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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
...And Jim got into the Telecommunications business before all the consolidation stuff and made himself a significant sum of money along with it!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Seems to go hand-in-hand too with his later recounting that he had no further interest to go back to the moon to walk on it; he was there to "beat the Russians" and loved his family too much to risk his life to "go pick up s
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
This reminded me too of Jim Lovell's reaction when they switched the Apollo 8 plan at "the last minute" to actually be the first TLI mission. Something about the way he tells it, and just the sheer (and apparently extremely g
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
If Artemis goes on as planned, hopefully you'll just have to hold on at least a few more years!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Can't more emphatically recommend Collins' book. Having read my fair share of Apollo stuff, this, and the Blye Cox Apollo books are easily the best. Also, I'll add that apparently Charles Lindbergh spoke with Jim Lovell at th
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Between things like the Apple watch, and the upcoming glasses-based interfaces, this seems to kinda do nothing well and some of those things, just more poorly. It's beautiful, definitely interesting, but seems pretty dead in the water.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I'll take this opportunity to promote to the technnically inclined, that it is so worth checking out a beautiful Apollo-related project called NASSP which has been trying to faithfully allow you to simulate all the Apollo missions. The
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I can see it being do-able with some kind of VATSIM-like integration, where you would just need to get the live plane movement data across, and then use that as the AirportSim plane traffic...
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Ha, yeah, that's it. And, the quote in question, from David Segal, apparently: "Everyone wants to be the king of the hill. That's international. But the number of aspiring kings always dwarfs the number of available hills. So
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I'm an immigrant myself, and I share this sentiment deeply as well. The best description which I ever heard, curiously enough, was on a really old episode of this American life. My memory could be playing tricks on me, but I think it w
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I ran a non-profit website in Brazil where schools could look up a question-by-question breakdown of how their students did in the high-school exit exam. I was a bit flummoxed by the process of maintaining a decently sized database with tha
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I've been trying to "learn" the missions more thoroughly by flying them on Orbiter and NASSP, and just the sheer amount and depth of documentation that is accessible today is truly astounding. There's something awe-inspi
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
If you feel that way about this, I would highly recommend "Carrying the Fire" for you as a tremendous read. Out of all the Apollo-era books I've read, I'd say this one does the best job of mixing in really interesting te
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
The A16Z bit cracked me up. Especially because it probably does function as a valid signal, at this point.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
In earnest: Could you help lead me to a different perspective? Happy to seriously engage to see if there's a blind spot I'm missing
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
To all the parties involved, I'd argue. It seems they were able to parse out all of the claims and readily dismissed the vast majority of the ridiculous stuff that the cops were claiming, while acknowledging that the assertion that the
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
This kinda strikes me as obviously the "right answer", in the sense that if you could have a reader traverse the code and "translate" it into English, surely you could then go the opposite router. No need for "func
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Is there something of the like but for orbital mechanics? Out of all the engineering that is nearly superhuman to get us to do everything we do in space, there's something about the knowing that "if I point it at this direction, i
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
It's so wild to me that the code is just... on github. Like, there's something to be said for all the effort going into these technologies and how freely available it is. A few years ago we would think this was almost undistinguis
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
On that note, I also did not understand the post about H1B workers. Ostensibly a primary reason for the existence of the visa category in their first place is to fulfill the need for foreign talent that needs to be PRESENT in the US.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I know a family of a nobel prize winner, and everyone in it is just insanely talented -- like, if you were to caricature the experience of a super genius family you'd actually probably get pretty close to them. And, your point is spot
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I was one of the ridiculous-looking people who had a Google Glass when it came out. It was clunky, and lasted a very short time, and your face would get hot, and it had no real AR interaction with the real world. But. If you could squint at
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
How do you avoid the misaligned incentives in this case in terms of asking whether or not thing X needs protection to the person whose job is justified by thing X needing protection? If the answer were a resounding "ohh no, that's
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I... did mean that. And, I have a suspicion I may have written it incorrectly many other times in the past, so thanks for pointing it out!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
This has gotten so ridiculous to the point that I actually feel bad for Neimann. He has admitted to cheating, there's no debate about that. But he maintains that he has cheated in two isolated incidents, at age 12 and 16. These are mis
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Did you even watch the video? It specifically addresses the noise pollution question, and is one of their very significant engineering feats. Obviously, it is yet to be proven at scale, but if it works as the vision and developments so far
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
That's an incredibly good point. I would think you'd need a pretty modest operation when it comes to that for a site like lichess, and the fact that it is the biggest expense really puts into focus the kind of scale the problem li
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Kind of fascinating that their biggest cost is site moderation! This seems... odd for a site whose main mechanic really isn't social networking.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Between stuff like this and the prototype NBA basketball, seems like fabrication techniques are getting us slowly to the point that inflatable-anything of all sorts will be things of the past, no?
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I had to deal with issues with the Saturn app for teenagers at work, and then I learned he had done some consulting for them. Dude's got the magic touch!

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