3 times as long (6 years for the Senate vs 2 years for the House)

Alas, net zero carbon is not peak heat. It’s peak carbon dioxide. It’s peak rate of temperature change due to greenhouse gases. Global average temperatures will continue to rise past 2060 (or whenever we get net zero). I’m not sure what the models predict. Perhaps the total temperature rise could be 3.5 degrees by 2100.

Edit: Two responses, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252450 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252408, seem to be dupes. As rickydroll states, the time stamps and id numbers show it to be the first.

It's a copy of mine. Look at the timestamps.

I meant it as a joke - to blatantly steal your comment since you said copyright is evil.

So you were cosplaying an LLM trained on my comments :-)

Good one.

Written or printed out at 3 digits per centimeter, 202 trillion digits would make a string about 670 million kilometers long -- or about the distance between Earth and Jupiter.

See: http://literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html

Since the first element in range() will be 0, should the last line be ...?

    return prod(1,range(n+1))

Oops yes! And unfortunately it still doesn't work for n=0

Edit: prod(range(1, n+1)) does work

My oops too. The extra 1 argument belongs with range, as you have it here.

Solar-powered railgun accelerating rocks to lunar escape velocity in directions chosen to make the desired delta-v. Speed the moon up or slow it down or change whatever other orbital elements you please.

This would work better to change the orbit of a small asteroid. For the moon it would take (a lot) longer.

Both manufacturing corporations and mutual investment funds are ways to aggregate smaller amounts of capital into big enough sums that large factories or investments are possible. I don't think it's necessary to rely on multi-billionaires for investment in wild ideas.

Can you point me to a few successful examples of that kind of funding?

Would taxation of intellectual property reduce rent-seeking behavior? Any idea how it might be implemented?

No, but simply removing the ability to seek rent by removing copyright would.

Just before the section on Moore's Law, it says this about silicon purity:

> Electronic grade silicon (EG-Si): 99.9999999 pure ('nine nines pure') Thats one impurity atom in every 10.000.000 silicon atoms.

I believe that should be 1.000.000.000 (10^9 atoms) to correspond to nine nines pure. Just as one impurity atom in every 100 (10^2) atoms would be 99% (two nines) pure.