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by towaway15463 4y ago
If that’s the limiting factor then it gives us a heck of a lot of time to work on the answer.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Some questions jump out there: What does that amount of solar and storage look like in terms of material used for its construction as well as area occupied once it’s deployed? What current examples do we have of projects at this scale? What
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Concrete infrastructure projects in particular seem to have gotten more expensive and time consuming.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Remember, this assumes they started playing on day 1 of its availability on Stadia which is most likely not the case.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
That’s essentially all of his free time after subtracting time for sleep, work, commute times and taking care of basic needs like eating and hygiene.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
The key challenge is getting to 1000000AD intact as a civilization. For that to happen we need to get our collective asses to Mars in the next 50 years and then continue to develop space habitats and colonies on other bodies at a steady cli
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Excuse me, what? Maybe if you somehow added enough energy to immediately jettison the moon from Earth’s orbit or steered every asteroid in the solar system into the surface of the Earth. This is just nonsense otherwise. Any future mega proj
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by towaway15463 4y ago
The continued existence of humanity and life in general is a good in itself. Besides that, why would you think that space exploration and colonization would reduce living standards?
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I’m always amazed when people seem to miss the obvious answer. Robots won’t get us there. Digitizing consciousness won’t either. We already have perfectly good nanotechnology capable of adapting to any environment. It’s staring us in the fa
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Have you listened to Elon speak? He’s not exactly gifted when it comes to conversational skills. His texts read pretty typical for someone more interested in working out details than wasting time on small talk.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I’ll take a loose lipped dreamer that eventually delivers on most of his promises in a spectacular way over a buttoned down PR rep that consistently goes over budget, pushes delivery dates by years and drops a disappointing and outdated pro
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by towaway15463 4y ago
https://auxmode.com/support/twitter-sms-commands/
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I’d agree if you replace “smart” with “competent and experienced in the domain in question” and “room” with “the place where their decisions are going to be implemented”.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Sounds like you’re surrounded by toxic people, likely as a result of this attitude.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
We’re doomed if we don’t spread out. Staying on earth guarantees destruction by asteroid, super volcano, coronal mass ejection, war, disease, ecological collapse, etc. Settling the solar system is a bit better but still subject to rogue bro
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by towaway15463 4y ago
For a good sci-fi take on this, read Dark is the Sun by Philip Jose Farmer
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Ransom money and family relations or treatment of the hostages the enemy had were probably the big motivators.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Combat like this without reserve cavalry likely devolved into dismounted melee immediately after the first charge. They would have started mounted, charged with lances, became embroiled in close combat, eventually dismounting or being pulle
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Go watch some videos of modern melee tournaments where the participants are in full armour. Armoured combat essentially turns all weapons into blunt objects unless you manage to get a point of a sword into a gap which is hard to do while be
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by towaway15463 4y ago
It’s rather circular, I imagine.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
As if back channels or threats of unfavourable treatment don’t exist. Just because the government doesn’t put it in writing on the public record doesn’t mean they aren’t exerting other forms of power. In this case they did make statements
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by towaway15463 4y ago
What would be the point of influencing government if it had no power over you?
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Anything he could have done at that moment would simply have been undone by the incoming administration.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
They have to be capitalist in order to be a profitable company. The problem has more to do with their size and monopoly status. They have the whole market and no credible pressure from consumers threatening to leave for other businesses and
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s exactly this, just time spent on page no matter what you’re doing even if it is scrolling past dozens of recommended videos trying to find something half decent.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
YouTube already knows how to fix it. All they have to do is revert to their pre-2016 recommendation engine. They panicked when they along with the other socials thought they somehow got Trump elected and they kludged their algorithm to deat
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by towaway15463 4y ago
I think you’d have to answer what the difference is between that group of chess masters and the rest of the population. Could you pick any random adult person off the street and train them to compete and win against the best of the best? Wo
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Financed. He was able to make the payments and I’m guessing the loan was in his parents names.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Through someone who was able to make the trip. Its in the article.
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by towaway15463 4y ago
Wouldn’t an “adult prodigy” be referred to as a genius? Surely you believe there are people who are far more accomplished than 99.999% of the population that could be considered as such.

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