Deflation and slowing of economy wouldn't be allowed though, Fed would pump money. Your inner Jew needs to be channeled into bargain hunting and saving with investment to have peace.

Amazon persuaded NASA to use S3 rather than the object store NASA invented: Open Stack SWIFT.

Instead of being able to rely on their own work, with minimal cost, now NASA is locked into a multi-year monopoly and will be paying for it for decades. I see this as just another instance of corporations sucking the government tit forever. Maybe this time, it won't be. And Lucy could let Charlie Brown finally kick that football too.

Amazon is in it for the money of course. The question is does it make sense for the country to rope in Amazon when the uses of the product will likely be long term, and no small amounts classified? Those are questions of policy that can be legitimately argued either way, but the final analysis is that government/private sector endeavors almost always seem to sour and fail. Examples are collecting student loans, where the loans are paid to the private contractor, but the principal never makes it back into Government hands. Another are prisons, where treatment of prisoners and their needs significantly decline once government is removed from direct accountability. A third is collecting fees form legal proceedings, where the debtor is invariably put into deeper and deeper holes with fees and fines, and returned to prison. Last, child support payments in states where it's contracted out to private intreats, and the debtor is arrested when the payment processor "forgets" to process the payment sent. (Turns out vindictive spouses are involved.) Predation by the private sector is easy, almost inevitable.

If there are successful partnerships, please chime in and point them out.

Thank you, I missed that in the article when my mind boggled at using a bore hole.

I upgraded from a Pixel 5 to 6 a couple years ago due to the unfixable OTA hardware security bug in the 1-5 models.

Some days I'd like more storage but really I can't see what else a newer device would get me. LineageOS 23 is asking me to upgrade to it; I guess I should after the December patches land.

those asian and european lines through wilderness don't prove a thing about trying to get into a dense extended metropolitan area that covers more than one state, with already occupied rail lines that are core to the U.S. economy carrying 40% of the ton-weight for long distance.

So, have to build over highways, or do other elevated, wickedly expensive. Down into the water table around Great Lakes is a bad idea.

Yes that is my point, there are occupied rail corridors that will not shut down and move aside into a pocket dimension. Not a matter of "hard" or "closed minded" , economic and engineering reality are the questions. An elevated rail could do it, that is wickedly expensive. Whatever place you are talking about has wide open land. I see the problem all right, starry eyed dreamers with romantic notions, comparing their empty asian and european wildernesses with Chicago urban area, lolz!

The "walkable city" does have proselytizers saying those things. Here around Chicago we have such groups and even our current state government is pushing it. So I pointed out a stupid thing that really is advocated is stupid, and you are losing your shit over it. Good work sport, watch that blood pressure.

That initial wide section is only hundreds to maybe 1,000 feet deep. No one is making meter wide boring to 1 km outside of reaming between sections of a mine that already exist, or prove me wrong

Sometimes updates re-enable those settings, hahaha.

You can't unenshittify Windows. You're gonna take it in the keister!

Who even uses it? The world has been using editpad since Windows XP. You don't? Wow.

no, the biggest vertical bored holes are a few meters wide and less than half a kilometer deep... and generally made between layers of a mine, stuff and space already at the lower end! See "raisebore" and other reaming methods.

This reactor idea is bullshit.

we already have public transportation in the #3 city/metro area here, why would it need to be "walkable"? I'm not carrying 50+ pounds of crap anywhere, infrastructute and buildings won't be moved and created just because of your romantic notions. Juvenile delusions.

you're funny equating intermittent energy with a stable base load source. When the wind doesn't blow or when it's night, you'll need something pricier

I didn't even get to build costs. In my foolish youth, I worked off shore oil rigs doing wireline. Shoving a nuclear reactor down a 3.5"-5" pipe 8,000 to 22,500 feet deep will prove to be an interesting engineering challenge, not to mention "Dancin' with Kelly". (The main rotating drilling platform that makes the pipe rotate and the drill head bite.) The technology to drift a hole more than a 20 meters in diameter vertically down half a mile or more is not anything I've read about. Is it even possible?