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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • As much as I’d like to shit on him, I believe he talks about building energy generation capacity (aka GW or TW) in a certain time period (i.e. one year). Like building 1000 100MW power stations every year, but in space.

    Can’t tell if it makes any sense economically though, getting anything in scale to space is still kinda very expensive.

    And if you try to make whatever you need to get to space light, compact and efficient, it usually quickly becomes very expensive itself.

    So “solve other parts of equation” probably means “give me money”.

    Later edit: if you ever played Factorio, this is equivalent of amount of solar panels crafted and delivered to space platform per hour.






  • I don’t really understand what is the end goal here. It isn’t minimising the amount of total work done, because for this optimal strategy would be just leaving the seat in whatever position it was used. Funnily enough, amount of times it needs to be put up is exactly the same it needs to be put down in absolute terms, but considering the “up” group is smaller than “down group”, their perceived amount of times position should be changed is higher than the same for the opposite group. I. e. in group of one “up” and 9 “downs”, “ups” need to change position of lid with 90% probability, and for every “down” it’s only 10%. Huh. Of course overall it equalizes: 1×0.9=9×0.1.

    Or is it some kind of “welcomeness”? Like, leaving the lid in the most probable expected position (which for equal gender usage would be “sitting” because people sometimes poop, usually not while standing; and because penis people sometimes pee while sitting (me often, but usually at home, not in public)).

    Or is it something else?