No. There are quantum resistant public key encryption schemes. There are also still serious questions whether breaking non-rsistant public key encryption is even practical.

The big application for good quantum computers is probably materials science, but that's not as sexy as reading each other's mail.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/2...

Well, I hope you didn't buy stock based on that, uh, belief.

Americans don't generally compare themselves to other countries. This article is no different. Death rate is a fairly concrete, immediately available metric. Life expectancy (at birth) is obviously something that has to be estimated since it's talking about things that are going to happen decades in the future.

Provided the death rate isn't too much affected by the COVID loss of a disproportional number of older people, the US death rate looks like it's come back down to it's previous trend line of long-term decrease, likely indicating a resumption of previous increases in life expectancy that are mediocre by world standards and not great by developed world standards.

Any IDE or basic text editor can do that as well, no LLM necessary. I'm sure CS professors will tell you that their students have been doing it for decades, no artificial intelligence necessary. Of course just like the students who get caught every year, the developers who do are going to be the lazy ones that don't try to refactor in the slightest and just use whatever the LLM spits out. It'll probably still have the original author's name on it.

Life expectancy and death rate are not the same thing. The US has a younger population than, e.g. Spain, so it has a lower death rate (this year at least) despite also have a lower life expectancy.

Valve, no. The Internet, yes.

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/1...

This isn't e-ink, but it's not actually completely different, and this guy tells you exactly how to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sure.

Want a video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This one looks pretty nice:

https://diptyx.dev/

  They haven't released the source files yet but it's not exactly rocket science to put one together. E-ink screens are readily available, as are microcontrollers.

You're off by a factor of 10x.

Starlink is at 480-550 km
Amazon Leo is at 590-630km

At most that's about 30% the distance or about 30% more latency. Also an extra round trip of 300km is about 1ms extra latency.

Lets put it like this: You have to compare 80 years of biography to find out. Right now, people dying did not experience the Great Depression and the Second World War, which gives them a large boost compared to people living 10 years early. We might see the effect of Microplastic in 50 years time.

SpaceX made $75 billion actual real dollars. It's in the bank.

Sure, the individual VCs aren't allowed to take their actual cash out of the company until August 6. Want to bet the datacenter hype keeps going until at least then?

Elon Musk, or whoever manages him, already learned not to post speculative tweets about his companies followed up shortly later by "just jokes lol".

I cannot agree more with this sentiment. It feels outright insulting to asked to read LLM output in a context where it is *supposed* to be human feedback. Tell me what you would have told the LLM to say, I can take it from there. I don't need you to LLM it up, because it will bury your point in a bunch of crap.

Could it provide useful info? Maybe, but I can do that myself if so. I want *your* thought on something, however incomplete it might be.

It's not great, but I don't think that's the least practical part of it. Reasonable people have done the math and you can almost make it work just by making the radiators the same size as, and putting them on the back of, the solar panels. Starlink satellites already generate and dissipate a kilowatt plus.

The impractical part is that the whole thing is going to deorbit and burn up after five years. Sure, maybe you don't want the five year old GPUs, but replacing the panels and radiators every five years is going to be more expensive than building twice as much on the ground.

Conspiracy theories are silly, and unnecessary.

Remember when Elon ruminated about hyperloop and everyone went nuts? Well, this time he ruminated about space datacentres. Oh, and SpaceX investors cashed out for ~$85 billion.

It is LEO.

Size is not free. Besides having to get the thing up there, which might come down to merely very expensive, there's drag in low Earth orbit, and the bigger the surface area of your satellite the more propulsion you need to keep it up there. The life of Starlink satellites is primarily limited by their propellant.

Even if you ignore launch costs entirely, is it cheaper to put your datacentre in space and replace it and your power plant every few years, or put it in a nice desert or on a floating island somewhere instead? Oh, and you have to engineer it to be completely maintenance free for the first option too.