SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

Posted by dmarcos 3 days ago

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evanwolf 3 days ago||

Is X political ideology extending to cursor?

leptons 3 days ago|

I don't know but I won't touch anything Elon owns with a 10,000 foot pole.

neonstatic 2 days ago||

Question for Musk hating people - I understand why you hate Musk, but why is doing business with Altman or Microslop any better?

tomgp 2 days ago|

Not much better but at least they're not speaking at far right rallys and lending support to fascist parties across Europe.

neonstatic 2 days ago||

What really puzzles me is how years of woke insanity are forgotten / forgiven, but a nazi salute is not. Remember how Microslop employees used to start their presentations with a list of Native American tribes who owned the land their office was at? Maybe people don't read Orwell anymore... that stuff was straight out of 1984.

I see being downvoted on my question already - can people who hate Musk not see the difference between asking and supporting?

tomgp 2 days ago||

What microsoft employees do in the privacy of their own meeting rooms has basically no effect on me. When Elon Musk appears along side Tommy Robinson in my city, espousing racist "great replacement" to a crowd of drunken thugs and suggesting my neighbours and friends are problem to be expunged from society, well frankly he can fuck right off.

neonstatic 2 days ago||

https://youtu.be/PraEcNDGSqY?t=310 privacy of their own meeting rooms? Let's not forget about her stating for the audience her race, sex, and skin color. Those are very important things in the context of a programming conference :) There is no baked in reverse racism here at all. Only those awful right wingers do racism.

alpineman 2 days ago||

Time to delete Cursor then. I refuse to support someone that is doing so much active damage to democracy and cut funding for some of the poorest people on the planet.

bmitc 3 days ago||

Government subsidized purchase of a private company. Fantastic. All funded by the taxpayer to send rockets to a dead planet and to burn up all the energy on our alive but suffering planet.

NetMageSCW 3 days ago|

Point to any government subsidies for SpaceX - or do you think your salary is a subsidy and everything you do at work is worthless to your employer?

SpaceX has paid for contracts to deliver services to the government and those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative.

bmitc 3 days ago||

You're claiming that SpaceX has not received governmnent subsidies, grants, and contracts?

> those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative

Source? All I can find is some guy saying it.

And it doesn't really matter what they've saved. It doesn't excuse conflicts of interest.

inemesitaffia 2 days ago||

A top government employee in the previous regime. Not some guy. You yourself can check and see that launch pricing for the government is cheaper from everyone apart from Boeing these days.

Turns out capping costs help. (See SLS) (See Europa Clipper)

Contracts aren't subsidies and you know that. It's straight up dishonesty to mix them up.

McDonald's and Burger King are government contractors

bmitc 1 day ago||

I said "government subsidized" and then later expanded out to subsidies, grants, and contracts. You know what I meant. There isn't dishonesty remotely anywhere.

And the point of conflict of interest still stands and is unargued while we still argue the meaning of "government subsidized".

focusgroup0 3 days ago|

The other day my colleague asked Grok:

"Please estimate Elon's IQ based on his timeline"

It estimated 115-130. A decision like this points to the lower end.