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by gooseus 9y ago
Wow, now that I did not realize... do you know the reasoning behind making it so difficult?
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by gooseus 9y ago
I haven't made contact with ISS, or many contacts at yet, but getting a Technicians license and getting on the airwaves really pretty straightforward. I studied for maybe 2-3 weeks (a chapter a day) and paid $15 to take the test back i
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by gooseus 9y ago
Since lithium is one of the lightest elements, it doesn't seem possible to create batteries that will have the same power:weight ratio. MinutePhysics explains it better than I ever could, basically all the options require lithium: ht
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by gooseus 9y ago
Those maths don't actually make me feel too great. Considering the number of devices (cars, tablets, phones, laptops, heated clothes, robots, etc) in development or production that depend on lithium for batteries, not to mention any ot
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by gooseus 9y ago
Yes, I agree... character development was very weak for pretty much everyone but Tak and Ortega, and even they were pretty shaky. I put this show in the camp good concepts, good visuals, decent fights, but the characters are just along for
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by gooseus 9y ago
Can you explain why not? Not to imply that I disagree with your sentiment, but comments around these parts are encouraged to contain more substance and create or add to a discussion.
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by gooseus 9y ago
Does anyone have data on the average income or vehicle prices related to these deaths? How many accidents are being prevented by new currently available safety technology (proximity and blind-spot warnings, etc)? It's not like the ad
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by gooseus 9y ago
This National Geographic documentary from 2006 had me sobbing like nothing I'd ever seen before, and I'm actually getting upset right now recalling it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJUGZPanB8 Lisa Ling went un
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by gooseus 9y ago
I'm not actually talking about an EMP, I believe it's more of a CME[0]. Coronal mass ejections would have more of an impact on the long lines, so pretty much the core power and networking infrastructure. But yes, this would affec
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by gooseus 9y ago
Well, your quote seems to be writing off Bitcoin, not cryptocurrencies in general... but I don't understand this logic that keeps being put out. The most powerful government in the world with long established laws and multiple powerful
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by gooseus 9y ago
> University of Queensland entomologist Dr David Merritt said the bee was a solitary leafcutter bee that searched for hollow, and usually empty, spaces in which to build nests. Hypothesis 1: The spider knows the bee is laying eggs and ca
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by gooseus 9y ago
Do we not have a global regulating body for what people can put in LEO? Cause I'm gonna have to say yes on this one. A 9-month occasional bright light in the sky is a brief annoyance for astronomers, but avoiding the Kessler Syndrome
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'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into sky(theguardian.com)
81 points by gooseus 9y ago|74 comments
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by gooseus 9y ago
I've been toying with a conceptual project that would propose to build a large-ish structure (monolith) on the moon which would serve multiple long term goals. 1. Be large enough and positioned strategically to cast a shadow or project
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by gooseus 9y ago
My thoughts are that we should send out robust seed organisms on probes with on-board AI that can do adequate scans for evidence of existing life before attempting to release the seed organisms. A more advanced probe would have AI that coul
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by gooseus 9y ago
Dr. Michael Mautner has a bunch of papers and an organization, SOLIS, which promotes this very idea. http://www.panspermia-society.com/
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by gooseus 9y ago
So looking at the updated site, I see: 1) Peer-to-Peer transactions Thats's nice, but so do Square Cash, Venmo, Paypal, etc... and they currently do it cheaper. 2) Borderless payments How do we define borders? They're just arbitr
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by gooseus 9y ago
Depending on the company, management and situation - you are the first to experience the loss in the form of being replaced with a younger, more naive candidate or an outsourced dev shop that can keep the product long enough for management
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by gooseus 9y ago
I guess they're just added for tradition then? Superstition maybe? Obviously it's not for liability since everyone seems to hold the UX designers liable here. They're meaningless when they're meaningless, context matte
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by gooseus 9y ago
Certainly UX can always be improved, but doing so without proper training and making the operator ultimately responsible for their actions is just ridiculous. Sure the buttons could have been named something different, but with a confirmati
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by gooseus 9y ago
Then we're truly fucked because the UX is designed and built by humans, tested by humans, approved by humans and then taught and learned by other humans. That's a whole chain of humans that need to not make a mistake, but I'
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by gooseus 9y ago
Ok, then the UX for launching a missile warning should be 2 people performing a simultaneous key turning action after decoding the missile defense warning key code coming from management. Launching ICBMs has a completely different reason fo
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by gooseus 9y ago
They also had to robotically click through a dialog box to confirm... it is ABSOLUTELY the operators fault. Do they run drills every 2 minutes? No, I doubt it, if you're running a drill on an actual attack scenario, how are you not be
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by gooseus 9y ago
> “Even though the menu option still required confirmation that the user really wanted to send an alert, that wasn’t enough, on this occasion, to prevent the worker from robotically clicking onwards.” > “It was too easy — for anyone —
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The Apocalypse and How to Avoid It(youtube.com)
1 points by gooseus 9y ago|0 comments
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by gooseus 9y ago
There was a talk from the Royal Institution just uploaded yesterday (talk was in June), The Apocalypse and How to Avoid It [0], where Lewis Dartnell (author The Knowledge [1]) describes a gasifier stove you can make from a couple bean can
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by gooseus 9y ago
What exactly does "succeeding" look like for bitcoin nowadays? Because back before it became "that the thing that everyone was trying to profit from", there was at least the sense that it would be somewhat useful as a cu
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by gooseus 9y ago
I think it's just a tragedy of a strong ego that allows people who are really talented to assume they can treat other people however they please. Separating the ideas from the personalities who express them is really important, especia
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by gooseus 9y ago
If he invested using this logic he wouldn't be the richest person in the world. This is one of the gambling fallacies of "Oh man, if I hadn't folded I'd have won it on the river! I should remember that next time I get
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by gooseus 9y ago
Warren Buffets opinion is about 100x more valid than anyone else. He doesn't need to understand the specific technology - he understands markets, investing patterns and most importantly, risk. For the richest person in the world to no

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