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by aeternus 7y ago
After watching some videos of what Uber drivers have to put up with, as well as having a few friends that work in retail, some kind of "social metric" may not be the worst thing. As a society, we put up with a lot of terrible beha
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by aeternus 7y ago
>there's no reason to expect SpaceX to be a good citizen of the night sky. Seems like they are willing to do more than most: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1132908915144794113 https://twitt
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by aeternus 7y ago
They all have Xenon thrusters and can move, however will do so only when needed to dodge other satellites or debris. Changing their orbit significantly is prohibitively expensive. You can see the general pattern in a really cool webgl anim
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by aeternus 7y ago
The video in the article is not representative. Solar sails were not in the final position and the satellites were not in their final (higher) orbit. It was also taken during the short time-window that the sun was still illuminating the s
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by aeternus 7y ago
How about robot children: - No oxygen required - No food required - Can be made quite small - 50% lower chance of uprising when compared to humans
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by aeternus 7y ago
Are those actually more environment-friendly than nuclear? Seems like those would take up lots of land area and easily fry and possibly blind animals, especially birds that get too close. They do look cool though.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Farming is also mostly an energy problem. Assuming cheap energy, you can create hydroponics that scale vertically. Highrise farms, and they could consume electricity during off-peak times when it is extremely low cost. Water is also not a
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by aeternus 7y ago
Only if the spacecraft never accelerates.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Yes, I'm not sure why so many people attempt to shame people into using less energy. That strategy has a long history of not working. The answer has to be to apply technology. Cleaner energy generation and new (or old) methods to seq
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by aeternus 7y ago
A state-of-the-art deep learning neural net designed by digital video experts within one of the most technology savvy companies in the world... What do they use to reveal it to the world? GIFs!
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by aeternus 7y ago
I'm not sure that images should be your largest concern. Messaging apps and the sites you visit online are much richer sources of data for adtech and ML.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Suppose someone checks some malicious code into the repo. Without signed commits it can be very difficult to determine or prove who was responsible. That ability to audit is important to most companies, and should be important to most pop
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by aeternus 7y ago
I'm also not convinced. I frequently see Gmail suggestions that I would not consider positive, for instance: I'm not interested. What is this about? Who are you?
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by aeternus 7y ago
In this case click through rate does seem to be the right measure. The feature is most useful when it is suggesting the most likely replies.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Seems like an unpopular opinion, but I also think procrastination is actually beneficial in this sense. It can sometimes eliminate or reduce recurrent tasks, IE procrastinate getting a haircut: fewer haircuts / year. Procrastinate cle
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by aeternus 7y ago
This is why companies should really be requiring GPG-signed commits.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Competition should be a good thing. The real issue is that colleges and employers are looking at the wrong signals. This leads the existing competition. GPA for example is arbitrary yet colleges and employers are basically asking schools
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by aeternus 7y ago
There must be a better format than conference talks. They are a significant commitment for both the presenter and the audience. Both must make the choice to attend before knowing details of the content, and it reaches a relatively small a
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by aeternus 7y ago
That may not be entirely desirable. In the US that ability to move where the jobs are is creating a concentration of prosperity in certain cities. Often those with above average skills are able to move, leaving the others behind. This leads
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by aeternus 7y ago
Probably because a large percentage of those billionaires have their wealth in the form of company equity which is untaxed or taxed at the low capital gains rate.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Single digit drop out for PhD programs does not sound right, I've believe the stat is closer to 50%: https://www.chronicle.com/article/PhD-Attrition-How-Much-Is/...
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by aeternus 7y ago
Do you feel your buying power is less than that of your parents? Other than real-estate in a popular city, has your buying power really gone down? Also would you rather live in a society where: A) GDP (or general productivity and availabil
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by aeternus 7y ago
Relativity Space is also working on this, but with rockets: https://www.relativityspace.com/
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by aeternus 7y ago
I'd wager a simpler explanation: People in SF especially are increasingly purchasing every-day items online. This means retail shops need to capitalize on discovery and unique items. Especially items that are unique enough that peopl
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by aeternus 7y ago
This study has a 95% uncertainty interval, and their conclusion is that alcohol consumption increases your risk from: 918 per 100,000 people from 914 per 100,000. ..I'd argue their conclusion is meaningless given the uncertainty interv
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by aeternus 7y ago
Closing streets can actually improve traffic. It many cities, you could close many side-streets to all but local traffic (residents). This would make the city much more bike & scooter friendly. Electric bikes and scooters really chang
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by aeternus 7y ago
We should really be looking at the stats, is this system safer than a human driver? Given the number of reported fatalities reported recently, it may not be.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Rot may actually be useful by allowing out-dated, inaccurate, or useless information to be removed or fall into obscurity. Correct, useful, or noteworthy information is often re-posted and copied, leading to preservation.
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by aeternus 7y ago
There's a strong argument to be made that a truly benevolent dictator is by far the best form of government. Efficient decisions that are in the best interest of the overall population. China may have come close to that over the last
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by aeternus 7y ago
Safe, cheap, and fast. Pick any two.

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