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by namlem 10y ago
Well it's not like we haven't been making progress on general purpose ambulatory robots. Have you seen what some of Google's subsidiaries have built?
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by namlem 10y ago
What are you talking about? Both NASA's and Musk's plans involve return trips.
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by namlem 10y ago
The martian atmosphere does have the benefit of having created much less abrasive dust over the years. Moon dust causes much more wear to moving parts. Mars also has accessible carbon, which the moon does not. The martian atmosphere can sup
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by namlem 10y ago
Alternatively, send a probe that generates LOX and liquid methane from water ice and CO2 on Mars using solar power to create the fuel needed for ascent.
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by namlem 10y ago
Yeah, I'm sure Exxon's projections are unbiased and reliable.
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by namlem 10y ago
That could simply mean that our education system is inefficient, not that education isn't valuable.
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by namlem 10y ago
Toyota doesn't have a supercharger network or autopilot. The Model 3 is a pretty nice looking car, at least on the exterior. The interior leaves some things to be desired, but the extra features offered by Tesla seal the deal. The one
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by namlem 10y ago
So it's a crazy powerful (and presumably crazy expensive) supercar in the form factor of a four-door sedan?
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by namlem 10y ago
The problem is high start up cost and high real estate cost. Batteries are small and you can purchase and deploy them in small quantities.
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by namlem 10y ago
IMO, we should abolish elections entirely and select legislators by lottery out of pools of people who pass qualification exams. Random selection has a lot of benefits. There have been a number of studies on its use in promoting workers in
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by namlem 10y ago
I love my SP4, but after having owned one for a while, I would absolutely not buy one if not for the inking. It's just so goddam buggy. It constantly has some issue, whether it's the keyboard not connecting or some Windows chrome
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by namlem 10y ago
Why not? It's not like having article costs anything. It's just a few kilobytes of text.
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by namlem 10y ago
Or that modern democracies are simply too inept to deal with them. I think we could design a democratic state that is far more effective than any that exists today.
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by namlem 10y ago
The right way is to first focus on policies that reduce cost of living. Encourage affordable housing, lower healthcare costs, and build infrastructure to support autonomous vehicles. The first two of these step on too many toes though, and
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by namlem 10y ago
I believe AI is much more of a hardware problem than people realize. It's such a computationally difficult task. The energy efficiency and parallelism of brains is unbelievable. However, I think an improvement of even just two orders o
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by namlem 10y ago
In many cases, it might matter much more. There are many species of animals that reproduce mostly within their own group. Group selection effects are much more pronounced in these species.
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by namlem 10y ago
Immortality has been cracked. There are a number of "immortal" species that do not age.
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by namlem 10y ago
Yeah, the original steel is the nicest watch they've made. Some of the new ones are nice, but not as nice.
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by namlem 10y ago
This is cool, but IMO it should be available to anyone who has been living on the block, not just those who own property on it. That way renters could get in on it.
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by namlem 10y ago
We've seen what happens when opiates are unregulated. I do think we need to legalize more drugs and generally liberalize drug laws, but selling oxycodone in stores for recreational use would end in disaster, just like selling heroin in
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by namlem 10y ago
You need base stations to receive the signal. Governments could potentially limit access to those.
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by namlem 10y ago
I certainly would not call Musk's statements conservative. He does ultimately deliver, but seldom on schedule.
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by namlem 10y ago
I'm not worried about neo-nazi speech. Most countries have plenty of precedent for regulating hate speech. I'm worried about speech that isn't quite at the neo-nazi level. What do we do to speech that is only kind of hate spe
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by namlem 10y ago
Between this, self-driving Teslas, and Tesla solar panels and battery storage, absolutely.
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by namlem 10y ago
That's exactly right, but those who own real estate will fight it tooth and nail. We already have the ability to build cheap housing en masse. It's politics and greed that stand in the way of affordable housing. Those who own real
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by namlem 10y ago
Back then all cars were death traps. I'm not sure how much less likely it would have been to be maimed in a low speed crash in an American car.
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by namlem 10y ago
Globalism is good overall, yes, but it is very bad for certain subgroups. Everyone else has been benefiting at the expense of blue collar workers in developed countries.
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by namlem 10y ago
MS does not have an iMac equivalent yet, but you can get an Air-equivalent Surface Pro for $1100. It does have some drawbacks over the air (which I guess has been merged into the regular MacBook now), but also has a number of advantages.
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by namlem 10y ago
Restaurants don't get shut down for every little violation.
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by namlem 10y ago
IMO Steam needs to launch an Android store. If anyone can convince consumers that mobile games have the potential to be high quality and valuable, it's Valve. People who balk at the idea of paying 99 cents for a mobile app happily drop

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