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by rlt 5y ago
Ponzi implies fraud. Bitcoin, by definition, can't be fraud. The protocol and code are open source. We know how it works. If you lose money because it's a speculative bubble that eventually pops, that's because you made a bad
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by rlt 5y ago
> Pretty minor ones. Well, except for all the violence committed in the name of various religions over the millennia. Maybe it balances out, but I wouldn’t say it’s minor.
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by rlt 5y ago
I don’t quite understand: lots of people buy purebred dogs from breeders for lots of reasons. If greyhounds are such amazing dogs why wouldn’t people continue to buy them, just perhaps at a smaller scale?
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by rlt 5y ago
> Not exactly what I’d call capped. In the context of a company trying to create an AGI, yes, this is capped.
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by rlt 5y ago
Never underestimate man’s ability/desire to assign meaning to other peoples’ actions.
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by rlt 5y ago
> why build a humanoid robot? For one, humanoid robots are a bit less creepy than the alternatives. Have you seen the BD robots? That’s not as important for industrial use, though.
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by rlt 5y ago
> Either onboard compute is minimal, or it has a battery life measured in dozens of minutes. For industrial applications you could probably have some sort of novel power system, like a tether from the ceiling or special floor that delive
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by rlt 5y ago
Jeff who? Oh the guy who has poured billions of dollars into Blue Origin over 20+ years with little to show for it aside from failed legal attempts / overturned patents to attempt to hinder SpaceX, and a penis shaped sub-orbital rocket
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by rlt 5y ago
We knew how to land rockets?
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by rlt 5y ago
> Consider that Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog is already operating on industrial sites today. In fact, SpaceX has one in Boxa Chica. https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-robot-dog-wreckage-ex...
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by rlt 5y ago
> I said this in another comment, but how do they get away with it? Because it was a joke and most people have a sense of humor?
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by rlt 5y ago
“to attract new talent” I think it’s primarily this, and it’s not a bad strategy.
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by rlt 5y ago
I’m happy they left it up to the customer to put the front plate on. It makes the car look worse and I’ll accept the risk of a citation.
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by rlt 5y ago
How do you define the “required technology” for these problems? We have actuators, sensors, and computers to build humanoid robots, isn’t it “just” a software problem like flipping rockets was?
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by rlt 5y ago
I’ve been wondering if there’s a corollary to that with wildfires. It seems there could be a feedback loop, but wildfires happen naturally too and there’s also a fixed number of trees in the world to burn.
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by rlt 5y ago
We don’t have to “refurbish” airplanes after every flight. Are the stresses of rocket engines / getting to orbit simply so great there’s no way to engineer away “refurbishment”? And will that always be the case, or could advances in m
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by rlt 5y ago
Switzerland would have to be part of the EU, for one.
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by rlt 5y ago
“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” Even if you physically firewalled every connection into a country all it takes is one little node connected via RF (satellite, HF, etc) dropped near an open WiFi hotspot.
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by rlt 5y ago
> what is this supposed to represent? America.
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by rlt 6y ago
Parallel construction is still a possibility. Not to mention regimes that don’t actually care about things like evidence being “legally admissible”.
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by rlt 6y ago
For someone who frequents a site called “hacker news” it sure seems like you don’t understand the hacker mentality.
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by rlt 6y ago
I would wager that the majority people, at least in liberal / urban centers, would look down even on “a few months of food and water” preppers, though that may have changed a bit in the past year.
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by rlt 6y ago
Same COVID obsession that leads to people wearing masks during their wedding ceremony, etc.
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by rlt 6y ago
I’m kind of surprised Netflix doesn’t partner with airlines to put mini Open Connect Appliances on planes and sell Netflix subscriptions per flight (if you don’t already have a subscription).
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by rlt 6y ago
So, where are 2021's version of 1990's web?
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by rlt 6y ago
It depends on your definition of “luxury”. I’d consider Tesla “luxury” like BMW is “luxury”, but a bit less refined and heavier on the technology. If you’re spending millions on cars you’re probably into “exotics” / “supercars” like hi
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by rlt 6y ago
The burden of proof is the on the one making absolute claims like yours.
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by rlt 6y ago
Cool, can you link me to the BOM cost analysis you’re referring to?
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by rlt 6y ago
I think it’s implied that’s 20 ms to geographically close destinations on the internet rather than within their own network. Online gaming is mostly where this matters. I don’t know much about this but I assume most games have geographicall
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by rlt 6y ago
Correction: We know how much phased array antennas produced by other companies have historically sold for. They’re not commodities with uniform costs.

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