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I'm not sure if it would be antitrust anymore now that Microsoft has added ARM support to windows and x86 emulation. I just don't think intel will purchase AMD because Intel will stagnate without competition in the x86 space and they will end up being usurped by an ARM derivative. ARM has a...

As an outside observer from Canuckia, Freedom of Speech is what makes the US the US which manifests in several unique ways. a) The US at least traditionally viewed people who got offended as weak and unfit for leadership. If you can't handle the truth then you have no business being in...

They always had cool uses for it but the primary issue was producing it cheaply. The manufacturing prices are starting to come down for at least small pieces of graphene and they're using it as a strong filler for things like concrete and carbon fiber. Now that we're starting to see people make...

A lot of things have come together recently that make fusion a lot cheaper to pursue than previous efforts. - Magnets have gotten way more powerful, this occurred to such a degree that you can take something as big as ITER and shrink it down to something that would fit in a small building...

I'd be hesitant to this is coordinated but a by product of the system we've created. Here are a few things that I think ended up with us in this situation. A) People are lazy and competition is hard and comes with risk, it's in the powerful's best interest to make it difficult to compete with...

More or less all of the characters are 1:1 equivalents to Brickleberry. They make references to the show brickleberry "What? This is nothing like Brickleberry.. we're cops they were rangers!" and most of the cast is the same. I was sad as fuck when they cancelled brickleberry but this is an...

I loved this, it sort of had a Akira meets Legion art style to it. I have to wonder how much of it was inspired by Psychedelics due to it's use of hallucinating drugs and a guide (in this case a computer) to work through your pain and suffering to free you from it. I'm really enjoying the...

The fairing has nitrogen thrusters to orient itself for entry so it can deploy it's chutes, then navigates with the chutes to the ship. I have no clue if they still have to move the ship around to capture the fairing or because the fairing comes down from so high up that it has enough time to...

Anyone want to avatar bet that the BFR will start flying before JWST?

That was the previous falcon 9 launch, they were going to ditch the core but decided to see if they could soft land on the ocean as a test. That FH center core is toast, it hit the water and turned into shrapnel damaging the drone ship.

I want to say having it land in the ocean opens it up to more a more costly refurbishment because the salt water can damage the rocket. I remember some of the parts on the space shuttle were supposed to be resuable that fell into the ocean but ended up costing a ton of money/time to refurbish...

It's a great mechanism for getting money out of countries with currency controls. For example China has their currency pegged against the US dollar, and for that to work they have to maintain a level of reserves so that anyone who asks for an amount of Yuan in US dollars they can provide it to...

Anyone have personal experience with DoomVR? The reviews are pretty mixed and the footage I've seen makes the movement mechanics look kind of garbage. I'm hoping this is something they can patch or people are just being finicky. I was really looking forward to this :/

It's a dangerous game to play for a company like that to hold bitcoin. The company who was supposed to produce some mining hardware that I had bought into ended up failing epically because the price crashed after they took initial deposits for the machines and didn't cash out. They didn't end up...

I've never gotten the whole gold thing. If there was enough gold in the world to cover every lady on earth the stuff from head to toe, then it's essentially worthless and you're arguing over who has the biggest dirt pile. I don't think the value of gold has any real tangible connection to an...

Bitcoin is in for a serious crash, and it's because of the technical limitations that the bitcoin developers are placing on the currency. Not expanding the block size or implementing changes to improve the transactions has caused the price to send money skyrocket from pennies to 5-10$ per...

I kept taking my coins and buying forward with hardware until I eventually bought into a steaming pile of shit that was a year late and didn't work and I sold the rest off to try and recoup some of my loses. It was a bitter pill to swallow, and I only recently started mining again (Zero Cash)...

If you're looking for big returns you're probably better off finding a bunch of lower market share coins with decent tech backing them. Bitcoin has major issues right now with dealing with the transaction volume, so much that it's becoming insanely expensive just to get the miners to validate...

The only way you'll see the bubble completely burst is if the tech fails or some new tech eclipses it. The reason it keeps gaining momentum is that blockchain tech is becoming mainstream you can see ripple as an example and bitcoin benefits by being synonymous with it. Long term it will...

I really like the guy, but I can't really believe that he never once abused his position as the head of playboy to get with a woman. Even the amazon mini-series about his life you can see he gets kind of drunk on the power he has at a few points. Though I have to admit, knowing that your life is...

They said it didn't affect the difficulty of combat, "just everything else". So the slider is just a joke, if it's anything, its mocking PC culture.

Could China be emboldened because Russia is getting away with shit in the Ukraine? The broken red line? I'm not sure the US is seen as strong as it once was, hell terrorism has proven that you can be hugely destabilising with a small persistent force even with the US military around. Having...

This sounds awesome but it seems to only work for skin cells, I'm not sure how they could repair an organ with it. Unless there is some aspect of stem cells where no matter where they're generated in the body they will gravitate to the organ where they belong automatically. It's insane stuff for...

I started looking into other coins to mine and Zcash is looking like a very strong successor to bitcoins. It can provide full transaction privacy, even to the sender. It pulls it off by using zero knowledge cryptography which allows them to validate transactions without decrypting their...

If he dies it's all over, and all his companies are sunk. I don't think you'll see him launch off to anywhere until this is all self sustaining and doesn't all hinge on him personally. Depending the gains they make it's probably a decade or more out.

What context are you using this in? Uber is trying to gain market share/increase revenue by any means necessary, and one of the pitfalls of that is failed market penetration and huge losses (Hi Groupon). If anything this is probably good for autonomous car manufacturers like Tesla who have plans...

Right now the charging issue is really a heat issue, if you pump too much into the battery at one time you'll heat it up and it'll potentially explode/catch fire. They're doing interesting things with cell phone batteries where they manage the power going to them to keep them from overheating...

Another thing to consider is that GPS isn't very accurate, it's more or less a 3 meter bubble with current tech. I'm not sure what the new constellation of GPS satellites can achieve but you need really accurate clocks to get very accurate positions, because it's using the time it takes the...

Consider it a bet.

Hah only if you want to push it to Dec 31st 2018, I definitely see Tesla not delivering by Q1 2018 but out before 2019. I've been reading over the tech that Tesla is pushing into the last little while, it's interesting stuff. I was quasi expecting that the AI would was actually learning to...

Tesla expects to have a level 5 (highest possible level of autonomy, never requires a driver) by the end of 2017 to early 2018. Every vehicle they roll off the line including the Tesla 3's are going to have this feature baked into them. There is a company that Uber owns that claims to have a...

Anyone else get the feeling that that little opener probably had a higher budget than than an entire series of BBC Top Gear? The first episode wasn't bad, but considering most people expectations I don't think anyone is going to be disappointed by the series. It'll only get better with time too...