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by melling 3y ago
Yes, companies usually don’t have unlimited funds. Shareholders start complaining (e.g Metaverse). It’s quite simple. The budget doubled to $10 billion. Cancel the project. We’ve been promoting a faster, better, cheaper NASA for 3 decades.
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by melling 3y ago
Cancel the project. Do it in 15 years when the cost drops dramatically. SpaceX, AI, robotics, etc will make significant improvements over that time. “If NASA manages to develop and launch the Sample Retriever Lander by 2028, the samples cou
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by melling 3y ago
It’s still cheaper than Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, etc. I bought when the P/E was 9. Tried to have an intelligent conversation about it on HN 7 months ago but HN wouldn’t have any of that. https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by melling 3y ago
Put this story back on the shelf and it can be recycled a hundred times this year. One death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/?am...
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by melling 3y ago
Yes, maybe he just suffered from some sort of human bias. What’s the one where people are very good at lying to themselves? Unfortunately, he killed those other people because no one could convince him that he was wrong.
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Context: I’ve lived in NJ for 25+ years. At one point I lived 4.5 miles from work in Hoboken NJ and the commute took anywhere from 45 minutes to 90 minutes. The bus is extremely slow because everyone is going through a couple of tunnels in&
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by melling 3y ago
Wouldn’t a subway to New Jersey get more people from New Jersey to Manhattan faster? Especially if that subway also went to the east side of Manhattan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Subway_Extension Then we would nee
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by melling 3y ago
We were warned about the coal problem in China/India 40 years ago. https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI We were also warned that even if the United States solved the problem that it wasn’t enough. People think they can convinc
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by melling 3y ago
Yeah, I blogged about that 4 years ago and classified that under “stupid ideas” Have we made any progress on the coal problem? https://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-... Nope. Maybe we can limit these s
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by melling 3y ago
Anecdotally …213 to 183 back to 186 two years later. No idea what deficit I had. Just ate less. Smaller portions, lots of salads during 6 months I spent losing the weight, … I’ve been as high as 230. I lost some of that doing a really slow
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by melling 3y ago
You are asking 100,000+ people to do research to understand the political comment. We are all sort of busy.
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by melling 3y ago
Can you be more explicit when turning political? When are they able to use the switch the use of the money? What are some good examples? So much of politics is innuendo. If we could elaborate that would get us farther in any discussion
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by melling 3y ago
It’s really famous and has been discussed on HN in the past. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=knuth+email
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by melling 3y ago
The videos for Boyd’s classes are on YouTube. He’s also got an edX course you can audit for free. https://www.edx.org/course/convex-optimization?index=product...
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by melling 3y ago
Where does Intel currently stand in the race with AMD? AMD has been doing extremely well while Intel hasn’t been able to regroup.
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by melling 3y ago
We need to quit telling ourselves stories, do the math, and find a workable solution that addresses the problem before we reach “too late” At this point we need to address several problems at once. There’s no one solution and we need to be
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by melling 3y ago
I hear you. I’ve been telling people we needed nuclear for over 2 decades. Kyoto Climate Deal was 25 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol The United States took a pass. Instead we kicked the can do
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by melling 3y ago
“ after last year's hurricane devastated the Gulf and Eastern coasts and erased all human presence in Florida” Nope, that is what you wrote. This is what the article says: “ Warm ocean water doesn’t necessarily mean more tropical storm
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by melling 3y ago
What predictions? The only ones of which i am aware are the fake ones climate change deniers make up to say “see, they were wrong”
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by melling 3y ago
One is free and the other costs a few dollars. Most people will choose free.
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by melling 3y ago
No, if you can’t figure it out then you deserve the world that you get. Saying rich people should solve the problems is the lazy answer. US consumer spending is 70% of GDP.
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by melling 3y ago
“I wonder why more wealthy don't do things…” I wonder why so many people want the wealthy to do more things to make the world a better place when the United States has a GDP of $23 trillion dollars. Everyone wants to pay little taxes,
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by melling 3y ago
“So actually…” Just say we were wrong. “My bad” We completely missed our 1.5 goal and the batteries are still coming.
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We’ll hit 1.5C within a decade. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-will-li...
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Did you read the article? “ By the time it was found, the phone was too water-logged to work”
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by melling 3y ago
there are several ways to deal with countries that aren’t good citizens. I’d rather skip the conversation for the 100th time. Maybe you could come up with some common sense solutions? The funny thing about dealing with climate change, den
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by melling 3y ago
Yes, the “what about China excuse comes up a lot”. Another worthless excuse for doing absolutely nothing. Ranks up there with “we don’t want to destroy the economy” “adopt aggressive climate saving measures” They could have adopted “non-ag
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by melling 3y ago
You don’t need to convince 8 billion people. You simply need to convince the handful of people in charge. Unfortunately, this climate change thing really throws some of those people: https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8 “Here’s a s
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by melling 3y ago
Completely wrong. We discussed META 6 months ago when the PE was 9. “The PE of 9 is low which is unusual for these companies. Apple is 24 and so is Microsoft” “Forward earnings suggests a P/E in the 20s in 2023” https://new
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I don’t think attitudes towards addressing climate change have changed much. This was 8 years ago. https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8

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