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by WJW 3y ago
How does that work across oceans? There's a severe lack of mesh nodes on the high seas and all high-bandwidth links across the ocean highly centralized in just a couple of companies. Also, most people would definitely not appreciate th
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by WJW 3y ago
TBH, that is a quote from several decades ago that hasn't kept up with modern censoring technology. When Gilmore originally coined it he was embroiled in a legal dispute with his ISP, I doubt he had BGP hijacks by national governments
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by WJW 3y ago
Depends. Most of the current coal deposits were from before fungi and bacteria evolved the ability to digest lignins and similar compounds. Now that they can do that, no more (or at least much less) coal deposits are being created.
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by WJW 3y ago
If we are then wouldn't that imply better times are to come? Sounds pretty nice actually.
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by WJW 3y ago
We had no illusion that we could catch everything, especially if they were using proper encryption. If you can break modern encryption quickly enough to do it at 400 files per second then there are way more profitable things to do with th
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by WJW 3y ago
With you until the last sentence. Why would the "third try" not just be dinosaurs again? Same for the 4th, 5th an subsequent "attempts". The fact that the second try got further than the first does not mean that the 3rd
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by WJW 3y ago
Exactly this. I used to work for them and the support team had a direct line to the vice department if someone had uploaded CP again. We also built a photoDNA based detection system to automatically flag and report suspect images. The thing
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by WJW 3y ago
Chess is also not a super photogenic sport but is doing fine. Even the local offline chess club is teeming with people both young and old.
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by WJW 3y ago
Sure, but crashes don't make up even 10% of the total amount of time. If you needed liquidity at any other time , having been invested would have been the right thing to do. In addition, there are many options available to make more l
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by WJW 3y ago
From experience I can say that these problems can occur just as well in bootstrapped companies when they reach a certain size. It's a problem with the number of employees regardless of how fast the company gets there IMO.
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by WJW 3y ago
Given that the plasma is several million degrees, it will radiate a lot of energy and heat up the walls even if it does not directly touch them. Just cooling the walls can heat up the cooling fluid enough to later produce steam with. AFAIK
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by WJW 3y ago
It's just a lever holding back the firing pin until the propellor is past a certain point even if the trigger is actuated. One of those brilliant inventions that is trivial if you know the secret but very tricky to discover if you don&
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by WJW 3y ago
I gotta say it is much more likely that it is actually the older generations who will believe everything the AI tells them, while the younger generations will quickly learn when and when it is not an appropriate tool. You can already see th
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by WJW 3y ago
> fix low rent This is not so easy as it sounds at scale, landlords aren't stupid. AFAICT, the main model is that WeWork simply charged more per desk/office/unit of surface area than they paid in rent to the building owner
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by WJW 3y ago
Working space. You can rent a single desk or multiple, and they charge you money every month. Bog standard stuff, has been done a million times all over the world. The problem for WeWork is that they chose to grow incredibly fast, positione
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by WJW 3y ago
> The spectacular collapse of a company once valued by SoftBank at $40 billion has been years in the making, but is still surprising given the number of large commercial buildings around the world that don the company’s name. Is it actua
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by WJW 3y ago
1. They do want to produce ICE cars for several more decades, yes. 2. It's not as if BEVs are chip-free, and most of the chips used aren't ultra-high performance things that require the very latest generation fab equipment.
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by WJW 3y ago
Magnetic levitation can't be done with normal magnets alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw%27s_theorem TL;DR: Normal magnets have two poles, and will try to flip themselves around to achieve a lower energ
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by WJW 3y ago
> Object-oriented programming techniques are slowly becoming more and more widely accepted That is so wild to read in a time when OOP has more or less conquered the programming industry. :)
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by WJW 3y ago
Man here I was thinking The Magicians drew way too much on Harry Potter. Spoilers: I did really enjoy the way the original novel "peaked" several times, each time leaving me thinking "well they beat the big bad, now what&quot
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by WJW 3y ago
Looking from outside the USA: If they don't cooperate then the budget won't be approved at all, no? It's all good and well not to want to cooperate with people that don't act in good faith, but since the other party ha
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by WJW 3y ago
Probably zero. The problem with current railguns is not that they have too much electrical resistance but that their barrel wear is much too high for practical use. Superconductors wouldn't solve that. In any case countries that want t
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by WJW 3y ago
While I love the ingenuity of this system, I have some trouble seeing it used as an economically viable energy storage option. According to the article, they would need about 45 m3 to store 10 kwh. At a concrete price of 200-300 $/m3,
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by WJW 3y ago
As few as two sheets would work. But more would be better, yes.
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by WJW 3y ago
We could do solid state current switching before transistors, with diode valves and whatnot. Transistors "just" made it more efficient. Room temperature superconductors would not just just make a host of things more efficient, it
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by WJW 3y ago
Depends on if it can short its charge to ground I guess, and how fast. An uncharged concrete capacitor is of course pretty harmless even if it cracks, so perhaps you could pour some strain gauges into it so you get advance warning of impend
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by WJW 3y ago
You can electrolyze CO2 into carbon and oxygen.
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by WJW 3y ago
Be the change you want to see mate, don't wait for someone else to do it.
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by WJW 3y ago
Bloomberg (who built this) operate a system that makes money by transmitting the same data to a huge amount of clients. Having one server transmit the same piece of information to a million client is approximately 500 times slower than havi
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by WJW 3y ago
Financial technology has you covered: spend your finite life energy providing the feature until the bigco implements it themselves, then buy an annuity with the profits you made in the meantime.

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