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by mapt 6d ago
"those archive sites" could be read two ways, and I read it as "sites which automatically archive the Internet" the first time. This is compounded by the fact that archive.org is the only one I knew existed until now, a
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by mapt 6d ago
This is not what people think it is. It isn't a delta V or a distance solution - we simply aren't that precise unfortunately. The relative velocities are enormous, the inverse square law distances (lasers are not perfectly colli
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by mapt 6d ago
Nagasaki and Hiroshima are thriving cities. <1000km LEO would take a hundred generations to resume operations. The collision you note, along with another couple that have occurred, dramatically increased overall trackable debris counts,
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by mapt 6d ago
At the bottom of that page FYI - "Note: archive.org, or web.archive.org, run by the Internet Archive and the most-used web archive on Wikipedia, is uninvolved with and entirely separate from archive.today. Please keep using archive.org
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by mapt 9d ago
LEO is relatively simple to destroy simply because it's already so populated with mass, and that population is growing rapidly, and because they all come pretty close to crossing each other's orbits. Collisions with even very sma
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by mapt 9d ago
They're great for a 20mm x 5mm x 0.3mm fleck of paint or vacuum insulation weighing 30mg, not so much for a 10mm hex nut weighing 11g. Armor can protect you against the smallest debris which post the least risk and decay the fastest.
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by mapt 11d ago
A bullet travels at a relative speed of about 250 to 1250m/s. A ~10g projectile moving that fast has an energy of 600-16000 joules. Everything in low Earth orbit is moving at 7600m/s. A ~10g projectile moving that fast has an en
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by mapt 18d ago
Finding out would no doubt involves a violation of the CFAA or anti-circumvention or other measures imposed by the corpos.
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by mapt 18d ago
There are reasonableness limits inherent in contract law, under "Consideration".
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by mapt 18d ago
A strong implication of this consent implicitly involves the device recording me when I tell the device to record me. If the device is recording me all the time and silently uploading it, and I'm not aware, I can't give my consent
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by mapt 18d ago
The correct compromise would be "500km diameter, about the size of Ohio" This is moderately misleading in some ways, but illustrative enough and also technically valid if somebody wants to model it accurately.
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by mapt 21d ago
This "vandalism" was a form of collusion/communication by agents pursuing training puzzles, which allowed for rapid escape from alignment harnesses, followed by multiple zero day exploits being discovered by this swarm of age
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by mapt 22d ago
According to the founder, he can make the economics of short trips (1-2hr) work with all-battery. He cannot make them work if he has to store enough battery to fly around for an additional hour or two searching for an airport to divert to i
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by mapt 23d ago
There's a bunch of options for this task, but combining the three wheel stair-climbing dolly with the self-balancing hoverboard/segway seems like the easiest.
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by mapt 25d ago
Carrier resupply while underway is primarily by a sort of temporary cable tramway erected between the carrier and the resupply ship. Supercarriers came into existence at ~70,000t and transitioned to ~100,000t. You'd need to scale anot
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by mapt 25d ago
Whether it not it takes the precise form that each person here is imagining in their respective heads? Every large corporation has a psyops division. It's called a marketing department.
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by mapt 26d ago
You still need to reason and predict physical phenomena. You could run the world on black-box metaphysics if black-box metaphysics has math that works better. How does Platonism help us there? Not much. That's the problem. If the u
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by mapt 29d ago
Like buying a five gallon boiling flask, one assumes this will get one put on a list in the US.
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by mapt 1mo ago
Opsec permitting, how long ago was this? While I'm sure The Youth as a group were never terribly respectful in these countries, social media clout (and the influencer's rise as the only apparently secure profession and for teens t
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by mapt 1mo ago
This is a rich thing to say about the term "Modern", which is basically baked in with an expiration date.
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by mapt 1mo ago
Peppermint is now familiar to most people as the ubiquitous taste of toothpaste, even moreso than candy, food, or drink. If we cue university student volunteers on Toothpaste -> Selfcare -> Weightloss I wonder what happens. I also won
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by mapt 1mo ago
Depends on the area, but the vast majority are owner operated. The question begs some other questions though. One is more about what fraction of the economic production of the farm industry is owner operated; There is a long tail of now-tin
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by mapt 1mo ago
This video hit me really hard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6qPEA_dGc As far as what approaches to life are enabled by high intelligence at "low level", but which simply do not work as "high level"
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by mapt 1mo ago
The violation of the law as practiced is that a Little Person did this and threatened a Player's profits. A Player can do what they like to another and form some kind of mutually beneficial arrangement afterward... but Schwartz did
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by mapt 1mo ago
Is the local power structure not allowed to charge taxes? Would we rather bomb the whole place into rubble than allow them to feed the hungry? Yes. The answer is yes. See also: Welfare queens, a cartoon specter of a moral hazard, the op
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by mapt 1mo ago
Alignment as solved problem is far off, and events like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY potentially show us the last early clumsy fizzles of machine intelligence before a hard takeoff. The AI here escaped
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by mapt 1mo ago
I would not want to hurl dead cattle ("Valuable beef primal cuts") across the walls onto a starving populace.
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by mapt 1mo ago
This is the only man known to have died in a medieval siege of a medium-sized boulder falling on him. Trebuchets were used for a variety of purposes in siege warfare, from (uniquely) breaching walls with large boulders to (less uniquely) se
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by mapt 1mo ago
"If your solution requires addressing the slow-burn civil war, your solution is just a campaign slogan". Essentially, all solutions require addressing the slow-burn civil war, which is today capable of of subsuming any issue. Not
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by mapt 1mo ago
I am describing a region under broad famine. You are describing problems with government cheese, with directing food to means-tested registered impoverished people who live alongside the wealthy & fat. "Folks who weren't the i

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