greglindahl

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by greglindahl 6y ago
This proposal doesn't involve launching humans on New Glenn.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Blue Origin's stuff is intended to optionally launch on Vulcan, which probably means it could also launch on FH.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Boeing was also a bidder for a recent cargo-to-the-lunar-gateway contract. 4 bidders, Boeing's bid was judged defective as well as having the highest cost.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
The first somewhat-detailed description of military marching is in a 16th century dance manual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoinot_Arbeau
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Thanks for engaging with the HN community. I'm a bit disappointed that the original article doesn't say if the author is associated with your company. At one point he says "We", but it's never clear. Did I miss some
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by greglindahl 6y ago
You might want to read upon horizontal gene transfer. But it's not reproduction.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
The "right fruit" usually depends on personal tastes plus the application: eating whole fruit, juice/fermented juice, preserves, baking, accent flavor in a salad. There are a lot of reasons that things can end up in the dustb
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by greglindahl 6y ago
The usual caveats are things like "we can't build a car-sized one" or "we can't manufacture it cost-effectively" or "we thought we could improve it a lot but couldn't". New breakthrough every mon
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Unix is user-friendly. It also has high expectations of its users.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Have you considered moving to California? The economic benefit of states experimenting with laws is that you can choose what makes sense for you, instead of just accepting what's on offer in Seattle.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Other big companies, like IBM, seem to do OK with OSS contributions by employees.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
... as mentioned above, in the US both programming employees and independent contractors doing programming usually sign a pre-employment agreement that makes all of this clear.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Finally!
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by greglindahl 6y ago
I'm guessing you don't live in urban California, where most grocery stores installed L2 chargers 5 years ago? They were intended for short-range EV charging, and most EVs aren't short range enough to find them useful. I rarel
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by greglindahl 6y ago
It collided with "If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault." I'm happy to defend your right to say stupid things from the top of a soapbox in the public square. I'm not happy to stop business owners
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by greglindahl 6y ago
The article you mention has no discussion of ammonia, just hydrogen and LOHC. That plus your mention of shipping energy into Canberra makes me wonder if we're actually communicating with each other at all.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Try considering what the authors of the paper mean.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
"When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?" -- John Maynard Keynes
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Uh, OK. We're N years into the Hydrogen Revolution and the only problem is that people are ignorant? It was the 2017 Mirai that was supposed to be powerful and cheap. Now it's 2021. The old model had 151 hp. The new one has... ? n
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by greglindahl 6y ago
I totally agree that power lines have improved recently. That fiddles with the details, and doesn't change the fact that even if these advances pan out, there will be (very long) distances that you'll want to ship energy that will
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by greglindahl 6y ago
Every HN thread mentioning EVs has at least one person concerned because they personally can't charge a car at home. It rarely leads to good discussion.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
OK, I guess it's a problem with no known solution, even though EV sales are climbing nicely. Me, I've owned an EV for 6 years, and live in an apartment. 6 years ago the pessimistic estimate was that what has actually happened toda
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by greglindahl 6y ago
So, for example, a power line from Algeria to Europe is cheaper than a ship-based ammonia scheme? Or northern Australia to China or Japan? Power lines are a winner for short distances. Pipelines some longer distances. And ships for the long
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by greglindahl 6y ago
You could have made the same comment 6 years ago, and behold, lots more people drive EVs today than 6 years ago. There's been a lot of progress in cajoling and requiring apartment complexes and workplaces to install chargers, and Tesla
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by greglindahl 6y ago
I'm not an expert in non-Tesla L3 chargers, but this thing I found with a little Googling appears to give locations: http://www.westcoastgreenhighway.com/electrichighway.htm
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by greglindahl 6y ago
The main utility for ammonia is to transport energy long distances at industrial scale, not for individual vehicles. So, for example, you'd build a huge solar farm where it's very sunny, or a huge wind farm where it's windy.
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by greglindahl 6y ago
I don't think there's an assumption there. The alternative fuel cars that sell well are the long-range ones. Sure, people mostly drive them locally, but it appears to be the case that there's comfort in knowing that they can
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by greglindahl 6y ago
I walked past a guy standing outside the Palo Alto Creamery, and he was reading from a copy of Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler -- it's a very distinctive looking book. Turns out he was a guy with a non-math background who had taught himsel
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by greglindahl 6y ago
And the MWP did not cause the entire Earth to warm, so, here we have yet another green username sounding authoritative but being a bit wrong.
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by greglindahl 7y ago
> The categories of people you mention that shouldn't be counted... all of those people live in and have an effect on society. Those people are counted. I'm not sure why you're flaming someone attempting to educate you abo

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