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by elil17 4y ago
We have better ways to do things now - adhesives, new welding techniques that impose different design constraints, etc. IIRC there was some thought of reusing parts of the Saturn V design on the Artemis program but it was not practical beca
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by elil17 4y ago
Another, closely related example: A lot of the welding abilities needed to build another Saturn V were lost. We couldn’t replicate the rocket without having a lot of people relearn old welding techniques.
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by elil17 4y ago
Even if every bottle used this year was buried full, it would only be 0.06 cubic miles of water. Earth's lakes alone have about 20,000 cubic miles of fresh water, while there are millions of gallons of fresh groundwater.
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by elil17 4y ago
I bet this tape would still work though given that his application doesn’t require high strength or residue-free removal. The correct/ideal tapes will be called “refractory tapes.” They are essentially clay-like strips.
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by elil17 4y ago
They truly are amazing. My first time choosing a specialty adhesive, following all the instructions for surface prep, and then testing the strength of that joint - I was blown away.
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by elil17 4y ago
I heard about one person who was stuck watching Barney reruns for a decade while he was locked into a coma.
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by elil17 4y ago
Lots of companies do this - they just aren’t FAANGs.
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by elil17 4y ago
Why should a company that provides no differentiated value have much of net margin (after paying for the cost of capital, in the form of debt payments which are included in company expenses)? Kroger et. al provide no unique value - they don
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by elil17 4y ago
This makes sense to me. Thanks for the explanation. I guess getting a physically accurate simulation to run in real time would be quite difficult.
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by elil17 4y ago
Virtual pinball machines (like tables with screens instead of an actual play-field) have all this but they are still not the same.
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by elil17 4y ago
I haven't tried VR but I have used virtual pinball tables with all the bells and whistles (e.g. thumper solenoids). I still don't find it that fun.
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by elil17 4y ago
It's amazing to me how virtual and real pinball are really not comparable at all in terms of enjoyment (at least for me personally). I still don't really understand why.
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by elil17 4y ago
Reading this article a couple years back got me to really question why I was planning to move far away from my parents and spend so little time with them. Changed some life plans based on that.
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by elil17 4y ago
Who cares? As long as someone can shut it off when needed (e.g. at work) this is something that does not matter at all.
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by elil17 4y ago
It honestly makes me so sad to see how people judge each other for living with their parents. I often read/contribute to r/PersonalFinance on Reddit the most common attitude there seems to be that people living with their pares st
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by elil17 4y ago
I feel like a shoutbox is the wrong way to get feedback for this. Maybe adding a little more of a personal touch to your ask about the survey would help. Something like "I want to make this site awesome. Filling out this survey would h
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by elil17 4y ago
I agree with this. The penalties should be sized such that every company feels that safety is their top priority without any company being driven out of business for a properly addressed accident.
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by elil17 4y ago
OSHA penalties are laughably low. Willful and repeated violations only cost a maximum of $150k/per incident, while serious but non-willful/first time violations are capped at about $14k/incident. The real money can be in work
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by elil17 4y ago
It does not at all. I agree with you.
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by elil17 4y ago
According to the article, they plan to train private models. They claim to have done R&D that makes them more efficient at training models.
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by elil17 4y ago
>In an apples-to-apples comparison of women’s and men’s products with similar ingredients, however, we do not find evidence of a systematic price premium for women’s goods: price differences are small, and the women’s variant is less exp
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by elil17 4y ago
Who's to say the intent? I've published lots of code with very permissive licenses and I did so because I want people to be able to use that code for any reason . That's why I choose those licenses.
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by elil17 4y ago
I just don't understand this at all. I publish my code as open source when I can because I want others to find it useful, either by using the software that I wrote or by reusing the code. If I didn't want that, I wouldn't p
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by elil17 4y ago
Might you not use some fuel for countermeasures during the midcourse phase?
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by elil17 4y ago
Well, for ballistic missiles a large portion of the flight will be the mid-course phase (which is typically unpowered) and the terminal phase may use control surfaces for maneuvering. For cruise missiles that's a good rule of thumb.
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by elil17 4y ago
I do not assume that people mean "if we only removed capitalism, everything would be fine" when they say "capitalism is the problem." I assume they mean something more like "replacing capitalism with [y] would make
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by elil17 4y ago
The statement "capitalism is the problem" can be saying that capitalism is the problem with respect to a more regulated for of capitalism, Nordic socialism, or even a platonic ideal/imaginary version of communism. Saying that
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by elil17 4y ago
"Capitalism is the problem" is a statement so broad an non-specific that it can not be a lie. Certainly any economic system has problems. Saying that a specific race is inherently evil is a specific factual claim (one that few peo
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by elil17 4y ago
Should have gotten chunky /s More seriously, though, your friend would have needed to either freeze the peanut butter or put it on a sandwich in a serving of less than 3.4 ounces.
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by elil17 4y ago
How do you not get the PB&J through airport security? You can bring any food. The ban on liquids is because liquid explosives can’t be frozen. So anyone bringing most okay liquids (e.g. soup) can just freeze it but people trying to brin

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