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  • As stated elsewhere it’s a scam but their stated reason is because they want to build massive data centres on earth but there’s a huge backlog in getting electricity for them. Even generating their own electricity is troublesome because every single natural gas/methane turbine is already spoken for years into the future and solar etc takes a lot of land which they may have trouble getting the rights to build on. Thus, if you could build in space you can theoretically collect a lot more solar and more strongly than what you get on the planet’s surface. It just ignores all the other costly parts but I guess if you are being given unlimited money by venture capitalists what else are you going to promise them when they want more more more AI infrastructure


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    Hank Green did a video about Sunfish and apparently they are mostly collagen which is not very nutritious so most things don’t bother eating or hunting them so it’s quite possible the orcas just do it for fun. I think the article speculates that breaking the Sunfish into small pieces might help young orcas to eat it more easily though so it’s a bit unknown I think

















  • Yes html is all parsed and rendered by the web browser. What the elements do and how they interact and are displayed is defined by a standards body like the w3 consortium https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/

    There’s traditionally been differences in the implementations of those standards between browser companies, thus causing browser compatibility issues where a site may say it doesn’t work in Firefox, or requires chrome or whatever. Though most major browsers use Chrome’s rendering engine now except for Firefox and its derivatives.

    Yes I suppose it is less efficient than precompiling a webpage and serving it as a package that gets downloaded and “executed” though that then opens you up to cross operating system compatibility issues such as Linux and windows not being able to run binaries compiled for the other os. Html was conceived at least in part to be agnostic in that way I believe. As a “hypertext mark up language” it was a way of formatting text for easier reading