sunstone

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by sunstone 5y ago
Tribes.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Starship will be doing this within a month or two max. Florida to Hawaii in thirty minutes.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Very likely Musk hasn't given a thought to this prospect. Like refuel Starship in earth orbit. Then refuel again in Mars orbit. Go grab an asteroid and refine it back on Mars. Send 20 tons of gold back to earth on Starship. The Ma
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by sunstone 5y ago
I think what he's trying to say here is that, "It's good to be king."
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by sunstone 5y ago
No battle plan survives contact with enemy. But you still need to make one.
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by sunstone 5y ago
The writing on the wall has been clear for Hong Kong ever since the HK police turned violent against the protesters. Yes it's an outcome of horrific consequences for the people of Hong Kong but they need to rebuild in another place as
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by sunstone 5y ago
Apple is definitely huge enough and rich enough to build out their own cloud service. Very surprising to me that they use Google's infrastructure instead. I would love to be a fly on the wall of that decision making.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Think of how astonishingly amazing it is to be a sentient being in a universe of 100's of billions of galaxies! What could anyone ever do to come close to justifying such a privilege? Sure, work hard if you like but don't forget
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by sunstone 5y ago
At each new technology step the data rate increases and so does the number of base stations.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Following in the footsteps of Digg and Slashdot.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Apparently Richard Branson uses a very similar method.
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by sunstone 5y ago
A lot hedge funding is just having a big enough pile of cash to bully smaller investors around. In this particular case the hedge fund ran into a much larger pile of cash and got bullied in return and went running home to cry to mommy. Li
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by sunstone 5y ago
You mean the Maori that in 1835 set out to murder every single man, woman and child of the peaceful Moriori people on Chatham Island just for sport? [1] Yeah I don't think so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat
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by sunstone 5y ago
Why not a retrofitted Starship with a circular staircase going up 160 feet. Engines optional, assembled on site.
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by sunstone 5y ago
The weird exception is Microsoft which isn't in FAANG but hit 2T market cap recently. These days both Microsoft and Amazon are primarily cloud server providers.
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by sunstone 5y ago
I envy those innocent souls who have never heard of the concept of configuration management.
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by sunstone 5y ago
See also Walter Pitts.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Somehow I expect that coach's salaries are not a material amount in the multi-billion dollar world of college sports. Player's salaries on the other hand, in aggregate, would be.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Because physics is deductive whereas AI is (trying) to create a synthesis.
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by sunstone 5y ago
I see what you did there.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Argentina for one.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Not only that but in any road accident the bigger participant is automatically the guilty party. So huge trucks are very very careful while grandma with her trolley of vegetables trundles merrily along.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Right or wrong Buffet is still sitting on a mountain of cash.
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by sunstone 5y ago
At the very least there'll be strong after market demand for a proper steering wheel.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Not sure why you're getting the down votes but here, have an up vote :)
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by sunstone 5y ago
My guess is evolutionary selection. One above average male with two or three females would be a more fit reproductive group than a male female pair, and with not much more in the way conflicts of interest. Whereas one female and a couple o
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by sunstone 5y ago
Linux Mint is #3 on distro watch, ahead of all but MX Linux and Manjaro so I guess quite a few people,mostly developers, can tolerate its desktop.
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by sunstone 5y ago
The bottom of the ocean is a very large place and prime nodule territory required by humans is likely to be much less than one percent of that area. Sea bottom mining would exist only until asteroid collection becomes feasible. Say about
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by sunstone 5y ago
Well at least it has enriched the mafia so that's something.
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by sunstone 5y ago
Precisely, it sucks to get caught with your planes down when the enemy attacks.

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