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Isn't that mantle taken up by Google?

I mean, we used to have a world like that once upon a time...

Software industry, because the construction industry still requires a human to sign off and approve the computer-aided design.

There are companies which are involved with building and marketing their own software for the construction industry, but they are also actively involved in the construction process in a consultative capacity. Only then could they even be classified as construction industry companies.

Everything is too expensive for European bureaucrats. Funny how the Europeans used to call the fledgling US in the 1700s a nation of shopkeepers, when right now, they are an entire continent's worth of lawyers and accountants (except for France and the UK, obv).

The only draw of Airbnbs was the idea of either really dirt cheap temp accommodation, or exotic stays at fancy locations. Airbnb exited the former market, and incumbent hotels have entered and do a much better job in the latter market.

Is it falling really? Would love to see some evidence.

AI centipede

I would never take the opinion of someone who says that Tesla's infotainment is best seriously. They're the pioneers of putting every essential car function on that damn screen, which is not only inconvenient but also a driving risk.

Perhaps he was trying to get line of sight into the desert by building the line...

Fun fact, MBS is a big fan of Age of Empires 2 and plays it in the mornings. Also funny story, I once saw a match being played, around US night time, where one player built a line of houses into the enemy territory so that the opponent was forced to micro their soldiers manually. Think of that what you may.

Not going to happen because building for the suckers in government pays. Or rather overpays.

To be fair, they dug their own grave. Schmoozing to the party in power for the last decade practically destroyed all of their credibility in the eyes of the youth. Not to mention, the BBC was the champion of empty virtue signalling in its programming, which gave enough fodder to neo-right online media outlets to render it irrelevant in the eyes of the right-wing population. Perhaps the only ones who'll clutch their BBC pearls are the Telegraph readers still dreaming of the good old days of yore.

It's normal to sell debt. It's not normal to underwrite bad debt.

My point was that even if you drive costs to 1000x, you're not somehow magically going to reduce consumption. Human output will match those efficiency gains in other forms. Imagine things like synthetic diamond jewelry being the norm, thermal pyrolysis of methane and CO2 into plain carbon, mining deeper underground for precious minerals, etc. A person in the 1890s could not have envisioned the things that would happen just 30 years later, enabled by cheap electricity.

Driving energy costs to near zero drives down the cost for literally every other process, manufacturing or extractive or services. A 1000x increase in energy practically lets you extract so much material for cheaper that the cost of materials, and the associated logistics, goes down.