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by mandevil 3y ago
I know at least at one point during the Cassini mission- though I confess I have not followed this in more than a decade it so I don't know if further study has refuted this idea- a popular theory for the rings was that basically Satur
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by mandevil 3y ago
They normally do- this flight left MUC two hours late which was why it was part of the VFR landing sequence on this one day and is not normally a problem.
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by mandevil 3y ago
There is a mathematical equation, a function of variables, on whether the reuse business case closes. The variables are, off the top of my head (I might have missed some) the base carrying cost of all the people necessary to run the space-s
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by mandevil 3y ago
Rickover effectively seized control of the entire USN submarine arm and ran it as a personal fief for three decades. I don't think that could possibly work with civilian power in the US, because it's NOT a military organization an
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by mandevil 3y ago
I suspect that the threat of something similar to Global Magnitsky Sanctions (cutting them off from all dollar-denominated accounts everywhere) is a pretty big stick to use in negotiations. For a financial firm like Binance, access to bank
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by mandevil 3y ago
A pillbox by itself is not worth much. A pillbox is, however, a key part of a network of defense. This really all got mapped out during the First and Second Big Mistakes back in the 20th Century. You have your individual defensive positions
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by mandevil 3y ago
Like I said, a lot of health care policy wonks in 2010 were definitely expecting the exchanges to be where the action was, and were talking about future changes that would allow employer subsidies onto the exchange or for higher wages in ex
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by mandevil 3y ago
This is my understanding, as someone married to a healthcare professional and with sick parents I've followed it reasonably well. Before the ACA went into effect, the main focus that everyone talked about was on the individual insuranc
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by mandevil 3y ago
To be clear, it doesn't work today because OS's reacted to neutralize the possibility. At this point there is so much "Internet Background Radiation" of constant port scanning and everyone has just accepted that you are
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by mandevil 3y ago
Even going to war involved a huge mass of people, which made it easier to get statistical safety for the insurance company. For writing insurance the fact that just 24 people ever (even to this day!) have left Earth orbit meant that the ris
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by mandevil 3y ago
See, I'm very skeptical that we can guess at the potential, because so much of it depends on research and figuring out better ways to do things going forward, and successful research programs are very unpredictable. I feel like people
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by mandevil 3y ago
The problem is that NYC doesn't control the MTA: it was taken under state control back in 1968. And the governor has too many other issues on his/her plate to care enough to give the agency the top-to-bottom revamp it desperately
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by mandevil 3y ago
It isn't the hobbyists who are making sure that PyTorch and other frameworks runs well on these chips, but teams of engineers who work for NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, etc. who are doing this as their primary assigned jobs, in exchange for mone
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by mandevil 3y ago
Eh, it goes both ways. Back in the 1970's and 1980's there was a whole lot of suspicion about changes that the NSA made to DES S-boxes with limited explanation- was it a backdoor in some way? Then in 1989 white hats "discover
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by mandevil 3y ago
It is very difficult to get out of a federal sentence without serving at least 85% of it. That's with good-behavior credits.
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by mandevil 3y ago
For receive only, yes, aperture synthesis (like the VLA and the GVLBI) is capable of resolving more precisely than even Arecibo could. But Arecibo also did a bunch of active radar mapping of things within the solar system, which aperture sy
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by mandevil 3y ago
Factoring in the exchange rate, that's maybe half the the price I paid for a similar system here in the US less than a year ago. The thing that is hurting people is leasing . Basically to avoid people having to front that much cash, t
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by mandevil 3y ago
Eh, my take is that the electronic disclosure stuff makes this more annoying for the activists- the people who are building dashboards of Congressional performance etc.- but doesn't fundamentally change the nature of the problem. The a
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by mandevil 3y ago
This is false. Then-sitting Congressman Chris Collins (R-NY) pled guilty and was sentenced to 26 months in prison for insider-trading back in 2019-2020. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump as one of his last official acts as President
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by mandevil 3y ago
This sounds like a particularly common failure mode for software engineers in dealing with the law. In software engineering, we have strict rules, and most of our thoughts are devoted to exception handling, so we're thinking about exce
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by mandevil 3y ago
We will need at least one- if not several- research and data capture breakthroughs to get to that point. One person just doesn't create enough data to effectively train models with our current techniques, no matter what kind of silicon
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by mandevil 3y ago
If you all are in the office for the same three days a week (Tu-Th) then you aren't saving anything on real estate costs- you still need to have desks for everyone in the company at the same time. The only way you save on real estate c
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by mandevil 3y ago
What about when someone else buys a company and changes the ToS, taking possession of work we've already contributed under a different ToS that you were okay with?
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by mandevil 3y ago
Oh hey, look at that, the FBI did get a warrant authorizing this action, and signed off by a United States Magistrate Judge: https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/23mj4244_application_reda... Now, are judges sometime
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by mandevil 3y ago
I'm not sure what the line about Westmoreland and the Citadel and minority populations means. William Westmoreland, the US Army general who lead MACV during the critical years of the Vietnam War, spent his first year of college at the
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by mandevil 3y ago
Portland- and Oregon in general- is something of a special case, because of its history legally excluding Black people. In general cities are better about accepting people of different ethnicity and backgrounds, but individual history and l
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by mandevil 3y ago
15 years ago I worked on robot tanks for the US Army, I currently am in machine learning and I live in Phoenix, so I was very interested in this and have taken several rides on Waymo (never been in a Cruise). The Waymo felt very safe- and i
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by mandevil 3y ago
Complex question, one of personal morality and judgement, the sort of thing that everyone has to answer for themselves. For myself, the concerns I have are about consent: how well are the risks explained to and understood by all parties inv
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by mandevil 3y ago
Mining isn't racist necessarily, but it is definitely done by exploiting people, and in ways that line up with the power structure at that place and time. My wife did her (pharmacy) residency at a hospital in West Virginia, which is bo
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by mandevil 3y ago
Based on my notes from reading The New World: Volume 1, 1939-1946 by Hewlett and Anderson, approximately 1/6th of the Uranium used for the Manhattan Project came from Canada, 1/7th from the US, and the rest came from the Belgian C

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