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by avmich 2y ago
Don't over-dramatize. Valves are important, but they are a relatively simple mechanical units. My kitchen has valves used many times a day and serving years in a row. While rocket valves operate under more complex conditions, they also
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by avmich 2y ago
From the Reddit's transcript, https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1gc7rex/comme... > Right at transsonic, which is like just before engine startup, one of the chine covers ripped off.
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by avmich 2y ago
Lawrence Lessig tried (not quite without caring about winning, but close), but that attention-grabbing didn't work out that well.
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by avmich 2y ago
You have to decide what's more valuable to you - an extra chunk of money or the privacy which is endangered with the cheaper option.
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by avmich 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus The immigration has always existed, laws of it shifted, and AFAIK the current level of illegal immigration is not that high. So it's not really a large economical or
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by avmich 2y ago
It would also be interesting to hear thoughts on the company of somebody like Cory Doctorow. Edit: aha, found. https://doctorow.medium.com/how-palantir-will-steal-the-nhs-... "Palantir is one of the most sinister compa
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by avmich 2y ago
I'd reserve the judgement on the last one. It may become hard to get attention of the school, and the damage to the student at this stage is very real. However as stated in the article, the part about school policies, even the use of A
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by avmich 2y ago
Billionaires have income? Then why, as this article says, they don't pay tax? Do they really have income? Or should we use some other word for that?
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by avmich 2y ago
It's a nice reminder though.
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by avmich 2y ago
The problem with cyclical view appears as soon as one tries to review the underlying causes why this movement happens. You can have rises, prosperity, overshoots, bad habits, slowdowns and depressions coming one after another in a mostly cl
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by avmich 2y ago
Why so? Pin parts need to withstand similar loads - and if amortizing rails of Mechazilla may soften the contact, the direction of loads for pin parts is less favorable than for legs. Legs don't need to be big or too numerous - effecti
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by avmich 2y ago
Spent rocket stages are empty of fuel, but not necessarily of the ullage gases, the pressure inside could be e.g. 3 atmospheres and that could be enough to provide some stiffness in the direction perpendicular to the axis.
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by avmich 2y ago
You note of course that instead of legs, which have mass and have to have a structure in the stage which distributes the loads the SH has those parts with pins which were locked eventually with Mechazilla's arms, and those parts also h
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by avmich 2y ago
"Don't you need a chairman?" Funt asked. "What chairman?" Bender exclaimed. "An official one - in a word, the chief of the establishment." "I am the chief myself." "In other words, you expec
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by avmich 2y ago
> - filing taxes for each machine (companies may have millions of machines) Yes. It may be harder to figure out the definition of a machine - e.g. a computer can have multiple programs running, is it one machine? - but this is one direct
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by avmich 2y ago
Are they really so great? It seems one can find endless stream of questionable materials there, so reading The Economist should be done with sizable grains of salt.
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by avmich 2y ago
Correct, and we need Bob to actually be part of us in order to tolerate his failures.
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by avmich 2y ago
This is one example, and there could be many - both where USSR had an edge and where it was behind. I believe here we want to have the overall picture - and that picture was that there actually were some novelties which were interesting on
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by avmich 2y ago
Soviet Union wasn't called a superpower for nothing. USSR had many world class achievements in scientific and applied areas, and some organizational achievements in social and manufacturing areas. There are examples and counterexamples
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by avmich 2y ago
Doesn't China have quite some economical problems on their own already?
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by avmich 2y ago
No, Bob standing outside of your yard is principally closer to you - as in, holding your hand - and can't fail to release pizza only after you got hold of it. Of course the rain may flip bits in any system, but that would amount to des
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by avmich 2y ago
Are you familiar with Terraform Industries works?
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by avmich 2y ago
I'd burn the wood, catch CO2 with oxides, store it as carbonates. The rest would go back to the environment.
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by avmich 2y ago
> If cosmic rays flip bits in storage or on the network, that can be detected through error coding. But there's no analogy for a CPU that allows cheap online verification of its correctness. Note that CPU can be represented as mostl
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by avmich 2y ago
Probably not the richest - just reach enough. If you can't get a decent life - and decency of life is very related to the life of those around you, including those who are perceived as more talented - there's a strong disincentive
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by avmich 2y ago
So this is a plan, and one of the questions is: how realistic it is? That is, do we have some good enough precedents in history when something like this was done and results were something like what here's declared? The author mentions
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by avmich 2y ago
"Consistent with this..." I read as "this cause has significant part in justification that...". ISS obviously is on orbit not because it's easier to build in space than on the surface of a natural satellite - if Ear
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by avmich 2y ago
If you'd plan an operation on the Moon which was using robots to e.g. gather the ground, transport it to a melting plant and melt the materials, splitting it into gases and solid or liquid parts, wouldn't you first try to give tho
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by avmich 2y ago
I guess local resources are easier to use locally, rather than launching to orbit first? You also have a firm base to mount the antenna, and the process of mounting could be arguably easier.
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by avmich 2y ago
True. The reason could be that the Earth interference is worse and less controllable.

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