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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Interesting thought. Thanks for the existential crisis.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
This exists for at least a decade now.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
>For instance synthetic insulin clearly never stops working, otherwise all type 1 diabetics would quickly die off. Actually it does. But the tolerance developed is not as serious as other medications.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
I'm sorry, what? What protections are you talking about? Nasa has booked flights on non-USA rockets many times in the past. SpaceX has received no subsidies( i.e. free money) but only contracts from the government which Ariane is now a
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Except it actually is. When a fully functioning satellite costs e.g. 200m$ and the launch is another 200m$ it makes sense to overbuild your satellite to 600m$ with crazy redundancies etc to make sure it won't fail early on it's mi
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
>Secondary payloads — especially multi-smallsat rideshare — are notoriously hard to coordinate. Ariane would be terrible for such payloads. These tend to go into lower orbits and Ariane can't restart it's upper stage engine to
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Your numbers paint a very positive picture of Ariane 6 which I don't think is justified: >Ariane 6 is expected to cost €75 million for 5 tonnes to GTO There are a lot of GEO sats which are right at the 5 ton range so that leaves no
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
>If you look at the numbers from SpaceX, 4 launches per rocket is where the reusability starts making sense. Shotwell mentioned that SpaceX actually saved money even on their first reused booster which was broken down and inspected to pi
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
I am aware. I'm following r/spacex closely. But with lack of official confirmation of a test article I was taking the worst possible stand against SpaceX to still prove my point.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
That sounds disingenuous to me. This was a reply to a comment for an upcoming rocket that is currently just a blueprint. I don't understand why people actively choose to discount Musk's blueprints but other companies' bluepri
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Doubt it. The one time I cheated on a game( borderlands 2) was because the game was too hard without the p2w dlcs that I had no intention to buy. I didn't mind playing along with other people that played in whatever way they wanted( ch
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Actually I disagree. This isn't the old becoming new again, it's just that the terrible modern web UX design has been slowly spilling over the desktop to the point that some people now want to reclaim their attention spans. Nobody
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
I don't think there has ever been a macbook pro that I can safely call a mobile workstation: that is to run for long periods of time with no thermal throttling and no burning chassis. Every time I see apple further thinning the chassis
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
I really don't know. I'd like more trackpad "resolution" so I can disable or throttle acceleration down in order to get more precision but I definitely don't want a huge trackpad like the new macbooks or the artific
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Absolutely no. I never liked the macbook touchpad. I tried using it a couple times. It really felt like they had to shoehorn every action into a gesture to the point where a lot of them felt extremely cumbersome. For example it took me a fe
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
It's all until the shorts get busted. It will calm down a bit afterwards.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
There's being cautious and there's being intentionally negative and hateful. It's all a matter of perspective.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
>None of this crap really fixes anything, it's just a way for Western people to pander to a hyper-liberal worldview that "solves" peripheral problems because it's too privileged to fully understand the central problem
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Fantasy: Northern Lights and the rest of the series. A higly influential book for me. It might read a bit like a teenager novel but it gets better on the second and third one. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun Sci-fi: the metro
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
>and it still feels like an ion drive is a sci fi idea, instead it is real. It's real but it's slooooow. I mean yea, they do get much higher velocities but it takes a very long time( and thus are incapable of launching from a g
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
>In many ways, the US is advanced but in many ways it also lags other places, namely in Europe. There is an equal or higher amount of racism in Europe. We may not have as much of the american black type but the cultural and ethnic divide
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
The S/X/3 lines are separate.
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
It's always the next thing that Musk won't achieve. It's funny how people are constantly moving the goalpost after every success he has. He is building a car manufacturer from scratch and people are making 6 months worth of d
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
Tesla has had an insane learning curve to climb. Making a car... just think of how many different subsystems exist. A lot of them could be offloaded to contractors but they chose to do as much in house as possible( which also aligns with Mu
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by HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
They are only doing parts of the assembly there. Processes that require a cleanroom e.g. paintjobs are done inside the factory.