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And how many of these rockets would you have to launch to match the capacity of a mid-size terrestrial data center?

We’re not talking about launching little satellites here, we’re talking about replacing giant buildings.

What? No they don’t, the build quality of most Western cars has dropped sharply over the past decade.

It’s one of those cases where the label has stayed the same, but the thing it commonly describes has changed so much that the word just has multiple completely different meanings.

There’s the “let’s create National Parks to conserve our natural treasures!” conservatism and there’s the “let’s sell our National Parks to the highest bidder so they can drill for oil!” conservatism. It can mean fiscal responsibility and small government, or it can mean crypto scams and surveillance state.

This happens a lot when describing political positions.

My sexual awakening was centered around browsing the adult section of Newgrounds when I was way too young. 25 years later and I’m still a bit messed up in that regard, lol

I think the inertia of familiar input devices is way too high for something like that to gain any sort of traction. For better or for worse, the mainstream user is probably not leaving his QWERTY keyboard and his touchscreen, even in use cases where those are highly suboptimal.

That’s the more likely hypothesis, but I also wonder if different land management practices could be influencing a map like this. Agriculture in Poland is much more fragmented than in Germany - smaller fields of different crops, often separated by meadows and forests, creating lots of niches for biodiversity. In Western Europe you’re more likely to see giant, mechanised monoculture fields as far as the eye can see, leaving less space for agrarian-landscape wildlife.

If it was a touchscreen, then the whole project could just be replaced by googling Conway’s game of life on an iPad. The physicality is the point.

The scale of this would need to be unfathomable. Doesn’t YouTube get something like 100 years of video uploads every day? You’d need hundreds of thousands of people working full time to review that much footage manually.

They don’t actually give a shit whether you find what you were looking for, they heavily optimize for their time-on-site metric. If the search results were terrible, and you had to refine your terms and try again, that’s more time on site! More time is more better!

I like to avoid the risks of processed foods by simply not being hungry.

Aren’t birth rates already at a historical low in most parts of the world?

Isn’t that the plot of an episode of Always Sunny?

That’s a solved problem, you just add another agent to check if the tests are any good, and one more to oversee the test-checker, and one more…

If I did have kids, I probably wouldn’t want them to run around a big heavy robot with very little spatial awareness.