The United States started restricting export of computers in 1949. When the G4 exceeded the performance limit to be classified as a mulition in 1999 Apple ran ads about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Advanced computations required for frontier AI" sounds better than "adds and multiplies faster than our arbitrary limit" and way less stupid than "now that this is a munition we have discontinued the translucent blueberry and frost white color option in favour of a more professional 'graphite' color scheme. Mirrored drive doors will be an option in the future."

The same cold war ideas as ever.

1. Find or make a boogey man enemy to scare the population
2. Profit

Yes, OceanGate tried to wiggle out of safety regulations at every opportunity. Transportation regulators are very familiar with maneuvers like that. OceanGate accepted money for services. In fact, the whole company was set up to do just that. You can call your customers blueberry pancakes if you want, but it doesn't matter.

That's why you can't, for example, take your buddies flying with your private pilots license and let them pay for gas, or make a profit from taking your friends out on your boat.

So, "People With Disabilities Don't Exist" then?

My father was recently paralyzed by Guillain-Barré, so I'll let him know, thanks.

What, the best you can do is bring up a show that went off the air fifty year ago?

And even then, when Robert Young did TV commercials for coffee, he was identified as "Robert Young," not as Doctor Marcus Welby, and they didn't pretend it was real. (In fact, the line from a series of advertisement of around that era, "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV," is still a meme today.)

OceanGate was offering a commercial service. Pretty much all commercial services are regulated for good reasons. Operating an uncertified submersible as a passenger service is no different than operating a cab that hasn't seen a mechanic in a decade, or an passenger air service on a homebuilt plane.

The difference is that you don't like the people who died.

The heat and especially pressure make good espresso makers big and expensive. Ultrasonic emitters are cheap, small and plentiful.

Oh god. If I spent enough time digging through my ancient Slashdot posts, somewhere back there there are posts of me going, "While I loved the strategy behind Falcon 9, I'm really not keen on this plan to make Starship out of huge carbon fibre tanks, that sounds like a really failure-prone solution..." I'm glad they only spent like a year on that idea before deciding it was dumb; somewhere back there there's also a bunch of posts of me cheering their switch to steel ;) . SpaceX still keep having random COPV problems (most of which they don't even make themselves). Not too encouraging for the notion of the cold gas thruster add-on to the Roadster, where the plan is to replace the back seat with COPVs, so you have a COPV right behind your head.

Electron has been getting by on CF, and honestly I'm impressed, but they've also been only working with very small launch vehicles thusfar. We'll see how neutron goes...

And while mini nuclear reactors are a real thing, they are a fantastically dumb real thing.

I accidentally replied to another poster instead of you.

If you live in a western country, there's a decent chance a university near you has a small reactor, with students operating it. There's one just down the road from where I am now. It's been operating since 1959. I've been there. My father pushed the buttons back when he was a grad student.

You are correct. Sorry about that.

"Paying customers" is a pretty common differentiator. If you're in the land of the free it's pretty easy to get a pilot's license. It's quite a bit harder to get one that allows you to take paying customers... even if the paying customer is your buddy chipping in for gas. There are similarly different rules for the aircraft itself. Many motor vehicles too.

The GGPs view doesn't really have anything to do with that. They're probably okay with it because the people on the sub had more money than they do. Except the kid, but he's tainted by association I guess. None of them were oligarchs.

Stockton Rush's net worth was in the $10-20 million range and he famously dodged regulations rather than trying to wield political power to change them.

Nargeolet was a deep sea researcher whose main asset seems to have been his $1.5 million house.

Harding might have been a billionaire but nobody really knows. The most political things he seems to have done were some space advocacy in the UAE and volunteering a jet from his company to help fly some cheetahs to India.

Dawood's net worth seems to have been between $400-500 million. He did speak at the UN on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, was a trustee for one of King Charles' charities and was an advocate for mental health and education in Pakistan. Not really oligarch stuff.

We canucks have this idea that irresponsible CEOs shouldn't be allowed to go around killing people. When part of the system fails we investigate, make recommendations, and try to fix it. That's not "self-loathing."

You know, if I could make a recommendation, you guys might want to consider trying it.

What regulator has any experience inspecting a deep sea sub?

The biggest one:
https://www.dnv.com/services/m...

Regulation of this kind of stuff simply does not work.

Since you clearly don't know anything about how it works, I'm going to conclude that you know even less about whether it can work.

And while mini nuclear reactors are a real thing, they are a fantastically dumb real thing. Nuclear reactors aren't super safe,

If you live in a western country, there's a decent chance a university near you has one, with students operating it.

Lol. Ukraine isn't doing okay. The country is devastated and a big fraction of its younger people have been killed, seriously wounded or left. It's an especially ironic example because Ukraine had nukes and gave them up because both the US and Russia assured them they didn't need them.

Ukraine absofukkenlutely wants nukes. Whatever's left of it might settle for French ones, but there's a good chance when it recovers enough, which might take generations, it's going to want its own. Poland, next in line, also wants nukes. They were previously willing to settle for American ones, and might be content with French ones, but it would shock absolutely nobody if they built their own. Sweden too. Japan probably already has all the parts laid out neatly on a super secret table somewhere.