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Cuba approves unprecedented free-market reforms to stave off economic collapse

spikels — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:49:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuba-approves-free-market-reforms-in-effort-to-stave-off-economic-collapse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601837

Points: 8

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New comment by spikels in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

spikels — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:20:12 +0000

The US uses ~0.5 TW of electricity on average but to go 100% solar you would need ~3 TW of solar capacity (6X average usage) and ~30 TWh of battery storage, maybe lots more, plus a massive upgrade to the grid.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:07:37 +0000

Chrysler (now Stellantis), Honda, Toyota and Geely all had/have rocketry divisions and many more auto companies have/are involved in the Aerospace industry more generally.

New comment by spikels in "Tell HN: The bloatification of SpaceX stock has started"

spikels — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:35:34 +0000

Musk never promised $1T revenue by 2030. Maybe that's the problem here.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:06:29 +0000

I think there are other reasons and am capable of critical thought. A variety of synergies have been discussed publicly for at least 9 years. This article lists several of them.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:56:18 +0000

This guy joked about it in 2013:

https://x.com/Loh/status/362036803517169664

A Wall St analyst was asking questions about it on Tesla earnings calls in 2016 and later wrote a research note about the idea. Been widely discussed since.

https://www.roic.ai/quote/TSLA/transcripts/2016-year/2-quart...

That the earliest mentions I could quickly find.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:44:03 +0000

It's been discussed for at least a decade. A Wall St analyst even wrote a note suggesting it back in 2017 that was widely covered in the media. Most people think is very likely to happen eventually.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/the-case-for-elon-musk-to-co...

New comment by spikels in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

spikels — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:01:59 +0000

Google is paying $12.00 per gpu-hour which costs SpaceX $1.50-$3.50.

Who's taking advantage of who?

New comment by spikels in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"

spikels — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:57:50 +0000

The saga of Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/musk-tesla-pay-delaware-supr...

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

spikels — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:26:00 +0000

The list of people saying they're going to put compute in space is getting long. Unlikely they're all dumb or faking it. It is clearly technically feasible but how the economics will develop is still unknown.

   Starcloud
   Axiom Space
   SpaceX (Starlink orbital data center constellation)
   Google (Project Suncatcher)
   Lonestar Data Holdings
   Blue Origin (TeraWave/Project Sunrise)
   Aetherflux (Galactic Brain)
   Kepler Communications
   Sophia Space
   Madari Space
   Adaspace / ADA Space / Guoxing Aerospace (China)
   Orbital (LA-based AI inference constellation)
   Atomic-6
   Planet Labs (with Google)
   Crusoe (partnership with Starcloud)
   Edge Aerospace
   Rotonium
   Lux Aeterna
   Star Catcher
   Loft Orbital
   Cowboy Space
   OrbitsEdge
   Galaxia (Canada)
   China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)
   Beijing Orbital Twilight / Orbital Chenguang
   Astro-Future Institute
   Space Compass (NTT + SKY Perfect JSAT JV, with JAXA support)
   NASA + HPE (Spaceborne Computer)
   European Union / ESA / ASCEND (Thales Alenia Space, Airbus, ArianeGroup, HPE, Orange)
   UNOOSA (with Madari Space)
   Canada’s Department of National Defence (with Galaxia)

New comment by spikels in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

spikels — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:46:09 +0000

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.

-Elon

https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2012390928221094335

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX Knocks Boeing from Dominant Role in NASA's Moon Mission"

spikels — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:55:59 +0000

https://archive.is/IkUrq

SpaceX Knocks Boeing from Dominant Role in NASA's Moon Mission

spikels — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/nasa-plans-bigger-spacex-moon-mission-role-in-blow-to-boeing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447552

Points: 4

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New comment by spikels in "Tesla's Grand Plan for the Future Is a Car with No Steering Wheel"

spikels — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:37 +0000

It's a two-seater

New comment by spikels in "xAI joins SpaceX"

spikels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:49:12 +0000

Haha. It's less than 1,000 words that would take less than 5 minutes to read.

I bet much less than half of the hundreds of HN commenters here bother to read it. Many are clearly unfamiliar with its content.

New comment by spikels in "xAI joins SpaceX"

spikels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:51:26 +0000

Google is currently working on AI data centers in space.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/go...

New comment by spikels in "xAI joins SpaceX"

spikels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:25:57 +0000

What temperature were you assuming?

Because the amount of energy radiated varies with the temperature to the fourth power (P=εσT^4).

Assuming very good emissivity (ε=0.95) and ~75C (~350K) operating temperature I get 808 W/m2.

New comment by spikels in "xAI joins SpaceX"

spikels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:38:07 +0000

Power would almost certainly mostly come from solar panels. The SpaceX-xAI press release mentions using mass drivers which are electrically powered. Could make Hydrogen-Oxygen rocket fuel but not needed in Moon's lower gravity/thin atmosphere.

New comment by spikels in "xAI joins SpaceX"

spikels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:25:29 +0000

It was originally for $15B. They raised $20B of which $2B was from Tesla.

Your sources might be shady (Elektrek?).

New comment by spikels in "xAI joins SpaceX"

spikels — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:32:38 +0000

Google, Blue Origin and a bunch of other companies have announced plans for data centers in space. I don't think cooling is the showstopper some assume.