Sure but you could do that with a simple disc in space
Actually, the data centers can be the discs. As long as the data centers can crunch on, we don't need to stay alive here on earth
Readit Newsmongol commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
mongol commented on Data centers in space makes no sense civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
To Steelman the topic, Musk’s whole alleged mission is to make humans a multi-planet species that can survive an earth killing event.
To that end, a small data center space isn’t about unit-economics, it’s a bigger mission. So the question we should consider is what can we put into space the further that mission. Can we put a meaningful sum of human knowledge out there for preservation? It sounds like “yes,” even if we can’t train ChatGPT models out there yet.
Let's say there is an earth killing event, and let's say there is an outpost on Mars with some people on it. How much does it really matter that some humans survive, in light of the enormous catastrohophe that killed all life on earth? Is it a very worthwhile objective for our species to persist a while longer, or should we not just accept that also life itself will will die out on geological or astronomical time scales?
mongol commented on Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke? warontherocks.com/2026/01... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton
> proved they'd rather have an empty piece of ice / dirt, than our friendship and protection
I think I need to leave Hacker News soon. It has become MAGA territory
I have been looking into options too. One option that seemed attractive was called Zoho mail. Any experiences from that?
mongol commented on Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11 blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mongol commented on Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11 blog.urara.pl/hate-is-a-s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
One thing that is pretty impressive with Windows 11 however is WSL. I can just run a X program and it pops up as its own Window. So for example, I can run Chrome on Ubuntu on Windows, out of the box. On Windows 10, WSL is good for the command line, but Windows 11 takes it much further.
mongol commented on Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland dw.com/en/trump-to-impose... · Posted by u/lysace
I feel this is a major turning point for how entities can/will behave from now on towards Trump's wants/decisions. Now it is publicly proved, that you cannot trust deals made with Trump, because they can be just invalidated at a moment's notice. Only bad deals to be made, so why would any reasoned entity agree to those. World will not take threats seriously any more, and will defend themselves.
Maybe missions in Venezuela, Iran etc. was accomplished so easily, that it blurred the judgment of what could be done. But those countries are different than a conglomerate of 450 M people / 27 countries. And now military and economic thinking/domains/threats were also mixed. "Weak EU leaders" can and are now forced to unite as one strong resistance.
Yeah, I see it as a kind of "jumping the shark" moment. There is simply no way to compromise with a neighbors territorial sovereignty to avoid tariffs. It is not going to happen. We may as well regard the US as a black hole that we no longer trade with.
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I don't think Trump is explicitly an asset. He just likes oligarchs and dictatorial strongmen, and is usually the dumbest man in the room. There's no doubt that there are ties there, but Trump is not a loyal man. These things combined means he can swing back and forth between doing Putin favors and being genuinely upset by perceived slights, then back to friends when Putin gets his ear to smooth things over.
Rather than specifically being a Russian asset, he's an asset to the last charismatic man he remembers speaking to.
He is the ultimate useful idiot. And as such he is a most valuable asset for Russia
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