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And also Market Cap-wise. Space X will be top 8 in the world. The other two are top 20 too.
See Australia.
Having a global internet service with at cost launch prices is about 3-8 trillion dollar business. That's one product line at Space X.
How's that working out for you so far?
Re:The case against boolean logic on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:13AM (#48234798)
Yes. In opposites and in lack of data (null). Ternary thus fits better.

Back in ancient CS classes my prof said that was a Russian attempt of building ternary processors with +1, 0, -1 represented as voltages.

Another strike in for-ternary column is that it's the most efficient in the number of digits for representing numbers. Pi is optimally efficient but non-integer bases would break anyone's brain, I think.

Re:The Locals Don't Know on Sunday May 10, 2026 @03:09PM (#48086844)
100%. I've lived in Paris well over a year and finally walked up on the Eiffel Tower and I enjoyed it. But of course not in July or August! But being local means you can go on an unexpectedly sunny March weekend.
Re:Reddit pushes web visitors to app on Saturday May 09, 2026 @04:40PM (#48078037)
It's an absolute shame.
This is solid. I like it.
Re:The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013) on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:42PM (#47966591)
Check out the M&M factory honey story, that was my most interesting one.
Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:04PM (#47866280)
Lot of people died for that pragmatism. Froze to death in the outages of winter storms or overheated in the summer ones. Sustainability was the last resort.
Re:Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:01AM (#47849802)
100%
Geez, Hillsdale College. Worldwide authority on all economics from the theological perspective. Congrats on picking information sources.
What? Where? In face that statement is not true pretty much everywhere. 50% of electricity in Hungary is nuclear. 80% in France. 50% coal in Poland, 30 % solar in Spain.
Sadly a missed opportunity for calling it mushroom pilfering.
Re:Lock Scroll with a Vengeance on Saturday March 07, 2026 @07:17AM (#47286979)
I was today's years old when I learned what Scroll Lock was used for. And I've not had a keyboard with it for about 15 years.
Re:Banned in California on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:16PM (#47171456)
To this day if you walk on the beach your soles or the soles of your shoes will get sticky tar spots. You need baby oil wipes to clean them up before entering your home.

And some of it, if not most of it is not natural seepage but early environmental catastrophes in the 50s and 60s, particularly around Summerland.

(Source ex-resident)

Re:MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:04AM (#47000180)
100% agree, but I relish the works of Willam Gibson and Burroughs who pose those questions AND getting the future somewhat right.
Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:26AM (#46870154)
100%. Next is Tesla.
Battery degradation is largely overhyped and there is growing real world data to illustrate that in practice it's not a dealbreaker. Million mile batteries now exist.

Show me a million mile gas/diesel engine.

Also let's not forget that Toyota has a well funded corporate program rewarding employees to spread anti-EV propaganda.

Re:Using fewer syllables to express numbers on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:41PM (#46519873)
Sez -single syllable
Re:Read Something Wonderful on Monday December 15, 2025 @07:50AM (#46273842)
This needs a subscribe or RSS feed
Re:Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:35AM (#46122248)
This sucks for hotel dwellers.
In unrelated news: China graduates more engineers then ever before.
Re:PEP 638 โ€“ Syntactic Macros on Saturday November 29, 2025 @06:21AM (#46086726)
No
Re:Apple announces sweeping App Store changes in the EU on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:54PM (#44391251)
Wrong.

Apple long standing policy is to look at the country of billing address. As an American living in Europe this has been super to keep watching the Apple TV+ content.

Totally disagree.
And under the French cost is an African swallow.
Re:George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:42AM (#44296282)
He said leaders not governments. Like religious leaders, ethnic leaders, etc.
Why don't we kill off a species at the bottom of a food pyramid. What can go wrong?

Who needs frogs and swallows anyway?!?

The first derivative would have been a better plot. Perhaps overlaid with dates of cultural shifts.

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