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by thinkcontext 8d ago
> And the problems haven’t been completely ironed out: the first launch attempt of Starship’s flight test 13 was aborted automatically by the vehicle’s flight software at T-0 (right before liftoff) this past July when several Raptor 3 en
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by thinkcontext 12d ago
> The problem with Solar is once someone buys it they can continuously use it for a long time with out participating in the economy. An odd statement. That could be considered a "problem" for an incumbent energy provider, like
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A Texas rancher grazes more than 8k sheep across solar farms(siliconcanals.com)
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Cincinnati police drones respond in mins, here's what they learned after 1 year(local12.com)
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by thinkcontext 29d ago
None of those are ready to deploy, they are in experimental testing. They have several phases of that still to go before they can get a license.
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by thinkcontext 29d ago
There are no working SMR's ready to be deployed in the West. The company (NuScale) that was furthest along had its flagship project die after cost estimates ballooned. Its other project was a crypto scam. Whether any of these compani
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by thinkcontext 29d ago
NuScale is a terrible example. Their flagship project collapsed before it even started because of cost escalation and their other project was some sort of crypto scam.
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
Good for Anthropic for standing up for themselves but think of the masses of companies that decided not to take the risk. The tone was definitely set at Trump's inauguration with all the tech execs front and center on display. They kne
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
> The US isn't expanding fossil fuel extraction, its quite the opposite. Not according to the federal government's data. BTUs from fossil fuel production set a record last year and is on a faster pace this year. Your bringing
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
For those that don't recall or weren't around the Obama administration send thousands of medical and military to assist with the 2013-2016 outbreak. A big part of what they did was construct medical wards, but they helped with tr
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
The US has travel restrictions, therefore you are incorrect that "western countries don't even entertain the possibility of preemptively denying travel from these countries until things get under control" https://w
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
Depends on how easily the Canadian electricity can be replaced. The market is pretty tight right now.
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
This would seem to be an issue MAHA would want to engage on. But they instead seem to be focused on issues for which there's no evidence or even substantial negative evidence like vaccines. What a wasted opportunity to actually improve
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
Isn't this what Elon Musk has unironically claimed he is doing with grokipedia?
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by thinkcontext 1mo ago
Maybe a non-event for safety but what about getting the plant operating again?
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
Its a particularly galling policy for disproportionately hurting small businesses given the number of money laundering, sanctions avoidance, etc big fish Trump has pardoned, ended investigations and enforcement generally.
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
I wonder how much this will drive adoption of crypto for remittances.
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
Even more significant is the timing, it's 18 launches by the end of 2027. Even before New Glenn and Vulcan broke they couldn't have scheduled a single launch before the end of 2027. Their manifests were full because they were year
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
You brought up the working class as sensitive to price and now you say they aren't. That doesn't seem like a logically consistent position but maybe I'm not understanding what you are saying.
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
We're talking about new cars, which in the US the average price of is $50K. The working class tends to buy used cars, of which 3 times more than new cars are sold each year.
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
> Perhaps the money being used to fund a superfluous vaccine should be used to fund access to PrEP in the Third World An astounding statement. Is it not possible that a vaccine giving decades of protection would give better health outco
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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border(gizmodo.com)
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
Not likely. There's a saturation point where excess just gets filtered out by your kidneys.
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
That's the point, the grid operator does not want more solar. They have an excess of solar available during those 3 hours that would otherwise go to waste and not enough later in the day.
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by thinkcontext 2mo ago
"Free" electricity is an indication that the economics are out of balance. If the power provider isn't getting paid for those 3 hours, it means they'll need to be paid more at other times. It also means the grid needs
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by thinkcontext 3mo ago
But they did resist locking it down, recall Musk making fun of concerns? They clearly don't take governance seriously, its whatever Musk is gravitating to in his filter bubble.
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A Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I(nytimes.com)
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by thinkcontext 3mo ago
I believe that they made the "butter" out of the leftovers (paraffin) from making liquid fuel out of the coal. So, its not a straight 60:1 ratio, you'd need to add some more products to the equation.
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by thinkcontext 3mo ago
Is it not possible that they build the first one and things don't go smoothly and they need to make some adjustments for subsequent builds?
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by thinkcontext 3mo ago
This is a brand new type, there's no way that equivalent operation to a decades old design with centuries of operational experience can be assumed. Presumably its been designed for high uptime but it would not be unusual for new techn

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