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by azernik 6y ago
Plus the RORSATs leaked coolant all over the place, which is both a radioactivity and debris hazard. But in any case, these are all problems that are both less likely with new designs (e.g. kilopower uses sealed heat pipes with no moving pa
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by azernik 6y ago
Sure. I'll get pissed off at the US when it actually breaks whatever rules get signed, though, not just because I don't trust it to keep its word.
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by azernik 6y ago
I haven't seen any major spacefaring nation opposed to this - the Soviets and Americans both put reactors in orbit during the Cold War, and only the Soviet ones caused safety problems.
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by azernik 6y ago
Beyond NERVA [ https://beyondnerva.com/ ] is also a great source, looking not just at electrical plants but also at proposed Nuclear Thermal Rockets.
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by azernik 6y ago
A caveat - solar works on the Moon in certain circumstances (polar locations with sunlight most of the time), and on Mars with a bit of maintenance (Spirit and Opportunity lasted much longer than expected because of wind cleaning dust off t
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by azernik 6y ago
It's not - the US is pursuing an international treaty called the Artemis Accords to clarify rights and obligations, which aren't laid out in detail in the Outer Space Treaty. If the drafting is completed under the Trump Administra
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by azernik 6y ago
But we are trying to fit summaries into a limited screen real estate
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by azernik 6y ago
Possibly counting images using different sensors as separate exposures, even if they're taken during overlapping time intervals
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by azernik 6y ago
Machine vision will likely be one of the last of these, though; the visual cortex is a pretty large chunk of very sophisticated hardware.
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by azernik 6y ago
Adverse selection at play
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by azernik 6y ago
And if you don't care about weight and size, there are better and cheaper options than lithium anyway.
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by azernik 6y ago
I doubt this is a productivity issue or an infrastructure issue - shutting off write access is a major business and reputational loss, and I can easily see cultural factors pushing people not to take that step.
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by azernik 6y ago
When he gives timelines? ABSOLUTELY it's wise. SpaceX watchers call it "Elon Time". When Gwynne Shotwell gives you a time estimate, you can take it seriously (subject to regular engineering uncertainty). When Elon Musk gives
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by azernik 6y ago
He not quite the richest man on the planet - that's Jeff Bezos. 16-richest, from the last Forbes ranking that shows up on Google.
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by azernik 6y ago
Those unions wouldn't have the power they do without the unconditional support of many American voters. Police union endorsements have a lot of sway.
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by azernik 6y ago
A book is probably a lower-capital-investment way of testing out the concept
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by azernik 6y ago
Interesting - that's how the Israel National Fund managed its land in the pre-state period.
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by azernik 6y ago
Despite their fashionable references to Rome, I think the English Civil War was a stronger influence on their thinking - a king's attempt to establish untrammeled authority leading to a parliamentary backlash that was equally untrammel
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by azernik 6y ago
The most likely reason is that they found everything there was to find. This kind of exploration was a speculative search for new places to live, and as the returns diminished there would have been less and less motivation to head into the
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by azernik 6y ago
a) Pick a single measure that is very very hard to game (life expectancy, for example). But that's non-trivial, even something like life expectancy can be gamed by deciding who's included in the stats, by changing the start date (
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by azernik 6y ago
Both Javascript and Python are perfect for this, IMO - both languages have syntax for type annotations which are ignored by the intepreter, but are respected by external typecheckers. Mypy for Python ( https://mypy.readthedocs.io&
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by azernik 6y ago
In the American context, they are proper names of ethnic groups.
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by azernik 6y ago
Bias studies tend to prove that this, as does a quick perusal of the specific statements in openly-racist literature.
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by azernik 6y ago
Pretty sure this is an AI-complete problem
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by azernik 6y ago
Parent comment isn't implying that functional vs imperative is a binary; they're pointing out that the power of a type system is orthogonal to the imperative/functional spectrum.
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by azernik 6y ago
Sure, you can go without it. But you'll need to write a lot of annoying scripts manually.
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by azernik 6y ago
SAMs already have as many sensors as can be packed in, and mostly have the human in the loop just to make the decision whether to engage a target. And still cannot reliably get through sophisticated countermeasures. Airborne platforms for b
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by azernik 6y ago
Because high speed and maneuverability means that's a lot of space to cover.
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by azernik 6y ago
San Francisco is unique in the state in being the City and County of San Francisco; city council members are also county commissioners, and the mayor is also county executive. The broader Bay Area is closer to the LA system, although transi
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by azernik 6y ago
Yup! My UI class, at the height of the flatness craze, started with a review of post-WWI German typography.

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