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Kids are definitely a net positive for society. They're future taxpayers.

But that's not relevant to couples choice to get pregnant. I've never heard a parent say they had kids so they can pay into Social Security.

If you invert the question "why aren't people having kids" to "why did people want kids in the first place" then the fertility crisis makes more sense.

Kids were free labor and old age insurance.

Now they are extremely expensive pets. Materially they are a net negative in a modern society.

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Yea but every warfighter will get a waifu

It's not named the Department of War because Congress didn't rename it.

Other than that, good on ya.

No. Feed-based apps are uniquely bad.

There's legions of companies that will do warehousing and shipping for you. Definitely costs though.

That's what I mean by margins being a significant difference.

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Stuff for old men like me

I got out of software and into physical products a couple of years ago. I wish I could say I was prescient, but honestly it's just so much easier to sell physical items.

Margins are worse, but selling is easier. If you've got a thing you can be sure that someone somewhere will give you money for it.

Give a kid a phone with TikTok on it and observe them for a while. It's genuinely upsetting.

They'll spend hours with their heads down just silently looking at the thing. All desire to do anything else just vanishes. Then they freak out when you try to take it away from them.

The only obvious difference between them and someone on fent is the verticality of their posture.

It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work.

Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. ISS has system dedicated to making sure the radiators get just enough sunlight at any given time.

It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work.

Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. ISS has system dedicated to making sure the radiators get just enough sunlight at any given time.

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Space is not empty. Satellites have to be boosted all the time because of drag. Massive panels would only worsen that. Once you boosters are empty the satellite is toast.

Shading does work; JWST does this. However I don't see how you can make it work for satellite data centers. You would constantly be engaging attitude control as you realigned the panels to keep the radiators in shade. You'd run out of thruster fuel so fast you'd get like a month out of each satellite

ISS radiators run on water and ammonia. Think about how much a kg costs to lift to space and you'll see the economics of space data centers fall apart real fast. Plus, if the radiator springs a leak the satellite is scrap.

Several kW is nothing for a bank of GPUs.

Radiators in space are extremely inefficient because there's no conduction.

Also you have huge heat inputs from the sun. So you need substantial cooling before you get around to actually cooling the GPUs.

This. There's no scenario where it's cheaper to put them in space.

Either this is a straight up con, or Musk found a glitch in physics. It's extremely difficult to keep things cold in space.

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I suppose they'll use the Rodney King excuse for this one.

The guy we were kicking the crap out of on the ground made all of us afraid.

Please Lord don't let the Austrians any where near this. The Notar system is the the closest thing to outright theft by paperwork I've ever seen.

We paid 3K on a 50K plot of land for some dingus to read a contract out loud.

FFS, everyone has gotten so self serious.

Familiarize yourself with the 'peak male performance' meme and you'll understand my meaning.

Let me make it easy for you: She's killing it in what would appear to be a less than ideal circumstance. She's swatting down people messing with her business while raising a child.

It's funny to see Reddit posts driving HN posts. There was a viral post about a rather video friendly lady getting politely arrested for shoplifting at Target going around today.

A surprising number of people commented about how Target had made sure they got long sentences by waiting and recording them until they would get serious charges.

Anyone selling software components is going to get cooked by LLMs. People have been talking about that since ChatGPT 3 landed. It's just sad to see it actually playing out.

I'd look at this as a new income stream. Failing to honor a DMCA request means Google is no longer in the safe harbor.

It's time to find a copyright lawyer that will work on contingency. Document your communication and take screenshots of pirate links every day.

It's worth noting that the Claude Code team themselves add corrections to their CLAUDE.md file. So as long as you curate the corrections you're probably fine.

I hate to say it, but Zuckerberg is right about where online content is going. The future is just an endless feed of personalized short form AI brain candy.

AI code generation has something important in common with 3D printed houses. Both optimize the easy part.

3D printed houses can only manage the underlying structure of the house. It doesn't cover finishing work which is much harder on the nerves and pocketbook.

Likewise, AI code generation is only useful for the actual implementation. That's maybe 20% of the work. Coordination with stakeholders, architecture, etc are much harder on the nerves and pocketbook.

"The first function call looks a whole lot like a function call today..."

Only superficially. What's actually happening varies radically by language. See for instance tail call optimization.

Except that it kind of does. I can horizontally scale a distributed storage system until we run out of silicon. I cannot do the same with a cargo airplane.