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So the number is irrelevant. No one wants yesterdays newspaper. The only relevant number is the price to serve a frontier or near-frontier model.

Kids are definitely a net positive for society. They're future taxpayers. But that's not relevant to couples choice to get pregnant. I've never heard a parent say they had kids so …

If you invert the question "why aren't people having kids" to "why did people want kids in the first place" then the fertility crisis makes more sense. Kids were free labor and old…

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Yea but every warfighter will get a waifu

It's not named the Department of War because Congress didn't rename it. Other than that, good on ya.

No. Feed-based apps are uniquely bad.

There's legions of companies that will do warehousing and shipping for you. Definitely costs though. That's what I mean by margins being a significant difference.

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I got out of software and into physical products a couple of years ago. I wish I could say I was prescient, but honestly it's just so much easier to sell physical items. Margins ar…

Give a kid a phone with TikTok on it and observe them for a while. It's genuinely upsetting. They'll spend hours with their heads down just silently looking at the thing. All desir…

It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work. Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. I…

It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work. Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. I…

> arbitrarily large Space is not empty. Satellites have to be boosted all the time because of drag. Massive panels would only worsen that. Once you boosters are empty the satellite…

Shading does work; JWST does this. However I don't see how you can make it work for satellite data centers. You would constantly be engaging attitude control as you realigned the p…

ISS radiators run on water and ammonia. Think about how much a kg costs to lift to space and you'll see the economics of space data centers fall apart real fast. Plus, if the radia…

Several kW is nothing for a bank of GPUs. Radiators in space are extremely inefficient because there's no conduction. Also you have huge heat inputs from the sun. So you need subst…

This. There's no scenario where it's cheaper to put them in space.

Either this is a straight up con, or Musk found a glitch in physics. It's extremely difficult to keep things cold in space.

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I suppose they'll use the Rodney King excuse for this one. The guy we were kicking the crap out of on the ground made all of us afraid.