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by Valgrim 6y ago
I was under the impression that the Raptor was running a full-flow staged combustion, which by definition is neither Fuel-rich nor oxygen-rich.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
If they can fully synthesize the methane and oxygen using carbon neutral energy sources, then they will have essentially created a carbon-neutral orbital launch platform. Realistically, it will be easier and cheaper to achieve the same goal
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Of course you need a variety of data sources in different contexts, but I don't think you need to put a microphone on people during their daily life to build an accurate model. Call center exchanges might be a good source of data, or r
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by Valgrim 6y ago
There's probably a way to circumvent these limit by using multiple satellites working together[1], combining images to form a synthetic aperture[2], using an aperture mask[3], or a combination of any or all of those. Actually I'd
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Not really. Our visual cortex does something closer to the new fancy photoshop algorithm (filling in imaginary detail from a mental model in memory). Super-resolution techniques such as the one described above is more like a mathemathical f
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by Valgrim 6y ago
You're absolutely right, but I'm still happy that someone created a full-size prototype of it outside the lab, and is testing it, tinkering with it and putting it out there so people can also try it and experiment with it. I don&#
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by Valgrim 6y ago
The reason why a settlement was built in that place could still be valid a few years after the burn, such as proximity to water sources or useful materials.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
There are several advantages: A fusion reactor doesn't create create long-lived radioactive waste (or any kind of pollution). A fusion reactor cannot be used to create nuclear weapons. A fusion reactor doesn't require any form of
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by Valgrim 6y ago
"Suddenly", no. They're targeting 2025 for the first tests if everything goes perfectly, 2027 for a first demo reactor, and we don't know how expensive a real reactor would be so we have no idea if this is the design tha
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Personally, I'd like to see his enthusiasm more focused toward space megastructures, such as O'Neill Cylinders and Dyson Swarms. It seems to me that humanity would benefit a lot more from mastering industrial-scale manufacturing a
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Housing cooperatives are very common in cities and are an attempt at breaking this cycle; you don't own your home, but a share in the apartment block. Because it is not operated for profit, the rent is so low that you can afford to acc
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by Valgrim 6y ago
SVG is definitely human-readable. It's just drawing instructions, draw a line from there to there, then another one from there to there, etc. I can read it to someone over the phone with a pen and graph paper, and he can draw it exactl
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Ahah. You forgot the most important part: "The writer, a former chief executive of Aston Martin and chief operating officer of Nissan, is chairman of Switch Mobility" There, now the thing is whole.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
They're also quite different. The difference looks like two different groups of people playing the same published DND adventure: the worldbuilding is the same, the main events are the same, but the characters and their choices are very
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by Valgrim 6y ago
The "retards" of WSB pride themselves in using these slurs spuriously.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Exactly, starting out in a garage sounds like starting out from nothing, but in reality it means that your parents have a house with a garage that they lend out to you for free, where you can do whatever you want (so forget condos undergoun
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by Valgrim 6y ago
I SpaceX is serious about transporting people across the globe using Starships, they have to offset the massive amount of CO2 released by those Raptor engines, otherwise they will inevitably face regulations and public backlash that could k
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by Valgrim 6y ago
You can also mine large amount of non-precious metals and keep it in space as construction material for large orbital structures.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
The Oxford vaccine is not based on mRNA.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
I think that the old journalism infrastructure created a public sentiment that journalists had to follow some kind of deontological code (that it was real or not is debatable). Now, between the paid-for articles (they call it "native a
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by Valgrim 6y ago
By now? Where did you see that?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
The lithium in Bolivia is not going to spoil or disappear if it's not extracted right now, and the demand for lithium is probably not going to drop anytime soon. I believe that in order to persuade those opposed to mining lithium in Bo
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Do they have to be? I remember that a lot of people in the last 50 years or so have been trying to apply permaculture principles on forestry (like the Fukuoka food forest). As for the carbon stability, the forest renews itself, so if you pl
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by Valgrim 6y ago
>there is literal mass delusion out there far left and far right. What delusion is the "far left" believing in, in your opinion?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Regarding the climate data: Climate change is definitely happening. The problem is that the current model for sea ice growth is wrong because we're missing something (hypotheses need to be tested: maybe the salinity of water is droppin
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by Valgrim 6y ago
Without citing philosophers, how do you reach the conclusion that your identity, once dead, (and therefore your vital status) is a private information?
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by Valgrim 6y ago
My father is close to 70 and is in very bad health. His knees and feet are painful and will never heal. He is overweight, has multiple cardiac issues and other problems. He lives in a rural town. He's also looking to buy an electric bi
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by Valgrim 6y ago
There's an interesting speculation as to how an Epstein Drive could work in reality. The heat management problem is pretty central: http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-dri... The discussi
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by Valgrim 6y ago
If I read the article correctly, Geothermal energy extraction involve pumping cold water in and hot water out. If I wanted to put nuclear waste somewhere underground, it would probably be very far away from the place I pump water from.
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by Valgrim 6y ago
RAM and registers are volatile memory, meaning it loses information when its power source is cut. In computer forensics, RAM is usually captured before shutting down the computer.

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