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by jlmorton 4y ago
And in the case of the engines, once those existing engines are used, Aerojet Rocketdyne has to spin up a new assembly line, and they are essentially a sole source contractor, so they can charge nearly whatever they want. So what started ou
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by jlmorton 4y ago
To be honest, I’m not an expert, and you’d just be getting a lay opinion. They say human vision can discern about 60 pixels per degree. I believe Quest Pro achieves about 20, and Project Cambria might push 30. Note that the 1200 DPI is per
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by jlmorton 4y ago
I agree there are limitations, but Meta announced Project Cambria last year, with an expected resolution of 1230 DPI, up from 770 on Quest Pro. If they can achieve that, people are going to start doing real work on the headsets.
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Any number of things. These are just like regular desktop monitors, just virtual. You can have an IDE open on one, a browser on another, email on another. Or whatever you normally use a monitor for. The resolution is not quite there yet, bu
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by jlmorton 4y ago
It was only fifteen years ago that the original iPhone launched with 6 million units sold. Look, I’m not necessarily claiming Quest VR headsets will be the next iPhone. But I think it’s pretty likely this will be a big and important product
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The growth in VR headsets is quickly becoming a hockey stick. 5 million in 2020, 8 million this year, 11 million projected next year, with an install base of 25 million. To put this in perspective, there were 8 million PS5 sales in 2022, an
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by jlmorton 4y ago
> a "metaverse" that nobody wants This is going to be the next famous “nobody wants Dropbox” comment. I don’t know if Horizon Worlds is going to be successful, but Reality Labs is much, much bigger than that. Do you honestly be
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by jlmorton 4y ago
While that's true, I have a little bit of faith in Apple and Google. But how about the $18 humidifier I bought on Amazon?
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> It's only massive in terms of wasted taxpayer funds I'm confused, because you called-out the Vegas tunnel, but are you claiming a 30-mile, 55-station tunnel is not a massive project? Or are you referring to the already-built
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> They are buying existing tunneling machines and there is nothing yet to suggest a step change. That is incorrect. That is how they started, but they are now using Prufrock 2, which is both designed and built by The Boring Company, tho
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Boring Company is right up with Tesla and SpaceX on the success trajectory by lots of measures. This is a company that just started from nothing a few years ago, and it’s already building a massive transit project, and is in final bidding
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by jlmorton 4y ago
> Saudi is not, owing to it's irreplaceable control over critical resources. I'm not sure I understand the distinction. Russia is a larger producer of oil, and a substantially larger producer of energy products overall.
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They really need to put down some "suggested path" markings.
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No, but when natural gas is 15% of your electrical generation, it does magically free up natural gas that would have otherwise been burnt for electricity.
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They did indeed write down their investment in Rivian, but they still made a healthy 3x gain, just not 30x.
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by jlmorton 4y ago
> Also, putting in 6B to get back 6B 10 or so years later sounds like a shitty investment to me Note that the investment wasn't to get back $6b ten years later, it was for all future profits. This was one of the very best investment
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In the grand scheme of nuisance odors, or potentially dangerous emissions, outdoor and second-hand pot smoke is pretty near the bottom of the list. Higher up might be the hundreds of thousands to millions of cars, trucks, buses, etc spewing
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by jlmorton 4y ago
This argument over the binary question of whether we are, or not, in a recession is so strange. If we are, it's the strangest recession I've ever encountered, with sky-high, record levels of job openings, rising wages, lots of rob
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by jlmorton 4y ago
Note that WeChat has a Douyin-competing product, "Channels."
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Maybe, but then there was this [1]. [1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2004/05/06/resign-rumsfeld
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by jlmorton 4y ago
I'm sure you're right. Maybe an easier way to describe the trade-off is to simply say every $1 spent on school lunches in the United States is about a $3,700 annual cost per classroom, and about ~$10 billion nationally.
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There were legitimate reasons to be wary of becoming dependent on Russian energy supplies. There were also legitimate reasons to pursue tighter economic integration, which when it comes down it, is the entire raison d'etre for the EU.
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It's certainly possible, yes, but it's worth considering the cost, because it adds up quickly. In England, the cost of a school lunch is about ~£2.35. In the US, it's about ~$3.80. When I go out to eat in the US for lunch, a
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by jlmorton 4y ago
There's no reporting on this in the Western press, and GP has overstated the reporting that exists [1]. In Ukraine's Pravda, which is not the same as the former Soviet Pravda, it was reported that in April -- after Bucha, and ever
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That link makes claims not backed up by any sources it links to that are accessible online. If you follow the chain, it eventually gets to a book unavailable online, but I am skeptical. Other research has shown no link between psychedelics
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I'm not exactly sure what you're imagining, but there are fundamental physics problems in the way of just launching a bunch of satellites and enabling global communications. Apple has partnered with Globalstar to use geostationary
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I watched the first episode of House of Dragons passively in the background while doing work, but it kept catching my attention. I watched it again in the background, and other parts of it kept catching my attention. By episode three, it ha
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Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31770348
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All of those locations will soon have EV chargers. People will demand them as EVs become mass market. My own apartment building has five EV chargers. Destination chargers will be common too. This will happen slowly at first, but exponential
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There's nothing contradictory there. The fact that EV charging can be easily time-shifted is an enormous benefit. There are few things as beneficial to the grid as EVs will be.

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