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by yholio 5y ago
This is clearly a military oriented startup. For sending civilian payloads into space, it has a very low chance to reach a price point that is competitive with reusable rockets. You either need an absolutely gargantuan centrifuge -> high
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by yholio 5y ago
The final black hypercube design looks modern even for contemporary standards.
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The problem with nuclear energy is not, and never was, availability of fuel. The fueling costs are by and large negligible in the balance sheet of a nuclear plant. Nuclear has a massive capital cost issue, you need to invest a very large su
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by yholio 5y ago
If efficient, safe and low cost fast breeders become available, you don't need thorium or sea extraction. Just transmute the vast quantities of U238 that have been stockpiled as depleted uranium into fissionable Plutonium 239 and run r
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by yholio 5y ago
It's simpler than that, really: ban all nuclear weapons and bomb the shit out of anyone who attempts to create them. This two-tired world, where the rich guys and their cronies have nuclear weapons, while the second grade countries mus
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by yholio 5y ago
> out-compete the liquor scene with free but watered-down beer. Make that: free strong beer versus liquor that has a 2% chance to be mixed with rat poison, is illegal to sell or buy, and costs more to use than the average job pays. A qui
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by yholio 5y ago
Giving free, safe drugs will depress demand for illegal drugs: most dealers are users, and are pushed to a high risk criminal activity - drug dealing - in order to finance their expensive habit. They take extraordinary risk for this, includ
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by yholio 5y ago
It's not a menu, it's a place where you go to get a clean, safe fix for your opioid addiction. You get what you get, the best opioid or analogue that the doctors decide to give you, possibly with a slow release mechanism that avoi
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by yholio 5y ago
Or maybe you could move the other way: treat addiction as a disease and provide free, pharmaceutical grade product or methadone substitutes to all that request it, if they suffer from addiction. It costs essentially nothing. This will not o
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by yholio 5y ago
Learning an additional, "learning language", be it a real language like Pascal or an entirely conceptual/theoretical language like pseudocode or flowchart is the only way to become a programmer. Programming is a very particul
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by yholio 5y ago
Airbulances are definitely a killer app. The loud noise is a feature, it makes people look up and make room for landing. A 0.005% chance of crashing on its built in airbags, and possibly damaging property or squishing somebody, while comple
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by yholio 5y ago
It's quite simple to figure out, once you understand no electric charging and consumption can happen without the knowledge of the car computer, which is programmed by Tesla, which just received a $5 bilion dolar order from Hertz. Surel
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by yholio 5y ago
It's a nice toy, but the problems of personal aerial vehicles were not about electric motors vs ICE: - Massive amount of sound pollution, current crop won't be allowed near cities in significant numbers; that's why the presen
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by yholio 5y ago
My 200.000 km car had absolutely no defects related to the ICE, if something broke it was with the steering, suspension, air-conditioner, electric etc. However, that was because the immense amount of preventive maintenance I did to keep the
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by yholio 5y ago
I have a cash stash in my car for this very reason. I can't count the number of times it got me out of deep crap. When you are on an outdoors expedition in the middle of nowhere, you can lose your wallet, your phone might lose signal,
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by yholio 5y ago
Why, as kickbacks to the future taliban government, a.k.a the former democratic leadership of Afghanistan, of course.
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The problem here is not the instantaneous and irreversible financial consequences of badly written code. That's a feature, it makes crypto work like cash, a coin is a coin and won't magically evaporate from my wallet because PayPa
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by yholio 5y ago
Is there something that is fundamental to the cloud that promotes vendor lock-in? I can understand it from operating systems and retailers. But is there some fundamental obstacle that prevents most cloud services to be delivered by commodit
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by yholio 5y ago
There are whole branches of computer science and IT dedicated to reducing the likelihood of unpleasant outcomes: cryptography, security, disaster recovery etc. You cannot guarantee your public key algorithm is impossible to break, but you c
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by yholio 5y ago
And therein lies the problem with content addressable networks: they make no sense in the economic world of the internet, where data transport and storage is not free, they make sense in a world owned by a single corporation.
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by yholio 5y ago
Fusion reactors activate their structure and can leak tritium gas which is a nuclear contaminant. Any fusion practical designs will require a liquid lithium cooling blanket that will breed the necessary quantities of tritium. They therefore
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by yholio 5y ago
Oh, this needs to be made into a caricature: "After the completing the Brexit plan without any meltdown, I pledge to solve the climate challenge in the same way!"
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by yholio 5y ago
I guess him leaving explains why he's the only one to get the blame. Had he remained in the company, he could have blackmailed his way out, by threatening to bring down the whole club. By leaving, he painted a huge target on his back.
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by yholio 5y ago
I see these mind boggling sums in the Valley, $300.000, $600.000, can you please translate: how much does that net you per month, after taxes, reasonable healthcare and rent, ideally no further than 1 hour commute and free of black mold?
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This is pure genius. Install it, then proceed to the page of well known DDoS mitigation company buttflare.com: How does butt computing work? Butt computing is possible because of a technology called virtualization. Virtualization allows fo
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People who know how to write native apps are some sort of super human geniuses compared to the JavaScript wielding kiddies. they have all been promoted to management.
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I will never ever create a LinkedIn account, the hard sell techniques, spam to my inbox and aggressiveness is so off-putting that I would rather eat my own barf. This whole company and its power users reeks to me from outside like a scene f
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by yholio 5y ago
It's funny you should say that, since it's exactly what Apple feels too. I'm grabbing my popcorn and anxiously wait to see how a 200 employee startup can take the bone away for a world class super-monopoly.
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by yholio 5y ago
If I can walk in a crowded mall with my feet, why can't I drive my 18-wheeler there? Traffic laws violate freedom of movement.
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They should ban facial recognition though, in all and every context where the owner of the face has not given explicit consent. Nothing good can come of it.

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