There will always be oil because it will get as expensive as diamonds to extract from the ground and people will stop way before that happens.

It would be great if the government mandated the manufacturers grant the ability to put a vehicle into "airplane" mode so it can't talk to anything else without the owner's consent.

I feel like this move is either helping or deterring Elon from taking control. Choose your own adventure.

If they put Starlink or sat-phone access on boats, that costs money. That means less money to be made overall. That will come from somewhere. Likely it will be from the worker's salaries. So in the end, if they want their access they will have to pay for it.

Perhaps people want to share with their children/parents or someone less fortunate.

JD will forever be known as "the Pope Slayer"

I remember the boom around y2k where people would leave large corps like MS and come back in less than a year with a 50% raise, because that was the going rate. That of course killed morale for those who stayed and didn't get the fat raise. That in turn caused the corps to put these "2 year no rehire" rules in place to keep people from quitting and coming back for raises and damaging morale.

"If you have a great performance year and your boss gives you"

Spoken like a true manager. You "have a great performance year", but its your boss that "gives you" a good review. You didn't work hard and earn it. It was given to you, so be grateful.

Lynyrd Skynyrd taught us long ago that simple life is the best

I would think it wouldn't be that tough to break track records if that's the goal. Electric can be crazy fast and batteries are about there.

But this sounds like breaking records in the Kentucky derby using a Toyota pick-up.

Every byte?

The XAI cluster in Memphis isn't even using grid power. They are using diesel to power them 24/7. They are polluting the air but few care since its in a generally poor neighborhood.

"If you have this kind of talent, ask Google to remove the restriction"

or....
Make 3x what you would elsewhere and deal with it. Non-competes suck, but so do many other aspects of being employed by others. Negotiate what works for you. If you're that talented, you can. And if you can't, maybe you aren't as valuable as you think.

Sure. If you're willing to abandon the ability to return to the country (and possibly home) your working/living in, you can evade all kinds of contractual obligations.

This seems less as a non-compete, and more as a "we pay you to do nothing". As long as they're paying, you can't work for someone else. That's how most employers are when you are actively employed. They won't let you also work for a competitor.