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by mapt 2y ago
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8 And note that if you think "Maybe we shouldn't be worried until we understand this" In the past ~14 months things have taken off in ways that nobody who st
902.
by mapt 2y ago
There are... nine main limitations on telescope imagery that I can think of. In no particular order: First is weather. We can't see through clouds. Most new astronomy is about sources too faint to have been analyzed a hundred years
903.
by mapt 2y ago
They're thermally heating up the air with lasers? Doesn't a white-hot atmospheric plasma emit plenty of hard UV? Or is this some kind of specific spectral line emission that the photos don't do justice?
904.
by mapt 2y ago
The satellite link is comprised of bidirectional phased arrays. The satellite digitally points at an area of the ground to get reception just as the ground antenna digitally points at an area of sky. SpaceX knows exactly where its client
905.
by mapt 2y ago
In case this didn't make a lot of intuitive sense to you engineering/physics/landscaping/agriculture types: Mexico City's "Floating Gardens", chinampas, do not actually float, and never have. They're
906.
by mapt 2y ago
You've been hearing it for 50 years, and the project has been going on that long with regular improvements in cost and output. Every country is different, but wind and solar have scaled from practically nothing ("proving viability
907.
by mapt 2y ago
Google recommends the Woopy-Fly inflatable ultralight, though it's not clear whether it's actually in production Discussions are not optimistic, but do invoke some related inflatable craft - https://www.reddit.com/
908.
by mapt 2y ago
No. In the olden days, you're not talking about a kid like that. You're talking about seven of them , often working with agricultural equipment. Odds that all seven survive to adulthood are low. Now it's just zero to three,
909.
by mapt 3y ago
Money is how we denominate human effort, and corporations are psychopathic zombies following their fiduciary duty. Profit is everything. This is the system we built, neoliberal capitalism, and this is the system we would have to modify to
910.
by mapt 3y ago
It might be great, but all the evidence says that we're not willing to nationalize the publishers in order to establish that deal as a durable offer, and that a private-sector publisher would change the terms of the deal the moment t
911.
by mapt 3y ago
The last time the union asked for bathroom breaks Ronald Reagan shut down the nation's airspace for weeks and partially militarized that function in order to fire nearly all of the workforce. It is regarded as a historic, symbolic land
912.
by mapt 3y ago
I don't know whether the article is especially relevant, but sea surface temperatures have gone absolutely nuts for the past year and so anything we would have called a crazy model five years ago is now on the table. https:/&#x2F
913.
by mapt 3y ago
It's mythological biochemistry. It does not reflect empirical evidence.
914.
by mapt 3y ago
The entire point of this discussion is whether we should question the CPI figures you are using to 'debunk'... this discussion.
915.
by mapt 3y ago
Debunked urban legend. Likely retcon from various mythology involving the chemistry lab's "deionized water" bottle which every chemistry teacher has to make up convincing reasons for the class not to drink from.
916.
by mapt 3y ago
Debunked urban legend. Likely retcon from various mythology involving the chemistry lab's "deionized water" bottle which every chemistry teacher has to make up convincing reasons for the class not to drink from.
917.
by mapt 3y ago
> Also. No matter how bullish you are on the potential of AI, it's horrifying and categorically unethical to use them to decide who to kill. It creates the possibility of atrocity with no accountability. No it doesn't. That wa
918.
by mapt 3y ago
Right now, what a lot of people so rural they don't get broadband have is the newspaper, AM radio, the local network news, the national network news, and/or the cable news. Four of those five have seen major providers controlled
919.
by mapt 3y ago
As Youtube becomes less and less of a stable platform, archivists are in fact starting to do that, but knowing that it's free media provides significantly less incentive for leechers.
920.
by mapt 3y ago
Why not? Why isn't spam a highly effective attack by the copyright agencies?
921.
by mapt 3y ago
Do me a favor. My interpretation of the VPN space is that if you're a signals intelligence agency you'd have to be insane not to want to control that layer. As a big publicly funded entity, you can also subsidize a level of servi
922.
by mapt 3y ago
Start over in a sort of great explosion of astrophysics, sending them at great speed outwards in all directions?
923.
by mapt 3y ago
There's an upper bound for the sum total of human text output on the Internet. when large language models run out of training data, we can only train on large language outputs.
924.
by mapt 3y ago
"I will be completely unable to make a meaningful contribution to a five minute discussion at a cocktail party a couple months away" vs "I will be completely unable to collaborate on a project because I literally don't u
925.
by mapt 3y ago
If Disney were designing the system, sure. If people who were interested in improving the system has their hands on it, there are a bunch of avenues available. You could choose to regulate eg a stipulated legal fee, you could choose to se
926.
by mapt 3y ago
Why aren't all these applications that have only recently been examined for automation absolutely flush with cheaper lower axis count robotics, like SCARA or parallel manipulators?
927.
by mapt 3y ago
It's not "Mammoth groves" if you want to meaningfully "buy time". A grove is an open tree stand a few acres wide. That's not what we're talking about. It's not adding a little bit of tree seed to u
928.
by mapt 3y ago
Ukraine is going through ~200 quadrotor drones an hour in "Garage workshop miniature cruise missile" applications. Anything that has the potential to make dramatically cheaper mass-produced weapons is in play now that we have alm
929.
by mapt 3y ago
I don't think they sell a lot of green (fresh) lumber. At my big box store on the East Coast: For indoor structural construction, they're selling "kiln dried, 19% or below" Southern-Yellow-Pine or Spruce-Pine-Fir catego
930.
by mapt 3y ago
Point to point wireless is an underappreciated tool. Building a tower half a mile away and pointing a hundred small dishes individually at various customers with their own dishes pointed at the tower, might be cheaper than running fiber

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