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Actually, you've provided examples that prove the point. None of those were especially good (though everyone wanted the G4 Cube), and yet they made it to market
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4mo ago
Actually, you've provided examples that prove the point. None of those were especially good (though everyone wanted the G4 Cube), and yet they made it to market anyway. Why?
Because the CEO was behind it, breathing down their necks.
- NBJack 4mo agoPretty much every example is considered an abysmal failure that often costed the actual workers their careers while their CEO carried on. If you consider that outcome a worthwhile endeavor, I don't know what else to say.
- inemesitaffia 4mo agoHe's definitely not talking about worthy endeavour. He's talking about an endeavour reaching the market. I'm sure if Zuckerberg wants to spend $10B on Nuclear Fusion it will happen.
- DANmode 4mo agoIt’s fission, not fusion: https://www.esgdive.com/news/meta-inks-nuclear-deals-terrapower-oklo-vistra-support-ai-ambitions-rfp-6-6-gw/809231/ https://www.esgdive.com/news/meta-inks-nuclear-deals-terrapo... …and if they do all of this, it’ll be closer to $20B than 10!
- TeMPOraL 4mo agoIf all it took to get viable fusion power was a FAANG CEO with $10B to burn, I'd be first to petition for it to happen, and even throw whatever money I can spare onto that pyre.
- DANmode 4mo agoViable, of course, meaning safe? lol
- TeMPOraL 4mo agoNo, of course not. We can worry about making it safe after we have any form of it working first. (Also yes, I'm serious.)
- DANmode 4mo agoHave you done any deep reading on Fukushima? (Doesn’t seem like something to move fast and break things on - change my view?) Is this a “we can technology our way out of anything” stance?
- inemesitaffia 4mo agoThis is its worth knowing how to do.
- inemesitaffia 4mo agoI've never seen a real effort to make fusion happen and I believe the issue here is that starting small may well be big (like a small elephant). If it costs say $30 billion to build a fission reactor, I don't think anyone will get it done for less than $3B a year in R&Do over ten years. I'm talking fusion because it's something out there. And in the context of something like the metaverse. Fission is something you can buy today at retail. Even my poor country has a Nuclear reactor.
- inemesitaffia 4mo agoI'm talking fusion because it's something out there. And in the context of something like the metaverse. Fission is something you can buy today at retail. Even my poor country has a Nuclear reactor.