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This is such a grim thing to read.

> I’ve always been a sucker for something novel, so when something as huge as the iPhone had a quirky new model I was really stoked to check it out. This is just... not a life well…

Almost all the ‘servicing’ and ‘orbital debris cleanup’ robot-arm sats are funded quite heavily by military end users, because there is really no market for their stated aims and a…

I have rarely had such displeasure from hearing such an interesting interviewee having to cope with such a cretinous interviewer. I’m very surprised you recommended this.

In no way whatsoever, for low power devices.

I don't know, I get runner's high and want to go running again a couple of days later.

Do something better with your life. Honestly, not /s. Your brain is trying to tell you something.

For a proper distributed internet it seemed like a good idea, but silicon valley has rather scorched the earth, and so it’s not that useful for passively consuming slop and adverts…

The chinese colonies love opium, engagement is through the roof.

I don’t like this site’s obsession with reducing everything to market opportunities, but… it’s extremely well documented that land mines, white truffles, cancer, diabetes, chemical…

What he means and you're interpreting a bit too literally is that this [heatshield] is one subsystem where the risks are not well understood or quantified as, say, the propulsion s…

Bayes rule has existed for nearly 300 years, there is no excuse for ‘only look[ing] at this data’ and that is NEVER a reasonable thing to do.

You’d need a load of additional propellant to insert yourself into the same orbit as the ISS on your return, which would have an exponential effect on the amount of propellant need…

In the last 60 days I have written over 600,000 lines of production code No you haven't.

About the same as Bezos invested in the Melania documentary, watched by about six people.

Everyone in silicon valley would do well to remember why the web was built (by other people, elsewhere).

What are your favourite active irc channels for technical hobbies?

For context, the Cosmos Institute an AI lobbying business. [it flatters itself otherwise but that’s not atypical of the form]

Hopelessly over-idealistic premise. Sama and pg have never been anything other than opportunistic muck. This will be my last ever comment on HN.

WTF? [Tang notes in-joke for potential downvoters]

No! “they must do _something_ that makes their users want to use it.” Is fentanyl acting in the interests of its addicts?

How could you _possibly_ believe a company like meta would use a new technology to act in your interests rather than theirs?

I do worry about seeing more of these posts, as a way of SV people - who bare a substantial burden of guilt for enabling the collective mess we’re in because the ad-tech/algorithm …

The electrical efficiency of breaking water to hydrogen, then combusting hydrogen through a turbine to generate electricity, compares extremely disfavourably to most other forms of…