<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alangibson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alangibson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:18:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alangibson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Guest Essay: America Cannot Withstand the Economic Shock That's Coming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paywalled</p>
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<p>Yea but every warfighter will get a waifu</p>
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<p>It's not named the Department of War because Congress didn't rename it.<p>Other than that, good on ya.</p>
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<p>No. Feed-based apps are uniquely bad.</p>
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<p>There's legions of companies that will do warehousing and shipping for you. Definitely costs though.<p>That's what I mean by margins being a significant difference.</p>
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<p>airtite.shop<p>Stuff for old men like me</p>
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<p>I got out of software and into physical products a couple of years ago. I wish I could say I was prescient, but honestly it's just so much easier to sell physical items.<p>Margins are worse, but selling is easier. If you've got a thing you can be sure that someone somewhere will give you money for it.</p>
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<p>Give a kid a phone with TikTok on it and observe them for a while. It's genuinely upsetting.<p>They'll spend <i>hours</i> with their heads down just silently looking at the thing. All desire to do anything else just vanishes. Then they freak out when you try to take it away from them.<p>The only obvious difference between them and someone on fent is the verticality of their posture.</p>
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<p>It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work.<p>Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. ISS has system dedicated to making sure the radiators get just enough sunlight at any given time.</p>
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<p>It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work.<p>Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. ISS has system dedicated to making sure the radiators get just enough sunlight at any given time.</p>
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<p>> arbitrarily large<p>Space is not empty. Satellites have to be boosted all the time because of drag. Massive panels would only worsen that. Once you boosters are empty the satellite is toast.</p>
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<p>Shading does work; JWST does this. However I don't see how you can make it work for satellite data centers. You would constantly be engaging attitude control as you realigned the panels to keep the radiators in shade. You'd run out of thruster fuel so fast you'd get like a month out of each satellite</p>
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<p>ISS radiators run on water and ammonia. Think about how much a kg costs to lift to space and you'll see the economics of space data centers fall apart real fast. Plus, if the radiator springs a leak the satellite is scrap.</p>
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<p>Several kW is nothing for a bank of GPUs.<p>Radiators in space are extremely inefficient because there's no conduction.<p>Also you have huge heat inputs from the sun. So you need substantial cooling before you get around to actually cooling the GPUs.</p>
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<p>This. There's no scenario where it's cheaper to put them in space.</p>
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<p>Either this is a straight up con, or Musk found a glitch in physics. It's extremely difficult to keep things cold in space.</p>
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<p>[flagged]</p>
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<p>I suppose they'll use the Rodney King excuse for this one.<p>The guy we were kicking the crap out of on the ground made all of us afraid.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://gizmodo.com/ai-agents-are-poised-to-hit-a-mathematical-wall-study-finds-2000713493">https://gizmodo.com/ai-agents-are-poised-to-hit-a-mathematical-wall-study-finds-2000713493</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745480">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745480</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Please Lord don't let the Austrians any where near this. The Notar system is the the closest thing to outright theft by paperwork I've ever seen.<p>We paid 3K on a 50K plot of land for some dingus to <i>read a contract out loud</i>.</p>
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