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Investment risk for energy highest for nuclear plants, lowest for solar(sciencedaily.com)
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This plus subsidizing R&D via military contracts is how jet engines for passenger aircraft remain a US and European pursuit. Will jet engines never be made in China? Don't bet against them. There's no guarantee that the legacy
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Everyone with a certain level of resources wants their own platform, if they don't already have one. The problem is they all underestimate the resource commitment it takes to possibly win at that game, despite having a lot of money to
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This is exhibiting a lot of software guy detached from reality. The reality is the teen girls kill themselves for being "too fat" because bullying engagement makes money for big commercial social media sites. Somebody else on this
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That's a lot of would've could've should've, nevertheless we can test that idea that nuclear power would be more advanced: it wasn't over regulated in the Soviet Union, and that got us the RBMK 1000, a design with i
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> the nuclear industry was lousy with politics... It's that way because nuclear power plants are prestige projects. They are now so un competitive with the price of renewables that you can't blame over regulation. Without the
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The government regulates plenty of complex products and markets. Software isn't that special.
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I know a thing or two about project management and I can tell you that the modularity of modern reactor design failed to deliver on de-risking nuclear reactor construction projects. Building modules offsite seems like a good idea on the sur
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In theory. But in fact, attempting to build nuclear power plants results in big increases in electric rates, and the supposed benefits of nuclear power end up being delayed by many years and in many cases decades. The effect of trying and f
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Except even the successful parts of SpaceX make only a tiny fraction of the money that Nvidia and Apple make. SpaceX isn't even Meta. Meta has made huge mistakes and and it continues to squirt money out of every orifice. Starlink and F
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File that under things that work until they stop working. When Elon's cult stops working, all the comments will be about how that was so inevitable, and of course everyone saw that it was fake. On top of all that, somebody on a predict
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The subtext is the most interesting part. If Masa Son thinks it's bullshit, there's probably a lot more bullshit to it than just the orbital data centers. We've gone from flooding zone with stuff that makes it seem any bullsh
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AI training is considered transformational. That's how AI training gets around copyright and it's probably consistent with copyright precedent. For example, indexing the web is considered transformational, even though you can reco
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You've heard of zero knowledge systems. What we are seeing here is the opening of a new frontier in game theory: zero credibility negotiations. Are they even negotiations? This may require a theoretical breakthrough.
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You can take a nap in the backseat of Waymo. There isn't even a remote driver, just a remote advisor for cases where the car can't make a decision on its own,because latency and connection issues would make remote driving inherent
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My university admissions interview took place next to an old tech nerd's model train layout. Today, the same kind of person would be up all night posting about trans people on X. I blame a lot of our current problems on the decline of
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He built a hell of a machine for buying political/cultural influence or filling your sales funnel, no matter the dubiousness of your product, with pinpoint precision. Doing that takes vision and talent, and extremely flexible ethics.
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And what were they wearing? Did they provoke the drivers? Why didn't they have flashing lights clipped to their belts?
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Anything with a hood that's so high primarily because it's gender affirming care is paid for with the deaths and injuries of innocents. Regulate the shape of the front end of any vehicle, as I'm sure any honest regulator woul
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I suppose you'd have to sell it, possibly at a loss, just like you'd have to sell a restaurant that failed a food safety inspection.
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If there was a big market for launch, why would 75% or more of SpaceX's mass to orbit be its own satellites?
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What does it tell us that current leadership in Washington lacks the credibility to make that argument? The tariffs and threats to sovereignty of our erstwhile allies have already damaged international norms at least as much as closing the
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So you think replacing humans on the battlefield with human shaped robots...why? It makes no sense in the same way that humans on a car production line are not replaced by human shaped robots, instead by far stronger, far more capable, far
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Except they did pick and choose SPCX and did special favors by giving them a multiplier on the float and an exceedingly short interval before including it in indices.
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If the only recourse is to spend tens of billions on another bombing campaign, or even more on a land war, why would Iran be looking for a path out of anything?
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To the victor belong the insurance policy commissions
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In which the authors of an anti-remote work book tell us that, even though we say we like remote work, and many of us say we would take a pay cut to keep it, we should hate it because we're alone too much. This book should be popular a
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Hyundai bumped their ownership up to 100%, and took the opportunity to reset expectations about when Atlas would be working in Hyundai factories. While Atlas is the best humanoid robot so far, it still isn't useful in a car factory tha
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You are presupposing that an efficient market emerges from a collection of dark patterns, coercion, and exploitative pricing, and turns these low quality inputs into an efficient market that creates overall beneficial results. Cool theory b
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Markets are only free when both sides of a deal can walk away from that deal. Free marketers go on about state coercion, but their idea of a free market is at least as coersive as the regulatory state.

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