What if they just stop doing business in Italy?

I don't get it, according to Reddit, Spacex is only successful because Elon musk (the spoilt, lazy billionaire who knows nothing about rockets) hired smart engineers to do the work.

So why didn't Branson (another billionaire) just hire smart people?

> And we were talking Dyson sphere not swarm.

A Dyson sphere is a swarm. Sphere is a misnomer. It was always a swarm.

A 1mm thick swarm at 0.1AU would need around 7% of the mass of Mercury. It's supposed to farm energy from the Sun so it has to tolerate heat. And just 1% of this is a trillion times Earth's current energy consumption.

Only if you're near the Sun. Fusion is required to colonise the Oort Cloud.

Depends on how dense and wide it is. If you have it close enough to the sun you wouldn't need much material.

The irony is that Dickens was always supposed to be gritty, it was about the awful conditions of the early 19th century.

Or Fred tripping over a Brontosaurus bone and holding his leg for five minutes.

What will this be used for? TV runs at 24fps, games struggle to get 60 realiably. CS 1.6 maybe.

Is it not possible to do some sort of real-time interpolation between frames?

Is AI as bad at feet as it is at hands?

Imagine the tiktok of porn, AI generated. In VR, attached to a self-pumping fleshlight.

Most people have only heard of WWE.

It's dominant enough that it may as well be the entire sport, like UFC.

But you're not buying a team, you're buying an entire sport.

Yeah better to pay Boeing ten times as much for the same service.

Have the laws of thermodynamics been proven beyond doubt?

Ever tried editing Wikipedia?

> the benefit of the majority

So, we tell an AI to work for the benefit of the majority. The first thing it does is abolish minority rights. Who decides which group of 51% of people counts as the majority? Who defines 'benefit'? Who decides what counts as advanced?

I can't get into the wire. It just doesn't grab me like Breaking Bad or the Sopranos. I think it's because the characters aren't as colourful.

A fraction of the resources wasted by cryptocurrency.

> Just like you don't have privilege to own home.

Used to do. Housing was much cheaper, people could afford to move out of from their parents much younger. We weren't competing with hedge funds and migrants for housing.

>Life is tough, we all gotta work hard for it.

Used to be much easier. Why should we work harder to compete with migrants who have no right to be here? If a country doesn't work for its own people there's no reason for it to exist.

Why shouldn't citizens be entitled to privileges in their own country/

> Immigration is good for a country as a whole.

It's neutral really, you can gain or lose good or bad people. Immigration is always a zero sum game.

> (they'd still be left with the impossible task of brute forcing the equivalent of an 128-bit cipher).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FksX2y8XoAIRr7b?format=jpg&name=small

Not necessarily impossible.