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by jjk166 7mo ago
That's actually not too difficult. So long as your process variance is centered around nominal, the stackup will tend to cancel out. You might run into trouble if your kit involves hundreds of identical pieces from the same batch being
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by jjk166 7mo ago
This is why we measure things in baby elephants per football field.
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For reference, if Didymos were on a collision course with earth, we'd need to our interceptor to hit it about 16,000 years prior to impact to get it to miss Earth, or more realistically a substantially larger kinetic impactor/ s
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by jjk166 7mo ago
More broadly, an incredible amount of our society's systems are built around actors being uncoordinated. Redesigning institutions to resist networks of coordinated action between seemingly unlinked individuals will, in my opinion, be o
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by jjk166 7mo ago
> And the epistemology shifts in ways that might be uncomfortable. Instead of "I understand the causal mechanism and can predict what happens if I change X," you get something more like "I have a sufficiently rich model th
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by jjk166 7mo ago
That was literally Nazi Germany's strategy for defeating Britain. Use advanced submarines to stop trade cutting off supplies of food and fuel from abroad. The Allies just made ships faster than they could be sunk. Today the US has 55 f
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by jjk166 7mo ago
That's not a countervailing argument, that is the argument. The side able to apply more industrial power defeated the side with more capable but less useful equipment. The US outspends the next 10 countries combined in peace times. B
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> The tiger was a massive pain in the dick to fix. It had a weak gearbox that took _hours_ to get to. Which is exactly the topic under discussion.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Maintenance is an issue for more than just profitability. More maintenance means fewer sorties in a given time period, heavier reliance on and utilization of supply chains, and fewer platforms that can be serviced by a given set of mechanic
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Yes, taking 16 kb to transmit what could have been transmitted in 1 kb with the express purpose of making communication more difficult. That is what semantically emptier means.
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> Look at Germany after they lost WW2; they still speak German. Their cultural identity is still very strong; maybe it affected their foreign policy a little but apart from that, it's hard to tell. Name a more dramatic overnight cul
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by jjk166 8mo ago
But they're not semantically rich. People who speak the code aren't doing it to more efficiently communicate, such that a long and complicated message can be expressed quickly. They are taking a short simple message, stripping awa
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by jjk166 8mo ago
In the test these weren't coded language, they were randomly generated phrases. The finding is that the people who don't know how to decipher the code are easily impressed by it and have poor analytical skills.
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by jjk166 8mo ago
> The Senate could have failed only if they intended to do something, but then couldn't do it. They, meaning a large number of senators, intended to do something, and then couldn't do it. This is the standard way every resoluti
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Orion was never aiming for anywhere. It was always meant to be a flexible module that could be used for whatever some future plan would come up with. It was developed as part of the Crewed Expeditionary Vehicle program explicitly as a flexi
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Delivery by meteorites isn't necessarily the only or even primary source, but the fact is that it is a source we can directly observe, and it is a sufficient source. Earth's primordial chemistry likely did create more, but the exi
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Can you name something which can't be spun by the media or that you could not believe Trump would try to use as an excuse? If something is always true, it is evidence of nothing in particular. Claiming this strike on Iran is an attempt
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by jjk166 8mo ago
North Korea didn't acquire nukes to protect itself from the US, it got them to protect its regime from China. It began pursuing nukes in the 80s once its original safeguard against China, its alliance with the Soviet Union, started sho
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by jjk166 8mo ago
We had elections during WW2, the largest war of all time; we had elections during the civil war when confederate troops were 30 miles from DC. An air campaign in the Middle East is just another tuesday by comparison. This theory falls flat
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Note that the Bennu asteroid sample had approximately 5 nanomoles of nucleotides per gram, meaning 20,000 moles of nucleotides could be delivered by a single 4 million ton asteroid, which if it were a spherical carbonaceous chondrite would
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Artemis was never a "return to the moon" program. NASA had one of those; congress killed it and replaced it with a "keep shuttle jobs going" program. There has always been and will always be pork spending, but in this ca
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Crackheads are what's left after everyone who demands more convenience leaves. The more convenient you make public transit, the more non-crackheads will be on the bus with you.
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Quite a big difference between stopping at a stop sign and a bus stop. Also there isn't a stop sign every block, on the larger streets that most of the busses run on there are lights at the intersections. While Philly does a pretty poo
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by jjk166 8mo ago
Those mandatory breaks are 45 minutes long. You're not charging 750 kWh in 45 minutes. With a fast charger 750 kWh is 2 to 7 hours. At the far more common level 2 chargers it's 18 hours. Either mandatory breaks need to be substant
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by jjk166 8mo ago
In the US the invention of the cotton gin reinvigorated slavery, which prior to that point had been declining. In the Antebellum south, slavery was profitable, with average return on slaves of about 8 to 10%. Even after slavery was legally
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by jjk166 8mo ago
> The reason bus stops are so close in Philadelphia is because they stop every block Which is the issue. Philadelphia's blocks were sized in the 1600s, they weren't designed to be the optimal spacing for bus stops. Given how ti
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Pretty sure just a drop in replacement would be an immediate improvement.
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>In the meantime, the financial industry will be taken over by cats. Cats would certainly be less flummoxed by stock values suddenly plummeting; they may even enjoy knocking them over.
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> I think the standard for public resources should be higher than this: it’s not good enough for it to be possibly useful, it has to be in fact useful. And what evidence do you have that it is not in fact useful? > TFA provides evid
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by jjk166 8mo ago
That something can be broken by a sufficiently bad actor does not mean it's not useful to the overwhelming majority of people who use it for what it was meant for.

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