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by jccooper 8y ago
ULA has one Delta II still unsold, which will now probably never fly. I should think they would be happy to unload it. Must be a little more to the story. My guess would be some mass growth in the mission that made them bump it up to an Atl
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by jccooper 8y ago
Like "in Canada where laws like this have been implemented for some time".
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by jccooper 9y ago
They do not need to be explained under the parent's rubric, because that's describing the provision of public goods by large organizations. FSF, EFF, and Wikipedia are small organizations and operate differently. Which the linked
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by jccooper 9y ago
I drive on an experimental highway surface daily. It's quieter, but uses an unorthodox drainage system (that at least feels less controlled in wet conditions). Only real use statistics will say for sure if it's safety-equivalent
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by jccooper 9y ago
The whole "marketing confusion" angle really only makes sense for new owners or renters. Anyone who owns or uses the car for any length of time knows what the system is and what it can do. There have been a few people who wrecked
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by jccooper 9y ago
Here's a less dumbed-down article from a bit earlier in the process: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/sites/dailyreportonlin... A 2012 law created an administrative review system for challenging patents,
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by jccooper 9y ago
The ICBMs are usually not 9m wide, made of carbon fiber, carrying transponders, and making a gliding reentry.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Infrared boost phase detectors on satellites have been around since the 60s. The US and Russian detection systems, at least, certainly know the origin of any ICBMs. There's not many parties that don't have that data and also have
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by jccooper 9y ago
That sort of democratic heroism is far from certain. "Regulators" and legislation are just as likely (or perhaps more) to be captured by and/or favor large incumbents as to combat them. By its very nature regulation favors es
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by jccooper 9y ago
They're not a cellular network; their base stations are not innumerable tiny mobile devices. They'll be small but sizable permanent mounts, so they can control geographic density if needed. It's a different beast so the same
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by jccooper 9y ago
Stephen King is publicly critical of Kubrick's treatment of "The Shining", mostly about its unchanging and one-dimensional characters. While I expect "2001" would not have been improved by a lot of explanatory voice
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by jccooper 9y ago
It's such a nonsense application of the rule that the people doing the regulation didn't even think about it for at least 8 years ( https://youtu.be/fshVNOJ-Wtg?t=296 ) so it's hard to fault SpaceX. It's
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by jccooper 9y ago
Getting to Venus is somewhat easier with good mission design, utilizing aero effects. Getting back is notably harder.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Simutrans ( https://www.simutrans.com/ ) is also a good option if you like this sort of thing. I like the "Simutrans Extended" version, which is a bit more simulator-ish and fixes some silly behaviors of the base.
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by jccooper 9y ago
"Sid Meier's San Francisco"?
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by jccooper 9y ago
Similarly they removed the Civ 4 culture flipping in Civ 5. And, way back, the "militia defeats battleship" after Civ 1. Unpredictable minor penalties that increase the micromanagement burden aren't especially fun.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Yes, but landings at sea tend to cause the video feed to go away, and it doesn't come back if anything goes wrong.
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by jccooper 9y ago
They do that in a carefully controlled way, well after the event is too cold for the news cycle. And even then, some events that are too dicey-looking are never seen. Mark, this is not a criticism. Given the way the media handles such thing
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by jccooper 9y ago
Because he believed that population would be limited only by resources, and that fertility rate was nearly invariant. These have both proved to be wrong. The popular imagination of the Mathusian prediction of inevitable mass starvation (whi
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by jccooper 9y ago
Ireland is more than its tax revenues.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Epigenetics can sometimes influence pigmentation, but expression of human skin and hair colors is pretty explicitly genetic, so you can expect the same results from the same genes a mere several thousand years apart.
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by jccooper 9y ago
As the article notes, there seem to have been several significant post-Ice Age re-populations in Europe, of which one or more of the incoming populations may have had little contact with Neanderthals. "Mixed" populations to the ea
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by jccooper 9y ago
Perhaps if a government wants to police illegal content they should have, say, the police or a court do it instead of an algorithm or an offshore cubicle farm. If "what is illegal offline is also illegal online" shouldn't the
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by jccooper 9y ago
That's ample time to exit homes and small buildings, which are are the structures likely to be most dangerous in a quake.
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by jccooper 9y ago
From the video the rotors seem to park in fixed wing flight. The extra large hubs may be designed for lift generation, however.
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by jccooper 9y ago
"the thing about the dods tracking capabilities" is true. They know what's up there, down to lost tool bags. The instances you're thinking of are either "lost" as in "presumed dead" (like IMAGE) or no
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by jccooper 9y ago
There's no reasonable limit if the password is being properly hashed. Just whatever fits in a request, really. My fear and supposition is that someone's storing the password in cleartext in some ancient SQL database somewhere, or
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by jccooper 9y ago
"Quickly" in this context is probably still weeks, and you could carry a little backup system to kick it into higher orbit in case of trouble. But really, low-flying com or imaging sats are probably parts of large, "cheap&quo
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by jccooper 9y ago
> The first part can be trivially automated Having done some cargo loading and unloading myself, good luck with that. It's a very heterogeneous environment and task.
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by jccooper 9y ago
No, it is not. It's a pyrophoric mixture. It is hypergolic with oxygen.

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