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by Ottolay 5y ago
The U2 was subsonic. Also, un-powered gliders can get up to impressive altitudes. https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/09/ai...
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by Ottolay 5y ago
As a reference a new Cessna 172 is $432,000 [1] and that is not a high tech aircraft. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2021/04/28/prices-fo...
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by Ottolay 5y ago
The U2 operated at over 20km, so maybe the altitude is higher. I suspect the greater issue is vehicle cost, lifetime, and safety. A starlink satellite is much smaller (and as result cheaper) and is rumored to have a 5+ year lifetime. Also,
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Who knows. The problem is not getting fusion, but getting fusion to economically produce power. Hopefully one of the startups figure out some way to make it work. I have a hard time seeing the NIF approach becoming economical. It's mo
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Aluminum and steel actually make quite a bit of sense to recycle. The big energy cost is in the processing of ore to metal. Re-melting the metal is relatively low energy.
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Bitcoin mining boom adds to chip price inflation(ft.com)
2 points by Ottolay 5y ago|0 comments
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by Ottolay 5y ago
I originally saw https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/pge-likely-spark... . Everybody seems to think that burying power lines is a walk in the park. It unfortunate the the conditions have changed were
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Why don’t we put power lines underground?(popsci.com)
13 points by Ottolay 5y ago|8 comments
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by Ottolay 5y ago
The underwhelming part is that it took so long. The first private manned suborbital flight occurred in 2004 with SpaceShipOne. It is 17 years later at this point and only now do we have paying customers for sub-orbital flight.
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Why not use dividends then?
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Much of the proposed legislation applies to local governments too. E.G. http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2021/05/12/as-nc-lawmakers-fa...
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Sounds kind of like how one can grow one's money by investing it in an index fund and sitting on it and how rich people can get richer with no income and a passive investing strategy.
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Highly recommend the book "The Sun Does Shine", by Anthony Ray Hinton. He was wrongfully convicted and spent 30 years on death row. One of the crazy parts of his story was how the state dug in its heels and did everything possibl
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Why don't people make the effort to just move to Debian Stable? If you don't want to pay any money, relying on Redhat's goodwill always seemed precarious.
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by Ottolay 5y ago
Wikipedia to the rescue (note the log-log scale) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spacedebris_small.png The biggest issue is by far the 600km to 2000km altitude band. It is popular for both LEO and SunSync sats and
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by Ottolay 6y ago
Yes. There would be no need to be synchronized if the interconnect is only DC.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
Interesting. I love hunting and fixing significant bugs or issues. It could be because the immediate dopamine hit if successful. Harder to get motivated for things with less certain impact, even if successful.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
As someone who is not all that familiar with education policy, is this basically analogous to for profit charter schools in the US?
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by Ottolay 6y ago
I grew up biking to elementary school in Sweden year around and it did not seem like a big deal. Just make sure to dress for the weather. I remember wearing overalls or ski pants when it got real cold. Snow days were also not a thing. I don
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by Ottolay 6y ago
I don't understand the heartburn people are having about this. If you want to use a free distro, why not just move to one of the many distributions which are not tied to a for profit company?
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by Ottolay 6y ago
For U2F specifically you don't need apps except support in the browser. The apps you listed are used for other types of functionality provided by the yubikey, like OTP and TOTP.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
Fully agree that a physical attack is much less likely. Also, the use of a PIN or fingerprint[1] to authenticate the yubikey itself and not sent over the network, mitigates the stolen key scenario. [2] [1] https://www.yubico.com&
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by Ottolay 6y ago
To me this is more of a NASA thing. If a program ends up going over budget too much it gets cancelled. But the need is still there, so new program is often started up with a similar set of requirements. This problem is endemic across gov
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by Ottolay 6y ago
It could. But so could a crash of a truck or a train carrying any type of liquid/gaseous fuel (e.g. truck carrying the gas to your local gas station). The article talk about LNG requiring thicker tanks than ethylene and ethane, both
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by Ottolay 6y ago
I missed it. There was really little news that this happened. Google's anti-hype approach to Waymo is interesting.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
I would be willing to go together to have a set of PCBs if you are interested. Usually there is volume pricing.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
Maybe because it's not an axiomatic fact. There has been niche radical internet communities for ages. It has only been with the radical communities coming into the mainstreams ones (reddit, twitter, and facebook)that the radical com
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by Ottolay 6y ago
What would you recommend in the x86 space?
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by Ottolay 6y ago
If you take the average Oslo deaths over 2019 and 2020, which is 0.5, then London would have one order of magnitude more deaths per capita than London.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
No. Carbon dioxide will still be in the air when the aerosols settle. The collapse of the global economy will limit the addition of more carbon dioxide though.

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