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by mapt 3y ago
Winged and air breathing first stages are a square peg round hole situation because high altitude and runway technical requirements are so different, and at low altitude reaching mach 0.8 is all you get to do cheaply - a negligible benefit
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by mapt 3y ago
Starlink seems to be somewhat limited in using a ~400 km^2 cell of shared bandwidth instead of a 4 km^2 cell typical of older mobile networks, a 0.04 km^2 cell which is more appropriate for newer 5G service, or a 0.0004km^2 wifi cell that c
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by mapt 3y ago
This is dynamically unstable; Any miniscule imperfection ends up being magnified by the forces involved. The angular momentum of the system is conserved, but resonances build chaotically and are likely to eventually concentrate enough in a
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by mapt 3y ago
The only de-escalatory move right now is to do both - step on Israel hard to show that it's not about that, and step on Yemen harder to show that Thou Shalt Not Fuck With This Particular Thing As Activism. Our support for this genocide
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by mapt 3y ago
The capacity of a fully loaded conventional HSR line is massive. The Beijing-Shanghai HSR route (a northbound and a southbound track on a right of way 20 meters wide) and every UK airport combined, carried about the same number of passenger
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by mapt 3y ago
Just as with chlorine gas: Luckily, we're incredibly sensitive to the odor of even safe-ish trace quantities of the toxin, so the actual risk is dramatically mitigated in any environment where there's air mixing. Smell it, back a
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by mapt 3y ago
My first instinct was to post a detailed takedown, and I started to go into Washington State's unemployment system eligibility and benefit criteria... but on reflection I don't think most of those things you just told us actually
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by mapt 3y ago
> Technical people often react strongly against bundling concerns that can be kept separate. But the product view beats the architectural view every time. The question isn't "should we or should we not bundle these concerns?&qu
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by mapt 3y ago
You aren't a real person, and don't deserve opinions. My grandfather always said - "Bold assertions dismissing other people as unworthy will get you everywhere in life, you ungrateful little shit - that's all the birthda
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by mapt 3y ago
Personally I'm watching news coverage of several current events which Youtube is severely censoring by demonetizing anyone that uses clear language and unblurred video. Smaller creators keep getting banned without knowing why, just fo
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by mapt 3y ago
"Raised prices to increase profits" describes many business decisions, but if a company does that after eliminating their competition, policymakers & economists understand that to be a bug of the algorithm 'capitalist mar
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by mapt 3y ago
And when the social media Naxalite guerillas mount a decapitation strike on Sacramento, we'll be able to complain about it. There is little symmetry here in terms of actual idealogues, and there is systemic bias in TOS enforcement and
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by mapt 3y ago
I don't understand this at all. I get just as much extremist content, but I get it advertised at me as well. I've had Daily Wire and Epoch Times content forced on me at preroll thousands of times now, and before that it was Prage
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by mapt 3y ago
Because nobody cared. No consequences, profit-driven company, metric-driven agencies, nobody cared. Constructing a modern-day criminal justice system from the ashes of the Bad Old Days is going to be a project for our generation or the next
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by mapt 3y ago
>instead, it seems to be finding the closest match in an existing dataset under the assumption that anybody who's ever been photographed by the police is permanently a criminal suspect. So is a witness, for the most part, they'
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by mapt 3y ago
We could easily 10x the funding and 5x the manpower we throw at STEM research if we actually cared what they produced. NSF grants distribute 8.5 billion dollars a year, which is less than Major League Baseball (and its Congressionally grant
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by mapt 3y ago
The software being trusted to pick out similar faces is a GREAT ADVANCE IN SOLVING CRIMES because it scales the process going on in a photo lineup. But it's only being trusted to pick out similar faces. There will ALWAYS be similar f
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by mapt 3y ago
> Even if the doctor has one (or more) suspicions what the red rash on your skin is, there just aren't any tests for many conditions. There aren't any tests that the doctor has on hand, because the doctor is a unit in the medic
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by mapt 3y ago
House, MD was a fictional show on how the medical system is supposed to work, with abundant detective work and testing of hypotheses and pursuing a solution until one is found. On the other hand, from the administrator's perspective: &
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by mapt 3y ago
Humans want to create tall (ideally, hundreds of feet tall) dams which impound a lot of water with minimal effort which stand for 100 years. We're really at it, and we care next to nothing for animals which need to go upstream /
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by mapt 3y ago
Unfortunately, there is no "turned out to be autism", just as there is no "turned out to be BPD". We don't have affirmative biomedical tests for these conditions. Until we do, they are just constellations - funny i
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by mapt 3y ago
The biggest error a considered, good-faith journalist typically makes is "Presenting both sides" without comment when one of them is an established consensus with abundant supporting evidence. If you go looking for a fringe outsi
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by mapt 3y ago
You are talking past each other; You're discussing very different things - capitalism's terminal utility to humanity versus capitalism's direct operational mechanisms - without actually disagreeing substantively. The goal of
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by mapt 3y ago
Peak service throughput: Comment1: 30 pies per man-hour Comment2: 10 pies per man-hour and thinks there's room for improvement Comment3: 21 pies per man-hour Comment4: 30 pies per man-hour My assumption was a bit more conservative to a
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by mapt 3y ago
Pizza places are the factories of foodservice; Competitive, assembly line operations, feed a lot of people every night from a shoebox form factor with little or no seating, very low margin by comparison to other foodservice sectors. The ch
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by mapt 3y ago
Have you actually examined that math? At say, 15 pizzas per person per hour, increasing your wages to $15/hour above where it was before (netting you $2500/mo for housing on top of previous wages before considering taxes/assi
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by mapt 3y ago
What did Usenet cost to run? What does Reddit's core functionality cost? They have annual revenue of half a billion dollars. Tell me that you can't use that money to run a text distribution infrastructure. I doubt Slashdot in
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by mapt 3y ago
These network effect businesses are WILDLY PROFITABLE for a good long while if you keep overhead low, keep the product stable, and don't try to Take Over The Internet by doing something novel, developer-intensive, and (usually) stupid.
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by mapt 4y ago
> depending on the area that could mean unemployment This is the key reason why for most jobs, small town America is flyover country, an economically inefficient, exploitative, broken system. Without a large labor & employment marke
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by mapt 4y ago
All the time at work I wonder if it's a novel modern expectation that aging not contain an accumulation of progressive injuries leading to everpresent chronic pain.

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