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by lutorm 4y ago
Is that so?
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by lutorm 4y ago
For all practical purposes, doesn't Shotwell run SpaceX and Elon just shows up to give "input", whenever the capital raise du-jour is necessary, and to do the marketing and PR? No.
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by lutorm 4y ago
My impression is that most "PV+storage" plants have storage enough to handle uneven loads and production rates on maybe hour timescales during the day. The storage required to provide overnight supply, though, is much larger, no
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by lutorm 4y ago
I believe there is no gateway (ground station) problem. It only needs to be in view of the satellite, not in the same cell, and even if there is no gateway in sight, laser backhaul is now operational (see starlink providing service in Antar
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by lutorm 4y ago
I've worked 20h weeks for the past 18 months. It's been great. I actually wanted to do 24h but they said they only allowed 75% and 50% part time. I was wondering how it would work to do a 4h day but it's actually a nice way t
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by lutorm 4y ago
When investors put short-term profit ahead of long term brand viability...
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by lutorm 4y ago
I don't agree with that. There is a way to clearly signal that you're standing behind the quality of your products: offer an outstanding warranty. If I was choosing between brand A and twice as expensive brand B, and brand B said
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by lutorm 4y ago
Phone company finally pulled fiber here where we used to only have cable. Now getting faster service for half the cost compared to Spectrum. So it does happen. Maybe they'll raise the price once they've gotten everyone to switch..
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by lutorm 4y ago
Wikipedia puts the radioactive decay of isotopes at half of the heat flux from the core. So yes, eventually it will cool down, but it is absolutely generating internal heat.
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by lutorm 4y ago
My understanding is that it's "solved" in the sense you say, we know that the solution obeys the NS equations. The problem is that we can't actually solve them on a sufficient range of scales to actually make that knowle
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by lutorm 4y ago
Aren't these ... just blueshifting the colors back to a visible light image, which is how they would look if they were moving at the same relative speed as us? No. There are basically two things influencing the colors of galaxies, th
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by lutorm 4y ago
Well, it's from the total mass, but yeah that's mostly dark matter.
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by lutorm 4y ago
Leaking natural gas tends to leave you exploded, too...
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by lutorm 4y ago
It doesn't scale like that, though. If the % of people with college degrees had increased by 6x, to 24%, would you expect 6/5 of students to have parents with a college degree?
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by lutorm 4y ago
I think it's targeted at maritime business, not individual consumers.
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by lutorm 4y ago
That's how badly they need people! ;-)
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by lutorm 4y ago
I work for a privately held company so, no, our valuation (if you believe it) has not dropped and so neither has the paper value of my equity compensation.
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by lutorm 4y ago
I dunno, it seems the people who say "socialism is bad" these days use it to explicitly mean those contexts that have little to do with actual socialism, like paid parental leave or universal healthcare. They may not be includin
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by lutorm 4y ago
Sounds kind of similar to the idea of bringing gas prices down through a "gas tax holiday"...
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by lutorm 4y ago
I did exactly this with Fidelity's customer service, and I was impressed to see that the text message I received did NOT say "don't share this with anyone", like their normal login messages do. Instead, it said "giv
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by lutorm 4y ago
The amount of control American universities exercise over their students is mind-boggling to me. I went to Uppsala University in Sweden, which has a rich and varied student life. But none of that has anything to do with the University (any
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by lutorm 4y ago
Not at industry scale, I don't think. At least according to these guys: https://www.absolicon.com/
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by lutorm 4y ago
I'm running my own tiny WP server and I hate that block thing. Good to know other people are feeling the same.
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by lutorm 4y ago
Really? The need to look far down the road is literally the first thing that comes up if you google "where should I look when driving": * In order to avoid last minute moves and spot possible traffic hazards, you should always loo
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by lutorm 4y ago
Indeed. This is why you can't drive around just looking at the back of the car in front of you , you need to look way down the road. The distance to the car in front of you needs to be large enough that you can react if that driver
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by lutorm 4y ago
That, plus the lack of full sensual inputs (G-forces, turbulence, vestibular experiences, the full outside view) makes it quite a bit of a lesser experience than the real thing. There's a reason you don't need much equipment for a
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by lutorm 4y ago
https://youtu.be/yR0lWICH3rY
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by lutorm 4y ago
Not true, the requirement is to ever have had a 3rd class medical. So yes, you still need to see a medical examiner once, but after that you never have to again. And I'd argue it does not benefit the elderly, it benefits everyone. In
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by lutorm 4y ago
I don't think that's entirely fair. Yes, they seem very conservative and often taking a punitive approach, but: https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/07/20210728-g100ul.htm... "FAA approves first hi
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by lutorm 4y ago
Yeah, I agree. "Light aircraft" seems to imply that you are passively-stable and can glide to the ground in case of powerplant failure, which can't be true for these things. Powered-lift seems like a more appropriate classifi

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