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by mlindner 3y ago
Completely agree. The pay is high because the demand is higher than the supply.
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by mlindner 3y ago
At least in the US, copyright violation is a civil thing, it's handled by lawsuits. If the copyright violation is of such a small level that it's not worth the copyright owner to do anything about it then nothing's done. In t
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by mlindner 3y ago
Starshield is not "boatloads" of government funding. It's a rather small contract. And none of that money has even been delivered yet. Starlink was developed without it.
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by mlindner 3y ago
> Why did we design a system where Orion does not have enough delta-v to achieve a circularized low lunar orbit? Because Orion was not designed to go to the moon. It was designed, ostensibly, to go visit asteroids, or if you're bein
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by mlindner 3y ago
It's literally the "SMART Reuse" (their name not mine) plan of the historical prime launch contractor in the US, United Launch Alliance (joint owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin). They plan to eject the engine section and pa
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by mlindner 3y ago
> Judging them against the competition seems fair but that's not the goal post they set for themselves. Honest question, why does it seem fair to judge them against the goal they set for themselves rather than what they've achi
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by mlindner 3y ago
For this type of operation I think asking about the material cost isn't very useful considering how vertically integrated they are. They're still paying the workforce whether the test happens or anything is built. The input raw ma
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by mlindner 3y ago
There are plenty of things that could destroy all human life on Earth and not destroy all human life on all planets. Also the argument taken to an extreme is straightforward. We know that massive catastrophes have caused mass extinctions th
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by mlindner 3y ago
The Smarter Every Day video unfortunately is not an authoritative video on Artemis and misses the point on several parts. It's largely a rehashing of very old arguments that basically views Apollo as somehow the height of technology.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Well at least it can now be confidently state that Starlink was developed entirely with private funding. I do hope that the companies that do get it are providing proper fiber service though rather than the many many years of companies who
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by mlindner 3y ago
A lawsuit to do what exactly? Require Apple release an iMessage client on Android for free? That'd get thrown out pretty quick anywhere with a functioning legal system. The only antitrust comparison I can see was Microsoft bundling Int
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by mlindner 3y ago
> Of all the moats Apple has, iMessage's "blue bubble" is by far the most arbitrary. Allowing strictly controlled interop with non-Apple devices doesn't change how good iMessage is, it only dents the ecosystem's
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by mlindner 3y ago
1. No one is "force-migrated to iMessage". Have you never used an iPhone before? 2. Requiring an application made by the company to access the servers owned by a company has never in history been called a monopoly before. The prec
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by mlindner 3y ago
> you had one app that can seamlessly speak all protocols? There's nothing that does that though so this seems a bit of an odd statement.
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by mlindner 3y ago
- On blending the two, what's the issue here? Automatically upgrading SMS messages to go over data connections instead of SMS systems seems like a pure upgrade? - 3rd party chat apps are cross platform because they're funded by al
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by mlindner 3y ago
Sure, it's strictly better... There's nothing requiring you use iMessage and you can send send SMS messages to iPhones if you choose to do so. It's a great way to secure SMS messages by default. That iMessage acts like SMS au
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by mlindner 3y ago
> They’re highlighting the closed nature of Apple’s messaging system more effectively than anyone has in a long time. I support them in doing that. Every major chat app is closed though? For example, I use LINE regularly, there's no
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by mlindner 3y ago
That's a strange argument... It sounds like you're making the claim that every single chat application should be mandatory legally required to have completely open APIs for any clone that wants to pop up and get access to their ne
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by mlindner 3y ago
I'm surprised people are defending these guys. This is paid-for illegal breaking into systems.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Full resolution images available here: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2... Click each image, and then scroll down for links on the left sidebar for the full resolution images. For
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by mlindner 3y ago
How did these guys raise $16M? Do the VCs have no understanding of things? The round was apparently led by the CEO of Y Combinator. Makes no sense.
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by mlindner 3y ago
You left off the point that that only true if you had iCloud backup of iMessages enabled. If you didn't have iCloud backup enabled then they've always been E2EE.
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by mlindner 3y ago
> You cannot, without elaborate workarounds, text from a consumer computer, tablet or other device as if it was a phone. Texting requires a phone number and a phone plan. Nitpick, but I can text from my Mac laptop using the messages app.
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by mlindner 3y ago
"Default messaging app" is a creation of Android, necessitated because every cell phone manufacturer wanted its own messaging app. It somehow later became a feature people needed because those pre-installed apps were often dreadfu
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by mlindner 3y ago
I can't remember any of those being derided other than Mastodon, which has major issues nothing to do with the fact it's competing with something.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Russia's trying to take over a country in imperial conquest, by their own words, and you call America not the imperialist? Lol? Russia doesn't have "imperalist ambitions". They're, right now, trying to expand their
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by mlindner 3y ago
> purely performative nature of the company Are you serious? The company launching more mass into orbit than the entire rest of the planet combined (by an almost 4x multiple) with a single constellation of satellites larger than the comb
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by mlindner 3y ago
Oxide Computer Company taking the moment to gloat: https://twitter.com/oxidecomputer/status/1732513396401012915 > Looks like we picked the right day to not have UEFI -- or a BIOS for that matter
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by mlindner 3y ago
We have statements by the Ukrainian director of military intelligence that says that no geoblock was suddenly put into place. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/exclusive-interview-wi...
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by mlindner 3y ago
This is exactly price control though? It reduces the cost of maintaining the defense.

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