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by unchocked 5y ago
I suspect they will. Cybertruck's chassis and battery capacity will dominate every other lunar rover architecture, and a ton of NRE has already been spent making it a production vehicle. Lunarizing the platform will be cheap, and Stars
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by unchocked 5y ago
Yup. Break the tyranny of mission assurance.
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by unchocked 5y ago
It rhymes. They taught Bin Laden how to provoke disproportionate retaliation to his own ends.
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by unchocked 5y ago
Right, and this describes the marketing problem. If I already have an i5, why would I need another one unless it's broken? If I have an M1 and they're selling M5's, I'm continually reminded that my rig is out of date.
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by unchocked 5y ago
At 750-something pages, few will read the whole thing but it bears noting that appears to be Eric Schmidt in classic form, lobbying the government to ingest $bigcorp IT practices. Vis a vis the security competition w/ China, it is prob
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by unchocked 6y ago
Fascinating. I wonder how long it took to oxidize, and what the partial pressure of oxygen blown that far out is. Shuai Li also recently mapped direct evidence for water on the Moon, using similar data. Exciting times for lunar geology. ht
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by unchocked 6y ago
True. It’s hilarious, and mercifully not spamming the comment thread.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Corporations, like Indians and men, are groups consisting of people. Corporations, unlike Indians and men, also have the legal status of "personhood".
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by unchocked 6y ago
So the innovation here is not the neural probes (200 neurons, same state of the art), nor the connection from the neural probes to outside the skull (physical port, not wireless), but only that there is a wireless dongle that sits on top of
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by unchocked 6y ago
But after 1988, everyone knew.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Great news! France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear power, and it's a very plausible part of the solution. Relatedly I've been thinking about how to compare the moral culpability of anti-nuclear activists for climate chang
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by unchocked 6y ago
That was a fascinating read. I have no idea how to deal with models of that complexity but can appreciate the difficulty.
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by unchocked 6y ago
The model indicates 1000:1, but it may not capture all aspects (i.e. correlations) in the system. So what seems like excessive sigmas is also margin for those unknown-unknowns.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Indeed. I suspect it's generally true that the more you know, the more questions you have.
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by unchocked 6y ago
I’m really glad you asked that! The reason we have coal and oil today is that earlier in Earth’s history microorganisms lacked the enzyme to metabolize cellulose (the most abundant bioorganic material). So until then, it was buried and accu
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by unchocked 6y ago
The use case describes was for a raiding party prior to the main landing, in which case ~hours are needed until the main force arrives. Tanks can operate without resupply for this long, and in the case of a surprise raid a single MBT to sup
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by unchocked 6y ago
Transnational electricity transmission doesn’t get enough credit - right now I suspect the ROI is an order of magnitude beyond that of utility scale storage.
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by unchocked 6y ago
While I’ve seen that was the goal of the meat substitute co’s - I’m now seeing the fast food co’s goals aligning, which makes the plant meat business much less niche/quixotic.
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by unchocked 6y ago
All of the sudden - I get it. These co's are dealing with a really shitty, commodified form of beef that they'd love to develop an alternative to. So the immediate benefit is they get to serve vegetarians, but the long term is the
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by unchocked 6y ago
I strongly doubt she said this, as it is factually incorrect. While the specific impulse of chemical engines is low, their thrust is high so they get up to what speed almost instantly.
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by unchocked 6y ago
I think it helps to view people as charitably as you can. I think Jeff, like most capitalists, is looking for leverage. So he wants to change the future, rather than mitigate the present. There's certainly good faith arguments to be ma
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by unchocked 6y ago
Article makes the case for exoatmospheric ballistic missiles as a superior technology based on lack of drag. For intercontinental ranges, the argument probably holds. For short and medium ranges, particularly air-to-ship and ship-to-ship, t
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by unchocked 6y ago
Makes sense. I don't think the board ever intended Parler to be a business, but rather either a stick in the eye of contemporary culture or, as another poster put it, a data grab to identify their political constituency (see ID require
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by unchocked 6y ago
Well, it's grossly inefficient, so in that sense it's in the spirit of the web.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Given that blockchain is exclusively a workaround to lacking a trusted third party, approximately what fraction of economic activity would be revolutionized by not having to trust anyone?
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by unchocked 6y ago
Starship won't suicide burn. Raptor can downthrottle deeply enough to hover.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Energy's going carbon neutral faster than you can reengineer society.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Yeah, it's weird. I suspect that while books and academic papers aren't Veblen, the fact that the purchaser and the decision maker are separate drives prices higher, price signals being replaced by marketing or something.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Yep. The solution is a stationkeeping orbit around Sun-Earth Lagrange 1.
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by unchocked 6y ago
Had a fixed aimpoint - Tel Aviv. Can't blame Mossad one bit.

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