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by trhway 9mo ago
It is SpaceX/Elon who bet billions on that yadda-yadda, not me. I wrote "If" for $10/kg. I'm sure though that they would easily yadda-yadda under sub-$100/kg - which is $15M per flight. And even with those $100
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by trhway 9mo ago
>1. The capital costs are higher, you have to expend tons of energy to put it into orbit putting 1KW of solar on land - $2K, putting it into orbit on Starship (current ground-based heavy solar panels, 40kg for 4m2 of 1KW in space) - anyw
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by trhway 9mo ago
>The power radiated is T^4, but 70c is only about 17.1% warmer than 20c because you need to compare in kelvin. 17% in T^4 is almost 2x - plugging 293 (in Kelvin of course) in the calculator i get 417 W/m2 vs. 784W/m2 that i got
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by trhway 9mo ago
>Getting rid of the copious amounts of heat that data centers generate might also be a challenge at 70 Celsius - normal for GPU - 1.5m2 radiates something like 1KWt (which requires 4m2 of panels to collect), so doesn't look to a be
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by trhway 9mo ago
>the best we can oh, we'll sure find a way to weaponize that energy for example - just imagine all those panels simultaneously turning their reflective back in a way to form gigantic mirror to focus reflected solar energy on your e
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by trhway 9mo ago
"a beam of directed ultrasound that delivers audio ten times more isolated " ah, so this is what they used in embassy attacks
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by trhway 9mo ago
>Shouldn’t the progressive position be to offer help from the states with higher incomes? that is exactly what blue states have been doing by pushing for better social net, for medicaid expansion (all these things are de-facto financed b
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by trhway 9mo ago
>taxing prosperous states to benefit these poorer ones would be beneficial. So red states don't want state income tax in their states. Yet when it comes to taxing somebody else for the benefit of the red states, the red states are a
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by trhway 9mo ago
Just another datapoint - the infant mortality is 5.6 US vs. 6.5 Cuba and under five mortality is 6.5 vs. 8.3.
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by trhway 9mo ago
Surprisingly (for people who never lived in USSR/Russia :) Belarus and Russia have very tight supply of potatoes (after outright shortages in 2025) with Russia importing Chinese potatoes.
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by trhway 9mo ago
My previous napkin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43190778
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SpaceX seeks FCC nod for 1M solar-powered satellite data centers for AI(reuters.com)
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by trhway 9mo ago
No. Private companies decide what wages to pay. Politicians only decide what wages private companies aren't allowed to pay.
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by trhway 9mo ago
With Putin's Russia transition to authoritarian and recently becoming fully totalitarian, the Russian Mafia of 90s (with the 90s being the most democratic time in Russian history), is pretty much no more. FSB and police have replaced t
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by trhway 9mo ago
>But its hard to see that when your region is doing badly. May be proponents of globalism should have financed those voters travel to other countries to see what real "doing badly" looks like. In US, as far as i see, whenever&
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by trhway 9mo ago
> America should be first America had been first all the time since at least 1945 while driving the globalizaton. What can be more "first" than extracting all possible kinds of value - cheap labor, educated immigrants, mineral
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by trhway 9mo ago
>You've heard of some of these characters - Zeus, Persophone, Hades, ... >Just very, very recently we aren't allowed to do this anymore. From the beginning of monotheism we see strong attempts to monopolize the character of
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by trhway 9mo ago
I don't know what you're so surprised about. The ticket reads like any other typical [Big] enterprise ticket. UI works, headless - not (headless is what only hackers use, so not a priority, etc.) Oh, found the support guy who know
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by trhway 9mo ago
Noem at the Senate hearing : "Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to ..." After senator cut her off and explained what habeas
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by trhway 9mo ago
I see it differently - they needed to redesign everything except the power train. I.e. in addition to the interior, externally it should have been looking way upscale from 3/Y. Giving that their design language is already almost 2 deca
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by trhway 9mo ago
You’re really so telling not truth. The ICE picks brown skinned people without any order or warrant and makes them sign voluntary deportation, no hearings/attorneys/etc. That "works" even for the people who has a valid a
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by trhway 9mo ago
In USSR (and early 90-s Russia) airports, train stations, theaters had that you'd call VIP lounges - those intended VIPs were the high Party and government bureaucrats and the likes. While general population halls were crowded those lo
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by trhway 9mo ago
>The car can react faster that I can after seeing someone and that can potentially allow internal planning algorithm to choose more risky and aggressive trajectories/behavior, etc. say to reach target destination faster and thus del
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by trhway 9mo ago
It is worth it when it is done right, i.e when you do correct market differentiation (see my other comment here on Mercedes) to avoid your low end cannibalizing your higher end. This high margin really helps you, and this is why almost ever
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by trhway 9mo ago
268K of 5 top end Mercedes models were sold in 2025 (and like 1/3 of them were sold in Maybach or AMG version!). Where is Tesla S and X combined sales were only 32K in 2024 and 18K in 2025. You wouldn't mistake Mercedes S-Class fo
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by trhway 9mo ago
the human driver would usually drive more closely to the centerline of such a residential road. If the road is clear ahead i'd drive almost over the centerline of the road having enough clearance between my path and the parked cars for
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by trhway 9mo ago
then it would suggest why depression gets worse in colder and less sunny part of the year. That even has its own name - Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
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by trhway 9mo ago
"Jaws" hippo edition: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aKEgTUkpk64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQpq8mLbm0
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by trhway 9mo ago
Vets castrating an animal under anesthesia pales in comparison to male calves castration by using tight rubber band (AMZN sells them too) to cut the blood supply to scrotum and thus causing necrosis and ultimately scrotum and testicles fall
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by trhway 9mo ago
Nothing prevents the drivers to long-term lease a robocar like a personal vehicle and send it to work for Uber during the time when they don't need it. Currently an Uber driver can drive at any given moment only one car for Uber. With

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