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by avmich 2y ago
Having power for the purpose of having power isn't too meaningful. In democracies parties (already questionable concept) should ideally not worry about power, but worry about reaching useful goals.
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by avmich 2y ago
> No electoral mandate (and the argument for a clear mandate for all of this is thin or nonexistent) makes unconstitutional/illegal action suddenly legal or constitutional. Playing devil's advocate - but the people asked for th
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by avmich 2y ago
"The Data Compression Book" by Mark Nelson has a good explanations of some basic techniques - and examples of C implementations of them.
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by avmich 2y ago
A nice non-Turing-tarpit minimalistic MCPU: https://github.com/cpldcpu/MCPU .
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by avmich 2y ago
The SI was specially aimed to reduce such meaningless discussions, yet we steel have big endians and little endians comparisons, long after the dust settled.
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by avmich 2y ago
A meter is _exactly_ square root of area of A0 paper.
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by avmich 2y ago
There's such a thing as sports watching, when you're associating yourself with a team and are glad and sad together with them. I guess something like this could happen elsewhere...
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by avmich 2y ago
Bill Nelson: OK, let me ask you another question. Do you think that President Trump would rather have a conversation with American astronauts during his tenure rather than listening to the comments of Chinese astronauts on th
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by avmich 2y ago
> Tampering of content has nothing to do with your privacy; it's a security matter. A nefarious man-in-the-middle could insert content which attacks your browser or redirects it to a malicious site, etc. Curious, why that doesn&#x27
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by avmich 2y ago
I guess 10 flights per booster is an average over, say, the whole time since the first booster successfully landed. In the list by this link there are ~70 boosters, and I don't think Falcons flew ~700 missions yet, so 10 flights per bo
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by avmich 2y ago
Yeah, that's the main proposition Starship has for the market. Going to analogy with laundromat, you need to include the cost of single-use laundry cart and remember that your laundromat is on another end of the same asphalted road whi
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by avmich 2y ago
The cost to get to LEO dominates in most, if not all, launches, and it's relatively trivial to add a booster stage which solves additional delta-v problems while being cost preferential to alternatives. Maybe SpaceX will make those sta
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by avmich 2y ago
I hope Blue Origin succeeds too, but I'm not sure which mission profiles wouldn't be served best by the Starship in comparison to other launchers. There could be some ultra-light ones, where the cost for the whole launch is less t
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by avmich 2y ago
> The duty to align your professional life ethically scales with your ability to do so. I think this implies that we all should aim to have for everybody those abilities. That is, if somebody is unable, in this sense, to be ethical becau
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by avmich 2y ago
> People who remember all their math and enjoy it and can also code, are also very employable at all the AI companies and departments, including at Meta. That's either a wishful thinking or a stretch of definitions, IMHO.
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by avmich 2y ago
F-1 vs. Raptor question is only for American engines, not the world ones. If by "most powerful" you mean engine thrust.
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by avmich 2y ago
> Like Peter Thiel’s famous complaint that ‘we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters’ Wonder how it feels to be famous for a whining.
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by avmich 2y ago
Imagine modern Russia. You can't have much of an opinion on pressing subjects of today unless that opinion is sanctioned by Russia's authorities - otherwise you're dead, or incarcerated or at best left the country. The propag
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by avmich 2y ago
The post definitely seems to have some drawbacks :( . E.g. I don't think it represented correctly enough the story of AA, but there are more issues.
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by avmich 2y ago
> Protobuf, however, has none of these problems I like this optimism :) .
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by avmich 2y ago
In the limit, going from first space velocity V1 (low circular orbit) to second space velocity (parabolic speed) V2 = sqrt(2) * V1 takes delta V = (sqrt(2)-1) * V1, then at infinity you do plane change to the opposite with expending zero de
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by avmich 2y ago
http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html "Despite the clarifications they bring, RFC 7159 and 8259 contain several approximations and leaves many details loosely specified."
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by avmich 2y ago
Reminds me that picture of a priest, who'd preach to his people, "machines can't think! machines should drive!" . I suspect he was also feeling like the only sane person in the room...
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by avmich 2y ago
A person was trying to save his money, which mostly sat in banks in a country which got in a financial turmoil. No external wires were possible. He bought cryptocurrency which sold in another country and put the other currency in a bank in
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by avmich 2y ago
When I hear "intrinsic value", I these days want to talk about what exactly this is. Cryptocurrencies are an important invention, and it looks like it needs to go through the period of when many don't know what to do and how
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by avmich 2y ago
It can probably be explained as an indication that Democratic candidates are "normal" ones, and a win of one isn't a reason for drastic measures, while Republican candidates are "not normal", and a win of a Republic
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by avmich 2y ago
How this theory would explain the changeability of Powers That Be, the fact that they regularly also lose the power?
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by avmich 2y ago
Doesn't Congress have all the access they want to the governmental services?
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by avmich 2y ago
I particularly like this: > It's not my fault that a file system uses up more space storing the same amount of data in two files rather than a single file.
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by avmich 2y ago
I think it's just you didn't see such estimates. Here's what I found first. https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-passenger-cost-...

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