DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
The point was that social services cost an absolute fuckton of money . Yes, you could (theoretically) cut the military budget by 20% and move that money elsewhere - but that wouldn't pay for much improvement. The US government spent
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by DuskStar 7y ago
What do you mean? Bell's working on a followup right now, as an entry in the US army's Future Vertical Lift program [0]. And the osprey itself is still getting adopted in more places - I think carrier onboard delivery is its lates
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Funny thing about that - the US already spends 150-200% of the military budget on Medicare and Medicaid. So eliminating the military would be nowhere near enough to expand that to the rest of the country... (The US spends about $2000/y
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And congress went along with it (or encouraged it) because theoretically it would be cheaper... (And the Marines liked it because no one was going to spend the money to build a stealthy V/STOL strike fighter for them unless it was pa
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Well, school funding at least has been shown to be irrelevant to outcomes (at the ranges of funding we currently have in the US), so it makes sense that people would argue against increasing spending there. And when it comes to increasing &
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Nice! But I bet it still uses a comparable amount of steel to the reactor reactor (in the blades), and I don't think replacing steel with wood would impact the concrete usage either.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's still cost at the source and not cost to distribute, though?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Five minutes (refil time) is pretty damn good for that Hyundai! And the range is also far better than I would have expected. Fuel cell wear has also taken great leaps forward, as you've said. And so it looks like that (5 year old???) p
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by DuskStar 7y ago
In other words, hydrogen in the form of hydrogen is really horrible to transport - so horrible that this company is willing to eat the efficiency losses from converting to ammonia and back to avoid having to deal with hydrogen. Which of cou
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by DuskStar 7y ago
"Our bot keeps asking for us to connect it to the internet and suggests that it'll be able to learn faster that way. We're really excited about this development, but a good fraction of our developers have started running arou
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Hydrogen is just about the worst gas to transport, though. (With the possible exception of helium) You'd get so much leakage from a hydrogen pipeline that it'd probably be easier to just synthesize methane and transport that inste
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think I got things mixed up with Carnival, which does have a naming convention of "Carnival *". Either way, finding the actual ship on wikipedia and calculating from there is going to be better than extrapolating from other sh
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Ouch, I completely misremembered their naming scheme then...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The top ships there - Crystal, SeaDream, SilverSea, SeaBourn - are all small ultra-luxury vessels. C̵a̵r̵i̵b̵b̵e̵a̵n̵ ̵P̵r̵i̵n̵c̵e̵s̵s̵,̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵o̵n̵l̵y̵ ̵R̵o̵y̵a̵l̵ ̵C̵a̵r̵i̵b̵b̵e̵a̵n̵ ̵v̵e̵s̵s̵e̵l̵ ̵o̵n̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵l̵i̵s̵t̵ ̵[̵0̵]̵ ̵h̵a̵
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That could also be "the most promising students go to the best mathematicians", though.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
A large part of the advantage of Starlink is that (thanks to SpaceX launch costs) it might genuinely cost more money to destroy than it did to launch. This makes it far harder to deny its use to the US military in times of conflict. (SpaceX
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Congress should be updating these laws to address new types of issues, but it’s not. It’s not because Republicans don’t care about these issues, and Democrats aren’t willing to spend the political capital to make these issues a priorit
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by DuskStar 7y ago
There's also these [0] two [1] on Norway's 2003 requirement for 40% of boards to be women and the 2018 California requirement, which both found that mandating gender diversity on boards had a negative impact on the companies. (T
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by DuskStar 7y ago
So in other words people should talk about social issues based on the facts (statistics) and not their opinions (lived experience), and being a part of the group in question is irrelevant?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
What would you accept as proof that the entire concept was invalid? Is there any single experiment or study that would show this? If not, how many - and what would they need to cover?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Who's going to fix inequity in health, education, and other factors that start at infancy? Well, with health... Something like Equality of Opportunity would be provided by universal health care. But to get Equality of Outcome? All
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And we all know that the rest of the EU will be more reasonable in their implementation. Except that Germany is one of the biggest political forces in the EU, and what they're doing a lot of the rest will be pressured to follow...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The graveyard orbits are ~40,000km above the earth's surface - there's a LOT of space to avoid debris in. The issue with space debris is with orbits in the 500-5,000km range. Lower than that and the debris will reenter quickly, hi
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Growing biomass is carbon negative, burning biomass is carbon positive. If you combine the two, and your biomass production process doesn't itself require carbon releases (fertilizer, diesel for farm equipment, etc) then the entire pro
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by DuskStar 7y ago
It's not just small cities that counties are useful for - Los Angeles (the city) is really fragmented, snaky thing while Los Angeles (the county) is actually geographically coherent.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Which was also ruled unconstitutional. And probably still wouldn't fix the Sierra Club documentary issue.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Which works until the 'unaccountable elites' decide that the proposition is unconstitutional. Like Prop 187 [0], a (successful, at ~60% in favor) 1994 proposal to limit services provided by the state to legal residents only. (Agre
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The problem is that without Citizens United, all that kept the FEC from banning reporting on political candidates was that the law didn't extend there yet. Because what is a front-page article on a candidate if not an in-kind contribut
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by DuskStar 7y ago
My experience with GoLand is that it manages to add back the right imports (notably with things like errors vs github.com/pkg/errors vs github.com/cockroachdb/errors, where they all share a package name and ~interface) b
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by DuskStar 7y ago
For hypersonic missiles to work against ships, they require either nukes - in which case conventional ICBMs on a lower trajectory work fine - or terminal guidance, which is an absolute bitch through 3000K plasma. There's a difference

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