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by mannerheim 3y ago
The quote didn't say Falcon Heavy wasn't heavy lift, which was my point. It said Falcon Heavy was just something on the drawing board, versus SLS which was real. Except then Falcon Heavy ended up flying years before SLS eventually
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by mannerheim 3y ago
It is exactly that simple. Closing down a tank factory to build something in another state isn't going to help the representative in that district get elected.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Unclear what turnout was, but it was at least 25%; district 7 has fewer than 800 thousand people, not all of whom are registered voters.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Even accepting this premise, there's no reason to pick the most expensive option for manned spaceflight. The ISS cost $100 billion to launch and assemble (and $3 billion to maintain). Tiangong about $8 billion, reportedly. Mir, some $4
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Raytheon employs 12,000 people in Tucson alone, about 6% of the number of people who voted in the election for Arizona's 7th congressional district in 2022. Those people also have friends and family who would care if they got laid off.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
That's an excuse that might have worked before the Falcon Heavy started flying. Not a reason to have kept funneling money into an obsolete design afterwards, and not a reason to keep doing so now.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
SLS was already made redundant when the Falcon Heavy flew. 'Let’s be very honest, We don’t have a commercially available heavy-lift vehicle. The Falcon 9 Heavy may some day come about. It’s on the drawing board right now. SLS is real.&
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by mannerheim 3y ago
If/when Starship flies (which, if it doesn't, raises other questions as to the future of Artemis), one has to wonder what the point of SLS will be.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
One technique apparently used is signal-boosting. PKI wouldn't fix this. You'd need to do one of three things: 1) Stop fobs from automatically sending out signals without user intervention (but people like convenience) 2) Put fobs
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by mannerheim 3y ago
An increasing number of countries seem to view Facebook and Google as piggy banks for funding dying legacy media. Meta has seen where the winds are blowing and trying to get ahead of the issue by pivoting to what their platforms were origin
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by mannerheim 3y ago
The authors appear to be unaware of this obvious flaw in their methodology. >"On one hand, if it's only 12% accounting for half the beef consumption, you could make some big gains if you get those 12% on board," Rose said.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Applying the same logic the study's authors apply to their results, you would also come to the conclusion that 45% of Americans consume no beef at all, rather than that 45% of Americans happen to not eat beef on any given day. How did
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Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage(reuters.com)
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by mannerheim 3y ago
SpaceX employees can't sell their RSUs period, since it's a private company. They're counting on a big payday at an IPO that will never happen if it gets nationalised.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
All their engineers then quit because their RSUs are now worthless.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Shooting someone down with air defence isn't a blatant assassination?
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by mannerheim 3y ago
>It is that they have to pay new sources for copyrighted content that they display on Meta sites. Even linking to a news article without a title or blurb would have qualified. >Meta decided that they didn't want to pay for other
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by mannerheim 3y ago
The Central Bank of Russia just raised interest rates to 12%, so evidently they do not share your assessment.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
>In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).
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by mannerheim 3y ago
>JavaShit Glad to see the diversity of HN readers apparently includes twelve year olds. Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a compilation target, right? How readable do you think that is?
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by mannerheim 3y ago
There's plenty of social media where you can share the news, and whose content might be predominantly driven by it, e.g. Reddit and Twitter. On the other hand, Facebook was made to be a site for connecting friends and family. Is it rea
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by mannerheim 3y ago
> First joke is that there are three prisoners in the gulag in the former Soviet Union. The three find out why each of them is there. The first said that he came late to work and was accused of cheating the State out of labor. The second
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by mannerheim 3y ago
This is their claim: > "Meta's practices are clearly designed to discipline Canadian news companies, prevent them from participating in and accessing the advertising market, and significantly reduce their visibility to Canadian
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Maybe if the government wants to do something, the parties in government should take their ads off Facebook. You know, put their money where their mouths are.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
>In this case it’s a negotiation struggle between two parties Not necessarily. Meta eliminating news from Facebook and Instagram is consistent with either of two scenarios: 1. They're playing 'hardball' to negotiate a bett
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by mannerheim 3y ago
>Did they go out to Facebook and say "please post our content on your users' feeds"? In most cases, yes: >Our users – and in this case news publishers – choose to share it themselves. Globally, more than 90% of organic
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by mannerheim 3y ago
>where they think they are punishing us Do they? Or are they simply making the most logical business decision for them? If it costs Facebook more to allow links than it does to not allow links, why should they allow them? Is Facebook rea
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Why make the fuss about taking government ads off of Facebook if you're not going to take your party ads off of it, too? The answer is obvious: Government awareness campaigns might be less effective, hiring and recruitment might be mor
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Your link is October 2022. Mine is the final version that was assented to on June 22, 2023.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Facebook needs content, but it doesn't need news content. In fact, you could probably make the case Facebook would be made better without news content. It's interesting that they chose to remove all news content for Canadians, rat

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