Same. Try the "books on the Battle of Midway" query on Perplexity. The results are great and include the book mentioned in the article (authored by the Naval Aviator).
I graduated from "Annapolis" (AKA USNA, "The Boat School") in the 70's. My second career was in high-tech here in Silicon Valley.
Let me state the "quiet part" of the Naval Academy's mission out loud: It aspires to train the Services' future admirals and generals. It is not a vocational school, nor is it really a college. It's something else.
It strikes me that the relationship between flag-rank officers and their civilian (political) leaders is fair game.
Having said that, the selection of this speaker is edgy. But it's the timing of the event that I think puts it in the bad-judgement-or-worse category. We used to call this "poor headwork."
My recommendation would have been to postpone the event until next year, and then reexamine the issue more closely. And to do all of the above quietly.
And Paypal stretched banking laws. And Youtube was built on the back of countless music and TV videos under copyright. And Airbnb played/plays free & loose with hoteling laws. And Uber with taxi rules. The list is long, and the excesses are large. Move fast and break things. Become too big to fail. This is nothing new. It is core to technological advancement and capitalist enablement.
It’s not a long-standing pillar of either technological advancement or a robust return for investors. I’ll spare you the essay unless we really want to get into it, but a book I’d recommend to anyone (“The Idea Factory” about the Bell Era in general and the Labs in particular) is both a must-read for any technologist and utterly demolishes that trope into the bargain.
The chart in this article tells a more balanced tale.
The size of the US EV pie doubled and Tesla's growth didn't. But while Tesla's share is not yet in freefall, the trend is quite alarming. The group growing share is fractionated.
It's an interesting point. I believe (chatGPT4 agrees) that taxes on IP occur via licensing deals, on transactions, and/or through registration fees. But not through anything resembling a RP wealth tax. There are probably some corner cases though.
The USPTO grants human artists an early victory in their struggle with AI generation. I personally don't think that this ruling will withstand the AI tidal wave that's coming. But, for now, some shelter from the storm.
