CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Is it going to get into an orbit? I'm guessing it's only in the immediate aftermath of a landing. I think you misinterpreted my comment.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Well, that's not the issue here. The issue is two planets can't exist near each other because they can't possibly have formed that way 4.5B years ago and kept existing at that point since then. Their gravitational influence
513.
by CydeWeys 3y ago
The motors on these burn out pretty quickly, after which point they become atmospheric ballistic (not truly ballistic because they have fins and there's atmosphere). This is true of all basic rocket artillery generally.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
You couldn't actually have two separate planets with similar orbital distances like that though.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I think this is only in the immediate aftermath of a landing, not permanent orbiting debris.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
> This is nonsense. Google has more than enough legal resources to handle this. I don't think this is even close to correct. Lawyers were hit especially hard in the January layoffs, way more than 6%, and many teams lost their dedic
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Yes, the arcologies were fun, but , they were also game-breaking, and building them completely changed the nature of the game into something unrealistic that frankly didn't really work. So not having them isn't a huge loss.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
A government by definition has a monopoly on state violence. If constituent members are going to war against each other then the so-called global government is not actually a government, it's more of a voluntary association similar to
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
In a democracy it does correspond with votes though. Other than one person = one vote, how would you structure a global government?
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Similarly, Intuit Mint has gotten worse and slower over time as well. I used to use it to track all my spending (including manual entry for cash transactions and much manual categorization of all transactions), but I gave up a few years bac
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
It's light-hearted/snarky/humorous/satirical. You're reading it completely straight-laced which is not the authorial intent. Surely the joke about buses and "we killed God" was a hint?
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The problem is that percentages still only go up to 100. If housing now costs a larger percentage of people's income, plus everything else is more expensive too, that's a huge problem, and a noticeable decrease in standard of livi
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
People want windows and natural light. That's the fundamental problem here that this doesn't solve.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Buildings don't have holes punched in them on the ground floor for restaurants! Buildings are almost always the widest at the base (for obvious reasons). "Punch holes" means actually removing building mass, not just adding wi
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
They're fun right up until you lose your house, or someone you know dies.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Right, well, see, the problem is we already did the former instead of the latter, and it costs billions of dollars to reverse that.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I'm not in CA, never have been. I'm in NYC. And the reason I'm in NYC is precisely because these high-paying jobs are available here, which is also why I'm not in the UK.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
This sounds like an outlier though, no? The overall averages there are much lower. Also everyone I know in tech over here is making much more than that still.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
You wouldn't be making nearly that much in the UK though.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
"Cannot" is a strong word. Fires smoulder for a long time and you cannot control the wind. It would be foolish to expect a prescribed burn to have zero chance of causing collateral damage.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Honestly don't know. I suspect it entirely hinges on whether we're talking about slaves or not.
532.
by CydeWeys 3y ago
It's something even more fundamental than all that. If someone does a prescribed burn (say, a local government), and it gets even slightly out of control and accidentally burns down a few homes, they will immediately face a huge amount
533.
by CydeWeys 3y ago
... it's not odd, that's an expression that I know and use! Couldn't tell you a thing about its etymology though.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
I do think this is the actual answer. Brutally backbreaking work (literally breaking rocks with simple tools for 12+ hours per day every day), in poor conditions, and constantly inhaling dust that destroys your lungs to the point that you&#
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
One particularly unpleasant job (I believe often performed by slaves) was making charcoal. More man-hours went into making charcoal than went into the actual blacksmithing, as it was so coal-intensive. Entire regions were denuded of trees.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
Uh, you mean half cubic acres?
537.
by CydeWeys 3y ago
Sorry, I hate to be a pedant here, but the correct pluralization is Rhodes Island.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
The thing about LLMs that a lot of people haven't cottoned onto yet is that they're essentially constantly lying. They have no concept of truth and also no concept of certainty. This makes them much less useful for a lot of tasks
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
And by choosing a secure TLD to host their content on they're choosing https.
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by CydeWeys 3y ago
You need encryption even for public information because without it an attacker can change it to anything they want, even a malware download.

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