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by mabbo 4y ago
Oh that is a delightful idea. Now if we could breed them to also somehow produce usable fuel as a means of energy storage...
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by mabbo 4y ago
Setting aside the question of "compared to what?" (I presume they mean "more than normal folk"), I think it's more fun to brainstorm the question of "what could be done to prevent this?" I'm guessing
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by mabbo 4y ago
Queen of Canada for 44% of its existence[0]. My father remembers her coronation when he was a little kid- he's 75 now. Meanwhile my daughter is 6 months old and will likely live to see a half a dozen monarchs. [0] https://www
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's a bit of a half way point between variable rate mortgages and fixed 30-years that works better for everybody- most of the time. The banks are protected from whatever might happen a decade down the road. The homeowner has at least
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by mabbo 4y ago
Not even close to the heat generated by the sun's light hitting the earth. Orders of magnitude different. We currently generate most of this power in exactly the same way, but by burning coal and gas to make heat rather than by nuclear
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by mabbo 4y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens to the housing market. Mortgages in Canada have to be renewed every 2-5 years. Rates renegotiated. There have been rumblings for years that there are a huge number of homeowners who would be unable
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by mabbo 4y ago
The author misses a key important point: you can also eat the donkey .
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by mabbo 4y ago
I believe I saw a repo that was doing exactly that. They also included a step at the end to reintegrate the results better. I was also able to use the basic scripts to generate a few samples, pick one I liked, then used inpaint to expand th
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by mabbo 4y ago
An excellent point. Fortunately bigger tanks get better and better the bigger they are. The mass of the tanks is mostly a function of it's surface area, growing with n^2, while the fuel stored grows by n^3. And the SLS tank is pretty
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by mabbo 4y ago
Like all engineering decisions, hydrogen is a choice with tradeoffs. It's specific impulse ('fuel efficiency') is unbeatable. That buys you a lot more cargo capacity for the same sized rocket. And since this program is puttin
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by mabbo 4y ago
HackerNews truly does pull from a large swatch of interesting people, doesn't it?
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by mabbo 4y ago
Genuine question: does anyone here have a use case for 80Gbps? Maybe some kind of very high end VR headset?
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by mabbo 4y ago
You're thinking too small, friend. Build a space station with gravity via rotation. Then spin it up to 150% of normal gravity. Now everything is 50% heavier, yourself included!
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by mabbo 4y ago
> which calls for workers to stop volunteering at one location, which is being interpreted as a call for a strike No, this is called "working to rule". You don't do anything more than your contract stipulates you must. Wha
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by mabbo 4y ago
I believe the "RV" version of the service costs more but lets you move around over land- but they charge even more if you want to use it at sea. The reason is that SpaceX only can support so many users in a given region because ea
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by mabbo 4y ago
Makes sense. This is the target demographic for this service. Each ship can then split the bandwidth up into nice rentable subsets and charge an arm and a leg to guests so they can watch YouTube.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> But when you recognize that income is the fuel that makes work possible, it’s easier to see that basic income will enable far more work for multiple reasons. For one, having basic income means that people can choose unpaid or paid work
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by mabbo 4y ago
But that isn't how it works now. How it works now is "You build a rocket to go to the moon. Try to keep the price down, but we'll pay whatever it costs. Plus a profit margin when you're finished." The bidder say &qu
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by mabbo 4y ago
I do not want to see it fail. I want to see the SLS launch be a complete success. Everything we've dreamed it could be, finally. I don't want to see all the pork-barrel waste of money literally explode and be for nothing. But if i
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by mabbo 4y ago
Could I not just put the IP address in my url bar? Or do browsers go through DNS with that anyway?
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by mabbo 4y ago
> but at the DNS level Isn't this a bit like taking the phone numbers out of the phone book? Sure, people can't easily look them up, but if you know the right numbers , you don't need that. Or is there more than that?
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by mabbo 4y ago
Kangaroo schnitzel sounds intriguing but gamey.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Given that integer ratios tend to sound better, are there songs edited to use notes that maximize the number of integer ratios rather than the standard tuning? It would seem an easy hack to make people like your new pop track better. But th
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by mabbo 4y ago
There is- hundreds of people who immediately vote it up before even reading it.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I wonder if you could crowdsource this sort of project together with consumer equipment. You buy a telescope that meets certain requirements. You connect to the system. Whenever you aren't using it, the system is directing it as to whe
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by mabbo 4y ago
I recently upgraded to 1.5gbps and realized a few things. The downsides: the Cat5e cables inside my condo walls can't handle more than 1.0gbps; my desktop's network port also maxes out at 1.0gbps; the wifi router in my home can&#x
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by mabbo 4y ago
The problem is market power. We want a free market in which supply and demand dictate price without manipulation. But in any given region, there is a fixed supply of property that is slow to change to demand. And there is also a fixed dema
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by mabbo 4y ago
> seriously this is the thing you fear? fake porn? I'm being polite. Things will be so much worse. Someone will make child pornography using your child's face as the input. Someone is going to take private videos of politicians
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by mabbo 4y ago
The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will alw
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by mabbo 4y ago
But what if Neumann is some sort of financial Roko's Basilisk who will punish me for not helping him scam everyone out of money? Then logically I should help him scam me and everyone else!

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