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Comment Re: Impressive (Score 2) 176

Musk is a brand, which like any brand needs periodic marketing to maintain mindshare and relevancy. The value of his companies' shares hinges on fanbois' belief in the brand ~ e.g., the perception that Musk is building a sci-fi future. Musk knows he must do stunts like this periodically to stoke the faithful.

Comment Re: another day (Score 1, Flamebait) 84

Fascist states tend to become highly obsessed with vitality and manhood. But wars haven't been won on muscle and bravado for a long time... things like logistics, intelligence, and combined arms are way more important.

Of course, fighting a religion or ideology is another matter. The military can only set you back there. You're better off using cultural weapons (good will, propaganda, trade/wealth, etc).

Comment Re: There's no risk whatsoever (Score 0) 90

In a worse case scenario, AI superintelligence would be like giving hostile genius aliens root access to most every computer in the world. In a relatively "happy" scenario, white collar work is nearly eliminated in 1 or 2 decades and the billionaires hide in their bunkers while everyone else is just expected to rot. It can get a lot worse than Iran having nukes (which would be concerning for Israel and the Saudis).

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 1) 162

This is kind of like saying that car wrecks wouldn't happen if we had training and standards that excluded 95% of drivers... You're right in that it would greatly reduce the number of fatalities, but people are still people and it wouldn't eliminate them (see the recent Prime Air runway excursion for an example). You'd also lose the benefit of all those other drivers being able to get to where they want to go... American society would have to completely restructure itself.

It's simply bad engineering to pick a fundamentally unsafe tool over a safe one that will do the job just as well. Computer verifiable checks strictly beat depending on a human to follow best practices. Talent is multidimensional and reducing the job requirements for any one dimension means you hire candidates that are better in other important aspects. Engineering must consider technical realities, human nature, and market efficiencies.

Comment Re: I just want a nice VR headset for my PC (Score 1) 63

Not sure how much it applies to VR, but as a point of comparison, VHF dominates drone racing because it has super low latency (15ms). Racers put up with it despite the crap quality, despite DJI and walksnail offering systems with 20-40 ms latency. Maybe DJI race mode (15ms) is changing that.

To somewhat discount this perspective: latency isn't the only benefit of analog... factors such as interference and penetration also come into play, as does price. But still, at 60 MPH, every 10ms is almost a yard of extra distance before the drone responds.

Comment Summer vs Winter (Score 2, Informative) 201

Summer loads typically peak mid-day and follow solar generation closely... batteries help make managing supply and demand easier, but huge capacity isn't necessarily needed or helpful.

By contrast, it's winter loads that experience the morning/evening "double peak". That's where these large capacities come into play... the sun directly warms houses during the middle of the day (cutting the need for heating) and the batteries soak up excess dollar generation, which then gets spent as the sun sets and in the morning hours the next day.

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