The display technology is one thing and the processor on top is another. No doubt it's just like any other TV where the first thing you do is go through the menu and turn it all off.

Interesting, I wonder if any of that is because people submit code they wrote and are proud of, but haven't deeply read through in a while. They assume it's like a portfolio that somebody might be tasked to look at ahead of time but not a discussion piece during the interview. I can see myself being made a fool of that way.

People do not worry about this as much as we should. I don't see how Linux stays good after he's gone.

Then again we're similar in age so maybe I shouldn't care !?

I suppose Kuiper can still set some ceiling on what Starlink (with no alternative) could charge, but certainly as a "competitor" will never beat Starlink by riding on its coattails. It would be interesting to get more backstory on why SpaceX would do this at all. Is there a regulation for equal-ish access? Are they under threat of anti-trust action? Does Musk just think it's worth it to have some lame 'competitor'? Inquiring minds want to know.

Even when it broke in 1975, geeze, it's only 1 lifetime but the China of 1970's as a predictor of their ability to build a dam today? No.

Vehicles, no. But places like Japan with a persistent energy supply problem? Quite possibly, importing from e.g. Australia. If it's economically feasible, we'll see it somewhere outside the USA first.

Or the other way round?

Either way:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

and in this case, nobody knows the future. NOBODY. Michael Dell is an objectively good businessman, and in the same business sector. He is worth $134 billion. And it was he who completely wrote off Apple in 1997, with his famous remark about shutting it down and returning its capital to investors.

I doubt the price of electricity will still be $80/MWh in 25 years from now - it will at least go up with inflation. With solar everything is in present dollars, whereas burning fuel you have to assume costs increasing with inflation over time. It's a pretty big deal if you're spanning 30 years.

"Much" higher? It's not all that much

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Ff...

It's due to innovation cycles that infrastructure gets built laying the foundation for the next 50+ years. There's been a lot of head-scratching for the last 20 years about how to fund modernization of power generation and distribution, and now there are vast sums of investment going into data centers. Problem, meet solution.

In large measure I am just saying this is how it will play out, rather than advocating for something, but we (citizens of the democracy) need to ensure the investments are sound long-term, not just financially but environmentally.

It's a big opportunity.

I'm really surprised by the huge initial comment chain about how this dooms linux. My first response was to worry about when Linus is gone and there is no respected authority who can tend to quality in this manner. Elevating MBA concerns above code quality is how we get... most of the products out there.

When the were being paid as an expert witness against Toyta, that is.

Meanwhile millions of toyotas are working great, hmmm....

Look if you pay anybody a bunch of money to nitpick a codebase, they will find stuff. Is it an issue? Maybe.

Just to lay my cards out there, I think the whole "unintended acceleration" thing against Toyota was a big lawer-chasing scam, motivated a few cases among millions where people let their floormat get in the way of the gas pedal, but mostly confused old people and lawsuit opportunists.

It could be a 3 * delta ~= 0 thing, except they say it's a bigger factor than smoking or obesity, which are known to be significant in absolute terms.

It is fascinating.

Since the summary does say "effective nightmare treatments are currently limited," I will go ahead and point out the correlation != causation thing. I would be very surprised if there weren't any other obvious causes of the nightmare that are known comorbidities, like poverty, or serious illness, or trauma, and so on.

For example, depression is associated with a 1.5x to 2.5x higher risk of early death, even when adjusting for other risk factors. The summary shows no sign of having adjusted for other risk factors, so 3x doesn't seem out of line.