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by greesil 3y ago
How much bandwidth are we talking about here?
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by greesil 3y ago
Bridger!
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by greesil 3y ago
Arrays?
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by greesil 3y ago
Capitalism, like socialism, or postmodernism, or the labels conservative or liberal are almost devoid of meaning. But please, both the parent commenter and you keep arguing what the true meaning of capitalism is. Meanwhile I will head to
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by greesil 3y ago
Yeah there is, at least for a tokamak. The smaller the device, the stronger the magnets need to be, otherwise you can get instabilities that will prevent the plasma from being contained. This is why commonwealth fusion is building their own
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Stellarators difficult to build? The construction of Wendelstein 7-X [pdf](iter.org)
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by greesil 3y ago
Well that'll teach me
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by greesil 3y ago
How would you know?
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by greesil 3y ago
Zap Energy. They're at least thinking about co-opting existing infrastructure. https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newszap-energy-considers-re... Also their concept is just so weird, I love it. Worst case it works in
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by greesil 3y ago
I submitted TFA, which is from February. How come you nerds didn't see this yet?
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Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes(ipp.mpg.de)
514 points by greesil 3y ago|314 comments
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by greesil 3y ago
It's not a fear of well-adjusted office furniture?
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by greesil 3y ago
You can power it by pumping down an equal amount of surface water
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by greesil 3y ago
It's probably securities fraud.
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by greesil 3y ago
San Mateo has its own set of problems... But you could take Caltrain there
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by greesil 3y ago
Time to go out for a beer tour!!
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by greesil 3y ago
I got to do a tour of the place, it was really fun. It's located near Potrero Hill. I can't say anything about their cost structure but having a location that's in SF probably has some disadvantages. But, there are a lot of o
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by greesil 3y ago
I can just put Linux on it and I'm done. I love mine.
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by greesil 3y ago
Probability density functions, or probability mass functions, are functions. Guess where you learn what those are? Programming. We should be teaching programming and it should be mandatory at the earliest possible opportunity. And if my tee
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by greesil 3y ago
No but other places have similar electricity costs
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by greesil 3y ago
And yet here in California a Prius is actually cheaper to run unless you've got solar, or charge at work for free.
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by greesil 3y ago
It's not that it's hard to do the math, but it's hard to find product market fit where that inequality is satisfied. And sometimes people think they are gods gift to hardware design and can't be reasoned with to do a cos
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by greesil 3y ago
Dude, I'm just an engineer who can do basic arithmetic.
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by greesil 3y ago
The math is this: BOM + cost to acquire a customer + cost to sell the unit < sale price Otherwise you don't have a business. Please don't ask me how I know this. 10x is a rule of thumb, YMMV. You just need to make the above ine
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by greesil 3y ago
As someone who used to work at an IoT company the consumer space is brutal. Unless you've got something you can sell for 10x BOM, or there's naturally a subscription based model then it's not worth the blood, sweat, and tears
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by greesil 3y ago
Can an asteroid hit the earth?
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Florida moves forward on radioactive road paving plan(npr.org)
6 points by greesil 3y ago|1 comments
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by greesil 3y ago
No in this case it's not, as one person is making the decisions.
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by greesil 3y ago
To be fair almost everyone in the west thought the Russians would win in a short amount of time at the beginning of the war.
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by greesil 3y ago
Skimmed it. Yikes. I can't believe in the analytical ability of someone who thinks the invasion happened because of rational Russian security concerns as opposed to the fever dreams of an unhinged kleptocrat.

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