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by lutorm 6y ago
Indeed, why not! We have an absurd number of software job openings now, both on the Starlink network side and the flight software / simulation side. Bonus points if you have a top secret clearance. https://www.spacex.com&#x2
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by lutorm 6y ago
I haven't seen this issue arise very often in software No? Maybe not if you're a software-only company. But for pretty much every hardware (a gadget, a car, a rocket, whatever), the software is part of it and it aint working unt
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by lutorm 6y ago
Exactly. Censorship is done by the government. A private entity can not "censor" anyone, legally. And the idea that the President of the United States is deprived of a platform by this is ludicrous.
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by lutorm 6y ago
Because (enough) people are buying them anyway?
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by lutorm 6y ago
Arguably, death by old age is not a bad thing, it's the gold standard which we can all hope to reach.
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by lutorm 6y ago
Why? For a roughly stable population like the US, the "baseline" is that something like 1/79/52 of the population dies every week, since life expectancy is 79 years. Zero deaths is nonsensical.
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by lutorm 6y ago
Another interpretation is that the most vulnerable have already been culled, so now the virus has to work harder.
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by lutorm 6y ago
My small population study (size: 1) showed a clear causation of cerumen impaction after Q-tip use. Your results may vary, but they don't work for me.
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by lutorm 6y ago
It seems that if you do that, you will not get any updates, including security updates?
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by lutorm 6y ago
As the other post says, this cannot be true, otherwise how could the engine work. You'd not get any propellant into the combustion chamber.
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by lutorm 6y ago
You seem to have missed that the point was that they denied benefits to US citizens , merely because someone else in the household did not have a SSN. But regarding actual illegal immigrants, it's amazing how many people complain abou
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by lutorm 6y ago
I believe there are several qualifiers on that number, though. For example, the CDC "close contact" guidelines say that a close contact is "someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minu
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by lutorm 6y ago
I don't think the fact that we don't use railguns to launch things into space is because of energy cost. It's just not technologically feasible.
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by lutorm 6y ago
You could make all vehicles pay road usage tax, keep charging fuel tax and use the latter to subsidize fuel efficient vehicles. It doesn't solve the question of how to make that palatable to the majority of people who can't afford
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by lutorm 6y ago
Storage or better transmission infrastructure...
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by lutorm 6y ago
Is it really so different from the "EB-5" immigrant investor visa, which gives a citizenship path to foreigners who invest at least $1.8M in the US?
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by lutorm 6y ago
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), also known as the “Betamax case”, is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the making of individual copies of complete
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by lutorm 6y ago
Both use the jaw shape to bite into the pipe. The difference is that the plumber's wrench (never heard that name, the Swedish name translates directly as "pipe wrench") is that you can "help" it bite initially and t
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by lutorm 6y ago
We did a pretty fun lab with some high school students to drive home how hard it is to convey precise information. They were in pairs, separated by an opaque screen. We gave one of each pair a flag of a random country, and they were suppose
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by lutorm 6y ago
"so that we basically always have at least one phase providing power at any time" is sort of what makes things like AC motors run better on 3 phases.
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by lutorm 6y ago
At least in Sweden, all houses have a 3-phase, 400V supply. This is very different from the US which just supplies one phase to each house even if the supply itself is 3-phase. This is why you commonly see 200+A main breakers on a house in
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by lutorm 6y ago
My understanding is that GPL doesn't force the user to do _anything_ except license any derived work under GPL. It specifically doesn't put _any_ limits on what someone can do with that code precisely because doing so would limit
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by lutorm 6y ago
What if you, at some point, find that the America you love makes it abundantly clear that it does not love you back, though? At risk of affirming Godwin's law, I'm sure that a lot of people living in Nazi Germany thought Germany
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by lutorm 6y ago
You can still vote even as an expat...
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by lutorm 6y ago
I agree, but that doesn't affect the question of competitiveness between satellite and ground options. A few thousand satellites sounds like a lot, but the amount of ground installations that would have to be done to give the same area
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by lutorm 6y ago
Did you actually read the article? The impacts on research astronomy range from insignificant to significant depending on the application, and some things are harder to mitigate for than others. "Removing the streaks from the image&quo
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by lutorm 6y ago
To my knowledge no one's paying SpaceX to do Starlink at this point in time.
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by lutorm 6y ago
If you think you can competitively install fiber to all the areas that will be served by Starlink, then it seems you should be able to outcompete them. No one's preventing you from giving it a try.
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by lutorm 6y ago
This was posted in a deep link but I'm reposting it: SpaceX mitigations in progress: https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/ The OIR report, if you bother to actually read it, also details
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by lutorm 6y ago
Maybe he likes the exercise...

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