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by mikejb 8y ago
Fun fact: A not entirely equivalent, but comparable starter was used on the Titan II ICBMs and Gemini launchers, specifically the LR87-5 and LR87-7 rocket engines (which used a hypergolic fuel&oxidizer combination) A simple (read: I don
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People don't need alcohol to be unable to drive, or be in a state where they shouldn't be driving. After a hard day of work, people are often too tired to drive; Elderly people often don't feel comfortable driving (often stil
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Not ignore - I think warning the user and educate them about the dangers is important and the right thing to do. But blocking an install of a legitimate app because it's coming from a different AppStore doesn't seem right to me.
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I agree, and I think that's a good reason to deploy a warning about this app(store) and educating the user about the risks. But blocking the installs entirely is a bit much, IMO.
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If I read the article & comments correctly, the problem is that Aptoide is/was sometimes/often used to distribute cracked apps from Google's AppStore and/or removing in-app purchase requirements for additional featur
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> The new EU law isn't great, but it forces Youtube to design systems that don't catch non-infringing content. combine this with: > Parliament’s position toughens the Commission’s proposed plans to make online platforms and
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by mikejb 8y ago
It may be worth noting that the title of the submission is incomplete. The article's title is Canada installs Chinese underwater monitoring devices next to US nuclear submarine base (vs "Chinese underwater monitoring devices nex
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by mikejb 8y ago
According to the article, Mustafa al-Madani was supposed to be used as decoy for Khashoggi. He even put on a fake beard and glasses - but somehow he failed to remember that he had full grown black hair on his head. Maybe it's just me,
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That of course is suspicious. Do you sometime receive random ads that are completely out of the blue that you haven't talked about? (I'm asking because if you get shown 100 random ads per week, for how many can't you attribut
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by mikejb 8y ago
I'm sceptical, but it's hard to prove or disprove. So many other factors that go into making ad decisions (what did people who are somehow similar to you show interest in? Your friends? What's currently trending in certain ar
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by mikejb 8y ago
Fair point. (Luckily the Unabomber did not have that power or influence)
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That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation!
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> The other driver was undocumented and he also preferred not to report. I don't live in the US, so I don't know - but is that common? To me, it sounds like a significant accident, and I fail to understand why it wouldn't
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by mikejb 8y ago
It doesn't sound like the cars collided. The original story [1] includes more details, but it definitely sounds like a collision was avoided, and that avoidance caused the spine injury and the Camry pinwheeling. > The cars continued
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by mikejb 8y ago
It has been reported that it was a constant struggle to get Urmson (the lead in Project Chauffeur) and Levandowski (who wanted to just launch) to work together because they had such a contradictory approach on safety. Urmson left in 2016, s
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by mikejb 8y ago
Playing the devils advocate here: There was (apparently) no physical contact between the cars, so one could just tell a different story about the type of accident, or just leave out that the Camry then pinwheeled into the median. (Reason fo
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by mikejb 8y ago
Did Google pay off the Camry driver? If I was pushed into an accident by a car with company decals and a sensor suite on top [1], I'd definitely include this when reporting the accident. It's an incredible story, and I'm not
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by mikejb 8y ago
The person posting this left Google in 2007 [1]. The screenshot indicates the emails took place in February 2016 and October 2018 [2]. The conversation seems focused around events before 2008 (e.g. the selection of holding the Olympic games
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Not who you replied to, but your comparison is a bit off. Everyone has to choose their own morals and values, and what they think is right or wrong. But no one can choose whether something is legal or not. If someone thinks that destroying
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by mikejb 8y ago
That's pretty loaded. Try to reformulate it with less of your own bias.
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I think that's a bit of a stretch. "Companies have to comply with the law, so they're consecrating it". What else? People living in the US are consecrating the politics of Donald Trump? To quote Tim Cook: Your choice is
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by mikejb 8y ago
> 13/ I encourage employees of Google who have been asked to work on censored products to stand up against these requests, as I did in 2006, and make it known that Google's willingness to censor is immoral. I'd rather form
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by mikejb 8y ago
Small but relevant nitpick: Generalized chess is EXPEPACE-complete. Standard chess has an 8x8 grid with a finite number of states. In theory, chess is solvable in constant time (because you can provide a finite lookup table).
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Whilst GDPR partly aims to help educate the user about data being collected, the extend and details of such data are underestimated. Mostly because no company specifically calls out the exact data they collect; They describe it broadly to a
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I agree. Luckily, Soyuz will likely fly again. The issue will be identified, and procedures will be out in place to avoid it in the future. Accidents happened in the past, accidents will happen again. Best we can do is make sure we don&#x27
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Jep, the escape system is definitely not a walk in the park. As far as I know, the Soyuz escape system is the only one that was deployed with people inside, in the Soyuz T-10a accident. Suffice to say, the cosmonauts didn't like it ver
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I noticed that too; My best guess is that the display just sticks to what it last knew if it doesn't get any updates, and the leaking LOX from the 2nd stage caused enough damage or interference to interrupt communication. It's at
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by mikejb 8y ago
Yes, SpaceX puts a lot more effort into the webcasts. I don't know if their telemetry is live or precomputed (though it is likely live, see below) - but the fact that they show live feed of the rocket rather than a simulation (except f
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It's sad to see them so disappointed! They were lucky as fuck considering that the incident happened approximately when the escape tower gets jettisoned (i.e. it wouldn't have been an option even if the booster RUDs), but I'd
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On one hand, it's indeed odd to hear that shit's on fire whilst the screen shows an all happy scenario; On the other hand, it's the cheaper way of doing things - instead of having to live-render the spacecraft and all telemet

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