Not worrying about the worth of the company as much, but more to salvage the chip maker expertise that Intel still has (Intel has been in several rounds of layoffs, including 15,000 in 2024).
According to the article, splitting Intel would be good (short term) for the shareholders, bad long term, and bad for the country.
Intel is still a great asset, but it looks like it is losing its appeal as time passes. CEO of Intel is deemed to be a very challenging position. The board does not seem to know how to turn the ship around.
I could see Musk steering that ship. It is technically challenging (Musk seems to thrive in those environments), and it could even benefit the other Musk companies to some extent (XAi, Tesla and even maybe SpaceX).
Intel market cap is 94.713B (AMD is 233B, ARM Holdings is 144B... not mentioning NVIDIA), so about twice what Musk paid for Twitter. But if Musk sets his view on Intel, he would not have a hard time to finance the purchase. Actually, he could wait a bit more as the stock can fall even more (today, Intel stock is at the price of Dec. 1996).
This is armchair talking/joke, and it would be one more crazy thing on the 2024 bingo card, but from all the crazy things we have seen recently, Musk taking over Intel would look quite normal in comparison.
Maybe if he owned the whole thing and could run it as he liked, without having to care about the stock price or paying money to investors, but personally I don't think anyone can do it while also satisfying the stock market.
I'm not sure Musk is especially qualified either, except that he could afford it.
Or a huge warning sign of the wealth disparity between the rich and lower-income group - it's a reality that lower middle-income group today cannot afford to buy homes; they are lucky if they can inherit one.
Its cool that so many people are blaming immigrants and foreign policy and border policy instead of the lack of accessibility to healthcare and affordable treatments or accessibility to preventative care.
We truly are in the fuck you and it’s your fault I don’t have mine era.
The US spends more on public healthcare per capita than any nation on the planet. (We also spend a lot more privately). I think this is a very and incorrect point of blame that has no basis in reality.
> We truly are in the fuck you and it’s your fault I don’t have mine era
Yes, but please don't blame people for feeling that way. People don't feel safe.
When people are insecure, they look to authoritarians for simple solutions. And both major political parties are happy to oblige.
When people are secure, they can care more about other people and issues beyond themselves. But they have to feel safe first. Unfortunately, lack of safety is something people can campaign on and campaigning on "things are good enough already" just never works - even when it's true.
We are in an era where we keep giving up more and more of our civil rights for a promised safety that is never delivered.
Lately, I often think about that drawing where three people are at a table. A blue-collar worker (mine worker or construction worker), a black sad looking black person (immigrant), and a rich guy in suit.
The blue collar worker has a single cookie on his plate, the immigrant no cookies at all, and the rich guy a plate full of cookies. The rich guy with his plate full of cookies, looking at the worker, points to the immigrant. “He wants your cookie”.
No immigrant who turns up at the US border has paid any taxes or contributed anything to US society. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Anyway, that wasn't the point. The point is that if you enter a foreign country it's your responsibility not to bring any diseases with you.
> No immigrant who turns up at the US border has paid any taxes or contributed anything to US society. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Anyway, that wasn't the point. The point is that if you enter a foreign country it's your responsibility not to bring any diseases with you.
This is so laughably silly I don't even know where to begin.
First of all, I was a temporary immigrant to the US and I immediately was on the hook for a bunch of money as part of my visa application process. So immediately I'd argue your first point is incorrect on that technicality anyway, not to mention I was basically moving to the US to start a business so then spent the next two years dumping money into the economy.
What is your expectation of responsibility here? You can be sick and not know you're sick. You can be sick and asymptomatic. You can be sick and think you're sick with something basic like a cold but it's actually the flu or COVID or something else more sinister.
Pretending that anyone is going to adhere to an undefined system of responsibility at the best of times, let alone when it comes to moving overseas into a different country, seems ludicrous to me - I'm supposed to cancel might flight and re-arrange my immigration plans because I have a runny nose?
If you want to have a healthy country you need publicly accessible healthcare for everyone. We literally just had an object lesson in this with the COVID pandemic - indeed, we're still in the middle of the object lesson, where people's sense of "responsibility" towards others when it comes to communicable diseases is visible everywhere you look.
You said "paid any taxes or contributed anything". I'm just pointing out that you're wrong, right out of the gate.
And even if you were right, which you're not, you'd be wrong about 10 minutes after the average immigrant turns up when they first have to buy something and pay sales tax.
The "sense of entitlement" exists in your head. I'm noting that if you want to have a healthy society, a plan to look after sick people is a necessity. Your sort of thinking is exactly why almost one in three hundred Americans died in the first year of the pandemic.
FWIW I left the US for the UK in 2016. Before arriving there I had to pay into their national health insurance scheme. If you object to immigrants coming and not paying their way you could agitate for such a scheme. But I assume that's not the point.
Anyway, looks like you're going to get what you want and nobody is going to come to the US any more. You'll get to see what it's like when it works like that.
Look, I object to the idea that the host country is responsible for the spread of diseases that are brought by immigrants, which is what you're implying when you blame the spread of diseases on the lack of affordable healthcare. I didn't know this was controversial.
It's totally normal for countries to screen for this stuff both at border entry and as part of the immigration process. In Australia we check at the border if you're coming from a country where they have certain diseases (e.g. yellow fever). If you're applying for some immigration status you need medical checks if you're from certain countries to screen you for certain conditions (e.g. tuberculosis).
It is absolutely the host country's responsibility to do this to keep their own citizens safe.
With Elon, these types of massive changes are always just a year or two away and somehow never come or are not delivered as promised. They're bullish because it makes the stock price go up.
Because in large companies BI and data are managed by external people, and without a budget at 5, if not 6 digits, nothing happens.
If there are some self service BI, most likel self service is only by name.
Add some variants related to security, max number of licenses allowed (hilarity ensures if IT bears the cost on behalf of the business without being able to charge back), etc
- Reproducibility (the official, bundled Excel numerical routines have/had errors greater than floating-point precision) which avoids the unprofessional look of, say, least squares numbers that differ from a check by hand.
- Version and environment control. This is the fastest way I can answer the question, "what would these new routines produce if run against last October's pool of databases?"
- A presentation format where client customizations for style, dimensional units and currencies, human language, etc. can all be owned outside of your project.
I try to sell this approach when I can. Is there a particular BI that strikes a better balance?
Sometimes you have to do your thing and then enforce change (if you can). Large orgs can be just as odd as individuals but on a far grander scale.
I've worked for other firms and then my own for the last 24 years. My job title is Managing Director but I am under no illusion that my word is final. It is really final but only when I say so and I never do.
Oh a BI thingie. Yes that will fix everything. No it wont.
I've found Nicholas Wirths "call by name, call by value, call by reference" joke a very good model for FSD. It's called FSD, its not full, it's not "self" driving and it's referential value varies as a function of proximity to lawsuit.
The general sentiment I’ve seen from those within Tesla explaining it is that FSD is “just” the marketing name, and it is a set of capabilities in beta under active development to achieve and improve on its full set of capabilities. What’s unusual is that it’s a paid beta costing as much as what I’d think a final version would, and the fact that in its current state it is required by law to require occupant attention and inputs.
Elon Musk said he expects it to exit beta status somewhere in the 12.x train, which will tell us once and for what they define as “full self driving”.
I’ve used a few times and in those limited cases it was definitely fully self driving (albeit not my driving style), with an occasional nag to touch the steering wheel. It was mildly disconcerting at times =)
The interface and user experience of threads is pretty awful so it also does a good job of being boring and painful enough that you won't want to use it.
