Can you please not post comments like this? Thoughtful criticism is welcome, of course, but this sort of thing isn't. Besides breaking the site guidelines, it takes threads in less interesting directions and evokes even worse comments from others. We're trying to avoid that here.
"Don't be snarky."
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
"Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative."
Really, on second look, snark still feels justified here. The issue is with TFA. There is little room for a thoughtful comment in response to something transparent.
Some type of submissions will invariably not result in very deep discussion, when the topic itself is so shallow.
We need you (I don't mean you personally, of course, but all commenters here) to follow the site guidelines regardless of how bad an article is or you feel it is.
Someone else being wrong or some other post being bad isn't a reason to make things worse. Doing so just creates a downward spiral, which it's all too easy to fall into.
Tbh your moderation is normally very restrained and even handed so was a bit surprising to see you take down several borderline overly snarky comments in a row (that just so happen to be directed against VC investors or YC founders).
To me those comments seemed over the line, not borderline! I'd post the same replies wherever I saw comments like that, regardless of who or what they're about.
> The frigid vacuum of space should make cooling easier, too, because cooling systems are more efficient when the ambient temperature is lower.
(EDIT: I removed a significant amount of snark here - sorry dang!)
While greater ambient temperature differences do affect radiative cooling, this effect is, in almost all situations, dwarfed by the lack of any kind of conductive or convective cooling due to the aforementioned vacuum. If radiators can be made of indefinite size, there are ways to make this viable, but the construction and maintenance of such an array to handle the wattage of any sizeeable AI datacenter would be far beyond any space project we've done to date.
