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by avmich 3y ago
In the past, in the non-existent country, surprisingly often the water was boiled by shorting mains via water in a vessel, oddly enough, used to buy beer. The electrodes used were frequently shaving blades. It's not exactly electrolyze
872.
by avmich 3y ago
What laws are worth if they aren't protecting me? I might be unable to protect myself, right? A strong young man may have a physical force advantage over an old disabled woman, right? So the idea is that the police should enforce laws
873.
by avmich 3y ago
Likely, but for which price?
874.
by avmich 3y ago
Shouldn't they have a reasonable obligation? What's the idea of having police?
875.
by avmich 3y ago
Shouldn't the police do that?
876.
by avmich 3y ago
Let me continue a thought experiment. The idea is that, since the government oversees the territory of the country, it has to be able to communicate with commercial entities operating at that territory, so the government requests can't
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by avmich 3y ago
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is (Guindon).
878.
by avmich 3y ago
> The Texas project will be led by the American company Occidental and other partners, including Carbon Engineering. It could be developed to eliminate up to 30 million tons of CO2 per year, according to a statement from Occidental. Isn&
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by avmich 3y ago
Terraform Industries plans to manufacture hydrocarbons from the CO2 in the air... with water, of course, and green electricity.
880.
by avmich 3y ago
Energy should come from solar and wind, I'd think.
881.
by avmich 3y ago
Didn't calculations show that trees aren't fast enough to help us with this problem?
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by avmich 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-U "The rocket had a streak of 112 consecutive successful launches between 11 July 1990 and 5 May 1996"
883.
by avmich 3y ago
> Unpopular rulings? Which ones are we talking about? Totally subjective. Which objective criteria you'd like to apply to determine this?
884.
by avmich 3y ago
> Like Mercury, Dragon was designed and built with input and strict oversight from NASA, including a contingent permanently on-site with the contractor. NASA always had total visibility and the final say on everything. I think that'
885.
by avmich 3y ago
Not counting Saturn-I AND Saturn-IB?
886.
by avmich 3y ago
No understanding :) .
887.
by avmich 3y ago
Yes, there weren't a lot of "formal" dates so far with Starship, the agreement to use it for Artemis Moon landing is one of exceptions. No dates - not late.
888.
by avmich 3y ago
You may underestimate the complexities and pace of development at SpaceX. And it can similarly be said that NASA's Mercury program was built on the shoulders of previous achievements in parachutes, heat shield, control etc. SpaceX does
889.
by avmich 3y ago
> The advice isn't "no new launch vehicles should ever be invented ever", it's "if you want your human spaceflight program to be on time and on budget, don't include a new launch vehicle in the plan" An
890.
by avmich 3y ago
I'd consider development of Crew Dragon to be rather fast - because, in the condition of a private development, it wasn't done before. Comparing to other spacecraft developments, in late 1950-s there was a race, USA vs. USSR, to p
891.
by avmich 3y ago
Late comparing to what? Maybe SpaceX will not make it ready for NASA's return to the Moon flights as it was planned. However those dates don't look too serious to me - what's the justification for them? I suspect they were sp
892.
by avmich 3y ago
> Both were late What was the "determined" date to have them ready? How do you know they were late? Judging by Elon's estimates? > I wouldn't say that Falcon was built expressly for humans You know of course that r
893.
by avmich 3y ago
> The whole point of these two adages is that reusing an existing design is better than a new one. Yes, and that's put in doubt. Starship aims to improve on previous designs - in terms of affordability, that is, making human flights
894.
by avmich 3y ago
This is definitely the wisdom of ages, but some points do show some age. 39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule: 1) No new launch vehicles. 2) No
895.
by avmich 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_shade . An obstacle to sunlight which diverts some percentage of the light away from Earth could cool the planet, but this is a delicate and expensive operation. I'd t
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by avmich 3y ago
Wonder how does it compare with DOS Navigator. Well, if DN would be implemented on a modern OS.
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by avmich 3y ago
> This will be awful for commercial landlords, their banks and their cities’ tax bases. I especially like the last one. How about increasing a number of family houses in the city using that space, at least a little? That would get some t
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by avmich 3y ago
You, for many definitions of "you", never work on a supercomputer. Despite the fact that today's smartphones are faster than a Cray-1 of the yesteryear. Similarly, you don't need to have ATI/AMD to catch the absolut
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by avmich 3y ago
I once helped to establish the tradition of tech talks in one company. To encourage engineers to make talks, I found the opposite advises to be useful: remove as much as possible the barriers to make presentation. It should take similar tim
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by avmich 3y ago
It's "four Maxwell equations" vs. "one Maxwell equation". Technically they allow to do the same, the argument about convenience and maybe underlying connections which aren't that visible in linear algebra but m

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