maaku

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541.
by maaku 11y ago
Legal death is not the same as biological death.
542.
by maaku 11y ago
How do I _prevent_ an autopsy from being performed on me? As a cryonicist, I find what is being advocated for very scary...
543.
by maaku 11y ago
Oh I'm aware of that disgusting and misogynistic community. I think the irony of those comments in context might have been lost on you though.
544.
by maaku 11y ago
wtf was this exchange?
545.
by maaku 11y ago
It's very easy to learn. Find someone willing to go camping with you for a weekend and teach you the basics. It'll really just take a few hours and you'll enjoy the rest of the time.
546.
by maaku 11y ago
No, we solve that one second, when there is actually a reason to solve it. Step one is ending the ongoing holocaust. Step 2 is finding room for the refugees. Would you have argued that absent provocation the Allied powers should have done n
547.
by maaku 11y ago
SpaceX was pretty much him though.
548.
by maaku 11y ago
Why would it care about harming humans?
549.
by maaku 12y ago
Or have a return ticket on the same reservation. The bags will not go to the destination however. They should delay takeoff and pull them off the plane when you don't get on.
550.
by maaku 12y ago
He didn't say anything about tax rates. What he said was that tax returns are public information, meaning you or I can look up anyone's income.
551.
by maaku 12y ago
I thank you for doing the right thing.
552.
by maaku 12y ago
Authoritarian government.
553.
by maaku 12y ago
Rain clouds and radio don't mix well. That's why weather stations use radar (radio) to detect clouds.
554.
by maaku 12y ago
Not to mention weather...
555.
by maaku 12y ago
Langevin was ;)
556.
by maaku 12y ago
This is a transport problem, however. Why not calculate the error correction codes on the fly? Why wast disk blocks?
557.
by maaku 12y ago
The FEC is implemented in the hard drive firmware. You're going to read back a full correct block or the whole block will fail. You're not going to read back a block with a single bit error, so it is insanity to protect against th
558.
by maaku 12y ago
No, I just think rounded rectangles are ugly.
559.
by maaku 12y ago
All of those are hideously ugly. What's your point?
560.
by maaku 12y ago
This is actually a field I've thought a lot about, in no small part because whoever solves this problem stands to profit a lot . The problem is time horizons. Extraterrestrial mining projects from conception to first delivery is proba
561.
by maaku 12y ago
Such an operation would take decades, and centuries probably to exhaust and return to Earth the entire asteroid. In the process and in response the size of the Earth economy will grow due to the introduction of a vast new supply of industri
562.
by maaku 12y ago
If only there were a way to assert mining claim rights over space resources :(
563.
by maaku 12y ago
Composition would be strikingly different. Elements which are rare in the Earth's crust (and therefore, expensive) are rare because during the formation of the Earth they sank under gravity and now reside near the core of the planet. C
564.
by maaku 12y ago
You are absolutely correct, thank you for the correction.
565.
by maaku 12y ago
And the other options are...? I can think of nuclear thermal, which has its risks, and Orion-like bomb propulsion which no sane civilization would use. What else? Most non-chemical propulsive mechanisms considered for space travel do not ha
566.
by maaku 12y ago
Human beings are not absolutely focused, money-seeking, rational economic actors.
567.
by maaku 12y ago
> They can independently decide to change the rules of the 'Bitcoin protocol' a) at will b) retroactively. I cannot reconcile this with claims that Bitcoin is 'does not require trust' or is 'decentralized.'&
568.
by maaku 12y ago
For basically every piece of software I work on this would have horrible security implications. Let me spell it out in black and white: every time someone does a deployment, by default it will download code from the internet and incorporate
569.
by maaku 12y ago
Why?
570.
by maaku 12y ago
Problem f'ing solved.

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