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by kanox 6y ago
> surely there must be already a lot of trade studies on the next steps, and at least some rough plans. Starship was always designed to refuel in Earth orbit, land on Mars, refuel on Mars and fly back to Earth in a single stage. This kin
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by kanox 6y ago
There are space companies other than SpaceX which participated in the same contracts and were nowhere nearly as successful. * Boeing did not yet deliver commercial crew. * Antares rocket did not expand beyond ISS delivery. * Blue Origin is
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by kanox 6y ago
> vehicle looking for a purpose While I agree that Starship is very much an early-stage project it has a clear commercial utilization: Starlink. Assuming demand for Starlink is strong and SpaceX will be able to scale it up like crazy sin
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by kanox 6y ago
The $146 million figure is specifically for new engines that are no longer designed to be reusable.
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by kanox 6y ago
SLS is not "for science", it's a jobs program for Shuttle contractors.
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by kanox 6y ago
Trump's attempt at forcing a sale of TikTok to an US company is state-sponsored banditry.
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by kanox 6y ago
Before people jump on the Intel-bashing bandwagon I'd like to point out that this is very similar to clkscrew for arm socs: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit... Frequency scali
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by kanox 6y ago
Prisons containing too many people for bad reasons is a separate problem from prisons being violent.
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by kanox 6y ago
TL;DR: People lie to pollsters.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Targeted ads and recommendation engines need to be banned. I don't see how you can "ban ads" without instituting totalitarian dictatorship. Targeted arguments are a core part of political campaigning and polarization has
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by kanox 6y ago
It's not censorship if the post is still accessible. It's Twitter inc. expressing their opinion.
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by kanox 6y ago
People are often perfectly willing to live with stigma. 70 million people did go and vote for Trump.
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by kanox 6y ago
> They are responding to free speech with their own free speech. Yes, this is unironically a good thing. It means that Twitter is acting as a publisher rather than a neutral channel but nobody is willing to pretend that corporations are
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by kanox 6y ago
> Ironicaly you missed the most important point: who decides what is fake news? In this case, twitter. And it's fine to disagree with the fact checkers.
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by kanox 6y ago
> People that care deeply about free-speech tend to want a level playing ground for every person in a discussion, and to not have platforms that have a centralised bias for or against different messages or identities. By that argument fr
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by kanox 6y ago
Also IPv6 was almost entirely unavailable until a few years ago. There's no point in learning how to use ipv6 if your ISP does not support it.
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by kanox 6y ago
Both of those scenarios are perfectly compatible with ipv6, corporate IT needs to replace NAT with an ipv6 firewall for access to the public internet. However it's also true that ipv6 does not give many advantages to a team that alread
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by kanox 6y ago
The article makes a lot of points and all of them are pretty weak and stem entirely from ipv4 being the "established" protocol. In every case if you had an ipv6 config that worked and you wanted to switch to the ipv4 way of doing
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by kanox 6y ago
> The value proposition for winforms and WPF for me is that they have been around forever and will continue to be around forever. Checking on wikipedia shows that winforms was introduced in 2002 and wpf in 2006. This makes me feel very o
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by kanox 6y ago
ISPs are NOT a natural monopoly, you can have multiple sets of wires going to every building. This is the situation in my part of Europe and my internet is pretty damn fast. Treating ISPs as a monopoly is fundamentally wrong.
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by kanox 6y ago
I don't think this is a monopoly problem as much as a collusion problem: multiple providers exist but many regions each have a single provider. If this is a deliberate agreement then it's extremely illegal. Where I live there are
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by kanox 6y ago
> The city is littered with e-scooters whose name changes every few months. You claim to be against monopolies but are unwilling to tolerate even the slight inconvenience of seeing scooters parked around? I personally love them for their
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by kanox 6y ago
Running CI against arbitrary code is extremely difficult to do securely and I'm not sure anyone does more than a token effort. Test infrastructure is not designed to run against malicious code. One of the examples dumps environment var
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by kanox 6y ago
> Would you just set up multiple “origins” with each one pointing to a head maintainer’s computer (and named appropriately)? Yes. Instead of github.com/username/project people host git repos on their own machines.
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by kanox 6y ago
Something is terribly wrong if astronomy of all fields encountered a reproducibility crisis.
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by kanox 6y ago
> I really don't understand how a company can get away with using its customers as QA when they sell products that can kill people. They already claim that drivers must pay attention to the road in order to prevent accidents and thi
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by kanox 6y ago
Tesla released data for autopilot, FSD beta has been out for ~1 week so there's not much real data.
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by kanox 6y ago
An average increase is supported by data, food production issues is really not.
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by kanox 6y ago
A functional democracy requires that all parties agree to abide by the result of the election and peaceful transfer of power. Endorsing violent resistance is the opposite of that.
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by kanox 6y ago
> crop destruction by droughts, freak storms, or flooding rains Aggregate data is much more relevant than anecdotes.

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