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by azernik 5y ago
Also because known physics are really inconvenient!
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by azernik 5y ago
From my short pre-Web memory, I feel there was a "brief" (several decades) period when a small number of regulated (and after regulation ended, acculturated) neutral TV news channels provided a baseline common narrative. That was
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by azernik 5y ago
And again - all of these things could be done if they could get on the ballot and pass in a referendum. The problem is not the CA constitutional arrangements.
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by azernik 5y ago
They're more difficult to change only in that they have to go through the same process by which they were instituted - a ballot initiative. The difficulty of repealing awful past propositions like Prop 13 is down to public opinion, not
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by azernik 5y ago
15th Amendment: Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall
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by azernik 5y ago
DMVs in the US already have fingerprint scanners; there exist physical documents that verify your identity and associate it with a face and name. In this case, you'd have the Interior Ministry or equivalent be the certificate authority
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by azernik 5y ago
Yeah, people tend to pretty easily understand how the rocket equation is exponential in the required ∆V, but the way it's inversely exponential in exhaust velocity is less well understood. Good specific impulse plus good thrust is a co
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by azernik 5y ago
Ejecting and minor adjustments are very different things. Plus, the idea is to extract the energy from Jupiter's orbit.
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by azernik 5y ago
Depends what you're trying to do. If the goal is deterrence - as the attackers seem to be claiming - quiet use is counterproductive. The proposed use is doxxing of police and intelligence employees who are involved in political repress
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by azernik 5y ago
The delta-V is around 16km/s. For high-efficiency chemical propulsion (e.g. hydrogen - which, note, non-storable!) that's about 3.5-4x the exhaust velocity, meaning around 98-99% of your spacecraft's mass needs to be fuel. Fo
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by azernik 5y ago
Interestingly, my family, coming from a recently-developed country, does compare them to slums.
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by azernik 5y ago
It doesn't need everyone to follow it; it just needs library maintainers to declare when they do follow it, actually mean it when they do, and check their own dependencies for breaking changes. ie a library that declares it uses semver
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by azernik 5y ago
Construction is an economic activity, not a hobby. We generally do not structure our economic activity for maximum enjoyment on the part of the worker, but for lowest price and best quality to the consumer. To the extent that this translate
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by azernik 5y ago
That is, to a certain extent, how the Russian hacking ecosystem works. From a wide pool of domestic criminals targeting domestic targets, some of them attack countries Russia is having problems with, in the knowledge that they won't be
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by azernik 5y ago
The bug was the quantity. Cats that walk around in a place with spilled beer will indeed lick themselves clean, but the amount of beer ingested is tiny. Imagine getting drunk by licking beer residue off your hands.
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by azernik 5y ago
That's less about progress, and more about finding applications where it's not a limitation. Innophys suit has a compressed-air tank with limited endurance, built to be periodically refilled from a stationary compressed-air system
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by azernik 5y ago
The combination of duration class and capacity is useful, though. 1MWh of 10-hour storage gives you a very clear idea of usable energy.
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by azernik 5y ago
Then typically you'll run it at a higher discharge rate, and has something cheaper with a higher capacity/discharge ratio.
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by azernik 5y ago
100 hours = (kWh/kg) / (kW/kg) - ie capacity divided by the most cost-effective discharge rate.
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by azernik 5y ago
Better to have your business cannibalized by a company you (partly) own than to have it cannibalized by other competitors.
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by azernik 5y ago
It doesn't seem like Alphabet thinks that? Their ad copy explicitly compares "training times".
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by azernik 5y ago
The point is fast (and hence cheap) training to bring existing technology to smaller companies, not doing anything new and advanced.
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by azernik 5y ago
Something that is evolving for certain common types of files (images, for example) is an application-mediated storage, but where apps "share ownership" (or rather, declare awareness) of files rather than owning them exclusively. S
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by azernik 5y ago
The Ministry of Defense has a strong inclination to approve any such requests. It's a hassle for the company in question, but the system is set up to encourage inflow of foreign capital to build up and maintain the defense industry.
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by azernik 5y ago
And he's always going to say yes unless it's going to some truly extravagant abuser (e.g. North Korea), or to a customer that would cause diplomatic problems with the US (e.g. China... maybe). The state absolutely has the power to
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by azernik 5y ago
In this case it's not directed by the Israeli state; the Israeli state just doesn't really care, and doesn't want to interfere with the post-army job prospects of intelligence personnel.
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by azernik 5y ago
A device for measuring the final grinding had been miscalibrated (by a known, constant amount). The result was a spherical aberration, of a kind that is familiar to a lot of users of cheaper lenses and mirrors but on a much smaller scale.
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by azernik 5y ago
And that's the point - for such a contractor, the only punishment available is through courts, with more or less a presumption of innocence, and where the officer is in a lot of career jeopardy if the tribunal digs up that they were be
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by azernik 5y ago
Predictable yields at controllable times are how you get efficient consumption and distribution.
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by azernik 5y ago
1. The only documented case of blankets being intentionally used to spread smallpox was recorded simply as "blankets"; there is no indication they were specifically quilts. 2. Quilting as a tradition in WASP culture is so long and

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