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by infinitewars 4mo ago
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
Golden Dome is meant to preemptively attack China's ICBMs "left of launch", for which they are building anti-satellite rockets and microwave systems as article notes, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
Uppercase is necessary for an acronym.
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
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China is building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos(reuters.com)
7 points by infinitewars 4mo ago|16 comments
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
The real concern was Russia, given SpaceX has always been a MIC project, now publicly manifest as "Golden Dome" .. a program which undermines M.A.D. and obviously greatly incentives sabotage. There just happened to be a ULA buildi
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
More like he doesn't know how to keep things classified
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
Packed with Palantir spyware too?
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
"In 2019, Donald Trump said the satellites would also carry offensive weapons."
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
SpaceX has a Golden Dome contract, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s... That's basically exactly this ^
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
While most every other articles on Tesla (historically) had been fawning megafans.
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
The reporting on Elektrek is top notch. They care deeply about real sustainable energy and transportation and are willing to dig deep past the marketing and plainly report the facts. I can't count the number of times they've had e
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
It sounds like they should be called "indicator markets" rather than "prediction markets", as the data shows they largely just summarize the current knowledge, with little predictive ability.
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by infinitewars 4mo ago
It was a finite element simulation of a CT-scanned violin, but as they note, “If there’s anything that’s sounding mechanical to it, it’s because we’re using the exact same time function, or standard way of plucking, for each note,” says Mak
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Yes it's real: https://banksy.co.uk/in.html (licensing)
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
I think it deserves credit for being both simple and original.
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Is this how standards are formed today? Not RFCs, but registering domains for SEO?
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Similar to Ryanair in Europe
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Don't forget the $3.6T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Related, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895236
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
X stands for intercept Reusable rockets started with DC-X. SpaceX's first contract was for DARPA's FALCON Project (predates their rocket name). They're not exactly hiding intentions.
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SpaceX to develop space-based interceptor weapon prototypes(bloomberg.com)
16 points by infinitewars 5mo ago|5 comments
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
I always use the phrase "Let's do X" instead of asking (Could you...) or suggesting it do something. I don't see problems with it being motivated.
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SpaceX developing Golden Dome software(bloomberg.com)
5 points by infinitewars 5mo ago|0 comments
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Trying to posture for Golden Dome, but politically he is likely locked out of the contract.
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Well this is roughly 2 thousand times higher power than a Starlink user terminal. Aand of course it's open source, https://github.com/open-space-sdr/main/
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
AI is just another layer of abstraction. I'm sure the assembly language folks were grumbling about functions as being too abstracted at one point
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
This is quite a milestone for open silicon. Having a completely auditable path from RTL down to GDS targeting the GF180MCU via wafer.space is no small feat-especially pulling it all together with a Nix-integrated toolchain and Dart for the
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
looks like there have been updates since then: https://moonrf.com/updates/
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by infinitewars 5mo ago
Wild hardware flex for a garage project. Reverse-engineering the Pi 5's MIPI to push 5.6 Gbps from custom MASH sigma-delta ADCs to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to the Raspberry Pi is serious engineering. The idea that the RF receiver looks like

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