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by jopsen 8mo ago
> in what fantasy world would the ongoing operational and maintenance needs be 0? Well, if you can't get there, you can't do maintenance, so there is zero maintenance :)
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale. I never questioned it. Space is also extremely cold, and if it's as dense as Musk cooling won't be an issue.
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> It would be super easy for the EU to charm the European populations into EU loyalty instead of national loyalty. All it would take is... Lol, I suggest you start forming an EU soccer team :)
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by jopsen 8mo ago
True, But that's not people being rational. That's people being dumb and impatient -- most of us will admit we've done impatient things in a car. But shouldn't an AV drive like we wish we would drive on our best behavior
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by jopsen 8mo ago
Fair enough, but would more bombs do anything?
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by jopsen 8mo ago
The something in question is bombing. Didn't Israel and the US try that last year? Maybe the objective wasn't regime, but I doubt more bombs will do that? Not after so many years of sanctions. Sadly, I don't see any positive
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by jopsen 8mo ago
I doubt there will be a ground invasion this time. The current US administration cannot build a coalition (and logistics without a coalition is hard), not will the US public go for it. And is there really much you can do from the air that w
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> There are countless examples... The hard things about having rule of law, is that you generally can't disqualify people from VISAs based on who parents are. And revoking visa granted years ago is even harder. I think maybe the EU
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by jopsen 8mo ago
Some of those services are utter crap though.. This is just my opinion, but there are some services that just package software as VM and let's you spawn it with a fancy button, leaving you with a largely unmanaged instance. There are o
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> Their licensing model is reminiscent of early Github days The licensing cost has a few more digits than GitHub ever did. And you are locked in.
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by jopsen 8mo ago
IKEAs rechargable batteries are great.
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> The stock is the product. Musk reeks of scam. But for a stock pump and dumb scheme there sure are a lot of teslas on the road.
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by jopsen 8mo ago
I'm not sure it's about helping get civilians. Sanctions for Iran is about limiting their economic growth. So that they are less effective should they try to attack their neighbors. Civilians in a dictatorship are probably not ent
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by jopsen 8mo ago
Stopping Russian or Iranian oil shipping is pretty hard to do legally. You are not convincing China to only source oil from western aligned nations. We (Europe and US) can't even convince India. Short of kinetic intervention. There isn
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by jopsen 8mo ago
Also once we're nearly-net zero, we should focus on airlines, shipping, industry, etc. not the last 5% of electricity.
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> What I don’t see is action. Building serious products and services in this space is easily 5 year investment, by that time there will be a new US administration. Hope is not a strategy, but it's certainly cheaper in the short run.
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by jopsen 8mo ago
> - How much of society is bottlenecked by digital knowledge work? Any qualified guesses? I'm not convinced more traders on wall street will allocate capital more effectively leading to economic growth. Will more programmers grow th
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by jopsen 9mo ago
Or the US would :)
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by jopsen 9mo ago
Falling back on gas 10-20 times per year sounds very reasonable. It's not net zero, but nearly zero will probably do fine? Politicians like to say net zero, but when we are 90% there will we maybe not stop caring and find other more pr
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by jopsen 9mo ago
Yeah, but your dishwasher or washing machine isn't the big electricity eater. Your car is. And honestly, you'd rather charge the car at night so that you don't blow a fuse when you're running the dishwasher, microwave, d
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by jopsen 9mo ago
Yeah, but until this whole Greenland debacle few people would imagine a war with the US.
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by jopsen 9mo ago
npm is centralized to start with, so how is this a problem?
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by jopsen 9mo ago
So much evidence to suggest this. No reason to think there will be follow up investments or even follow up thoughts.
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by jopsen 9mo ago
Countries that joined NATO did so voluntarily. The pressure to join NATO was never from the US, it was always from Russia. > The global order is based on strength, To an extend yes, but small countries wouldn't be as eager or willin
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by jopsen 9mo ago
Oh, I wouldn't want to justify it ;) But the fact that it had to be sold was probably a good thing.
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by jopsen 9mo ago
> they push Nato to the border of Russia No, former Soviet satellite states begged and pleaded for NATO membership. And their immediate Western neighbors advocates for it. They didn't do that because the US asked them to. They were
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by jopsen 9mo ago
It would be fun to station a few French nukes on Greenland as a response :) But probably the wise choice is doing nothing publicly. Behind the scenes stop buying US weapon systems.
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by jopsen 9mo ago
That was different. There was an ultimatum, there was a coalition. Yes, the recreational wars were dumb, wrong, illegal and just all around bad ideas. But there was a solid attempt at giving them legitimacy. This matters.
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by jopsen 9mo ago
You forget that the cold war wasn't won by the US alone. But by the alliance systems which centered around the US. The US is no longer a credible partner, and without coalition forces the recreational wars in the 2000s would have been
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by jopsen 9mo ago
And he was head of state? (retorical question). What Trump just did is an act of war, undeclared and deceitful in every way. It makes diplomacy much harder to do in the future. It makes the US untrustworthy.

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