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Comment What about macroeconomic impacts? (Score 1) 134

Let’s take that thought a bit further...

For sake of argument, let’s say a 3D printed home is both equivalent in perceived quality to a traditional built one. Let’s also say that they become ridiculously cheaper as technology improves.

What happens to the value (price) of the existing housing stock? Does it cause another financial crisis where the majority of current homeowners end up underwater? What about homeowners who have no debt, but we’re counting on the value of their home for retirement?

Comment Boiling Water (Score 1) 234

The silly part of all this: once we perfect the science and engineering of fusion power we’re still only going to use it as a heat source to boil water and power a steam turbine.

Is there any research into finding a way to extract electrical energy DIRECTLY from nuclear reactions? i.e. What are the theoretical and practical possibilities of a nuclear fuel cell?

Comment Re:15 bits per hour (Score 2) 63

I thought that too while I read it at first, but that isn't true. The likelihood is this would be used to obtain private keys.

A key (even a short symmetric one) is 128 bits, if not 256 (ex: AES). Public/private keys are even longer at 2048 bits.

Even at 60 bits/hour, that’s 2 hours minimum to extract a key. Will the cach contents remain unchanged for that long?

Comment There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Score 1) 139

This is useless without more information/data.

Old people are more likely to lose their sense of smell.
Old people are more likely to die within 5 years.
Therefore, people who lose their sense of smell are more likely to die within 5 years.

This is the whole "ice cream causes drownings" all over again.

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