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by Me1000 4y ago
Only the naysayers message it that way though. And it’s pretty disingenuous messaging at that. But I guess you made my point for me… your argument has nothing to do about actually fixing anything, it’s entirely about optics.
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by Me1000 4y ago
People were talking about "the world's problems" in the 60s too. Fortunately we still went to the moon and inspired generations of people to quite literally reach for the stars. The idea that we could simply reallocate the re
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by Me1000 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, I look up the chamber pressure of the two engines. The chamber pressure of the V2 engine was 15.45 bar, the chamber pressure of the Raptor engine is 300 bar. And that's before we get into insane complexities of a
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by Me1000 4y ago
ISP is like fuel milage, and the economics change drastically when there's infrastructure in place. Having an abundant source of propellant near a celestial body with a much smaller gravity well (Mars) could easily change the economics
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by Me1000 4y ago
NASA said in their announcement that the explorations they're doing include the feasibility of various kinds of servicing, not just boosting.
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by Me1000 4y ago
In the NASA announcement last week they said the studies theyre doing include various kinds of servicing of Hubble, not just boosting it.
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by Me1000 4y ago
To be honest, this seems quite reasonable. Space is obviously a unique environment, but to use an imperfect analogy: we don't let cars that break down just sit in the middle of the road, and we don't let dilapidated buildings sit
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by Me1000 4y ago
Greenhouse was Sproutcore's response to Atlas which was a Cappuccino product developed by YC company 280North. In principle it worked very differently though; as you said, it was mostly a code generator. Atlas was a port of Cocoa'
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by Me1000 4y ago
It's just a lazy answer to an earnest question. Anyone reading HN can imagine a "just because they can" argument. I'm asking and hoping someone can help me better understand the technical issues projects like Starlink ha
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by Me1000 4y ago
Okay, but that's not a very useful answer when there are a number of technical reasons why the restriction might exist.
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by Me1000 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the justification for being booted if you're too far from your home? Is it just to try to keep bandwidth demand in areas predictable?
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by Me1000 5y ago
In the long term SpaceX plans to generate it using the sabatier process by pulling CO2 out of the air. It's old physics, and the tech to do it on a large scale will be required for their ultimate goal of going to Mars (errr... well, it
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by Me1000 5y ago
A couple caveats: the 1200 figure (which is only for Starship) includes liquid oxygen. So the actual methane capacity is about 265 tons as roughly 78% of the propellant is liquid oxygen by mass. But the super heavy booster carries about 800
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by Me1000 5y ago
If you actually care about the answer you can read up on it (or watch the video) here: https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution/ tl;dr: In 2018 rockets accounted for about 0.0000059% of global carbon emissions. T
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by Me1000 5y ago
I usually dont buy AppleCare for my products, but I figured since this was a 1st gen AirPods Pro and they were so small AppleCare was justified this time. And boy am I glad I did, I've had my AirPods Pro replaced like five or six times
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by Me1000 5y ago
This wasn't just any space debris. This debris was created when Russia blew up one of their own satellites earlier today! https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/15/22782946/russia-asat-tes...
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by Me1000 5y ago
Many packages on npm are not run in a local node environment, they run in a browser which is sandboxed. Regardless, just because there are additional vectors to exploit the user doesn't mean closing off one vector isn't worth doin
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by Me1000 5y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming making install script opt-in will fix all the problems. But adding any friction discourages the behavior. And if the norm changes, it's reasonable to believe package maintainers will start opting f
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by Me1000 5y ago
Your comments on the RFC cover this, but I want to highlight a two things: 1) The vast majority of packages on npm don't require install scripts to work. 2) Many of them that currently include install scripts are just ads asking people
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by Me1000 5y ago
Let me put it very simply. Trump is a dangerous despot. Anyone who opened their eyes for a day between his inauguration and now can see that. And if you believe as I do that the most powerful country in the world shouldn’t have a despot at
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by Me1000 5y ago
I get recruiters from companies big and small spamming my inbox, my voicemails, and even sending me SMS messages multiple times a week (if not multiple times a day). It's really not a big deal that a company CEO sent out one email whic
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by Me1000 5y ago
Original comment: CEO was bad because he emailed people saying Trump wanted to destroy democracy. Reply 1: And he did try to destroy democracy when he lost. Reply 2: Well, the people he incited didn't realize they were destroying democ
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by Me1000 5y ago
OP asked about the legal ramifications, not the social and professional implications of her whistleblowing. But that said, I think there are a lot of cynical takes in this comment thread. I don't think Frances will find have a difficul
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by Me1000 5y ago
It's not really an "angle", she worked with a whistleblower protection organization and she specifically gave these documents to the SEC, filing 8 complaints with the regulatory organization. All of that communication is prot
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by Me1000 5y ago
Many years ago I used to work on the Cappuccino project which was an open source implementation of the Mac Cocoa frameworks in Javascript (technically Objective-J, but that's not important). In fact I was one of the main people respons
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by Me1000 5y ago
Google has a monorepo in which nearly all of the company's code is stored. The monorepo uses a custom implementation of Perforce. No personal computer could download a whole copy of the repo. So for that reason people need to check out
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by Me1000 5y ago
New Shepard burns liquid hydrogen and oxygen, the byproduct of which is just water vapor.
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by Me1000 5y ago
New Shepard landed after going to space nearly a full year before SpaceX's first landing. Obviously an orbital class booster is a different challenge than a suborbital booster, but the idea that Blue is copying SpaceX is just wrong.
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by Me1000 5y ago
I think it comes down to a few different reasons. Firstly, SpaceX had to find profitability relatively quickly or die. Blue doesn't have that problem, thanks to Bezos' personal war chest. SpaceX couldn't gamble on the idea th
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by Me1000 5y ago
Blue Origin has already flown New Shepard with various science experiments onboard. They've flown it with new guidance systems which they were testing for their moon landing bid which they submitted with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumm

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