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by caconym_ 5y ago
IMO Cryptonomicon is one of those novels where the journey is the real destination. If you don't enjoy the texture of his prose as it meanders through weird character episodes and technical exposition, there isn't some huge payo
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You are, apparently, not even making a token effort to understand my comments. If you want to talk about how much better natural immunity is than vaccines, there are plenty of subthreads in these comments where your contributions--while pos
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I'm not sure where you imagine I made any statement directly comparing the efficacy of vaccines to natural immunity. The substance of my comment is limited to the problem of quantifying the efficacy of natural immunity in the real
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Since initial infectious doses and peak viral loads seem to vary wildly in people who've been infected, I would speculate that it's much easier to quantify vaccine-induced immunity in a public health context relative to so-called
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> It's not a full sized aircraft. 1 small autonomous plane is cheaper than 1 small satellite in general - in almost all respects. The article didn't claim anything beyond this: From the picture in the article I'm not sure
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> with a much smaller cost per unit for build, launch and maintenance Somebody further down in the comments estimates $250k in launch costs for each Starlink satellite^[1]. Elsewhere, I found a claim that SpaceX execs said in 2019 that t
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This actually has me wondering if some version of "syntax highlighting" could make prose easier to read.
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Setting aside the question of whether one telescope-sized duck is more formidable than ten duck-sized telescopes, is it really plausible that the funding and management processes that produced the JWST might learn from past mistakes and evo
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I was surprised to find that it's not on any of the obvious prediction markets. Anyway, I'm a bit of a JWST pessimist too, but I don't find any of your arguments very convincing. It feels like you're cherrypicking bad t
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I'm not getting "there is almost no chance that the Webb telescope will deliver meaningful science" from your linked article. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this, and what statements from the project lead(s) lead you t
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Imagine (semi-publicly) telling a colleague that their field is broadly (morally, by implication) comparable to Holocaust denialism. What an absolute ass. In a sensible world, anybody bringing that kind of attitude into the scientific commu
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Is it the only one of its kind? I'm not aware of any directly comparable non-DIY devices. There are a few other "electronic typewriter" devices that usually come up in these discussions, like the Alphasmart range and the
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The Pomera DM30 is another option for anybody who wants something superficially very similar to OP's setup but without the DIY aspect. It's kind of expensive and only comes in a Japanese keyboard layout, but I love mine.
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It's really too bad that (last I checked) the Freewrite is permanently shackled to their weird proprietary cloud service. I guess there is a way to pull documents off it with USB, but you (apparently) can't add, remove, or general
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> It's a term of art. This is the right answer. We aren't in danger of eroding the semantic foundations of law by using "theft" instead of "fraud", because "wage theft" is a term with a specific de
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> However, the recent stuff - abortion and voting rights being eroded - has just knocked me sideways. I'd have said they were un-American. Now, I don't know what to think. I really mean this. Was I always wrong? Anti-abortionis
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This actually makes the behavior more interesting, since it strongly implies it's a learned thing rather than a fixed action pattern or similar.
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> A bit of a silly argument when you are talking about life and death situation. "Get-there-itis", a.k.a. plan continuation bias, is a real thing that's gotten a lot of aviators and their passengers killed.
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Personally, even ignoring the vast differences in the competitive landscape between then and now, I think there is a substantial difference between a) objecting on antitrust grounds to a merger that even the FTC itself tacitly admitted wa
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> fill it with millions of circles (not points!) that must keep certain distances from another. This is, at best, misleading. The objects that have to keep clear of each other are (effectively) points, and they can share orbits with diff
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Are you under the impression that Starlink's business model starts and ends with selling (early model) ground terminals?
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Money and power inevitably corrupt the systems we build for guiding collective socioeconomic development. Even in Le Guin's anarchist "utopia" on fictional Anarres, it happens: people with a tendency toward consolidating powe
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> A good photo looks interesting or has something interesting in it or comes with some interesting context. To my eye, these photos have all three of those things. You don't have to like them yourself, but it seems a bit much to imp
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+1 I was wondering about the legality, since this seems to me to be bald-faced fraud and part of a consistent pattern at WD and other manufacturers. I guess the sticking point is proving that they deliberately used faster components in ea
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> An ad hominem, in this case, is just a mental shortcut to get to the answer you've already picked (i.e., that SpaceX is faultless). After so much complaining about my "empty" ad hominem "attacks", it's qui
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The "about to land" and "at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport" verbiage in OP's article is plenty damning, as it tells us that the police drone's operator(s) not only failed in their general duty to stay cl
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You don't need to know much more than that the manned aircraft was on final approach within a mile of the airport^[1] and that the police drone got in its way. Short of some one-in-a-million (but probably actually a lot more than a mil
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Let's break this down. 1. Is there or is there not a potential conflict of interest in the CEO of a "space traffic control" company being quoted as saying that "space traffic" is "out of control" and in di
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> This is just an empty ad hominem. No, it's not. I'm suggesting that there is an obvious conflict of interest here, because there is. > Is the data accurate or is it inaccurate? I would not characterize the quantitative con
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I do get the impression that Starlink is extremely competent at managing their constellation. Ultimately I think the biggest risk is going to come from poor coordination between large operators, as we already got a taste of in that ESA&#x2F

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