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Comment no one will let them in their ports (Score 4, Informative) 177

The main reason there are no commercial nuclear ships is not lack of tech but huge uncertainty around where will they even be able to go. People are scared of nuclear and many countries/ports will likely forbid them from entering making them extremely undependable ships. In worst case permission can even be cancelled after some anti-nuclear protests. For civilian transport companies that's just an unnecessary risk.

A story of nuclear powered civilian ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment good cpu, but very niche (Score 2) 13

Seems like a nice CPU, but also extremely niche: in most productivity workloads regular 7950x is faster, while in games you have to disable half of the cores (those without extra cache) to get benefits. To make it worth using in practice you need a workload that can make use of both this extra cache of some cores and raw power of a full core count.

I expect that 7950X (productivity) and future 7800X3D (gaming) will relegate this CPU to mere curiosity for most potential buyers.

Comment Re:Wrong assumption (Score 1) 76

But how do you find those games you like? After all there are tons of games produced in pretty much any genre, so how to select the interesting one? Do you search through tons of crap in steam store, checking every item if its perhaps something that you would like?
Or perhaps you just encounter the title played by someone else (eg streamer or reviewer) and decide if its interesting based on watching them? If the game becomes popular there will be a lot more of those potential encounters and more people will likely decide to give it a try.

There is also a pure social aspect. I own quite a few games that I would normally ignore only because my friends wanted to play them together. Obviously they wont get me to buy something I would hate, but I might be willing to play some of those in "meh" category just to spend time with them.

Comment Re: Celebrity Endorsers Sued (Score 1) 111

That may depend on how those deals were constructed. If they were doing it for lump sum of money then they are likely in the clear. On the other hand if they can be seen as "buying in" on the system then they might get involved with ponzi allegations - courts have sometimes taken profits from ponzi "early winners" to compensate final losers.

Comment pity the Californians, glad its not me (Score 1) 385

I pity poor Californians that will get bitten by this and have to suffer through all the misguided attempts to get it working (AKA early adopter issues). Hopefully in the end everyone will get it working properly and people in other places will be able to adopt electric vehicles with much less issues.

Comment Re:Lightsquared (Score 2) 53

When they acquired it they knew there are proceedings that may make their intended use impractical:

> In April 2021, the FCC granted a license modification for SpaceX, but it made a point of saying it was conditional on future actions at the commission, “including but not limited to the 12 GHz proceeding,” and therefore “SpaceX proceeds at its own risk” in terms of what it does in the 12 GHz band.

So to continue the analogy they bought the land while rezoning proceedings were already under way and were warned that if they build something they may have problems later.

Comment Re:Why is this a debate (Score 1) 53

SpaceX has conditional license, so those proceedings can effectively invalidate it.

>In April 2021, the FCC granted a license modification for SpaceX, but it made a point of saying it was conditional on future actions at the commission, “including but not limited to the 12 GHz proceeding,” and therefore “SpaceX proceeds at its own risk” in terms of what it does in the 12 GHz band.

Comment Re:Not abused? (Score 2) 24

Not necessarily. Some people don't read the messages and ignore everything, while later being surprised when stuff stops working. Other (especially seniors) get choice paralysis, where they are afraid to push anything "non standard" and need assistance from their family. Both of those cases will be to some extent solved here and can be considered non-abusive.

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