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and that's assuming they are all in the same concentric plane as each other. you could stack them at different distances from the earth

for what it's worth it would take the equivalent of launching 60 trillion cars into low earth orbit to blot out the sky

If that is true, why is SpaceX 5-10 years ahead of all its competitors?/why are Elon's companies #1 in all their industries (with the exception of xAI)?

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I don't know if it's just me, but the thoughtfulness of of the average HN comment has seemed to decrease in the last few years. Feels more populist/Reddity the last couple years.

Do you want anyone in the world to be able to synthesize dangerous viruses?

Permitting/regulation issues

Tesla Semi is in production

EFF doesn’t allow most people to reply to their X posts. Scroll on their profile right now and you’ll see you likely don’t have the ability to reply to their posts. This will damag…

AI is incredibly useful for the entire population

> It could be, formally, if they have a monopoly. you have 2 labs at the forefront (Anthropic/OpenAI), Google closely behind, xAI/Meta/half a dozen chinese companies all within 6-1…

not if LTV is already only a little higher than CAC and all the marketing channels are already saturated

Private companies should have the freedom to ban/censor whatever content on their platforms they want. I’d prefer if they don’t, but we shouldn’t force governments to prevent compa…

There is a reason the founding fathers put freedom of speech as the first amendment Insults should absolutely be protected speech. In countries that make insulting politicians ille…

I did not spread any lies ^ I did not say Robert Habeck was arrested Re the other cases: in a good democracy, insulting politicians should not be a crime and there should be no inv…

Germany – Robert Habeck insult raids (2024–2025): Multiple citizens faced police raids, investigations, fines, or suspended sentences (jail risk if violated) for online posts calli…

Parameter density is doubling every 3-4 months What does that mean for 8b models 24mo from now?

“ Models don’t get old as fast as they used to” ^^^ I think the opposite is true Anthropic and OpenAI are releasing new versions every 60-90 days it seems now, and you could argue …

Both companies are making bank on inference

for what it's worth many solopreneurs on the X/twitter solopreneur committee were reporting their uploads to TikTok were failing, and I saw at least one conservative complaining th…

A notes app, where you can create flashcards on your notes/pages directly you can also infinitely nest your notes/flashcard decks, and turn each note into a dedicated page spaced r…

truflation has inflation at 2% right now, not 10% https://truflation.com/marketplace/us-inflation-rate

the fact that the majority opinion on this thread seemingly does not even agree with Claude (which scores ~88% on MMLU (a measure of reading comprehension)) is a topic worth discus…

I don't know why people are (reflexively?) downvoting our LLM summaries of the EO These LLMs score pretty highly on reading comprehension