I’m getting pretty tired of the notion that gambling odds are better predictors than polls.

It’s not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That’s a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

Berger is President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate and is the highest ranking member of the NC GOP. This is like John Thune getting primaried and losing.

Thermal energy is primarily dissipated as infrared light which moves at the speed of light. There is no way for space to accumulate heat. If that were the case the entire solar system would be unlivable. The IR emitted by satellites is truly negligible in comparison to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.

The area of radiator needed directly corresponds to the amount of power harvested by the solar panels. It doesn’t matter what the load is. So a compute frame with the same amount of solar panels as the space station would need approximately the same radiatot area as the ISS, unless you are bringing nuclear power into the mix.

I agree that space based datacenters are a bad idea, but the thermals really are not the gotcha people are making them out to be.

Radiators in space work by radiating electromagnetic energy(light). Heat can only accumulate in matter, not in space, so that is definitely not one of the things we need to worry about.

With radiators just like with every existing satellite system.

https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI&t=12m57s

Very large scale datacenters would likely have some nasty fluid handling problems to solve.

I’ll just note that I am not a fan of putting internet infrastructure in space. I think polluting the upper atmosphere with a bunch of metals every time a satellite deorbits will certainly have negative consequences. So IMO space should be limited to things we can’t do with earthbound infrastructure.

Minor notation quibble: I suspect you were thinking of the hecto prefix. Centimillionaire would imply a net worth of $10k which isn’t going to get you the time of day from a republican.

There have been a few of those, but it’s always for DWI or similar when they aren’t protected by their gaggle of goons.

SpaceX was his one good company thanks to the work of people like Gwynne Shotwell. xAI must not have been getting enough investor interest and rather than admit it’s a stinker, he’s shackling spaceX with it.

If I were a spaceX investor, I would be absolutely pissed about this and talking to my attorneys.

Thanks, Biden.

I think it was primarily the 2A special interest groups suddenly showing disloyalty that spooked the MAGA regime. They can’t get away with rigging the midterms if the 2A groups aren’t at least turning a blind eye.

I hope Chris Madel dropping out implies that big donors don’t want to be associated with the republicans right now. I really don’t buy his conscience for his kids schtick.

Newsbreak straight up rips content with barely a mention of a source. I have a family member that shares their links all the time and I hate it because I have to search the title every time to find the actual article.

Particularly it’s meant to peel away at American exceptionalism mythology. The US really only excels at two things globally, finance and war.

Yes, very joyous. I didn’t realize raucous had overall negative connotations. Perhaps rowdy better describes the concept I was thinking of.

Someone has never seen a herd of cows get let out to pasture for the first time of the spring. It is a raucus event.

Johnson and Thune deserve a very large portion of the blame for everything that is happening.

They bothered to make a post about it, so surely they could in fact care less.

One of the most humane solutions is also the most economically efficient. Early intervention programs like rent/utility assistance are significantly cheaper in the long run than trying to rehabilitate people who have already lost everything and have a litany of health issues because of it. If conservatives really want to save money, they should be embracing “an ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure.” Instead, they’re stuck in wanting to SEE the desperation before even considering helping. Safety nets are major economic stimulus in the long run because it’s much easier to attempt entrepeneurship if you aren’t making a life and death gamble. But something tells me the currently wealthy know this and don’t want competition popping up.

Then of course we also need to fix affordability issues, because unaffordable necessities put everyone at risk.

My point is that even if you mostly just care about efficient government and economic growth, you should still come to similar conclusions as “bleeding heart liberals.” Conservatives don’t come to those conclusions not by economic arguments, but because they fail to see the merit of collective problem solving. They want to have their own little castle with all their stuff that they can defend under penalty of death. We pretend the argument is about feasability and cost effectiveness, but the real issue is that they don’t think that any proposal that would take anything from them or require giving is an option. That’s why you see the economically destitute and ultra wealthy in an unholy alliance. Both of those groups are prone to wanting to circle the wagons and consider only the wellbeing of people in their little circle – the poor out of desperation, and the wealthy out of possessiveness. Everyone not in their little circle is someone else’s problem.

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

There are instructions for manually configuring the public dns on ios.