I guess he could just never enter the EU ever again. Maybe he can buy Little St. James.

and count on Trump to disrespect the extradition treaties. Which might be a reasonable expectation, but will have consequences, and Trump might not hold power forever.

I mean at this point, with a trillion dollars, apparently, why not just buy a small nation.

I guess this means that building the neverending 'deepfake CSAM on demand machine' was a bad idea.

I feel like whoever downvoted this comment should probably be on a watchlist of some kind.

Thinking a bit, ORBITAL ai makes little to no sense, nowhere to dump your heat, your gpus are going to be slag or only operate part of the time. But what if he put them on the moon? the lag time is what ~1.2s? That seems like an amount of time that a current AI query can take and still seem reasonable.

Not that I think it's anything but him allowing some investors to cash out when spacex goes public. Hell didn't he just shift 2billion from tesla to xai?

At the end of the day he will never see whatever bullshit he's peddling in the media about this sale his drug habit is going to kill him before then.

Does the moon offer much heat dissipation potential vs. orbit? The lunar surface seems like an almost-as-harsh environment.

There is a whole fucking moon you can embed heatsinks into.

That's a good point, the rock you're sitting on is basically a giant heat sink.

Also 1.2 seconds is like ridiculously long, unacceptable latency.

My contention is that for large ai query, it's not that unacceptable.

It doesn't matter what their perceived, by you, biases are. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL THAT HEAT?

I guess you'll have to wait and see what ideas they have to deal with this. If they can't manage the heat they aren't going to spend billions launching these things just for fun.

Which is precisely why I said originally that data centers in space have never been a thing and will never be a thing. Because the whole premise is "it's cold in space so that's great for data centers", but that fundamental premise is fundamentally wrong and based in a misunderstanding of the physics involved. There is no other redeeming argument for it, therefore it's not going to happen. Anyone trying to sell you on data centers in space is grifting.

didn't tesla just 'invest' 2bills in xai?

Seattle is showing >400 nodes for meshcore: https://meshcore.co.uk/map.html

What you don't think we can put up a shadow internet running at 250kbps?

That said, I picked up a couple of prebuilt lora solar nodes and a couple of mobile nodes (seed solar jobies and seeed mobile jobies) and stuck the solar ones into my upper story windows just over new years, one is set up as a meshtastic repeater the other as a meshcore repeater.

I'm pretty amazed at the distances I hear from, I'm getting stuff this morning over meshcore all the way from vancouver bc into my office in seattle (pugetnet.org).

To get it all dialed in having a discord full of old HAM guys that know RF pretty well certainly doesn't hurt.

It's certainly hobbiest grade at best. It seems like it could be very interesting for installs in small communities and larger estates for backhaul for remote iot applications. Obviously you aren't going to push video over that bandwidth but for weather stations and the like seems cool.

Reticulum becomes more interesting when you are talking about some of the more robust radio technologies. Building a mesh LAN out of old wifi gear is interesting in concept.

the fed has been doing a pretty good job for the last 100+ years. I'm not a fan of the 'we'll let's just try it this other way, we haven't in awhile' argumentation.

Exactly, designing a 'third place' that isn't alcohol focused seems to be a tough nut to crack. Alcohol greases the wheels for socialization and is a highly profitable item for a place to sell that keeps the lights on (people may have several drinks an hour, drinking leads to more drinking both in the long and shot terms, etc). Meanwhile a typical coffeeshop here in seattle is, aside from the espresso machines, is a near silent library-like space. Many people heads down in a book or a laptop. Instead of having a few drinks per hour you instead may have a single coffee and maybe a pastry or sandwich.

If someone opened a social space with maybe a kitchen that let you pay by the hour to hang out, credit for kitchen orders. All the other bar/pub accoutrements gaming (darts, pool, shuffleboard, pinball, whatnot), sports on the tv, whatever .. I still don't think people will go for it.

I think the only non-boozy option that comes to mind is the small town diner but those are thin on the ground.

Many of those lack spontaneity though. I don’t walk past a climbing gym with a friend of mine and think “fancy popping in there for an hour or so?” You need to plan a visit to many of those places so you have the right clothing/footwear/etc.

The social point of a pub is that you can just decide to go in on a whim. Pubs are increasingly not about alcohol either. I’ve had a few instances in the last couple of years where I couldn’t drink alcohol for extended periods (various reasons, mostly medication related). Hasn’t stopped me going to the pub.

Years ago you would get an odd look if a group walked into a pub and all ordered soft drinks but not so much now (well, you still will get that in some pubs).

Obviously I’m not out looking for another place to buy a lime and soda after midnight but I can quite happily have an evening out without having to drink alcohol whilst others do or don’t around me.

In america, going to a bar and not drinking is .. hard and the waitstaff tend to hate you (low tips per hour).

Here is what I will say. Drinking certainly is not a healthy choice. However hanging out with your peers for a few hours a night in public certainly is.

Unfortunately I haven't found any place that cracks that problem in america, especially into the later hours. There isn't really a place for people to hang out and socialize without it being a boozy bar. As someone who doesn't really enjoy drinking I don't even really want to go to boardgame/chess/trivia nights at bars because I feel like I'm freeloading. ( I imagine any given bar patron is having 1-3 drinks per hour and potentially ordering some food if that is an option. I might order some food and have a soda...)

I assume part of the problem being that alcohol has the helpful side effect of greasing the wheels socially. Coffee houses that are open late are generally library like affairs, a lot of people sitting around on laptops or with books, any attempt to start a more social night is, in my experience, refused because of this.