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811.
by mapt 2y ago
"Do you think that's air you're breathing?" This is no longer much of an issue with sealed, helium filled drives, if it ever was.
812.
by mapt 2y ago
The brain is just an example of a system we are all running that we understand the baseline mechanics of, but which for any task much more complex than breathing, is accomplished through a novel self-organizing structure using a lot of iter
813.
by mapt 2y ago
Our DNA didn't build our brain. Not really. Our DNA coded for a loose trainable architecture with a lot of features that result from emergent design, constraints of congenital development, et cetera. Even if you include our full exo
814.
by mapt 2y ago
IIRC, performance was fantastic, but they were never able/willing to match the data density and data cost improvements in stacked-NAND flash, and without forcing themselves into the market at competitive rates, nobody wanted to write a
815.
by mapt 2y ago
This was always a strange point of contention - Intel denied using memristors. I assume there were some sort of patent or trademark issues. WP: "Development of 3D XPoint began around 2012.[8] Intel and Micron had developed other non-vo
816.
by mapt 2y ago
This is not necessarily true, but it is often true for consumer car models that are already designed in quite complex ways around driveshaft power, with abundant compromises and costs. It's never "directly" transferred; No
817.
by mapt 2y ago
Lose access to your number by any category of errors on your part or your carrier's part, and see what happens. They're not tied to your person with much more permanency than a DHCP IP address. There's no process to verify y
818.
by mapt 2y ago
What precisely do you disagree with about my comment? I wouldn't say that HN commenters have been especially influential advocates in selling a potent brand of free-market capitalism to the United States of America. That happened lo
819.
by mapt 2y ago
See also personal phone numbers, which are now "portable" and thus "required for every single identity verification you will ever perform", without being regulated, which means your identity is one $30 bill autopayment o
820.
by mapt 2y ago
In a market-first values system, where we rely on the labor market to largely self-regulate given the promises that free market idealogues & corporate actors made us, colluding on wages like this should lead to scorched-earth retributio
821.
by mapt 2y ago
* The peak of ham radio was the 70's and 80's. * It appealed to tech-oriented people. * Those were many of the same people who went on to make websites in the mid 90's. * Teaching yourself new things becomes harder the older
822.
by mapt 2y ago
Warner Brothers & Hanna Barbera cartoons introduced us to a great deal of culture by repetitive memes. This cinematic universe has hundreds of hours of short-form content, which back in the dark ages of television was fed to us intrave
823.
by mapt 2y ago
Solar electric propulsion. If you want to be really safe, you need to fly so low that you have to exert a few millinewtons of steady thrust to overcome inertia lost to atmospheric drag. The natural orbital lifespan is less millennia or cent
824.
by mapt 2y ago
Won't be much point in space war if LEO is filled with space debris before the war even begins. The Chinese constellations going up at 800-1200km altitude are more than sufficient to destroy safe access to space for centuries, before y
825.
by mapt 2y ago
Iraq and Turkey, as of a few days ago, are making a new agreement for a transport corridor and peaceful coexistence, which includes Iraq getting more reliable access to river water, and Turkey getting more reliable targetting access to Kurd
826.
by mapt 2y ago
You'd think of all the ideas introduced, the money-making ones would be the first. Why haven't algorithmically-maintained corporate swarms destroyed liability law yet? Did it happen and I didn't notice, or was it simply judge
827.
by mapt 2y ago
The math is complex, but this approximation is true enough for government work: You don't need to get high to get to orbit per se. You need to get flying horizontal, much faster than the atmosphere will allow you to sustain; This is t
828.
by mapt 2y ago
Do we see extreme differences in design in monopsony fleet buys, like military vehicles or the postal service?
829.
by mapt 2y ago
So basically, the questions are: Why attempt a daunting SSTO exercise when we have first stage landings now? How has the situation been improved relative to previous proposals that were judged unfruitful in an era when first stage landings
830.
by mapt 2y ago
* European double-pane sash windows: Effectively banned by various regulations * American double-pane sash windows on hardware store shelf: $100 * European triple-pane tilt turn windows, on hardware store shelf: $200 * American triple-pane
831.
by mapt 2y ago
We will fund super polluting slave labor if the difference to the manufacturers is $1.25 vs $1.65 per unit in costs, but the manufacturers charge us $5 for the unethical unit and $20 for the ethical unit. That's not to say we wouldn&#x
832.
by mapt 2y ago
Twelve years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_May > The BPU had made its reputation amid the spontaneous rioting that had accompanied the fall of the First Reform Bill in 1831, assembling 150,000 protest
833.
by mapt 2y ago
No. It hasn't. Liberals are just motivated to be forgetful and not to teach this part of history very well. As far as I can tell, people in the UK have the right to vote because of, variously: The Parliament setting the King straight
834.
by mapt 2y ago
A liberal prohibition on violent speech is an aspirational privilege of a people who have solved all their social problems to such a degree that the credible threat of violence is never necessary for justice or progress. Or an aspirational
835.
by mapt 2y ago
The degree of optimization & mass-cutting you need to do to get to LEO in an SSTO vehicle with zero payload is absurd, and wings or landing gear sabotage that immediately. And assuming you get there - even very small payloads demands e
836.
by mapt 2y ago
Two points: * Why? * How?
837.
by mapt 2y ago
What data? Are you proposing that there is a reliable way to adjudicate ongoing misdiagnoses for rare or even common illnesses? It seems like the only ones likely to have any investigation are those that end up being lethal in the short te
838.
by mapt 2y ago
Does "Felony wiretapping" mean nothing?
839.
by mapt 2y ago
The medical field has identified around 10,000 "rare diseases" that are estimated to affect fewer than 200,000 Americans each. On net, 10% of the population is estimated to be afflicted by a rare disease, with rampant underdiagno
840.
by mapt 2y ago
Almost anything you can do with concentrated PV, I can do better with photovoltaic and a resistor immersed in the same thermal storage medium. It is wildly more versatile in the face of clouds and piping + insulation costs.

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