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I remember when these rolled out.. it was just an obvious cash grab by cert vendors, trying to create a trust-badge in collusion with browsers.

Back then, cert vendors would try to sell you on "premium" certificates.. telling you that cheap ssl certificates weren't good enough, so you needed to pay for $100-300+/yr certificate, and you could show to your visitors by displaying silly trust seals like the "Thwarte Seal".. as if customers would know who the hell Thwarte is.

Then this EV seal was launched, displaying what was essentially a trust seal in the browser.. and these same vendors would charge $500+/yr for it.

I can't express how great it is that EV certs died.

there is a middle ground between proprietary models and self-hosting: Fireworks, et al. Popular models like DeepSeek have a couple dozen providers on openrouter.

at least the CyberTruck shipped.

9 years since the announcement of Roadster v2, people who paid 50k deposits are still waiting.

Time to up the promises, and ask for more $50k deposits for v3!

VCs are a type of PE firm. So is growth capital. You're confusing a sub type--called LBOs--for the entire industry.

Private Equity does fund R&D.. mostly the D(evelopment) part. Most R&D, both in the US and China, is not fundamental/basic research.

I disapprove of the Iran war, but to play devils advocate: there's a major shift occurring right now in the way wars are fought. The Ukraine-Russia war has made it clear that conventional militaries will find themselves in a meat grinder in the next war.. that includes the US.

Iran is one of the largest drone producers... and the US military is doing live testing of anti-drone weapons and energy directed weapons in the straight of hormuz against Iranian drones.

A lot of Americans are going to die in the next war if we don't figure out the right way to maintain our dominance against these new tactics.

the current ai boom started here in america with private funds. china is spending government funds in a desperate attempt not to lose the race. it’s not clear that china is in the stronger position, at least yet.

and yet the oversupply of investment funds looking for projects created the current AI boom here in America, not China.

China “leads” but only in iterating on things already invented.

but we never ask what’s wrong with china that they spend so much on r&d but fail to invent novel things.

> There's not a "pay them more" button we can hit that generates more domestic doctors, especially not in under 10 years.

That's literally how the button works. An undersupply in the market, increases prices.. kids and students deciding what they want to do with their life, see the wages and decide 10 years of school is worth it... and after 10 years you get more doctors.

If there's an undersupply, that's a clear indication that young people are looking at the field and deciding the wages don't justify the investment.

By short-circuiting the process of the free market, you're guaranteeing the shortage will continue.

> There is a fairly consistent schedule posted by david927.

My comment about the schedule is based only on david927's posting schedule. I don't see the schedule.. they look like random dates during the month. If you see a pattern there, feel free to spell it out for me.

I also couldn't find any discussion with dang. link?

looking at the post dates, there doesn't seem to be a schedule at all. it's posted randomly... posts on 9th through the 30th. Back in 2024, it was even posted regularly on the 1st.

IMO if there isn't a schedule, then posting it on the 1st sounds good.. since that's when the other posts like this are submitted.