Ankaios

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by Ankaios 3y ago
Nobody's going to want to watch two hours of Snake Plissken searching around town for the President, only to find him sitting in a coffee shop eating avocado toast.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. You clearly know different founders than I do.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
I love fountain pens, and I have many good ones. However, I now prefer Uniball Signo gel pens to any of my fountain pens.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
What sorts of tax policies might preferentially disincentivize home buying by investment funds?
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by Ankaios 3y ago
It turns out there were precedents: Case: Thompson v. Horizon Insurance Company, Filing: Plaintiff's Motion for Class Certification. Citation: The plaintiff's attorney cites the influential case of Johnson v. Horizon Insurance Com
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China sets sights on crewed lunar landing before 2030(spacenews.com)
5 points by Ankaios 3y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Yeah, I didn't read far enough down the page before commenting. I must have been distracted by my tasty Coca Cola.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
<darkside>Or charge even more for product placement in your project's prompts.</darkside>
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Sergey Brin Has a Secret Plan to Put Airships Back in the Skies(bloomberg.com)
29 points by Ankaios 3y ago|4 comments
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by Ankaios 3y ago
The GP is correct that Eddington's observations during the 1919 eclipse had to do with the deflection of starlight. General relativity predicted that starlight passing by the Sun would be deflected by a certain amount, and Eddington&#x
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by Ankaios 3y ago
You could have tinnitus at a frequency you can't hear if the tinnitus arises downstream of auditory issues that reduce hearing sensitivity. For instance, if someone couldn't hear a certain frequency because the corresponding hair
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Yeah, I agree. I had a similar thought while writing the note. Some sort of ban is an entertaining thought, but hiding ownership is probably too easy for bans to make a meaningful difference.
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by Ankaios 3y ago
Maybe we should propose legislation for an IP black hole list. If too many of a company's patents are invalidated, the company loses the ability to create or hold patents.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
A city-scale ocean-source heat-sink system might be interesting in New York.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
And yet, the US actually has allies. After all the crap the US has done, it still has allies. What? Why? Oh, because it's all about economics and power. Interesting thesis. At the same time, China has few allies. Does that mean China
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Supporting the spy angle is the pretty obvious connectivity [...] but it also doesn't really make that much sense... surely a satellite does what this does but better? China has no shortage of high quality spy satellites. Balloons ar
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by Ankaios 4y ago
The microgravity biology community is so small that it's more like a coffee klatch than a mafia.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Preventing the fraud described in your edit is what I'm asking about. I'm wondering if anyone has set up lists to help avoid surprise prices for sending messages via SMS service APIs, not from texting someone from a phone.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Does anyone run a blackhole list for these numbers and operators? (Or a historical phone number -> SMS price mapping?) In a sane system, no one should pay fees unless they're listed up front. Lacking that, a way to identify and avoi
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Gotta say, I'd personally trade the balloon for the story I'd be able to tell.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
I'm trying to be a little vague to avoid accidentally veering the discussion too much in some direction, but I'd prefer to be as open as possible while somehow building a community or organization that reliably continues maintenan
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Good License for a Database?
2 points by Ankaios 4y ago|9 comments
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by Ankaios 4y ago
The mountains aren't tall enough, unfortunately. The highest peaks reach about 10 km above the mean radius, while the "nice" part of the atmosphere is 50-ish km up.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
The mass of atmosphere above Venus' one-bar pressure line is significant—it's similar to the atmosphere mass above sea level on Earth. Also, our atmosphere is much more important for protecting us from energetic particles than Ear
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by Ankaios 4y ago
If you dropped a Cs-137 source of this scale way out in the middle of nowhere, far away from any road or crops, it might not be a big deal. The half life is only 30 years, and it could get buried under soil or in silt. However, losing it ne
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Most of them have been, but Perseverance and Curiosity were exceptions. I believe the original motivation was for Curiosity to be able to land at higher latitudes.
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by Ankaios 4y ago
The RTGs weren't launched in a different era. The most recent RTG went up less than three years ago. (On Perseverance.)
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Search for terms like "satellite" and "space" in the Communications Act of 1934, as amended: https://www.fcc.gov/Reports/1934new.pdf
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Ultima Online was similar in a lot of ways. They're also similar in that I actively avoided thinking about them to avoid getting addicted. :)
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by Ankaios 4y ago
Even the manual itself isn't discoverable. (At least I don't see an obvious entry to it in the iOS UI.)

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