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by azernik 6y ago
You could get an equivalent of price signals by another means - rejection of products that were unfit for use. The Soviet military was able to do this, and so got equipment that was both of good quality and was of the correct mix of product
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by azernik 6y ago
I believe a 1 axis printer is usually called an extruder.
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by azernik 6y ago
AFAIU, the star being lensed was within the Milky Way, so they could establish some limits on the size of the lensing planet. The upper size bound in the paper is 2 earth masses. (Jupiter mass does come up, but only in the context of a bina
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by azernik 6y ago
I just read through the story, and not quite - he got the catheter started partway, and then the nurse who he'd tricked into thinking she would be the test subject (he needed her to get supplies) walked him to radiology so he see wha
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by azernik 6y ago
Generally there is a disproportionate dropoff among minority and female candidates at every stage of the career pipeline, not just in the pre-interview parts.
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by azernik 6y ago
I suspect in this case it's not because of the single review, but because of the shady business practices.
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by azernik 6y ago
Depends how invalid the legal claim is. There are multiple points a judge can say "this is such obvious BS I'm cutting it off now" ("summary judgment").
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by azernik 6y ago
Titanium ore is cheap, and is produced at a large enough scale the market wouldn't crash. The expensive metals are platinum-group metals (iridium, osmium, rhenium, &c), which go for tens of thousands of dollars per kilo.
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by azernik 6y ago
Nickel is so common and cheap it is unlikely to be profitable to ship it to Earth. It's more likely that nickel and iron would be used as construction materials in space, to make satellites and stations cheaper by reducing the launch m
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by azernik 6y ago
Carbon offsets aren't the only way to do carbon neutrality; Boom is ensuring compatibility with synthesized fuel (they specifically mention Prometheus Fuels). This is where hydrocarbons are basically used a an energy storage medium for
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by azernik 6y ago
(Side note: there were sarcastic/affectionate calls of "curse you, Dennis Ritchie!" at a previous workplace.)
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by azernik 6y ago
The cold is a problem not for the reactor itself (it'll heat itself up quite nicely) but for the other gear involved with a settlement. Chemical plants, mining bulldozers, habitat seals - all of these things get seriously weird when yo
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by azernik 6y ago
Heh.
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by azernik 6y ago
Unclear - NASA is currently working on the Kilopower reactor, which is probably lower-power than the enormous solar arrays SpaceX is considering. However, if they're expanded into the megawatt range they could be usable. Shielding is
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by azernik 6y ago
One way I force people (mostly myself) to include shebang lines: Have a scripts directory in my repo that mixes shell and python scripts with no file extensions and executable bits set. If I don't put a shebang, it just doesn't ru
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by azernik 6y ago
Unfortunately it's at far too high of a latitude - in addition to the solar power problem, it's also far too cold to send affordable hardware. There's lots of water ice elsewhere on Mars in much more friendly latitudes (Arcad
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by azernik 6y ago
Psychopathy is considered a disease because it is quite rare. For most people and for the broader culture, the reaction of a psychopath to a given cultural cue isn't a primary consideration.
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by azernik 6y ago
The families and friends of the dead didn't flee to Taiwan. This is like saying that the Poles didn't deserve reparations from Germany for WWII because the pre-war republic wasn't restored and instead there was a new regime.
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by azernik 6y ago
The laws involved are all about banning financial transactions - people sending money to ByteDance. IMO those laws are being abused in this case to suppress speech, but the laws themselves had a legitimate purpose.
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by azernik 6y ago
GP didn't say the US is an autocracy; they said that the top-level comment implied a US autocracy. In this case, yes, the courts intervened.
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by azernik 6y ago
I'll consider this my yearly reminder to check my user share on iOS Safari; once I have no version 10 users, off to Luxon it is. So long, moment, and thanks for all the fish!
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by azernik 6y ago
That site phrases it as "US-origin dual-use goods". It's not enough to have a foreign HQ, but if you have a separate development organization abroad and a clear delineation between their technology and your US-developed techn
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by azernik 6y ago
If your notebook is nice and stiff, the pressure will be pretty evenly distributed across the whole keyboard. Keypresses should be rare with such low pressure per key.
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by azernik 6y ago
Even for those who haven't read any of the series but the first one (eg me), "Speaker for the Dead" is a job/title that the protagonist of Ender's Game takes up at the end of the book.
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by azernik 6y ago
And indeed, in this case it's already being broken down by microorganisms before it reaches the atmosphere. Still being broken down into CO2, but still not as bad as being released directly into the atmosphere as CH4.
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by azernik 6y ago
It's not fundamental, but it makes the whole situation less predictable and extreme scenarios (both good and bad) far more likely.
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by azernik 6y ago
"Of" is actually pronounced with a "v" phoneme, despite the spelling.
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by azernik 6y ago
> Realistically, though, it's too much of a coincidence that such a probe would first arrive so soon after we gained the ability to conceive of it. Alternately, this implies that we're visited all the time, but usually by robot
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by azernik 6y ago
The US also has this, but lower adoption rates of NFC wallets mean it's a pain for consumers to take full advantage of the system at a Japanese scale.
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by azernik 6y ago
They kept their fleet in port for most of the war; Jutland was halfway through the war, when the Germans lost patience, ended indecisively, and led the Germans to return to a fleet-in-being policy.

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