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> You can't have 24hour sunlight AND low altitude, low-latency orbits. The key issue is "low-latency". The DCs in space are about getting ~10x the energy/day compared to ground DCs…

I'm not going to share because https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... has a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. But I've paid …

The protagonist who believes that information should be free and that scarcity is mostly artificial due to bad economic models. And that it would be possible to implement proper pr…

> I'd quite like a tool (running entirely locally on my own hardware, with no cloud service and no copyright-thieving grifters making bank on it via subscription fees) that digests…

Yeah. Ironically, if he used an LLM to proofread his work, it would have told him that GAN's are generative not "generalized". That LLMs are primarily built on Transformers rather …

While Stross is currently a neo-Luddite who doesn't believe in the Singularity, his book Accelerando is probably the best work of Singularitarian fiction ever written. It was writt…

From https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/netflix-exec-goes-ball... > Baillie claims he explained the reason why he had taken the drug but was investigated by Netflix. On March 18…

> For one, their analyses almost always amounted to post hoc justifications of the things they liked. "Almost always" is carrying a lot of weight here. Rationalists are ideological…

For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party The party has been variously characterised as left-wing and right-wing, as well as populist, nationalist and c…

From TFA: Police in San Mateo, Calif., posted Monday on social media that they had apprehended a pair of teenagers from a Waymo driverless robotaxi after the company alerted author…

From TFA: > Rule from Mamdani administration ... targets ‘junk fees’ > The city is also targeting so-called “junk fees” that raise the final price of everything from apartments to …

It's unclear whether this junk fee law will have teeth. In theory, California has the same anti-drip pricing law, but restaurants have a specific carve out [1] which is bullshit be…

Low sec runs by different rules from the gankers in high sec or the politics of null sec. Especially if you're in the Faction Warfare zones. The standard view in Eve is that if you…

The interviews in section 4 are particularly informative for people trying to start a long distance relationship and want to determine compatibility with their partner. The items a…

On a similar note, you can use https://tarotpunk.app/deck-1 when planning is your next startup.

Nice game. But I think you need to work on better "opposites". E.g, "as of now" and "long ago" don't really seem to be opposite . Instead, maybe they're complex conjugates of each …

At a minimum, the app needs updates to handle breakages caused by OS updates. It needs moderators and other staff for legal reasons since Meta is large enough that there's always a…

I found more details at https://www.rouast.com/blog/articles/vitallens-take-a-vital-... and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06892 . It's still vague beyond saying they trained an AI: "V…

How does it work? Is it https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/ ? I see the FAQ about VitalLens, but I couldn't find technical details. It's super cool. Thanks for sharing. I want t…

Ironically, Gemini says that it’s OK to use the Ultraplan for OpenClaw via gemini-cli because the Ultra plan has some API & Cloud credits baked into it. I think $100/mo but I can n…

To add some math to the discussion: - A human uses between 100W (naked human eating 2000kcal/day) to 10kW (first-world per capita energy consumption). - Frontier models need someth…

The article is forgetting about Anthropic which currently has the best agentic programmer and was the backbone for the recent OpenClaw assistants.

> "White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site..." > "The site is not selling drugs directly to American patients..." Just another layer of middlemen. They should go with the…