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by XorNot 9mo ago
There's also a bunch of countries pretty much begging companies to come and build solar arrays. If you rocked up in Australia and said "I'm building a zero-emission data center we'll power from PV" we'd pretty
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by XorNot 9mo ago
You cannot just block out the mass of stuff and declare it'll cost exactly the launch cost, nor can you take the cost of current datacenter servers and go "they'll definitely cost the same to put in space". A regular set
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by XorNot 9mo ago
And just like that you've added another not never done before, and definitely not at scale problem to the mix. These are all things which add weight, complexity and cost. Propellant transfer to an orbital Starship hasn't even been
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Except generals get sacked all the time in actual wartime conditions, it's not even clear why this particular instance is notable. China isn't in wartime, it is in a build up phase and there's perfectly good reasons to dismis
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by XorNot 9mo ago
8 tons over 22 is a little over 1/3rd the original payload to LEO. If 4x the solar generation potential (not irradiance - the sun is not 4x brighter in space at Earth's orbital radius) is the reward, that's putting an incredi
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by XorNot 9mo ago
No I'm poking fun at the defensive reflex of Americans to get very upset at the notion anyone else will go to the moon. Because in context, who will get their first is the relevant question again because no one has the capability any
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by XorNot 9mo ago
And as we all know, successful enterprises are always the ones which do something once and then never again for 61 years. /S
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by XorNot 9mo ago
> Ok, why are so many being built in Northern Virginia, rather than in the middle of nowhere where there will be no backlash? Right? So if that's the case why would putting them in Space, far less accessible in every conceivable way
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Regulated but did not ban and the trick is to keep the availability far enough above the profitability of the criminal enterprise versus demand and your law enforcement potential. Which technically isn't hard because criminal enterpris
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I love how this gets presented as obvious advice, yet explains nothing and introduces an even less well defined thing it will do: "be maximally healthy".
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Boosting to geostationary orbit knocks a big chunk out of your payload capacity. Falcon 9 expendable will do 22 tons to LEO and about 8 tons to GTO.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Do you imagine there'd be less red tape involved in launching multiple rockets per day carrying heavy payloads? Like this argument just gets absurd: you're claiming building a data center on earth will be harder from a permitting
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by XorNot 9mo ago
This is what people keep saying until the administration does something and then dares the courts to stop them.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Man the real story in a few decades is going to be whether SpaceX was onto such a kille business that it survived being used asma fiscal dumping ground for the losses being incurred by mismanagement everywhere else.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Why does he need a description? If Larry Ellison thinks something is true he can argue the case for it using the same universal logical principles which we all have access to. Who he is is irrelevant.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
2 is wrong. At a Lagrange point you can do this. Not in low earth orbit - in LEO sunset is every 60 minutes or so, and you spend the next 60 minutes in darkness. Satellites are heavily reliant on either batteries or being robust to reboots,
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Is X even breaking even at the moment? Last I checked the ad revenue had dried up and boiled off, did they actually manage to cut enough to even it out?
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I guess the obvious conclusion here is that understanding the process might lead to drugs effective at blocking it. I guess at a high level the effect would be that less efficient viral replication would be favored and then the immune syste
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by XorNot 9mo ago
You're going to have to link that for me because I know the longtermism people are nuts about this, but their actual understanding is pretty poor. There's a gulf between assembling a vaccine - which is a commonplace technology, an
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Right but it's not like a 4 way stop is going to perform better. In the same case you'd expect it to be a 2 way stop.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
4 ways stops should be roundabouts, but the US is allergic to them for some reason.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
The conspiracy theory exists due to quirks of human attention and the wider metadata economy though. You mention something so you're thinking about it, you're thinking about it probably because you've seen it lately (or it&#x
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Exactly. The problem is no one wants to address that maybe some of these business models just need to go extinct. Like maybe ad supported infinite feeds can't be done in a socially responsible way and just need to be banned. If that
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by XorNot 9mo ago
I'd argue it's closer to the ability to search it with Google to get alright non-clickfarm responses to questions, or product reviews.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Hacker News has plenty of its own echo chamber, no different to any other social environment.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
It might be worth considering why drug deals are always portrayed as a high stakes, dangerous event (it's because to do the sale, the physical products have to all be in one well known place where everybody knows both the place and tim
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by XorNot 9mo ago
That's the point though: there was never a particularly compelling reason to move so no one did. 5 years ago "what if America starts making threats?" would've been a ridiculous notion.
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Exactly - it's about availability. If someone with remote access could knock out your business operations, how long would it take to adapt? How much economic cost could that incur, perhaps at a critical time?
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by XorNot 9mo ago
What does that even mean? The FCC is essentially the next plausible energy range we can probe with a collider. Going larger would cost more, and add risk. So like, yes? The obvious thing to do is to analyze our models and come up with exper
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by XorNot 9mo ago
Yeah people talk about this as though US treasuries didn't have a negative yield for a considerable amount of time. People were literally paying the US government to hold their money because it was better then the alternatives: the opt

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