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by bell-cot 3mo ago
One can argue whether, in abstract, this was a good idea. Back in the real world - any government or large org can do a genuinely good thing so badly that it would have been better if they'd done nothing at all. And it's been many
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Musk seems obsessed with making socially valuable physical things which are extremely difficult to make. And (overall) he's darned good at it. Back when America's star was rising, that was far more common.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I'm no ER physician, nor OSHA expert - but if 600 accidents with the sorts of heavy equipment and rocketry that SpaceX does every day included only one death, then my conclusion would be that the vast majority of that 600 were pretty m
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
"Everyone has a price." - Pablo Escobar
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
What real-world expertise does Lucas bring to this issue? If he had somehow been able to foresee how developments in computer tech would play out in our society over the past couple decades, he'd easily be a multi-trillionaire from h
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Only if the data center's task force of influencers, lobbyists, and arm-twisters are incompetent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_abatement (Yes, in general, they'll pay some tax. Some. But they also add
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> The Mesquite factory was commissioned with a series of expedited contracts in 2022 and 2023... > The facility, in Mesquite, Texas, was brought online in 2024... > [now] the facility has yet to produce a single round in two years.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
THIS. To quote Wikipedia: > It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.[40][41][42] In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was firs
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Sounds like the "Milky Way" galaxy is due for a renaming.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Why would I spend $15.4k to boost my home's resale value by $3.1k?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I'd think that at least a few countries - hopefully, somewhere - have good consumer protection & privacy laws against this sort of crap. Anyone know?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> A layman can evaluate the craftmanship and care with which a builder constructs a house without much effort: but evaluating intellectual work usually requires... I call BS. Even if the "layman" sits and watches the builder c
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I could speculate about Redwood's tech being more expensive in other ways, or Japan having "not invented here" issues. But it sounds like 90% vs 95% is academic in today's Japan: > In Japan's case, though, the b
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> Is there any realistic... SCOTUS could hand down another surprise decision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatrie_v._United_States
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Drones are cheap & reliable. Vs. blimps, balloons, and such have repeatedly proven themselves quite fragile.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Based on your title, should the URL be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Market_reception ?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Back in the day, "Kessler syndrome" was a fairly good way to articulate the fears of many scientists - whose delicate one-off "flagship" scientific research satellites had huge costs and lead times, if things started goi
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> Why didn't the government try... As a broad generality, governments are utter crap at inventing/building/operating bleeding-edge technologies at giga-scale. Exceptions are generally narrow-focus military hardware, plus
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
While there's a lot of truth to your "gutting most gov't functions" claim, you might want to compare SpaceX's subsidies and launch costs with those of the gov't's traditional providers. And look at myriad
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> discussed across a wide breadth of hard science fiction novels and stories. It's a cool idea, but the reality is centuries away. Three points to consider: 1 - Useful spacecraft are generally bleeding-edge technology, with lots
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
"He who has the gold makes the rules" is older than the pyramids.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I was thinking more of the Times and Guardian being in rather similar lines of work, and the opportunity to cast some shade on a rival.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> ... it takes incredible levels of incompetence to be lost in sinay for 40 years. That 40 years wandering in the wilderness was "lost" only in a poetic or opportunity cost sense. More literally, it was divinely-assigned Punis
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
No mention of the New York Times, or its practices?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Fair enough. FWIW, I live near the Univ. of Michigan. I've talked to a well-to-do stockbroker, who graduated from U-M a couple decades ago - but can't believe just how opulent U-M's latest round of rebuilding their old under
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The article seems rather focused on political/ideological issues. Practical issues include where tens or hundreds of millions of new A/C units could be obtained, who would install them, and whether the European grid could cope wit
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
81 points and 31 comments back in 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281523
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Old geezer question: Are you thinking to make education free? Or to give everyone 4+ years at the upscale-lifestyle-resorts-with-classes which the US's major universities have evolved into over the past half century?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
133 points and 151 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838611

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