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I mean, in the real world, people will just vote out politicians who raise their gas prices.

Some Cantons require all sorts of hoops to jump through in order to get an air conditioner.

CS Lewis was pretty influential on the YA fiction, Harry Potter type of literature. And his other works also have broad influence beyond fiction.

I kinda feel like this is mostly irrelevant. Europe can stop fossil fuel emissions entirely right now and it’d have very little effect. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t decarbonize! But…

If only there was a short little text file that websites could use to keep track of the setting...

What about encrypted ultrasound modems?

Technical ceramics would have survived.

So long as you don’t live in India, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, South Korea… or maybe even the countries Russia their ally is antagonistic with, like Ukraine, Turkey, all of Europe.

FWIW you can get a kit Core One+ for $999 USD in the US. I actually prefer to get the machine as a kit as assembly helps with understanding the workings of the machine for maintena…

I don't even think it's corrupt self-interest. Just idiotic bravado and wanting to settle long held grudges.

America does that for aerospace & some defense stuff. But the reason not to is that the industrial policy needed to do it like China does has the effect of reduced wages, longer wo…

In general, I do think the East Asian nations have over-prioritized work for export and industrial policy at the expense of the well-being of their citizens.

Not as much as their East Asian neighbors, who had increasing democracy and fewer deaths to starvation…

GoPro is a US company designed in U.S. with manufacturing in Thailand, China, and Mexico. Insta360 is a Chinese company designed in Shenzhen and built there, too. People think this…

I’ve physically touched the materials being used for solar sails and the lightweight mirrors.

I agree with all that. Many times I see someone Vagueposting about stuff, and I wish I could see their feed.

X posts have a permanent url.

I know for a fact because I’ve dug deep into the field, colleagues work on it every day, and I’ve met and talked to the founders of Reflect, saw material samples of their mirror te…

I know for a fact it is gossamer thin. It does need structure, but there’s a fundamental limit to how small your spot size is anyway due to Conservation of Etendue, so small deform…

Landauer’s Principle (a direct consequence of the Second Law of thermodynamics) shows there’s a very clear physical manifestation of information and information theory, it is not j…

Nope. Technological possibility of landing on a droneship was claimed to be impossible. And yes, of course it was never actually impossible. The technical expert was obviously wron…

Launching a gossamer thin mirror in space is not very expensive. Broad strokes claiming anything launched to space is going to be a more expensive solution has to level with the fa…

Nah. Should have been named after the Two Trees of Valinor, Telperion and Laurelin.

orbital mirrors make very poor weapons because Conservation of Etendue means you fundamentally cannot concentrate very high unless your fill factor is very high (which would requir…

Yes. Unable to edit it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle