kashkhan

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by kashkhan 10y ago
because their competitors stand to benefit. The governments will get the fines and the dead people will get nothing.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
The rules have always been for the benefit of industry, not to save lives. The government explicitly shields corporations from liability.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
is that why all governments seem to want to have them?
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by kashkhan 10y ago
millions of lives ARE lost as result of ordinary industrial activity. Also Billions of lives are possible. It's a tradeoff.
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by kashkhan 11y ago
air can probably beat rubber tires.
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by kashkhan 11y ago
Exactly. auto piloting VTOL gives you the ultimate freedom. how to do a self separating ATC system with robot planes is the thorny problem. But once that is solved uber for robot planes will beat any ground bound system (except in really ba
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by kashkhan 11y ago
total energy = power * time planes can give you greater mpg than cars. A 70 year old cessna can gives you 15mpg. A modern plane can give you 40 MPG. Hovering is inefficient (10gph) but it can be only 2 minutes of a 20 minute, 60 mile VTOL
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by kashkhan 11y ago
Science covers a large range of precision. you also have things like c or α known to much higher precision than the average engineering quantity.
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by kashkhan 11y ago
there is often difference between a rant and a credible deliberate threat.
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by kashkhan 11y ago
the laws are already adequate to prevent such abuse.
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by kashkhan 11y ago
was he really? is there any third party data to back up his assertion? He may have been extended, but that doesn't mean he was almost in the poorhouse. Billionaires getting ruined doesn't happen any more.
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by kashkhan 11y ago
> And SpaceX employees do work incredibly hard. One employee, Steve Davis, director of advanced projects, has reportedly been putting in 16-hour days every day for years.
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So you can't work 16 hours a day for years? SpaceX folks can(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by kashkhan 11y ago|1 comments
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by kashkhan 11y ago
here's elon musk on the matter: http://www.simplethingcalledlife.com/2015/elon-musk-usc-succ... > And if you do the simple math, say that someone else is working 50 hours and you’re working 100, you’ll get twic
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by kashkhan 11y ago
do you have a cost breakdown for a Li ion battery?
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by kashkhan 12y ago
wouldn't it be easy for facebook to deactivate the current fake account?
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by kashkhan 12y ago
the competition is an illusion. The airlines are shafting customers while making more money than ever before. There isn't serious competition domestically in the US like there is in europe. There is no Ryanair here. http://h
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by kashkhan 12y ago
yep beam transportation a'la star trek is just round the corner. The fools that say it will take a thousands years are just as misguided as einstein was on nuclear energy. We need to urgently enact regulation for beaming, otherwise bad
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AI needs regulation(venturebeat.com)
2 points by kashkhan 12y ago|0 comments
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by kashkhan 12y ago
so $150B/5200 = 28MM . So $1.2 million per hour. and for 3 occupants, $400,000 per hour each. I am sure the experience is awesome, but i wonder if space could have been done better.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
in the pre napster days of anonymous FTP servers and IRC the "compliant sheep" were unaware of the existence of MP3s and all the great tech run by the independent minded. Today with the docker type tech being developed, it is only
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by kashkhan 12y ago
the first problem is the evening peak when everyone tries to get on at the same time and watch netflix/youtube. The second problem is the link equation from your hemi antenna handset to the satellite 1000km away that passes by in 100s.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
at any time 200 of the 700 will be above land and half of those over desert/tundra. so basically 100 sats will serve 1 Billion people. Assuming each can do 10Gbps that's 1Tbps divided by 1B. so average of 10kbps per terminal. whic
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by kashkhan 12y ago
yes. space is free for all above 100km. It's like international waters beyond 20NM. No you can't shoot. Shooting is an act of war, just like sinking a ship in the mid atlantic.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
viasat is a bit heavier than the 100kg sats that will be done here. Doing 100Gbps with $1MM is unlikely although it might be possible in 5 years. 15 year lifetime in 1000km orbit is not very likely, 5-7 year tops given propellant requiremen
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by kashkhan 12y ago
that you say "minority rights are growing" means that you accept that minority rights are short of where they should be. People don't choose anarchy because they want violence. They choose it because they don't like viol
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by kashkhan 12y ago
Do you consider all of north-america uniting under one federal government as non-absurd? how about north and south america? how about all the rest of the world? How about if you didn't have borders and didn't need to spend money o
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by kashkhan 12y ago
I hope you succeed in changing the system. School for most kids is "prison-lite". Like if you don't show up on time for roll call, you get punished by being held in recess or forced to pick up garbage around the school. And t
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by kashkhan 12y ago
> is restrained to protect the rights of minority groups. yes restrained somewhat. But there still are many minorities in the US whose rights are not protected. > Contrast this with anarchism, where the majority can tyrannize over min
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by kashkhan 12y ago
We have many evil countries because we can't do anything about it, but we don't say that it is the sovereign right of those countries to exist. Sovereign rights are not sacred. They are a holdback from the middle ages that allow t

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