And most prime ministers and defence ministers of "allies" are resigning left and right. Something deeper is most likely that they don't want to be involved in this region conflict and be on leash of US.
EU made the mistake of following US into middle east and syria which blew up in their face with millions of refugees pouring in.
Getting involved in this RU-UKR war is the mistake to end all mistakes. There is no coming back from this. The world is polarized and EUR/USD is going to take a lot of pain.
EUR was created to offset some of the leash that US had on Europe and that's also tightening now.
Good reason to get a Yubikey or similar, and use it to generate WebAuthn‐based SSH keys that can’t be used once exfiltrated. (“ssh-keygen -t ed25519_sk”)
Yes, but once an attacker has root on your systems they may well install something that captures that passphrase so a chunk of hardware that you have with you would seem to offer some extra protection.
Fortunately ssh has forward secrecy, so if you are using the keys in your ssh client and don't use them after they are compromised, then your traffic remains secure. However if these keys are used in an ssh server and someone has marked those keys as trusted, potential issues remain. Unfortunately ssh does not have the PKI infrastructure of ssl to revoke keys.
But an ssh server (or any other server) should not also be used as a development environment that is pulling dependencies (if you are developing a server, then you should be using dummy keys and doing the development in a non-production environment).
It took only 8 months because covid has been in existence for decades. Covid 19 strain was new and the vaccines had to be adjusted to new strains not created from ground up
Not so; the mRNA technology used to develop and deliver the vaccine has been in progress for decades. The hardest parts were done before SARS-CoV-2 ever existed, but it's wrong to claim that "the vaccines" needed to be tweaked - they never existed.
For people confused about this, there were prior commercial attempts at coronavirus vaccines, with mixed success. They were not RNA vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccines built on that research (regarding what proteins to target, in particular), but the COVID vaccines that were rolled out were completely novel technology.
I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing.
He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market.
I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr
IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democratic-voting Americans who previously were its biggest supporters.
It’s hard to believe he spent $44B and crashed his car company’s valuation and personal reputation just to bring back Babylon Bee’s trans harassment onto an also-ran social media platform. It’s even harder to believe that some people fantasize about moving to a Mars colony where a person with this kind of judgment is king.
I work with scientists. Everyone who got a tesla feels a bit off about owning it now. Many jokes are had about being a musketeer, and the rise of twitler etc.
It's all jokes, but then at the end of the day, everyone else drives home in some other car and they don't know what the CEO said about "tweet of the day" etc. Yet Musk is all in everyones face all the time. It doesn't seem to be a winning strategy at the moment.
Tesla cars have been described as an electric car software platform, so I'm not surprised they are nervous. The car is not just what it is today, but depends on remote services, regular updates and foremost it seems like the car can fundamentally change its features based on remote software updates. It's concerning, suddenly you do not trust that software vendor as much as you did before.
Maybe $80k capital assets turning into scrap-value bricks would finally be significant enough for the general population to wise up to the scam that is the Internet of Trash.
TSLA was always going to go down since it was (and probably still is) way overpriced. In fact I think a large part of why he started this twitter saga was to have an excuse to offload a bunch of stock at the top. He probably then hoped to get more people into the deal with him, so he could keep some billions left over.
Elon Musk is fairly well protected. Tesla corporate bylaws require a supermajority of votes for any major changes, so despite only controlling a minority of voting rights he has an effective veto over any shareholder resolutions.
The anti-trans movement masquerades as feminism but is essentially a retread of the anti-gay arguments of 1960-2000. Gays need medical help. Gays shouldn’t be allowed in spaces with children. Gay men don’t belong in spaces where real men interact (like the army) because they’d be colonizing them with their unbridled sexuality. Etc.
This is hardly the kind of thing where a prudent CEO spends $44B to make a stance.
That’s actually good news for Tesla in the long run.
It’s a company that sells cars mostly to yuppies and woke buerguesie who drive the cars as a statement.
Now it’s time to let this bird fly and see if it survives, for that it needs to appeal to the mass market and not just the ones who “move to Canada” every 4 years.
Tesla stock like every stock is (over)valued based on the future, and at this point de-Musking Tesla a little bit could be the thing that actually brings the money to those Tesla stock “investors” in the mid/long run.
Apple around 2000 was stuck in a niche that would probably be described as “woke” today: graphic designers and hipsters.
The way that Steve Jobs broke out of the niche wasn’t that he suddenly started courting Dell PC buyers and went around saying: “Designers are dummies and ‘Think Different’ was a joke anyway.”
That’s basically how Musk is treating his existing Tesla customers now. (Including myself. The car is still good but I have serious doubts I’d buy another.)
> It’s a company that sells cars mostly to yuppies and woke buerguesie who drive the cars as a statement.
You’re bringing a lot of emotional baggage to this mischaracterization. Tesla’s buyers are affluent because they didn’t sell anything cheap but that doesn’t make them woke - the dedicated environmentalists bike or take the bus to work - and the smartest move Tesla ever did was making the first one a sports car. That got all of the “car guys” interested because it changed the thought of an EV from something bland but virtuous to a fun, premium experience. Even knowing that “woke” is how right-wingers describe anyone who isn’t, it’s really not accurate – I know more libertarians who bought them until the quality control problems started catching up with them.
Before launching a GoFundMe for Elon, consider that when it’s that much money Elon doesn’t really have a problem, the bankers do. No matter what happens, Elon is going to be just fine.
That's a nice saying, but it does not really hold true. Sure, banks aren't going to repossess Musk's house or anything like that. But they will recover what they're owed, in some form or the other. That's pretty much all that they do, all day, every day.
The interest on the loan is $1B a year. Twitter’s revenue in 2021 was $6B. Can he pay the interest back? Sure. Is he going to have 1B in liquid capital every year? Harder.
Does he ever recoup the cost of buying Twitter at that rate? outlook doesn’t look good.
Just because he’s super-rich doesn’t mean he’s immune to bad decisions. Becoming rich and staying rich are two different skill sets. Many a fortune has been squandered by people pursuing bad ideas.
Boris Johnson is another example. He made Boris almost a brand.
I hear a lot of people say 'Rishi' now, and it seems to be a bit of a joke at Rishi Sunaks expense, to be derogatory about the PM, rather than branding.
I really meant within the right context, which would be western folks in tech talking about notable people in the industry, and likely have mentioned Google at some point in the conversation. Sergey isn't a common name among the notable in western tech.
Elon is even more unique of a name to western ears, so I was just pointing out that another (yet less unique) name also gets the first-name treatment.
For more examples, I'd say Satya Nadella also gets 50/50 first/last name treatment in casual conversation.
The poster you are replying to could possibly be Indian. Possibly this could be one reason
(Disclaimer - I am just assuming and not answering for him)
In India last name could mean anything ranging your "caste" / religion / community / god / place / family / fathers name / or any other random stuff.
Singh is a common last name and if you go to some parts and call Mr. Singh and possibly 100's would respond. And there are people with surname "Bangalore" because they were born there.
And in my part of South India, some of our last name is "First name" of our parents (mostly Father.. nowadays people also started adding their mother's first name). So my name is "My first name" + "My father's first name. And my son is named "Son's first name" + "My First name". It continues this way.
So most of us use the First name to mention someone. And you can see many Indian's making the mistake of addressing some one as "Mr. First name" though the proper usage is "Mr. Last name".
I had this difficulty when in Germany a government office asked why I have a different surname from my kid's and I had a hard time explaining it :)
You will hear more than a word of any foreign entity when the US has started plans to invade them while their enemies will be called stunning and brave... eg Taliban, Kurds, vietnamese, Ukrainians....
The irony of you commenting on a brainwashed article proves my point. in NK you can publish nothing, in US almost everything published is deceptive. See my point?
I meant they are enemies of states that the US wants to attack. Once they are used up, US will throw them out to the dogs. Like how US greenlighted turkey to attack kurds this week.
EU made the mistake of following US into middle east and syria which blew up in their face with millions of refugees pouring in.
Getting involved in this RU-UKR war is the mistake to end all mistakes. There is no coming back from this. The world is polarized and EUR/USD is going to take a lot of pain.
EUR was created to offset some of the leash that US had on Europe and that's also tightening now.