Comment Re:The manual? (Score 1) 22
Manuals are great if you know the API you want to call and need to know the details. They aren't good if you don't know the API, or even if one exists. Or if the problem you're debugging is more complex than just "passed the wrong parameter to this function".
Comment Re:Newspeak (Score 2) 32
everyone is basically using 1984 like an instruction manual to suppress dissenting ideas and opinions?
Because 1984 was just copying what people were already doing.
Comment Cool strategy (Score 4, Interesting) 32
Comment Re:or maybe not (Score 1) 112
but do you actually have an argument about my take on it?
Before I make an argument, I want to know if you have the intellect to understand it. That's why I asked if you'd read the paper or not.
you keep moving the goalposts. i thought the plan is cost to orbit would eventually make this financially viable and this is just early testing?
You're talking about someone else's goalposts, not mine. I can't think of a real scenario where space data centers are cheaper than land data centers.
the connection with golden dome is interesting. my (uneducated) impression though is that that's just another pipe-dream,
Maybe or maybe not, but it's actively under construction.
Comment Re:maybe (Score 1) 112
Comment Re:maybe (Score 1) 112
so you can't build those datacenters on earth for some reason, and you're going to build them in space?
Datacenters in space are to support Golden Dome. Google is working for the US military. It's not about price.