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by areoform 6mo ago
That's physically not possible due to the distances and energies involved. Even with the Commercial Cargo and Crew Program (C3P), NASA has set the acceptable mortality threshold at 1 in 270 over the entire mission and 1 in 1000 on asce
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by areoform 6mo ago
Glad that they're safe and sound. It's worth pointing out that this is the first extremely public, widely acknowledged high risk mission NASA has done in over 50 years. The Shuttle was risky, but it wasn't thought of or ackno
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Artemis II safely splashes down(cbsnews.com)
1288 points by areoform 6mo ago|453 comments
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by areoform 6mo ago
This is one of the most legible, well-detailed, and well-written article I've seen on perceptual hashing. It must have taken months of effort to pull off, and I'd love to see the author write about other things. But the article fa
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by areoform 6mo ago
I angered the mob elsewhere by being a heretic.
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by areoform 6mo ago
It doesn't matter. This is how Facebook started. It's how a lot of things started. Young people doing (sometimes questionable) experiments. The fact that the default response to this is "omg" and "this guy deserves
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by areoform 6mo ago
Hey Boris, thanks for the awesomeness that's Claude! You've genuinely changed the life of quite a few young people across the world. :) not sure if the team is aware of this, but Claude code (cc from here on) fails to install &#x2
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by areoform 6mo ago
Most women have watched someone go through a difficult pregnancy in their lives before they hit 20. It's not a "belief" for the people who live through it. People used to die – frequently – from this "belief." And w
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by areoform 6mo ago
> Grunting out 2.6 babies before you’re 35. * destroying your body, stripping your bones, getting diabetes and temporarily (or permanently) disabling yourself with issues no healthcare provider will take seriously for decades t
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by areoform 6mo ago
Yes, and that's part of what spaceflight is. https://1517.substack.com/p/1-in-30-artemis-greatness-and-ri... It has always been a touch-and-go affair
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by areoform 6mo ago
It's interesting to me how cautious NASA is being with Artemis II. I wrote about the risk / mortality calculation behind this, but everything from the trajectory, the decision not to do an orbital insertion, the checkout in high-E
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1 in 30 – Artemis, Greatness, and Risk(1517.substack.com)
5 points by areoform 7mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 7mo ago
Because many small steps are required before every giant leap. I would like to point out that the current misadventure in the ME has cost at least $38,035,856,006 in 32 days. And that won't receive half of the "this is a waste of
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by areoform 7mo ago
Yes, and more! > Apollo was over three orders of magnitude more efficient in producing scientific papers per day of fieldwork than are the MERs. This is essentially the same as Squyres’ (2005) intuitive estimate given above, and is
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by areoform 7mo ago
There are tons of comments here that say, "this could have been a robot." And no, it really couldn't have. The best of humanity is remarkably capable as compared to the best physical machines / robots. There's a gre
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by areoform 7mo ago
Because human beings are remarkably capable, especially the best and the brightest. There's a great paper called the "dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency." https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-
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by areoform 7mo ago
I am very sorry for your loss.
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by areoform 7mo ago
I've been researching this for my castle series! But essentially, gunpowder made castles obsolete. In 1450, when the English were driven out of France, the walls fell in hours. What was an essential cornerstone of military strategy and
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by areoform 7mo ago
OK. I was just trying to be cheeky to lighten the mood. I just want my peers and future generations to live in a society without perpetual, personalized surveillance and gated generalized compute. I think everyone deserves freedom. I apprec
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by areoform 7mo ago
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-pas... https://nationalpress.org/topic/model-legislation-statehouse... https://www.thegazette.com/opinion/guest-c
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by areoform 7mo ago
Not if you're being pushed down the slope. It's not an accident that this appeared within a month or two of the California one. I would bet good money that there's someone shopping this bill around. If you do a frequency anal
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by areoform 8mo ago
One of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple in 1996/97 is that he took a shredder and a flamethrower to Apple's product lines. He'd ask managers, "which one should I tell my friends to buy?" An
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by areoform 8mo ago
Do you truly believe that ID "verification" will do anything in a world where IDs are leaked by the tens of thousands to the millions? You are shifting the onus on to the platforms, when the problem is pretty simple; with a few ex
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by areoform 8mo ago
Sometimes people get busy and overwhelmed, but they don't know how to say no.
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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His 'Girls' [Gift Article](nytimes.com)
11 points by areoform 8mo ago|0 comments
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What It's Like to Love Someone the Internet Thinks It Knows(yinsuboaster.substack.com)
1 points by areoform 8mo ago|0 comments
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by areoform 8mo ago
I think analyses like these are motivated reasoning. In 2000, I'm sure you could have said that after infrastructure costs the internet, and the web, added "basically zero" to US economic growth. And there were people saying
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by areoform 8mo ago
> documented examples of Facebook executives twirling their mustaches wondering how they can get kids more addicted If you genuinely believe that this is about those moustache twirling executives, then I have a bridge to sell you. Have y
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Birthdays in Football: A Rabbithole(jeffdoesmath.substack.com)
1 points by areoform 8mo ago|0 comments
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I'm Glad the Internet Wasn't Watching My Worst Breakup(yinsuboaster.substack.com)
1 points by areoform 8mo ago|1 comments

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