The same reason supersonic passenger jets are rare.

The extra speed comes with a massive increase in costs.

Travel 30% faster than high speed rail for 10-20 times the cost.

A mod who pops in once every couple of weeks is beyond useless.

Nah, the mag is not that important.

Unsub and block seems to be the only effective approach.

Yep. the mods are mia.

The spam here is getting out of hand. A mag with ~20,000 subs and zero mods…

random is a cess pit as well.

No, both mods have no activity for months.

Well, another mag to block.

I have had mazadas and toyotas run for decades with zero problems but they are also decades old and may not be reflective of the current quality of the cars. See: BMW and Mercedes. they used to be quality in the 20th century, now they are a bit shit.

He’s losing SEC related lawsuits about twice per year and at some point they’re going to take some serious action against him. It won’t be this year, it won’t be next year, but I expect that in ten years time he’ll be pretty screwed.

Sorry but that just sounds like hopium and just reinforces my belief that:

they will basically have no effect on him.

The phrase I know is “The bigger they are, the bigger harder they fall”

But I doubt that will apply to EM, as much as I wish it would. There are plenty of people like him who never see any comeuppance. He has enough money to insulate himself forever.

Are there any criminal cases against EM or are they just civil?

If they are just civil, they will basically have no effect on him.

While I agree about the AI I doubt it was trained exclusively on Indian call center telemarketers because the phrase “Do the needful” is not present anywhere in the text.

What the fuck do prunes have to do with tech?

Piss off with the add spam.

I often had to scroll quite a bit to get past the obnoxious US politics posts

And the posts that had nothing to do with the US or politics would usually descend into a US centric shit fight anyway.

Any post involving firearms anywhere in the world…flooded with US 2A nut jobs.

etc

etc

Kuro5hin.

Old school forum from '99. Was a bit of a home for slashdot refugees.

Most notable memory:

One of the MIT students that was in the group that card counted in Vegas, which became the 2008 movie 21 posted a long form story about the incident. It was the first public announcement of the story and much of the detail was in the movie.

I had a bit of a look around and found nothing as to why.

Why not ask Eugen Rochko directly @Gargron ?

Does that mean you only include non-organic processes in your definition of Natural?

The oxygen in our atmosphere is not natural using this definition. The entire biosphere is not natural using this definition. The Grand Canyon exists in part due to the organic erosion of rocks by lichen etc…

Is a beaver dam natural to you?

And both are species altering the environment for their benefit. Both are Natural.

The issue is that many people don’t consider humans as part of the natural world.

Which is a ridiculous concept to me.

A beaver dam is a natural as the hoover dam. Both represent a species altering the environment for their benefit.

The biggest issue we have with D-T fusion power is the supply of Tritium.

“Roughly one in every 5000 hydrogen atoms in the oceans is deuterium, and it sells for about $13 per gram. But tritium, with a half-life of 12.3 years, exists naturally only in trace amounts in the upper atmosphere, the product of cosmic ray bombardment. Nuclear reactors also produce tiny amounts, but few harvest it.”

“In order to breed tritium you need a working fusion reactor, and there may not be enough tritium to jump-start the first generation of power plants. The world’s only commercial sources are the 19 Canada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) nuclear reactors, which each produce about 0.5 kilograms a year as a waste product, and half are due to retire this decade.”

Source

There is no easy path to fusion, there is only ~25kg of Tritium on earth, while there are millions of kg of He3, but it is on the moon.

Neither option is ideal.

There are two possible uses of He3 in fusion power.

Deuterium + Helium-3 yields the highest energy of possible fuels.

Helium-3 + Helium-3 lower yield but produces no neutrons. This makes designing a fusion power plant much easier.