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by mapt 2y ago
Introducing BLEO rendezvous elements for "resupply" into a mission with such wild dV scope and no landers, imposes some extreme constraints. I don't understand why you would do that unless solar sails as he understands them
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by mapt 2y ago
Up until he lost his goddamn mind to the alt-right meme machine, to Twitter, to Ambien (or whatever else he's on), and to his own ego. He was successful because: 1) He got very lucky in the 90's tech boom. Right time, right pla
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by mapt 2y ago
The DSN is a radio network. In its present form, this is going to be ineffective for receiving a meaningful amount of imagery data from signals emitted by a lightweight space probe at 500AU. At ~150AU the current 25-70m dishes are getting
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by mapt 2y ago
If you want to use this method, you're basically going to require one spacecraft per target and a decade of lead time for a very short-duration observation. This is not necessarily a deal-breaker; Meaningful scientific inquiry would j
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by mapt 2y ago
A smart person could think of dozens of ways around any explicit legalistic regulation intended to protect consumers, given an afternoon. Ultimately every regulation needs an uncaptured civil service regulator who can take offense at somebo
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by mapt 2y ago
For PC CPUs, there are already so many watts per square millimeter that many of the top tiers of the recent generations are running thermally throttled 24/7; More cooling improves performance rather than temperatures because it allows
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by mapt 2y ago
If you were a nonprofit medical service or a for-profit insurance company, you could do AI analysis of gut microbiome eDNA against electronic health records with potential for significant value if you could get a stool sample every so often
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by mapt 2y ago
I often ask in regards to terminating commercial offers of goods and services with a floating price point: Why? Why not just adjust the price to be commensurate with the cost?
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by mapt 2y ago
BP is commonly used for geologic and evolutionary timescales where 2000 years doesn't actually make much of a difference, but I rarely see it used for less than Holocene-spanning timelines. Sure makes it easier to understand if your in
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by mapt 2y ago
That is if you define "The Arts" as specifically "Archaic forms of art too unpopular to survive without subsidies from government or the aristocracy". That's a tautology. Hip hop music isn't getting government
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by mapt 2y ago
Commercial satellite images? With somewhere between 30cm and 100cm resolution? Looking for the letter 'Z' painted on a sidewall of the vehicle? Rough. Medium altitude aerial drone imagery would do it, though - just a matter of b
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by mapt 2y ago
Two LCDs, front to back, provide much better contrast by blocking more of the light in the liquid crystal layers. The rear one is greyscale. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/w0u2rf/did_dual_l...
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by mapt 2y ago
The upper limit of heat extraction is an interesting problem. Intel certainly seems to have bumped into a region with the i7-12900k and later where the chip is heat limited under all load tests even on watercooling, and improving significa
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by mapt 2y ago
The question of whether they legally or illegally monopolized the debit card market is sort of besides the point. This should be a publicly held function, just as printing money was a publicly held function. Visa shouldn't just get to
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by mapt 2y ago
The dubious claims made were about how aggressive and effective internal filtration was, not about actual fresh air circulation.
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by mapt 2y ago
When I think about sequencing, I think about verifiability. With anonymity blinkers on, you could give me several gigabytes of random data and I'd have limited recourse. Will Nebula give me an intelligible whole-genome data file if I
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by mapt 2y ago
I'm not sure I believe the extremely dramatic claims made about airplane HEPA filters, having seen normal HEPA air purifiers and various dust collection systems, how much space they take, what they cost, and how loud they are, and seen
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by mapt 2y ago
It does seem that you need EITHER a very particular combination of things for "Guess culture" to be more effective than "Ask culture", or you need a system that is so irrevocably corrupted by its faulty incentive structu
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by mapt 2y ago
Has to be worse than that. 20 is still way too many degrees of separation if every region operated on a hub and spoke model. I would imagine we're seeing two to four groupings of sequential routes which are subsidized access. A floatp
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by mapt 2y ago
The expansion of KYC and the hegemonic dominance of our global financial intelligence network is a recent infringement on our privacy that would not necessarily pass popular muster if it became well-known. Most of our population is still li
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by mapt 2y ago
"What fraction of the FBI and CIA do the Communists have blackmail material on?"
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by mapt 2y ago
Under our brand of capitalism, the system pressures the working class doubly hard to use the cheapest things on the market, and guilts the middle class to aspire to more expensive goods which are Ethical, or Natural, or Lite, or Healthy, or
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by mapt 2y ago
I mean, yes. But also: Polyester is just so cheap that any feasible oil tax wouldn't amount. For the past several years a large fraction of people have literally been inhaling every lungful of air through a frangible polyester microfib
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by mapt 2y ago
Most of the direct human exposure seems to come from polyester, which we have raced to make the dominant clothing and bedding fabric.
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by mapt 2y ago
I was discounting the possibility that Mossad was in control of global supplychains with sufficient intensity and recklessness to hide semtex and a detonator in an entire brand of consumer electronics, in its urgency to provide retroactive
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by mapt 2y ago
The FDA, however, is not regulating the spread of the 800 other known species of oral bacteria as well as presumably numerous unknown ones, which do cause some known harm. The extreme suspicion of commercially introduced anthropogenic agen
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by mapt 2y ago
The batteries are the only major energy storage device there to breach. Clearly Israel has found a software vulnerability that lets them overload some otherwise minimally used processor and overheat the batteries. Above ~140f lithium ion c
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by mapt 2y ago
Let's say a given intelligence agency's quantum computing efforts have Shor working for 16 bit keys in 2025, for 64 bit keys in 2028, for 128 bit keys in 2033, and for 256 bit keys in 2038. Let's say competing intelligence a
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by mapt 2y ago
If you want to prove that somebody has the ability to pick locks in order to protect your valuables, you leave the prize sitting on the kitchen table (at 66 bits of entropy) behind your relatively easy front door lock, not in a secure vault
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by mapt 2y ago
Am I correct in assuming that beyond a certain point, this is basically an existence proof for somebody having a quantum-supreme solution to Shor's Algorithm? "Here's $400,000 sitting on the table, hope nobody takes it"

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