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Comment #48658242
Yeah, 76cm (30 inch) bore hole drilling with standard oil&grass rig. Fill with unshielded nuclear reactor of novel type: super skinny. Gently lower down until depth of 1 mile is re…
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Comment #47059456
New info now online. Elon Musk has now confirmed it is about getting regulatory permission for solar panel deployment. These regulation stop deployment at scale. Its cheaper in the…
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Comment #46884836
Could this be about bypassing government regulation and taxation? Silkroad only needed a tiny server, not 150kW. The Outer Space Treaty (1967) has a loophole. If you launch from in…
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Comment #46884611
Indeed, graphene seems capable of .99 of black body radiation limit. Quote: "emissivity higher than 0.99 over a wide range of wavelengths". Article title "Perfect blackbody radiati…
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Comment #46882828
Is the SpaceX thin-foil cooling based on graphene real? Can experts check this out? "SmartIR’s graphene-based radiator launches on SpaceX Falcon 9" [1]. This could be the magic beh…
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Comment #46853688
Impressive! We're a university lab and published recommendation algorithms. Never knew that doomscrolling could be this addictive this fast, thnx! Please consider taking an hour an…
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Comment #45417452
How to find a nice SHA1 hash? How do keyword search in this list? Search and discovery of quality are unsolved scientific challenges. Fascinating stuff. At our university lab we've…
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Comment #45247127
Great initiative! Note Re-Decentralise from 10 years ago with few hundred projects: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet/blob/... This specific format includes de…
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Comment #45220384
This is a difficult project. The blog post seems to hint at reasonable feasibility, this stuff is hard! We build a less ambitious tool in the university lab: "ASTANA: Practical Str…
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Comment #44949270
The MIT NANDA lab seems to have a link rot problem. Their cardinal code repo is also 404. The NANDA Lab also does coding, their publication at AAAI 2025 is titled: "CoDream: Exchan…
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Comment #44488885
Indeed! Advanced countries will and have blocked apps. For a more extensive discussion on censorship resilient mesh networking, see IETF Internet Standard draft from 2012 [1]. Afte…
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Comment #44178473
Eurisko is an expert system in LISP from 1983. right? In 2025 this formal logic is replace with stochastic LLM magic. interesting evolution.
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Comment #44048496
Impressive! Will you parse the papers in the future? Without citations this is not that usable for professors or scientists in general. The relevance ranking largely depends on sho…
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Comment #43923943
Impressive design! Are you assuming bandwidth is free and abundant? Mycoria routers, proxies, Tor exit nodes, and VPNs are difficult to run. There needs to be an global incentive, …
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Comment #42620622
Less jokey? This great packaging has a critical social media tone for me. Absolutely amazing fun and addictive showing almost dark patterns. For a deep dive: "Ethics of the attenti…
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Comment #42461352
> The great pseudoscience of this 'computer science' thinking You spelled Nobel-level science wrong. Most of Levin work is not easy to understand or appreciate. Our university lab …
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Comment #42287991
see e-Beam system Wikipedia page
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Comment #42032726
indeed, Tailscale was the first to realise this. We added specific 4G and 5G mobile features. these carrier-grade boxes have often non-random port allocations. "By relying on provi…
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Comment #42024814
This slowly alters the essence of The Internet, due to the permissionless nature of running any self-organising system like Bittorrent and Bitcoin. This is NOT in Android, just iso…
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Comment #40773574
> many confounding factors Indeed. May 2022 TechCruch [0] about sexism at workplace: "Privacy watchdogs in Europe are considering a complaint against Apple made by a former employe…
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Comment #40595695
Indeed! It is never simple. Sexy simplistic CP-SAT constraint programming solver versus containers with deep frozen goods or tons of fireworks. Both need to go into a very special …
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Comment #40520852
From Your Blog: > No Musk ⇒ No Mars Sputnik 2.0 is near. China AI and chip investments are off the charts. Note that China is scheduled to attempt a Mars sample return mission with…
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Comment #40167094
Agreed! Direct distribution will completely re-shape the content landscape, I believe. Probably starting with the most dysfunctional industry of "producing" music. The intermediari…
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Comment #40166523
Indeed! Trust is a precious good in society and economy. In Dec 1960 we "decentralised communication", now called The Internet. Bittorrent decentralised broadcasting, leading to st…