https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtxgucciHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:48:36 +0000Is this not inherently circular reasoning? "For X to happen, the laws of physics must allow X to happen". It seems totally obvious. Am I missing something? Of course entropy must be discrete and reversible in order to reverse entropy, it just doesn't work that way as far as we know in the real universe.

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:01:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715442rtxguccihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715442Yeah, I remember reading about this and the reality is, Everest is still a very extreme environment even by today’s standards. It’s very expensive and risky to fly helicopters in the thin atmosphere and weather conditions so it’s very hard to get material up and down.

]]>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:10:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42337879rtxguccihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42337879https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42337879