BurningFrog

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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Haven't done it, but letting an AI polish a manual first draft might be the best of both worlds?
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Democratic rule primarily means that those who win elections get to rule. That's really the by far most important aspect!
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Overthrowing democratic rule feels like an overreaction.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Those are pretty dysfunctional economical and political systems. In the industrialized world, old professions disappear all the time, and are replaced with new ones. I saw somewhere that it's about 2% per year.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Objectively, SpaceX is worth 1.83 trillion dollars right now: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCX/ I think that qualifies as "very valuable" in any context.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
The exact percentages is not the point. SpaceX is worth $1832B¹, and those are the three main revenue streams. However you slice it, their rocket launch business is extremely valuable. ¹ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote&#x2
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Wasn't Einstein's discoveries based on things humanity had already done? AIs do things no human has done before millions of times a day.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
The simple answer is that SpaceX is worth about 1900 billion dollars at today's stock price. It's the 7th most valuable company on Earth. According to an AI I asked, about 50% of that value is Starlink, with space launches and AI
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
My position is more that it's OK to mention a well known and easily verifiable fact without digging out authoritative sources.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
"I saw something I didn't like, so I assumed it was the fault of a billionaire I don't like" didn't use to be the top voted comment on HN. Starlink satellites have low orbits and only reflect sunlight around sunrise
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
There is nothing more abundant than the extra room there is in space! Earth orbit is more constrained, but it's very far from full. Geostationary orbits are about 20% full, but the rest is practically empty still.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
"No it's not" replies and silent downvotes instead of arguments didn't use to be how HN worked. Sad to see this place becoming a normal web forum.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
The message I responded to was about visible light: "Will this be the last generation to remember the night sky?"
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
The topic is seeing the night sky.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
SpaceX is by far the most cost effective way in this world to send things into space. That is very valuable.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Satellites only reflect sunlight when in sunlight . This only happens near sunrise and sunset. The night sky will be unaffected by satellites for the foreseeable future.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
> Nor do I think a 74% unemployment rate is even remotely possible 250 years of constant automation has never produced large scale unemployment, despite obsoleting everyone's jobs several times over.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
> If the production, and distribution of the tech is confined to one or two companies We already have at least 5 companies only in the US. Your whole premise is false.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Flood legends are very common among ancient Eurasian cultures. As the last Ice Age melted away (20k–8k years ago), there were very likely several major floods in the region.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Are you saying we have no evidence that Exodus happened, or that we have real evidence that it did NOT happen?
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
There would be 5-6 days without time every years?
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Do something so you don't lose on time while "typing" the solution! Adding a second for each letter you type is a crude version.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
English is the universal aviation language. In other contexts there is no such language, and I can see how the politics of which and how many languages we should include in our car messages may well result in a "let's just use bee
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Completely restructuring society seems so simple to some people.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Typically, people produce about as much as they consume, so a growing population normally sustains itself.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
This is one reason to dislike the NASA process of building one huge prestige telescope every few decades.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
So... the headline is about performance per dollar per dollar?
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
> Anyone who doesn't understand this is an idiot imo Even if this is true, so what? Idiots get sick at least as often as others, and the medical system needs to work as well as it can for that population too.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
"Poor" is a relative concept! If everyone gets 10x richer, half the people will still be in the poorer half, and will still feel poor in some sense. This is surely not the only factor in this story, but it's you need to k
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
You spend that money on defense , not war!

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