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by mlindner 3y ago
Pretty sure China had no part in popularizing it and third party apps had support for it on iPhone a long time ago. I was seeing and using QR codes here in the US back in 2010 or so pretty commonly. They were limited to college campuses and
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by mlindner 3y ago
I'd say wait until 12th, or "wait until you're driving a car".
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by mlindner 3y ago
The new normal on how civilization gradually ends. People need to stop not having kids. You’re destroying civilization in the long term.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Flat earth conspiracy is not widespread and is not growing. It’s a thing that’s primarily on the internet. On the grand scheme of things there’s bigger things to worry about than what a tiny fraction of people think.
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by mlindner 3y ago
I’m confused why this is even in doubt? It’s a twenty year old company with over ten thousand employees. How could it not be profitable?
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by mlindner 3y ago
They've only just started expansion into those areas (so far 2 countries in Africa). Here's the service map: https://www.starlink.com/map
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by mlindner 3y ago
They already sell it to maritime and aviation sectors at significantly less than existing operators, though significantly more than the regular service.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Though note: SpaceX does exactly that. They passively position the positions of the satellites along their orbits so that Starlink satellites don't need to avoid other Starlink satellites in orbital operation.
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by mlindner 3y ago
There's actually no documentation I've ever seen of this so I'm not sure why you're saying it's "well documented".
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by mlindner 3y ago
It doesn't solve the "if no power, no internet" issue completely, but have you looked at getting Starlink? Seems perfect for your situation, assuming you have a generator or batteries. You can get the roaming version and not
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by mlindner 3y ago
That's an article, not a comparison. There's not a single comparison table in the article.
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by mlindner 3y ago
You can make the same material by originating it from crops and it still wouldn't break down. Also the historical alternatives for this material in most applications are aluminum and glass which also will not break down in landfills.
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by mlindner 3y ago
I'd argue this is one of the okay uses for petroleum as it's converted directly into a high value product and not emitted as pollution. I assume people don't do a lot of throwing away of Lego bricks. Going into the future I p
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by mlindner 3y ago
Taken to the limit with infinite energy there's zero reason to cause any pollution at all. You can incinerate into pure molecular material anything and then convert it back into any product you want. Consumption does not mean pollution
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by mlindner 3y ago
Thanks for the sources, as said this shows the article is highly suspect if your "maximum theoretical energy density" figure already is beaten by in-the-market devices.
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by mlindner 3y ago
It'd be great to explain what exactly you mean by that statement. SpaceX upper management and Elon are on great relations.
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by mlindner 3y ago
No concrete reached the surrounding city or infrastructure. There seems to be a false propaganda spreading that people were endangered by this launch. That couldn't be further from the truth.
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by mlindner 3y ago
There's been no statement from anyone at SpaceX that any pad debris struck the rocket, even in off the record interviews.
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by mlindner 3y ago
Note: The "debris" is wind-blown fine dust, not large pieces that could harm people.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Correction: The US has never tried to occupy Afghanistan. So there is no "too".
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by mlindner 4y ago
Lithium ion is already over 250 Wh/kg so that calls into great suspect the rest of the numbers.
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by mlindner 4y ago
A collapsing dollar means no one’s interested in building anything so land value goes down and a collapsing dollar means all the industries that use gold are also collapsing reducing the value of that too.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> I doubt a vision of growth is compatible with "sustainability". In fact, I find it highly unlikely. This is a backwards viewpoint. A future of sustainable is a future of more consumption, but green consumption. Standard of li
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by mlindner 4y ago
That was the stretch goal. They made it clear several times on the webcast and in tweets that clearing the launch pad was the primary goal and further than that to gather lots of data. The farther they got, the more data they gathered and t
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by mlindner 4y ago
Actual title: "So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a success?"
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by mlindner 4y ago
Except Rust is a language much larger than the foundation. They don't control who uses the Rust language and their attempts to control who can talk about Rust are just their attempts to do something they shouldn't.
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by mlindner 4y ago
It was in space though. You’re misattributing it.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're claiming. Rockets cannot cause shockwaves on the ground by flying over you in space. You experienced something else and misattributed it.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Except those beads on a string will not be a normal or regular sight. They're a coincidence of deployment mechanism, separation method, satellite design, and orbit design. They're temporary and as the constellation fills up, will
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by mlindner 4y ago
> Not being beholden to a foreign company or government is a strategic advantage. Yes, but that was never the primary stated reason for Ariane 6's development. That's a later goalpost moving.

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