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by btkramer9 6y ago
What would you do in your financially secure year off in your 20's or 30's?
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by btkramer9 6y ago
maybe they have an ad blocker? I too watched the entire video and didn't see a single ad. Beginning, middle or end. I'm using adblock plus
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by btkramer9 6y ago
I think sponsoring invokes a feeling of supporting an individual person, or small group. It says this product in of itself may not be worth $X/mo but the feeling of the buyer enabling a creator to continue their passion is what compels
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by btkramer9 6y ago
No affiliation, just a happy long time user of wealthfront.com. It goes one step further than investing in domestic index funds and diversifies into foreign stocks, emerging markets, bonds etc. Their fees are slightly higher than just index
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by btkramer9 7y ago
On a similar note can anyone provide insight on what's possible when working from home with kids aged newborn to preschool? As someone who would like to work from home and start a family in the near future it looks like I may need to c
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I'm advocating to go directly to Mars and skip trying to figure out everything on the Moon first. The Moon is more difficult and has a lot less upsides. Obviously 3 days is better than 6 months. A lot more can be done with a shorter wi
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I don't think your atmosphere comparison is valid. The moon has absolutely no atmosphere. Mars' is 1% of earth. That's still a lot of _something_. aerobraking, and easy access to unlimited CO2 is incredibly valuable. Delta-v
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I think you underestimate how radically different a world we'd live in if we had and inter solar system logistics network between colonies, earth and asteroids. It would be like another industrial revolution with untold and unimaginabl
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I've mostly addressed this in the siblings comments. Mars has all the same resources and more. The way humans went from the moon's orbit to surface is so far off from how it would be done today I would hardly call it and MVP. Both
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by btkramer9 7y ago
yes with aerobreaking but I still believe that includes a propulsive landing after. The moon has no atmosphere so it has to be propulsive landing 100%
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I've always wondered if Venus was as habitable as Mars on the surface which we'd choose. The lower gravity well of Mars makes it much easier to come back from which is practically a requirement to go there. But like you said, the
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by btkramer9 7y ago
Worst case radiation they'll receive is comparable to if they've been smoking cigarettes the whole trip. That's pretty damn good if you ask me
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I'm not so sure about that. It takes more delta-v to get to the moon than mars and both are still too far for immediate response to emergencies. Sure the moon has the advantage of emergency assistance of a few days (?) but I don't
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by btkramer9 7y ago
This is mostly true on Mars too except perhaps the eternal light part
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by btkramer9 7y ago
The only thing going for the moon is its proximity to Earth. Mars has more than double the gravity of the moon, an atmosphere, nearly earth-like day night cycle and satellites have a much easier time orbiting mars
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by btkramer9 7y ago
living on mars will force us to learn real top-down sustainability
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by btkramer9 7y ago
satellite radio doesn't have commercials
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I think this is even more true for Phoenix
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I've been here for over 7 years and I still can't downvote. I like it this way
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by btkramer9 7y ago
MIDIAccess [1] is not supported [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIAccess
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I would love to contribute to an open source alternative for DuoLingo. Overall I'm happy with it, but there's so much room for improvement
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by btkramer9 7y ago
LabView wasn't my first language but I used it a lot at my first job out of college and I felt the same way about it. It was great for communicating with all sorts of RF test equipment but it was terrible to do all the processing after
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by btkramer9 7y ago
I work in embedded programming. You can reach me at my username at gmail.com. It's not quite robotics but feel free to reach out to me if you want more info
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by btkramer9 7y ago
There are many cities where you need a car. Sure you could try to optimize where you live but that alone is a luxury that many cannot afford.
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by btkramer9 7y ago
Can you name companies?
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by btkramer9 7y ago
You also can't live in your gold investment
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by btkramer9 7y ago
doist?
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by btkramer9 8y ago
I spend a decent amount of time following their progress and the corresponding reddit. I still found a whole bunch of new interesting tidbits sprinkled throughout. I can't wait to see how this progresses over the next few years.
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SpaceX Super Heavy Starship Compendium(elonx.net)
2 points by btkramer9 8y ago|1 comments
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by btkramer9 8y ago
> Much like discovering the alt-text of XKCD Wow! I didn't know about this until right now

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