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by laverya 6y ago
In general, a two-party system will evolve such that both parties control ~50% of the relevant votes averaged over multiple elections. Individuals might stick to their principles and refuse to compromise, but parties are not so limited. Los
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by laverya 6y ago
Yes, Trump underperformed relative to 2016 - and yet the Republicans made gains in the House, and maintained control of the Senate. The fact that the presidential race is close enough to still be under contention days after election night s
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by laverya 6y ago
I don't understand your meaning. Texas and Georgia are almost blue at least partly because minority voters overwhelmingly vote blue, and the proportion of minorities has been increasing over time. Changing that vote share to 60-40 inst
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by laverya 6y ago
Trump appears to have done better with minority voters than any other Republican presidential candidate in recent memory, which will do something to counter the 'aging out' that you describe.
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by laverya 6y ago
So if I'm reading that correctly, they DO log who's using which IP address at which time. Which makes sense for abuse tracking, but means this really isn't the service to use for torrents. EDIT: actually, from the whitepaper
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by laverya 6y ago
The Intercept article by Glenn Greenwald linked a few posts up the chain.
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by laverya 6y ago
Why 8 years? What's stopping tech companies and media outlets from continuing to support Biden next year as strongly as they have this election season?
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by laverya 6y ago
Wouldn't it be the standards of the people that lived there that mattered? I'd certainly die if placed in such a situation, but cultural knowledge is a technology too.
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by laverya 6y ago
> Evolution has geared us for this world. We might be able to cobble together a survival elsewhere, but I doubt we could ever thrive. People on Earth thrived in the Arctic, which is incredibly far from the savannas of Africa, and did thi
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by laverya 6y ago
Columbus had a hard time finding anyone to fund his suicide expedition. Everyone (well, everyone sufficiently well educated) knew the Earth was round, and knew the approximate size. Columbus mistranslated units and ended up with a world abo
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by laverya 6y ago
So, funnily enough, Michigan ranks above California on USNews's k-12 education metric, 29:37. [0] So does Texas, at 33. And Missouri. And Virginia. And Florida. I think your stereotype of "smart liberals spending money for a good
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by laverya 6y ago
Only minimum scale really matters - past that you can just cluster engines to get the desired acceleration. Minimum scale for any sort of nuclear thermal rocket is below what you'd want for a manned interplanetary mission, and is thus
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by laverya 6y ago
Oberth effect is useful for every reasonable trip - since every reasonable trip either originates or ends deep within a gravity well. (And being in orbit deep within a gravity well implies being at high velocity) It's why you make an e
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by laverya 6y ago
Ion engines are still limited by power density - higher ISPs take quadratically more power input at reasonable ISPs. (As in, at non-relativistic velocities) Thermal rockets have a lower upper bound, but come with higher thrusts. Everything
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by laverya 6y ago
And you can get 1300-1500s ISP from a liquid core NTR, too - or 3-5000s from a gas core NTR. Sure, no one's ever built a liquid core NTR, but there have been designs made. And needless to say, "tens of newtons" is not the pro
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by laverya 6y ago
Small accelerations over long periods are great! But when you're using electric propulsion, how small starts to become an issue. As far as I'm aware ion thrusters have TWRs in the 1/1000 range - NERVA's were in the ~1
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by laverya 6y ago
NERVA was targeting thrust to weight ratios of <5, though - which isn't high enough to lift off of the ground with. Makes a fantastic upper stage engine, but a rather useless first one.
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by laverya 6y ago
Nuclear rockets are almost exclusively proposed for use as upper stage engines or for interplanetary transfers. One major reason for this is "no one wants their launch complex to glow", which is a major downside of the currently f
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by laverya 6y ago
> Thermal rocket is going to loose to well designed electric one. Depends on your metric. For a given tech level, you'll get higher thrust/weight out of a Nuclear Thermal Rocket than you would from a Nuclear Electric Rocket, ev
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by laverya 6y ago
> we can't find any lasting intervention (beyond very early childhood) to improve people's IQ We have, actually! It's just that they've all been implemented already. Iodine supplementation was huge. (Childhood Iodine
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by laverya 6y ago
> Combining Youtube Likes with the music thumbs up makes no sense - I now have lecture videos that randomly play while trying to shuffle my library If there was a way to say "no, this isn't music", this would be easily so
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by laverya 6y ago
Well, that could easily still be the case if there was one code for Windows and one for OS X.
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by laverya 6y ago
This is something like 17th in a series - see https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/ for all of the things leading up to it! They're all worth reading, if you have the time.
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by laverya 6y ago
I'd really like to know how large the undercount is estimated to be. Is it 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? Because that changes how I think of this. If you've undercounted LA county population by 1,000 that's a completely different beast th
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by laverya 6y ago
> Obama is the only president in recent memory not actively involved in some scandalous behavior. Uhhhhh... Not involved in scandalous behavior that you knew of , perhaps. Fast&Furious [0] would have been a major scandal in a Republ
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by laverya 6y ago
IMO it would be pretty useful for Reddit too: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=reddit.com
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by laverya 8y ago
Replicated | Backend Engineer - All Levels | $90k - $160k + equity | Los Angeles ONSITE | https://www.replicated.com At Replicated we are building modern deployment frameworks that make it simple for SaaS vendors to deliver to e
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by laverya 8y ago
And I'm saying that you're wrong there - the chance of getting more than half of the blocks approaches 1 as the number of blocks increases, given that you have 51% of the hashing power. You're focused on the chance of getting
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by laverya 8y ago
They don't need to get ahead by six blocks. They need to get ahead, with at least six blocks mined on the public chain. There's a massive difference there! The chain starts at block 1000, and you make a spend that will be included