DuskStar

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by DuskStar 5y ago
Imagine a 3rd party HN app - they can't control the login options, and thus can't add apple login.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
SpaceX actually IS selling flights to tourists. First and second flights are scheduled for later this year IIRC.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Unless a few multi-megaton nukes can take out ALL of the LEO satellites at once.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Anyone that might have to fight China in the future, such as India.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Presumsbly, you'd start in the upper atmosphere and work down. Airborne equivalents to algae?
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Sensors and computers aren't meaningfully different for a 5' quadrotor vs a 5" micro. Same physics, same control loop.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Because a star like ours has a power density of a compost pile. You can run a generator from one, but you need a LOT of it to get any appreciable power. Ludicrous amounts, really. Thankfully for the viability of fusion, reactions scale with
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Anti-Ship cruise missiles, for one. The TSAM (and possibly also the Harpoon) navigates to a search area and then determines a ship to attack within that area. The first self-guided antiship missiles might also qualify, but they were (iirc)
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Depends on the state - water rights are more restricted the drier the area from what I understand
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by DuskStar 5y ago
So, how long until we get a NEW, new suezmax class of containerships to compensate?
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Of course you then get yelled at for bombing schools/children/hospitals/infrastructure, because that's where the missiles were launched from.
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by DuskStar 5y ago
You say that like socialized industries haven't had just as large of disasters, or that on net DDT has been bad for the US/world. Everything is a tradeoff - how many kids with malaria is a bald eagle worth?
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by DuskStar 5y ago
Someone should come up with a way of cryptographically storing those records so that you can go from model+serial -> purchaser without the ability to do the reverse. That way the feds get what they say they want, but in a way that isn&#x
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by DuskStar 5y ago
It means 1/36 interactions will be recorded by the app, which is almost certainly not enough to move the needle.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
The radioactive stuff is still chemically water.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> You’re right a private company isn’t going to do this for free unless it’s to protect their own orbiting assets, In other news, SpaceX will be clearing out the 550km shell in a few years. (Mostly kidding, but they do have the motivatio
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by DuskStar 6y ago
On average, or by percentile? Because I think one is more likely to be revealing than the other. A 1Mt device might only have a 50% chance of killing 1+ people if detonated at the proper altitude at a random location within the US, (47% of
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by DuskStar 6y ago
90% efficient electrolysis doesn't matter when "getting hydrogen from the pump to your car's fuel tank" has 20+ percent energy losses. And from the tanker trailer to the pump. And... This comes from the inherent thermody
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I wouldn't bet against SLS having a launch failure for the same reasons. (If it ever has more than 5 launches, that is)
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by DuskStar 6y ago
It lifted off successfully multiple times, it just never reached orbit.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Looks like it starts at 0,0 - zoom out on the map to find land
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Bloomberg's presidential run would perhaps be a counterexample there.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that gun suicides outnumber gun homicides by ~2:1, and gun homicides outnumber accidents by ~30:1. Estimates for accidents are in the 500/year range, while homicides are closer to 15,000/year.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Mentioning the specific model of gun proposed for the gun while omitting what kind of reactor was proposed is a bit of an odd choice, too. (How could a nuclear powerplant only get 4k miles in range? Not an RTG, since those are measured in y
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Your portrayal of the shooting of a woman actively trying to smash into the floor of the senate with the senators and VPOTUS inside as equatable to police brutality is laughable. Well, another recent example of "police brutality&q
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by DuskStar 6y ago
This is startup land, where billion dollar companies lose money... So yes.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
"released from a lab" and "engineered in a lab" are two different things. Leaking a sample you took from some cave full of bats is one but not the other.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
What it does, is make "but we received death threats for this, we couldn't have done more" irrelevant as you'll get death threats for whatever you do.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> I'm skeptical a laser can defend against supersonic antiship missiles and ICBMs. I don't think lasers are meant to counter high-end threats like hypersonic missiles or MRBM/ICBM reentry vehicles. Not yet, at least. That
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I'd look at that as "look how large of fans we need to make diesel safe", not "we have big fans and thus can use ammonia".

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