kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
Um, Henry Ford founded ... Ford Motor Company.
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by kobeya 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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by kobeya 9y ago
Multiple collisions. Multiple.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The main industrial use of helium is in selling cold -- things that need to be done cold are done at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Things that need to be _really_ cold are done at liquid helium temperatures. Think superconducting magnets an
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by kobeya 9y ago
> so party balloons are consuming an irreplaceable resource thanks to an effective subsidy from Congress who narrowmindedly decided to offload the Strategic Helium Reserve at submarket rates I prefer to think of this as "providing i
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by kobeya 9y ago
AMD has traditionally been a more consumer-friendly vendor and there was some hope that they might differentiate themselves from intel in this way, giving people concerned about this at least one major vendor to source their parts from. Ala
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by kobeya 9y ago
It runs in god mode with access to anything and everything, and is completely hidden from even system mode software. With access to peripherals it can access the network and take remote commands, exfiltrate data, etc. If you've ever us
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Out of service satellites are still most likely to be able to execute a controlled re-entry How? By a burn? That's a lot of fuel reserve to use up.
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by kobeya 9y ago
When collisions are more frequent than once per orbit you get effects where more than one collision cause a bit of debris to have itself lifted. MOST debris is deorbited, but a small fraction is lifted into a higher orbit overall. As these
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by kobeya 9y ago
In the case of a Kessler syndrom event it remains a concern. Collisions will push some debris higher while causing other pieces to enter early. The result would be a debris cloud that persists for decades even in LEO.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I would go to that hackathon.
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by kobeya 9y ago
As a father I concur. I'm not a cave diver although I have ambitions of extreme mountain climbing. It would be reckless and irresponsible of me to do that until my kids are grown however.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> In China, they have an authoritarian political system, but democratic economy space because they can actually vote with their wallets. Except the rampant nepotism and outright corruption that means the same oligarchy controls the futur
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by kobeya 9y ago
But the regions where people are hosting miners are between 2-4c per kWh. Those are the competition, and those are the people buying (and selling) these.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It's 3-4 cents in China. 2.3cents in Quebec. 2cents in Washington State (which is what the GP was referencing).
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by kobeya 9y ago
2 cents, not 20.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Both coincided with with revolutions in free thinking and civil liberties (first the enlightenment of the 17th century then the anti-monarchy reforms of the 19th century), and massive growths in prosperity. Coincidence? Maybe. 2 data points
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by kobeya 9y ago
This argument is nonsense. Maybe the problems of our society is rooted in history and institutions and a fresh start is what's required. Maybe an equitable society requires a frontier to satisfy some aspect of human psyche and provide
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by kobeya 9y ago
That's what off chain payments is for.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That's not legally binding.
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is not Reddit.
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by kobeya 9y ago
This guy gets it.
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by kobeya 9y ago
For which he received compensation.
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by kobeya 9y ago
So your rights were violated and you got legal recourse. Your complaint is?
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by kobeya 9y ago
What you call outliers I call people who did the necessary leg work.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> non-union employees can be hired, but must join the union That amounts to the same thing.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Why kill the DIMM? Cosmic ray bitflips don't harm the hardware, AFAIK.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You may have misread or I wasn't clear. My first job out of college was $72k. I'm now in a position to earn 3-4x that, remotely if I choose. (Less than 10 years into my career.)
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by kobeya 9y ago
Lack of networking contacts with the kind of companies that pay such money, probably. It's not like you just push a button and get a bigger paycheck. You have to hustle to find and land the job.
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by kobeya 9y ago
As an all-in, benefits included number? Yes that's fully achievable.

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