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by chermi 1y ago
"The only thing freezing traditional telecommunication infrastructure in place are dreams of low earth orbit satellites which will never materialize." Do you truly believe this statement, literally?
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by chermi 1y ago
You've mentioned the uber effect about 100 times now, I get it. I honestly don't know just how mad (I'd wager not very) the average city resident is that they have uber now instead of maybe some shitty transit system with tw
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by chermi 1y ago
I'm quite confident if it was anyone besides Elon behind spacex, we'd be hailing starship(cross fingers it works out) as one of the most exciting things we've ever done. And we should be, because it is. It's something fo
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by chermi 1y ago
Umm, a lot. Do you know how many cubesats falcon has launched? Did the space station help humanity? Now imagine a bigger one(s) faster. Bigger satellites- do you know how much of James Webb design and difficulty was around packing into tig
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by chermi 1y ago
Well, I'd say it certainly helps. Better headline with less clicks would be "mapping ... ALONE doesn't explain in it's function. Has anyone said connectome = function? Quick google I guess maybe Sebastian Seung could be
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by chermi 1y ago
Take this argument to it's conclusion. Take any point in history and freeze infrastructure. The only option we give ourselves is building more of that same type and maintaining it? So, more riders and more horses to carry messages, but
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by chermi 1y ago
This is definitely a small number. But I don't think it tells the whole story. Not every n+1 is the same. New satellite hookups in rural places, especially poor rural areas, combat zones, emergency situations etc. are more impactful th
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by chermi 1y ago
The last mile problem is difficult and expensive. I think satellites are a good solution to it. As for SpaceX fucking up that contract, that sucks and is no good.
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by chermi 1y ago
Aka murder. I thought we were against political violence? Edit- am I supposed to pretend that we all don't know she meant for them to die on this journey she suggested? Come on, be honest.
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by chermi 1y ago
This is a cool idea. A well written article about a topic you didn't even know existed is always a delight.
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by chermi 1y ago
Thanks, you're right.
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by chermi 1y ago
I'd wager many of those connections are serving much more than one person, considering they're often hubs in rural areas. But screw them. It's interesting how if it's anti-elon, it's ok to complain about how the poo
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by chermi 1y ago
No, it's a lie. Consumers paying more because of data centers raising demand could be true, but that's not equivalent to them paying for the data centers' usage. The data centers also have to pay an increased rate when price
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by chermi 1y ago
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by chermi 1y ago
I'll be the "this time it's different" guy. 1) the bubble burst hit telecom spend, which was overbuilt relative to the use. 2) the dot com companies were mostly not profitable with small revenues, while the big players h
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by chermi 1y ago
Maybe not tanks, but certainly drones, no? We need some sort of manufacturing. If not for war itself, as a deterrent? Plus there will still be troops no matter what, so certainly we'll still need to make APCs. "Car are made using
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by chermi 1y ago
Subsidies are part of the reason. Definitely not the whole reason, but part of it The Chinese provinces pump a bunch of money in to try to make their region's car manufacturers succeed. And every province is doing it. So you have a bu
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by chermi 1y ago
What do you mean by illegal? According to who? Like WTO or something? Genuinely asking, I don't know. I don't see how what they're doing is more illegal than paying corn farmers to make dumbass biofuel. But I don't know
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by chermi 1y ago
You're judging a new technology on the cost of a damn pilot? Again, no to the negative learning. The learning curve theory has requisite conditions. They aren't met, except maybe in China and south Korea, where it seems so far to
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by chermi 1y ago
That's self-fulfilling. Solar was expensive. Then they built a lot of them, they got cheaper (+ better tech obviously). We know basically nothing about the learning curve of nuclear because we haven't met the conditions for the le
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by chermi 1y ago
I don't get it? Why? Electricity is already priced. If it's about recovering the cost of installing the charger, why is this better than either a fixed cost part of the price or charging some adder on the market rate? They'll
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by chermi 1y ago
Umm, what's his point? Have you seen how many barriers there are to nuclear? One not running today has almost nothing to do with the feasibility of the technology.
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by chermi 1y ago
That's not the main problem. That's the convenient scapegoat so we don't get mad about the real problem. Power bills have been going up for years. We're just not good at generating and serving sufficient energy. Our grid
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by chermi 1y ago
"They chose sites that dated back more than 11,600 years, before the last of the now-extinct Ice Age megafauna vanished from the continent. The team only counted bones with clear signs that people had butchered the animal for food, lik
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by chermi 1y ago
Looks very cool! How does it compare to notebooklm? One feature that may be useful for others that I've wanted is constraining the info the the LLM uses from a given document. I'm self-studying from a math text with pdf I have loa
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by chermi 1y ago
I'm not a software engineer, but it simply blows my mind how shitty most of the streaming apps are. Is it really that hard to serve videos? How is Netflix so good at it? I guess apple tv is pretty snappy too. Surely there's not
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by chermi 1y ago
From the wiki on Encke, "Comet Encke is believed to be the originator of several related meteor showers known as the Taurids (which are encountered as the Northern and Southern Taurids across November, and the Beta Taurids in late Ju
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by chermi 1y ago
Was it just for fuel? I don't imagine birch being sufficiently large for shipbuilding. Were there larger diameter trees?
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by chermi 1y ago
1) lol 2) source for such confident claims 3) even if true, can they potentially make existing tech cheaper than competitors? Competition is good for price. If so, still an "impact on US military" 4) see 1.
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by chermi 1y ago
So, if anything,maybe were underestimating the lifetime of these datacenter GPUs?

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