMD, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, and more) have joined the Alliance for Open Media,[9] which finalized a royalty-free alternative video coding format AV1 on March 28, 2018

IMO, I think the tech giants like Google and Netflix see the people behind H.265 as nothing but vicious patent trolls sitting on dated and simple trivial compression algorithms for completely unreasonable amounts of money, maybe old broadcast media organisations are also behind it.

There a multiple hardware encoders for AV1, some of them are so fast they are so fast they can encode to AV1 in real-time
https://www.microcontrollertips.com/al-e210-multi-format-video-encoder-hardware-ip-av1/
AOMedia was formed in 2015 by industry leaders such as Google, Netflix, Intel, Microsoft with the charter to provide an open-source, royalty-free alternative to H.265/HEVC and other standards while improving the compression rate and delivering the same video quality at lower bitrate.
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The AL-E210 is the first video encoder IP to implement real-time and file-based encoding in AV1 format up to 4K/UHD resolutions

Microsoft historically love to pay for licences like video codecs and embed them in their operating system for their software, this is why MS Edge/Explorer have always been able to play Netflix in full 4k with HDR with no problems.
MS typically like doing this because it gives them advantages over software competitors and costs little for them because they can bake-in better-competing software deals via mass licencing and also trade in their own patents with patent pools.

For Microsoft to take a different path against their traditional model means they saw costs for H.265 were too high or MS feared that the people behind H.265 would later change their mind and drastically hike the license cost price later down the road, or a combination of both.
All up MS taking a different path suggests extreme greed on H.265's behalf, IMO.

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So in summary what this all means is that 60 Starlink stats should be able to serve not just 40,000 people watching HD video but instead 80,000 people if they are using the new AV1 video compression codec.

For AV1 the processors for hardware decoding and encoding are available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware

Intel's next major CPU/GPU will have native AV1 decode.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leaked-slides-confirm-Tiger-Lake-U-Gen12-Xe-s-2x-graphics-boost-over-Ice-Lake-a-new-FIVR-implementation-and-HW-accelerated-12-bit-HEVC-VP9-encode-decode.466447.0.html
This wikipedia chart needs updating, where AV1 decode support is just blank/empty, but all the latest tech sites say its there for Tiger Lake CPUs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardware_decoding_and_encoding


Google's new "ChromeCast" is going to be a TV box style with its own UI and comes with a dedicated remote.
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-android-tv-dongle-remote-ui/
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/16/everything-we-know-about-googles-upcoming-android-tv-dongle-code-named-sabrina/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCoaEDBre0&feature=emb_logo
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Google's Sabrina Android TV box is rumored to have the Amlogic S905X2 chip, this means it can't hardware decode AV1, but the next level up the S905X4 can hardware decode AV1.
Wikipedia quote Amlogic S905X4 (Q4 2019): Mid-range SoC pin-compatible with S905X2 and -X3 processors. Adds 4k 120fps AV1 decoding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amlogic#Media_player_SoCs_(S8_&_S9_family_gen_4)
So the S905X4 is literally pin-compatible with S905X2, so it requires almost nothing for Google change over to AV1 capable S905X4 chips when they want to, maybe next year for Googles next TV box after this upcoming version?

Anyway the whole thing is coming together nicely to work with Elon Musk's Starlink dream, IMO.
 
Elon Musk's Tesla now most valuable car company in the world by market cap
Tesla Is Now The World’s Most Valuable Car Company With A $208 Billion Valuation
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-surpasses-toyota-becomes-worlds-most-valuable-automaker
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/tesla-blows-past-toyota-to-become-most-valuable-automaker-in-the-world/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/07/01/tesla-is-now-the-worlds-most-valuable-car-company-with-a-valuation-of-208-billion/#285236665334
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/tesla-toyota-most-valuable-automaker
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/tesla-tops-toyota-to-become-largest-automaker-by-market-value.html

Elon Musk can now fire force lighting and say "Unlimited Power"
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That also should go along with his investment into RISC-V architecture that was shown off in a LTT episode a little while ago; couple that efficiency with such increased bandwith and I wonder if his dreams of fully-autonomous driving will have starlink central to his goals.

TheBeastie said:
Elon Musk can now fire force lighting and say "Unlimited Power"
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please thats just what he does when he cums in Grimes lol
 
What the heck was the LTT episode, what does LTT even mean?


CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING said:
That also should go along with his investment into RISC-V architecture that was shown off in a LTT episode a little while ago; couple that efficiency with such increased bandwith and I wonder if his dreams of fully-autonomous driving will have starlink central to his goals.
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markz said:
What the heck was the LTT episode, what does LTT even mean?


CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING said:
That also should go along with his investment into RISC-V architecture that was shown off in a LTT episode a little while ago; couple that efficiency with such increased bandwith and I wonder if his dreams of fully-autonomous driving will have starlink central to his goals.
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LTT means Linus Tech Tips. I don't have the time to find it, but the vid is only about ~4 months old. It has a kinda click-baitey name tho.

To sum up the 10 minute video- we still run x86 processor languages on everything thanks to windows being so popular, and it's massively out of date- for example, when you have a CPU with multiple cores it would make sense to "attach" one program to "One" core- except x86 can't do this on a base level, since it was made in an era when that didn't exist. Instead, x86 plays musical chairs with your program, each "core" doing a single process in a 1-2-3-ect. path which is SUPER inefficient and uses way more power than it needs to. On top of that, x86 has some ~1,500 commands to run the CPU itself with many being unused since the 90s thanks to the march of progress- ever wonder why a floppy drive is always drive A? Or a CD Drive always Drive C? That's because of x86- it's literally hardwired into the programming.

RISC-V doesn't do that. Remember 1,500 commands for x86? RISC-V has 50 and was built from the ground up to be as efficient as possible. RISC-V is a faster processor because it's far more efficient in moving information and data, capable of assigning single tasks per core and running the CPU on far less power- couple that with the language bring open sourced by the creators (so even if it fails, someone can always learn it and support your program in-house, big deal for companies as they're beholden to nobody but themselves) and Tesla is just one of hundreds that are now boot-strapping RISC-V for everything from Point-of-sale to servers. They've begun porting games to it too!
 
markz said:
CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING said:
LTT means Linus Tech Tips.
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ya ok, dont bother
Linus sold his soul a long long time ago
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As opposed to what? This is capitalism baby, man's gotta eat somehow and I have the patience to wait while he's hocking some shirt in a 15 second bit.
 
Linus is not to bad but he mostly does stuff I'm not really interested in. I prefer Gamer's Nexus or Hardware Unboxed. Bitwit Is best for computer how-to entertainment. His parody of a Verge computer how-to video was pure genius. I kind of like Paul's hardware mostly because he's a nice guy and showed me how to get windows for free.
 
Funny enough, that company that made the Tesla tent also makes those tents as surgical theaters for Doctor's Without Borders, and I've done medical standbys under them. If you seriously think it's bad, I'm sure a local landscaper or road crew member would love to hear about it lmao
 
Elon Musk is now the fourth-richest person in the world. He's about to get even richer
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/26/investing/elon-musk-pay-package-tesla-stock-options/index.html

Just when everyone was wondering if Elon Musk was running out of money/power turns out he has unlimited power! :bolt:

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On Elon Musks Starlink it looks pretty good, some people are getting 20ms on speedtest.net, I don't actually thing speeds are a big deal when you are in the middle of no where and can't get any other internet, 20ms for latency is FAR lower than other sattlite internet which is typically around 600ms.
I am sure it will get faster in mbps once more sats are up.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/spacex-starlink-beta-tests-show-speeds-up-to-60mbps-latency-as-low-as-31ms/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/i9w09n/list_of_confirmed_starlink_speed_tests/

Here is the Starlink stat-map
https://heavens-above.com/Starlink.aspx
 
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