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by adekok 9y ago
Spending billions to get a small number of people to a place which will likely kill them is not very productive. Cool, yes. Fulfilling dreams, yes. And whatever happened to having people support their position with logical arguments? Your
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That's a logical fallacy. People have dreamed about a LOT of things. Probably 99.999% turned out to be bunk. Only a small amount could be turned into something real.
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It's sexy! It's cool! Space ships! SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS! Oh, wrong thread... Dreams are nice. Dreams don't feed people. But they do give people reason for hope. Which is why it's easier to concentrate on "OM
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> Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. Me sitting in a corner and drinking is doing something. Me burning down my house is doing something. Neither actions are productive. Is Elon doing something productive? With cheap rockets, arguably
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> The key fallacy here is taking our present state of living as somehow "natural" or non-technological. The key fallacy in your argument is taking each solution in isolation. Winnipeg, etc. have summers. They're not alway
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> Please don't pollute the comments here if you're not even going to bother with the bare minimum of intellectual seriousness. Ah, yes. The new HN. Everyone else is stupid and lazy. > Yes we can keep structures insulate
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Hand-waving is nice, but... Plants don't make air. Plants turn CO2 into O2. If there's no CO2, plants can't make O2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars There's 0.6% of the air of Ear
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> It's extremely naive and arrogant to spend the resources to colonize Mars than try and make more places habitable on Earth. Why? And I'll note that insults and ad hominems don't make a rational argument. > It's e
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> For now, because mass-produced starships are not a thing yet. SpaceX is on the best way to change this. Ignoring the cost of the rockets, the biggest expense in space travel is delta-V, followed by life support. That's basic phys
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> Humanity has always looked to colonize places seemingly on the margin of livability. I think you're missing my point. It's just dreaming to call Mars "on the margin of livability". There's insufficient air to
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> No offense, but you sound like a person who hasn't been outdoors a lot, not even on an overnight hike. Was the article about taking an overnight hike on Mars? Was my response about taking an overnight hike in the Sahara? No. So w
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The Sahara desert is infinitely more hospitable than Mars. It's easier to get to. There's air to breath. There's water. The main reason to terraform Mars (other than making humanity a multi-planet species) is that no one c
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If only there was a study which explained this... or maybe an "internet search engine" where you could find references. I'll summarize for the lazy: taking everything else into account, men get 63% longer sentences for the
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> Blacks are dismissed as violent thugs, who are the fault of their own problems. Black men are dismissed... as are most men, TBH. The incidence of incarceration goes: black men, white men, black women, white women. Also, rich tends to
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> you'll never get 1000 people to pay $400 each for any OSS software, no matter the price of the competitor. Yes and no. I'm doing that right now... The key is that I don't charge for the software as such. I charge for s
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> The entire situation was communicated to the FBI, local police, and bank institutions, but I do not think anyone cared. Why would they care? It happens dozens of times a day, and the criminals are out of their jurisdiction. If only th
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> I don't understand why this comment is downvoted. There is a small but significant population of HN readers who downvote things they dislike. Even if the statements are rational, and based on reality.
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The career of Jim Sinegal largely proves you wrong. As does the career of Tim Cook. Before he was CEO, he was managing Apple's global supply chain. Which involved a lot of on-site visits. Try to explain how both of these people cou
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Even local optimizations are useful: https://books.google.ca/books?id=NLRVWaNw76MC&pg=PT28&lpg=PT... GM updated their paint robots to "bid" on new jobs (i.e. cars). They ended up saving 1.5M a year. Not
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Which largely parallels one of my recent comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14513718 Downvoted for no apparent reason... In short, managers often don't pay attention to how the products are created. They i
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Because in badly managed projects, the managers have no idea what the project is about. They don't know how anything works. They can't distinguish good work from bad work. Instead, they rely on rote rules and checklists to &quot
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I agree. Github is an off-site backup, and a nice interface for pull requests and code browsing. There's just no reason to make github a critical part of your infrastructure.
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The Gift of Fear (Gavin Debecker) - how to deal with bad people The War against Women (Marilyn French) - the underlying premise is wrong, but reading it is a good way to learn how to deal with semi-rational, but insane theses. And yes, I c
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I've run a French company for almost a decade now. Their efforts to have a "European" company are nice, but perhaps naive. The main reason to incorporate in a particular country is because you have employees there. You book
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They have to let you in, but they can confiscate everything you have with you at the border crossing.
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So you're admitting you don't know the facts and evidence, but you are calling him a rapist. Repeatedly. That's a level of cognitive dissonance which is surprising to admit publicly.
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Playing devil's advocate... what if I (as a man) consent to sex because she says she's on the pill? And then she's not? In Canada, having sex without a condom is "sexual assault", and is criminal. Lying about birt
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This mind-set is depressing. If you're accused, you're guilty. Damn the facts! That's worked out well in the past. /s http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/kill-a-mockingbird-1... One of my favor
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Let's remove "Trump" from the equation. You're wondering if one country could invade a second country, for the purposes of invading a third countries embassy. While that's physically possible, the international rami
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It's HN. It's easy to down-vote people who have dissenting opinions. Especially if the poster provides facts and evidence to support their opinions. US politics is become even more of an echo chamber than ever. "My" si

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