I am completely at a loss to what your referring to then.
I know of eviction moratoriums that occurred after covid. It was sold as a way to avoid a massive surge in displaced people from job loss.
At the time I thought it was strange that this was the best solution because as you said it put the cost on landlords which in my opinion hurts smaller landlords the most.
I don't really see what else could have been the cause but I guess I will rephrase:
- Why do you think this tool was used if not for Covid? (It was as least sold to the public that way right)
- Do you think now that it's been done once that it will happen again?
I mean your are assuming that with free housing you retain a right to live where you want to live.
I am NOT saying we should build this free housing in one area and stick people there: (see the many failed public housing attempts)
But there are more options available than everyone getting free housing in the bay area, CA.
As someone from a Western country, what replaces it?
How do you buy a car on a loan for example?
It's not perfect but unlike both your examples it isn't based on things that could be consider political. You can't lower your credit score by attending a protest for example. Or posting things for or against causes on the internet.
I am just honestly wondering what else is our there? It has always seemed like a tool that can be used by both individuals and lenders.
This is sound logic and probably be the case but I wonder if this effect will be less than what we have seen in the past because of the reduced TDP of the M1 processors in general.
Maybe the cooling and power delivery difference between laptop formfactors and PC formfactors will be less with these new arm based chips.
This just isn't what the tweet shows?
Unless you are counting AdSense as sponsors? That doesn't seems to make sense.
You seem to be saying LTT is beholden to their sponsors? There is always an argument to be made there but misrepresenting: floatplane, AdSense and other sources that I don't see how you can call sponsors, which make up another 33% seems very disingenuous.
Yeah, I didn't even consider this. But at what point does orbital solar energy start to make sense?
I wonder what the $/kg before we can just send up solar panels that last 100+ years and provide continuous microwave beams of clean energy to ground stations.
Your math seems off, 1 ton is 1000kg, but your point still stands at $200 million plus the overhead of containment and transport to starship. This is far more economical that I expected.
But also this is the price to orbit. As the escape velocity is 1.5x higher we can probably assume the same or a greater increase in cost. Maybe you could just justify a really high orbit? It would take a long time for it to build up.
I can't tell if this is sacarstic or not but I decided to do the math.
Mass of earth: 5.972 × 10^24 kg
Launch capacity per year: 15,500 tons
Years to get rid of earth: 385,290,322,580,645,161 years.
I think if we every have to worry about this it becomes more a question of where are we going? And do we have enough carbon to cycle for fuel to do this.
> Will this ever be safe enough to use as a hazardous waste disposal system? Can we just send the worst of the worst into the sun without too much risk of just spreading it out through the atmosphere in case of an explosion.
I don't think it is impossible that launch capabilities become safe enough to lower the risk to something some people might consider acceptable. However the physics of it won't change. To even get into earths orbit we have to accelerate anything going up to an average of 7.8 Km/s, where to escape orbit to anywhere else it's 11.8 Km/s.
I think the amount of energy to do that will always be the primary reason why this just isn't practical. Assuming you are advanced enough to be considering this, I would hope that your society is stable enough for long term containment and processing.
Your comment made me sad to read. I don't really feel like that's a fair take at all.
I love libraries and the experience they provide. These memories are core to who I am today.
For me this is about access. I want every kid who doesn't live near a library or who's parents don't have the time to take them there to have something more than nothing.
I don't think that we can make it remote without taking a lot of the magic out of it. But I don't think it's a bad idea to talk about what we might do to try.
I couldn't agree more. I have 0 desire to replace or limit libraries. They are some of few places where you can feel the progress of humanity in a physical space.
I just want to allow people who can't access libraries easily to experience some of that.
Sure, I don't go to libraries to find anything about code or even computers. I go to find old fantasy series and enjoy the physicality of the library.
I would say the internet is almost always better at everything non-fiction for adults. But I am talking about 4-8 year olds here mostly, and by extension anyone older that wants some of the library experience.
I completely agree. I don't think you can fully replicate this experience remotely.
I am just trying to imagine what you need to do to get as close as possible. Maybe I make this a project happen if I end up with something actionable. Maybe these ideas inspire someone else, maybe they fade away into memories and do very little.
I love the it doesn't matter what you choose you can check it out part. I think it would be really important to have a filter where all the books the kid can see, the kid can have right now. This of course could be disabled by older kids that understand sometimes there is a wait but I think for the younger kids this would be an important detail.
I don't want to replace libraries, I want to make it so every kid that has access to the internet on some device or gaming platform can get 30% of that experience. Or whatever is possible.
I think you are highlighting great ways to impress upon a kid the: "visceral experience of the vastness." Which is the core of what I want. That's a really good way to put it by the way.
I really like the idea of taking kids to really impressive libraries as well. My parents did that for me and it really did create lasting memories.
But I am more thinking of something that can emulate that experience remotely. Your focus on the space made me thing of maybe a library on Minecraft or Roblox? Maybe it can be a space where you can somehow see the books in a virtual space and design something that allows you to explore the collections. I know this would be really hard in Minecraft and I don't know how hard this would be in roblox.
But I really like this idea because it would be easy to create, easier to maintain, and be a really cool thing that a teacher could say take a class trip to.
It would be important that you where presented with a way to checkout the books you found in this virtual library from a real library near you that has ebooks for children. This would also allow you to checkout the public works books from the awesome sites you referenced instantly.
I know of eviction moratoriums that occurred after covid. It was sold as a way to avoid a massive surge in displaced people from job loss.
At the time I thought it was strange that this was the best solution because as you said it put the cost on landlords which in my opinion hurts smaller landlords the most.
I don't really see what else could have been the cause but I guess I will rephrase:
- Why do you think this tool was used if not for Covid? (It was as least sold to the public that way right)
- Do you think now that it's been done once that it will happen again?