As Sergey and Larry learned, no better way to mark an asshole.

Careful about drinking your own koolaid. AMD's data center market share has risen from roughly zero to 5-10% with revenue growing 57% yoy.

I would view it more as a dead end, and a legal minefield.

You're a bit of zombie yourself.

Yes, this is an epitaph. Intel did so much to advance the microprocessor and PC world, yet also did so much to hold it back. Never respectful of the law, only leery of it, Intel's recidivist collusion with Microsoft built the greatest cartel in human history, making multi-billionaires of numerous retainers. Intel was successful that they came to believe the fiction that any stratagem concocted in their exalted executive suite must be correct, because industry dominance proves it. And so Intel came to believe their tick tock engineering cycle was the key to their perennial dominance, whereas in fact the cornerstone had always been their illegal monopoly.

Intel traveled merrily down the road to ruin, steadfastly clinging to the fanciful idea that proprietary process technology would ensure the longevity of their empire. It didn't. Intel had to learn the hard way that Wintel PC monopoly alone could not sustain the technological pace necessary to hold back even AMD, let alone the entire mobile phone market.

Ask yourself this one simple question: are you stupid? If you are still running Windows in full knowledge of the privacy, security and usability disaster it has become then the answer is. Yes. You are stupid. Simple.

OK Microsoft spinbots, have at.

Also Teslas are crappy cars. Poor fit and finish, hidden rust issues, deficient crumple zones, burning people to death at a rate far higher than Ford Pinto ever did, lacking physical controls, etc etc.

Yeah, that too. Hopefully the discussion is already ongoing.

Right, even worse.

Canada needs to drop tariffs on BYD. This was only ever done to protect Tesla.

Well, USA still uses imperial measurements so why am I not surprised. The rest of the world is tracking predictions well.

Not supporting Apple's evil walled garden is the one good thing about Tesla.

And you have a wide variety of better engineered choices.

And now that they've had time to think about it, a lot of people can see that Tesla's are pretty crappy cars. Never mind the Nazi ambience.

Conversion from electrical to chemical energy is commonly more than 90% efficient these days. It is no more necessary to emulate the chemical paths of plants than it is to put flapping wings on jet planes. The conversion of interest is photons to electricity. New research suggests that plants do that step with nearly 100% efficiency. Nearly every photon of light absorbed generates an electron.

I could go on to speculate about whether such absorption paths could be developed at other frequencies, to fill in the gaps, or how heat losses might be avoided, etc, but it would just be that - speculation. Just pointing out that your rant is not necessarily relevant to the question, and that you really ought to consider paying closer attention to the steadily advancing understanding of the remarkable quantum processes involved.