I don’t understand why there isn’t a simple system where you register your interest in vaccine, age, medical conditions and leave your contact info to be called in when your shot is ready.
I think issuing fiat money and setting price of credit by fiat are two faces of the same coin. I think the way real interest rates behaved under the "Gold Standard" would be close to an answer to your question.
Yeah, I admit my comparison to the subway costs was not fair.
Still, let them try something new. What have you got to lose? If the R&D work they're doing here results in even marginal improvements in tunneling technology, I'd call this a win for everyone.
Yeah, those subway networks cost $2.7 billion per mile (in NYC) and take decades to complete. He managed to do it in a couple of years at an estimated cost of $10 million. Even if that number is wrong by an order of magnitude this is a massive improvement.
The "Elon Musk" persona is no doubt annoying, but is that a reason to undermine and shoot down new ideas? Don't let your schadenfreude get in the way of recognizing real achievements.
I really don't understand all the cynicism around this. It's a prototype of a bold idea, in all likelihood it will fail (like most bold new ideas), but at least they're trying something new. That's how change happens, through trial and error, not through foolproof, perfectly executed plans. For better or for worse, Elon Musk has a track record of taking difficult ideas and beating all odds to make them a reality.
If you wanna call out Elon Musk for something, call him out for his abusive management practices and erratic/abusive behavior on twitter. Calling him out for trying out bold ideas (with all the trial and error that entails) is really petty and counterproductive.
> So i know what local echo is. It has nothing to do with prediction :)
Not precisely, because you're sometimes predicting whether a keypress should be rendered as a letter on the screen or not (e.g. if you click 'j' in vim command mode it doesn't actually print j). mosh, at least from my experimentation, seems smart enough to do that reliably.
That's not what mosh is, it doesn't predict what you're going to type. It however proactively renders the characters you type before it receives confirmation from the tty on the other end.
In other words, imagine typing ssh somebox.typo.com and waiting 1 second before the text renders and discovering the typo, then pressing backspace, waiting a while for the backspaces to render, then going through all of this again. With mosh you'll be able to instantly see what you typed and fix it. On high latency connections it makes a huge difference in quality of life.