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by feoren 3y ago
> Meanwhile NYPost breaks the Hunter Biden Laptop story and gets banned from every major social media and tech site for saying the truth, while NYT and Washington Post get Pulitzer Prizes for telling lies "Truth" and "lies
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by feoren 3y ago
An alternative hypothesis is that C1 and C3, and to a lesser extent C2, are essentially untenable positions that are only ever espoused in bad-faith by trolls and people with ulterior motives. Nate Silver says they seem "slightly spici
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by feoren 3y ago
> the company needs to exit/IPO at over $5 billion in order to make about $1 million I just don't understand who's signing a contract for 0.02% equity in a startup. How does this happen?
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by feoren 3y ago
I've heard that countries that kept better records of their population had more Jews captured by invading Nazis than those countries that had worse records. I don't seem to be able to find hard evidence for that though, so maybe i
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by feoren 3y ago
This sounds like absolute hell. This is everything I hate about modern software development.
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by feoren 3y ago
No, it can't be pointed at the inner solar system or Earth; too bright, and its heat shield would point the wrong way. But the military doesn't need it. Supposedly some military tech was declassified recently showing that the mili
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by feoren 3y ago
I actually think we've basically reached agreement. All your dashed items are higher on my priority list as well, and much more. I want to see Mars terraformed in the next few hundred years, which starts with learning how to terraform
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by feoren 3y ago
> half of "the people" are dumber, more simpler-minded than the average person. Spiders Georg would like a word with you. And 99.99% of people have more than the average number of legs. And "the average person" is no
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by feoren 3y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_flight_tests So we have a vessel capable of ferrying 100 tons to Mars that's already had 55 seconds of controlled flight from a launch where it was missing 3 engi
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by feoren 3y ago
Not a bit, but maybe sport? I truly believe everything I said, and I believe it's a solid argument against a practice I see as silly and unsustainable: replacing any word that sounds superficially related to the name "Earth"
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by feoren 3y ago
Of course I agree with you, which only strengthens my argument. But anyone who thinks we need to make up words like "Marsquake" clearly disagrees with you, and those are the people I am arguing against. It was a preemptive concess
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by feoren 3y ago
My whole point is that "earthquake" refers to the material called "earth", meaning "dirt", or "soil", or "the material making up the top layer of a planet", and that we should stop making u
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by feoren 3y ago
Good point about running a diesel engine on Mars. > So depending on how heavy the batteries are, I reckon we are already looking at around 12-14 tons of equipment, just for digging with a single machine. So you're saying a single St
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by feoren 3y ago
> 'terra' and 'geo' don't refer to a specific planet in this context at all Although originating as basically meaning "dry land", the word "Terra" became a proper name for the Earth in Latin a
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by feoren 3y ago
I agree it's not realistic to send a full tunnel boring machine, drilling out 200 to 700 meters per week for subways and highways, to Mars in the next 10 years. Such a thing would have to be assembled on Mars with advanced industry alr
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by feoren 3y ago
Humans have 10 successful missions landing robots on Mars, starting in 1975. Robots have been operating on Mars continuously for almost 20 years. Opportunity was active for 15 years. The helicopter Ingenuity has flown 63 separate times and
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by feoren 3y ago
Some people call Hacker News the "Orange Site", but of course that's way too fruit-centric, so we shouldn't call it that -- the website banner is not actually a citrus fruit at all! Or can we just accept that orange-the-
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by feoren 3y ago
> I reject the concept of “just war” in general in all instances and think all war is mass murder Okay, fair, there's a self-consistent point there we can work with. I also am extremely dubious of the idea of "just war". &
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by feoren 3y ago
> They (the Ukrainians) requested that he re-enable it in that area specifically so that mass murder could be conducted with it Let me see if I have this right. We know that the Russian government spends inordinate time and money intenti
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by feoren 3y ago
Elon Musk uses his power to censor people who make fun of him or that he otherwise disagrees with. One of his claims of why he bought Twitter was to restore free-speech on the platform, which really turned out to be allowing hate speech and
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by feoren 3y ago
> the bullied one gets rich and buys the playground What version of Elon Musk are you thinking of here? Read literally anything he says and it's immediately clear that he's always been the bully. He wasn't some underdog wh
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by feoren 3y ago
You don't think satellites have been a godsend for environmental conservation? Would banning space development in the U.S. help us actually fix any of those low-hanging problems? > go ahead and speak to some low-income folks at your
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by feoren 3y ago
> China has the oldest population in the world. Source for this? Monaco and Japan have the highest median age in the world, at 55.4 and 47.3 years, respectively; the United States is 62nd at 38.5 years, with China just below at 38.4. Wha
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by feoren 3y ago
The reviews have been so universally negative on KSP 2 that I haven't bought it yet. Anything I'd say would be hearsay; you can go read the reviews yourself. My impression is it's standard enshittfication: some asshole MBA sa
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by feoren 3y ago
> Speaking out like that put his very life in danger; without exaggeration. Scientists who spoke about the lab leak possibility were receiving death threats at the time People get death threats online for almost anything you can think of
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by feoren 3y ago
You want to make course adjustments months or years in advance, which may involve things like gravity assists and slingshots that require very good predictions of where multiple different bodies will be a year from now. It can be thousands
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by feoren 3y ago
You're using armchair logic, which can justify anything. giraffe_lady already said: > I've lived through exactly that So your 100% snarky comment about how she's not a practicing lawyer and therefore can't know anythi
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by feoren 3y ago
Cringeworthy? This is one of the more oft-linked XKCDs, I think because it makes a valid observation: everyone has a few things that "everyone knows" that they've randomly missed, and it's more fun to enjoy the discovery
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by feoren 3y ago
Just because something looks weird to us does not mean it's bad. I can read the last sentence at about 70% speed, and I suspect you can too; that means within the 20-year time frame (facetiously) proposed, we could both easily adapt to
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by feoren 3y ago
Your claims of things that do happen are likely true. It is a propaganda word. People do use it as a bludgeon to push their agenda through. Police do use it for bullshit arrests. Teenagers' lives are ruined for basically no reason. Y

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