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by avmich 2y ago
> All of the justices ask sharp questions despite media loving to portray them as clowns or partisan hacks. The intent of laws is to be understandable at specifying and clear in application. If it takes efforts of highly professional peo
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by avmich 2y ago
> Can the Falcon 9 eventually challenge Soyuz for launch totals? I hope not. Even launching every day - which is more frequent than today - it will take multiple years to get to the Soyuz numbers of launches - around 2000 or so? In those
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by avmich 3y ago
I suspect there's a terminological difference. > being a professional tennis or baseball player involves a lot more than "simple heuristics ... Mmm, a combination of simple heuristics, all of which are of course learned, but st
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by avmich 3y ago
It's great to read conversation of towering HN experts in the field. Lisper, as I understand this part - > In order to have kinematic skills, something in your brain must be doing something that can be equated by some mapping to so
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by avmich 3y ago
Let me explain. The Russian bureaucracy is selected by the principle of personal loyalty. At some rare points, like economy, professional competence is also required, but in many other areas - assigned governors of states in Russia, or head
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by avmich 3y ago
Not strong enough to survive collisions of satellites with the space elevator.
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by avmich 3y ago
That's why it's additionally funny.
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by avmich 3y ago
It's possible to make rocket engines able to perform for quite a long time. http://www.lpre.de/sntk/NK-33/tests.htm В 1976 г. один из двигателей первой ступени НК-33 вместо 140 с, требуемых техническим задани
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by avmich 3y ago
Ok, I waited to be downvoted :) now let me repeat: this is uneducated post, almost if not all statements here are incorrect, it's a personal opinion, but not facts. Literally everything could and should be disregarded here - "with
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by avmich 3y ago
Saying "human shouldn't fly to space" is like saying "we shouldn't build particle accelerators or sequence DNAs". It's purely uneducated point of view, which doesn't cost much. No reason for depressio
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by avmich 3y ago
In not too polite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjVZXpQToI starting from 48 second there's an illustration of how English could create communication problems to English speakers.
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by avmich 3y ago
My understanding og the situation is the following. The funds for Ukraine were allocated by the Congress; since they are exhausted, towards the end of 2023, more allocations are needed. Biden sent enough help that in Ukraine there were joke
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by avmich 3y ago
The alt.space community was - and is - talking about possibilities in this area for decades. Since Apollo, and especially since shuttles shown their problems, commercial space appeared and overall possibilities of launching an experimental
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by avmich 3y ago
Some more arguments for electric airplanes are here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4b3sAs-l8 .
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by avmich 3y ago
You can easily ignore it, karma doesn't really affect anything.
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by avmich 3y ago
> Not just anyone is allowed though: Does it mean engineers created the feature but managers disabled it for some users?
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by avmich 3y ago
> In addition to the financial costs, research suggests that not sorting and managing electronic records makes it more difficult to put together the information needed at tax time, or for other high-stakes situations, such as loan applic
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by avmich 3y ago
Maybe weight loss is reversible, but if you're not assuming you can do anything after you lost weight, you can keep weight low.
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by avmich 3y ago
Did you read the page? It's right there.
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by avmich 3y ago
An example of commercially used electric airplane today could be one of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqF55MjU9jc , Green Flight Academy in Sweden, used to train pilots.
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by avmich 3y ago
It's interesting that aviation is said to be industry impossible to electrify, and at the same time we have electric airplanes for some time and keep developing the technology.
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by avmich 3y ago
I guess sending threats then required more of sending a physical mail, which could be used with better effect in dealing with threats?
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by avmich 3y ago
As I understand it, the Terraform Industries idea is, roughly, to reduce the price.
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by avmich 3y ago
Not sure how to meaningfully participate in the movement, but certainly to watch Terraform Industries progress should be quite interesting.
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by avmich 3y ago
> No. To Fight global warming* we must stop drilling oil and gas. So what if we can't stop drilling, or can't do that soon enough? We're trying for quite some time already, we see some results of our attempts, it's pr
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by avmich 3y ago
This one is interesting - > Devon: Fred made a whole set of structs containing raw untyped pointers so he could reinvent polymorphism in C, because he "doesn't like C++". The refrain is "Autotools.Must.Die", but
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by avmich 3y ago
> Another thing to note is that Kolmogorov complexity of a string cannot be computed. There cannot exist a computer that will always guarantee the Kolmogorov complexity for all the strings. Sounds a bit puzzling. Surely for a particular
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by avmich 3y ago
Some examples for a particular algorithm: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/LZW_compression
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by avmich 3y ago
I'm not sure what is more mainstream - belief that AIs are as capable as humans, or belief that they are not. Roger Penrose is one of the more authoritative, for lack of other arguments, voices for humans being more capable than AIs. S
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by avmich 3y ago
Books could be replicated for films. Sometimes the books are better (from someone's standpoint), sometimes the books are worse, sometimes books and films are just different, and may be both good in different ways. The https:/&#x2

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