Nibodhika

Really? Never heard of that, which games did Valve did that?

Simple, look at what they invest the money in. Valve pays Proton developers and Linux support, GoG makes some ads about no DRM and invests something on preservation of games, Epic invests money on suing other companies and getting exclusives. Decide which of those is more important to you and spend money there.

The carpenter's son (don't waste your time) and Factorio (do waste your life). I honestly can't think how to combine both of those.

Yeah, Gentoo is really good, but I dropped it the day I needed to edit a system, so I installed GIMP (there was no binary for it at the time), a few hours later I tried to open the image and realized I had forgotten to add the libpng (or similar) flag so didn't had the support for the image type. Took me less time to install Arch than it would have taken me to recompile Gimp.

You have 256 liters of water, and a 234.3 liter jar and are asking how to put the water in the jar. Either get rid of some of the water (shrink the image) or get a different jar (different drive). Writing 256L on the side of the jar will not let it fit more water.

Even by their own estimates it's 2-10 million dollars per launch, imagine thinking that spending 6 million dollars to get a single rack in space where it can't be maintained and will become garbage in a couple of years is a good investment. And that's just the launch price, you still need to build the satellite, with its hundreds of square meters of solar panels and radiators. There's no point arguing this any more than there was a point arguing hyperloop, until they present a feasible product it's just big talk.

Cool, so we moved from a single motorcycle to a couple of cars, still a long way from a parking lot. You're not understanding the issue, the scale is not feasible, you'll spend millions of dollars to launch a single satellite that's not even 1/10th of a tiny data center.

Unless I missed something, all of his math assumes 20kW of computers, that's not even one rack for heavy stuff, of course you can run a data center in space if you send one satellite up for each computer, that's just unpractical.

Let me put this into perspective, what you're saying is like someone has an idea for a revolutionary parking plaza, and they're showing you it's feasible to spend millions of dollars to park one motorcycle in it.

Sounds like you need to increase your minimum wage then as it seems you're implying it's not a livable wage.

Moving the responsibility to pay employees from the company owner to random people tips is a bad idea. It only works because you peer pressure people into tipping, but people who don't feel pressured to do so will stop tipping and others might look and ask themselves why should I?. You don't tip doctors, programmers, artists, drivers, or any other professional, why are servers different? If the tipping system is so great why is it not used on any other profession? Would you be willing to work your profession for tips?

AFAIK here in Europe it's minimum wage or slightly above, possibly much higher for high end restaurants. But it is a job like any other, they work fix hours and receive a fix wage, if they need to stay late they get overtime. In Brazil it's a job that gets paid minimum wage but there is an expected 10% tip that is almost always put on the bill by the time you get it.

Here in Europe it's not customary to tip, the expectation is that people earn enough to live well regardless of the job, and if a waiter is not earning enough we should change the minimum wage and not rely on people willingly paying extra. Imagine if you applied the same logic to any other job, no one would be willing to depend on tips from random people to pay their wages, but company owners would be very happy if they can convince people that it's better for them to not get paid.

The term usually means that the skill is something an average person could pick up easily and has a steep and quickly flattening learning curve, so while a person that has worked as a server for 2 years would be much better than someone just started, they will not be that much better than someone who's at it for 1 year. And the difference between 2 and 20 years on that job is neglectible. Compare that with something like programming or medicine where the difference between 2 and 20 years of experience is absurd and you start to get a feeling of what the term means.

That being said, skilled or unskilled labor everyone deserves to have a basic income that covers all of their needs and at least some of their wants.

Yes, they've thought of all those things. Those aren't useful answers

That's where you're wrong, this is like the hyperloop or solar roadways, where all of the experts agree it's a dumb idea but you have a rich person trying to sell that to the public with the promise that they'll solve the issues by the time they get to production.

You can't cool things in space effectively, the only way things lose heat in space is through radiation. According to Wikipedia the radiators expel from 100 to 350 W per square meter. My PC generates more heat than that, imagine a data center. A quick Google tells me it's 5-15kW per rack or 40-60kW per AI rack. Let's imagine an AI data center, a single rack produces 50kW, so you need 140 square meters per rack. To put this in perspective the space station could host one rack if we removed everything else that produces heat from inside. So you need a megastructure just to host one rack, that will become obsolete in a couple years.

It's not feasible, it's just as stupid an idea as a vacuum tube for trains, and brought to you by the same person too.