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by snoshy 6y ago
This is the equivalent of a negative research result that looked into whether there's anything more to explore here to produce the really juicy result like a true compromise, but instead shows that there's nothing that a set of hi
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by snoshy 6y ago
Would they though? If settlement was instantaneous for market makers, then obviously settlement with the brokerages would also have to be instantaneous. Then it's no longer an issue of verifying anything, the risk of proving ownershi
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by snoshy 6y ago
> Significantly increasing those capital requirements by requiring pre-funding of all trades without the benefit of recognizing the offsetting trades would substantially increase the costs of trade execution to the end user. I don't
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by snoshy 6y ago
The difference in this particular case is that Ikea is not taking productive forest land and taking it out of production. It is taking naturally forested land that is at risk of deforestation that would ostensibly then be used for a mono
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by snoshy 6y ago
Quite damning, and that's only the most blatant infractions, because it's such a high bar to prove collusion and price fixing. The most disingenuous tactics to prevent competition that are harder to prove in court continue to cau
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by snoshy 6y ago
Public service at its finest in the modern world, little thanks for the perseverance it can take to drive it through. Kudos.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Interesting, wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the link!
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by snoshy 6y ago
Arguably, one of the most important characteristics of a load balancer is to have extremely low latency. If you're balancing loads, you want to be very quick about making a decision. When generating predictions about the computationa
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by snoshy 6y ago
Aside from the fact that Starlink connections are or two orders of magnitude better in throughput and latency, the biggest problem with Iridium is the cost. It's just simply out of the realm of affordability just for the likes of stre
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by snoshy 6y ago
Sure, but that pittance of bandwidth is a far cry from having persistent 24/7 access to a high bandwidth, low latency service like Starlink. Long boring months spent in the darkness with very few recreational outlets now all of a sudd
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by snoshy 6y ago
Not quite. In order for a laser sat to talk to another sat, the second sat needs to also have laser comms hardware on it. Given that these were the first 10 to boast of such hardware, initially they'll only be talking to each other.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Yea I'm guessing a bunch of researchers at both poles must be rejoicing at the potential for new connectivity this creates with the polar launch.
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by snoshy 6y ago
This seems overly ambitious, and not likely to translate to laser satellite comms links. Remember these sats are in low LEO, so there is at least some amount of non-uniform atmospheric medium to create optical distortion that you wouldn&#x
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by snoshy 6y ago
SpaceX continues to genuinely feel like a practical intellectual's playground. They really do have so many fascinating problems to work on. Accurate orbital information might not be necessary or possible, if you can perform broad scan
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by snoshy 6y ago
Since the linked article is somewhat ambiguous about this, and other commenters appear to be getting confused about the purpose and value of the laser links as well: these laser links are purely intended for satellite-to-satellite communica
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by snoshy 6y ago
It's fair to question the motivations of the FSD beta testers. They were obviously hand picked to ensure maximum safety, adequate public profile, having committed large sums of money to prove their allegiance, as well as being existin
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by snoshy 6y ago
I agree. The entire Tesla gamble really hinges on whether the HW3 + current sensor suite is sufficient for them to achieve a safe enough degree of autonomy. It's about as minimal as it gets from the hardware front, and is entirely de
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by snoshy 6y ago
I disagree, largely because you've cherry-picked parts of the overall strategy. The world is obviously not going to go from purely human driven to 100% autonomous overnight. There will be an intermediate phase where initially some fe
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by snoshy 6y ago
Is this really all that important? There are 3 other cars ahead of the Tesla at this red light intersection. If you're able to react within tens or hundreds of milliseconds to a changing environment, it would actually make sense to r
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by snoshy 6y ago
Exactly. There's real world video footage showing the vehicle behavior that includes Tesla animations showing the vehicle's current understanding of the environment. It's rather cheap to take trivial shots at Tesla (no matte
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by snoshy 6y ago
What you're saying is not a capability that even most commercially available automatic braking systems can do well. Several studies have pitted the half-dozen or so cars available with automatic emergency braking systems on them, and
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by snoshy 6y ago
Autopilot and FSD beta are not the same. The latter is currently available to maybe a couple dozen testers that are clearly very well informed about the capabilities of the system, as well as the changes in each update. If you really don&
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by snoshy 6y ago
There's nothing non-standard about this. The API keys to enable this functionality were provided by Google itself in 2013.
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by snoshy 6y ago
To be fair, gaming as a consumer is not an inherently productive activity. The production of games, sure, but the tax of the creation is heavily distributed across the consuming population. If what you care about is to have your population
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by snoshy 6y ago
A genuinely impressive list. They clearly know the valuable and successful properties to throw money at. I wonder why other USA tech players passed on those kinds of investments, because they certainly had the chance, and would ostensibly
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by snoshy 6y ago
Well that's obviously not reality, because Ant is in the process of being essentially nationalized or broken up to a degree because of Jack Ma's public criticism of the system. Having someone on quickdial doesn't mean having
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by snoshy 6y ago
Echoing the sister comment to add more color, I think when it comes to this scale of money, it becomes too easy to conflate public and private capability. The ISS cost $150 billion. That is a kind of cost that even the tech behemoths of t
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by snoshy 6y ago
Largely because it's a fantastically expensive undertaking, and hasn't quite borne out the fruits that were speculated about over the years. USA provides a huge bulk of the funding, expertise, and personnel required to keep the p
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by snoshy 6y ago
I'm not sure what makes you believe this. The voter turnout for the 2020 election was merely 62%, and that was a record high. American voters being more aware of various issues is another myth. Look at how quickly a politician that
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by snoshy 6y ago
This I'm not so sure about. It will certainly be different, but it's still an open question whether it will be easier to secure from a national security standpoint. There's the physical security aspect of this, which is as y

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