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by grecy 3y ago
and guns kill an order of magnitude more people per capita than any developed country
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Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries. Why?(newatlas.com)
4 points by grecy 3y ago|16 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
Even I've heard gunshots on the suburbs of LA
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by grecy 3y ago
And yet, I’ve never seen a handgun or heard a single gunshot [+] after almost 15 years in Canada. [+] except at the range, or while hunting when I or my buddies pulled the trigger.
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by grecy 3y ago
All ski chairlifts have a diesel backup drive motor for emergency evacuations. Have you ever seen one run on diesel? Would you call every chairlift in the world diesel powered? Emergency use is a different thing
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More than 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2023–more than any year on record(nbcnews.com)
51 points by grecy 3y ago|66 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
Elon tweeted at one point that the swarm of Starlink sats could indeed be used for a GPS-like service, but that it's a low priority and won't happen for a while.
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by grecy 3y ago
> Sure the market will figure out which car washes live. But what about the ones that don't and the people who subsequently lose their jobs There's a lot going on in your statement to dig through. The article specifically say
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by grecy 3y ago
I meant in terms of doing the right thing for the planet
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by grecy 3y ago
Bill Gates has a $1B short position on Tesla. I wouldn't use what Bill Gates is investing in as any indicator of what we should be doing.
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by grecy 3y ago
It's interesting you wouldn't study Software Engineering to call yourself a Software Engineer.
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by grecy 3y ago
Interesting, thanks for the information - I think it would be worth including that info to make it clear you're not an "Engineer". At a company I worked at basically everyone had that in their title including "Sales engi
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by grecy 3y ago
Absolutely, and it’s interesting to realize the same was true for the first couple of iPhone versions, iPads and Apple Watch. As long as those apps come, it could be great
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by grecy 3y ago
Good point. In those 10 years Falcon 9 flew 84 times [1]. So I would think Starship needs to fly roughly a similar number of times before it will be human rated. Even if they launch one a month from now on, it will take ~7 years. So I think
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by grecy 3y ago
Yes, that is exactly the case today. There are 43 self-governing first nations communities in Canada where "Canadian" laws mean nothing, and "Canadian" police have no power. https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca&#x2
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by grecy 3y ago
> If it's not Canada's land then can I come in there and break laws and say Canadian law doesn't apply because it's not Canada? There are 43 first nations communities in Canada that are entirely self-governing. The
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by grecy 3y ago
I drove across the Simpson Desert in Central Australia. 600km of absolutely nothing. No buildings, no water, just two sandy tire tracks through the desert [1]. The stars were utterly breathtaking, the milky way was so bright it kept me awak
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by grecy 3y ago
I just looked it up. The first Falcon 9 flight was June 2010. The first Falcon 9 with astronauts was May 2020. 10 years to get human certified.
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by grecy 3y ago
No apology needed, thankyou very much!
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by grecy 3y ago
Interesting Asterix on that is the humans will only be on Starship from Lunar orbit down to the moon surface and then back to lunar orbit again. No humans aboard during Starship launch, transit to and from the moon or re-entry. (For complet
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by grecy 3y ago
that.... makes a lot of sense. Thanks. Somehow I was thinking it was super risky to be in the general area, but your numbers show that is clearly no the case.
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by grecy 3y ago
From a safety perspective, how does that work? This is obviously a test, and safe to say the vehicle was out of control and not entirely predictable. I realize they wouldn't fly into the actual predicted landing area, but just being cl
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by grecy 3y ago
That is really cool. For those of us that are space nerds but don't have the depth of understanding, do you mind walking us through the calculation above?
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by grecy 3y ago
They fold in/out on Falcon 9, but for the starship booster the decided it's not worth it. The extra weight and complexity to fold them in/out doesn't provide enough of a benefit. Elon talked about it a couple of years ba
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by grecy 3y ago
> This bill limits TikTok’s distribution, not existence nor even access to Americans. Wait for it.
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by grecy 3y ago
> it's not about copying anything China does, it's about reciprocating restrictions Your justification is literally "They're doing it to us, so we should do it to them". Apply that logic to everything China doe
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by grecy 3y ago
You can take a step back to explain this in the "bigger picture" sense. The US is a for profit country. Virtually everything is done with the intent of making profit, rather than to benefit citizens. This is different than other d
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by grecy 3y ago
I think that is a slippery slope race to the bottom of morals/ideals. Pretty soon you have "China doesn't let people say bad things about their leader, neither should we" and "China uses force to take things from ot
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by grecy 3y ago
You're limiting the information US Citizens can get from the outside world - therefore you are limiting their freedom of thought and access to information. I think it's a dangerous road to go down, the US is already extremely inwa
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by grecy 3y ago
I look forward to buying a cheap “base” car that requires a ton of subscriptions… and then not buying a single one, keeping it a cheap car.

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