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by mlindner 2y ago
Per-country caps remains an absolutely good idea. The goal of immigrants should be to integrate into the society they are joining. Without per country caps you can start creating strange enclaves and you get some of the issues Canada is hav
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by mlindner 2y ago
Well actually... you can create a magnetic shield in front of the planet by putting a large nuclear reactor powered superconducting magnet at the Sun-Mars L1 point that would fully shield Mars from charged particles from the sun. No new tec
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by mlindner 2y ago
With a reusable launch vehicle yeah that's ballpark. Depends how you define "city" though.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Agreed. Everyone raves about generative AI but I've yet to see a single generative AI video that is "enjoyable" to watch in a way beyond the way tech demos are enjoyable to watch.
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by mlindner 2y ago
This type of argument is frankly outdated. The US is net exporters of crude. We only import because of structural issues (for example for California it's cheaper to ship in oil as they refused to allow a pipeline to be built, or for ex
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by mlindner 2y ago
In order to make a surface properly flat you need to have the cleave surface line up with crystal boundaries, but crystals are randomly oriented in three dimensions meaning the surface can't be truly flat. And that's even assuming
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by mlindner 2y ago
I used to like GOG until they tried to force you to launch games through their own launcher instead of them being their own standalone applications.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Cold welding, despite the name, is not welding.
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by mlindner 2y ago
I think that's a bit off. He seems to care very much about being a father or at the very least he likes to hang with his kids. He carries one of his young sons absolutely everywhere with him.
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by mlindner 2y ago
Given that this "government agency" apparently is going to "provide advice and guidance from outside of Government" it wouldn't hit that divesting rule. Only if you're on government payroll does that apply AFAI
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by mlindner 2y ago
I can't remember the GAO ever doing investigations on government inefficiency. Mostly I see reports from them on where projects are blowing out budgets or instances where the government isn't properly reporting to the public. They
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by mlindner 2y ago
"Smart money" ended up wrong.
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by mlindner 2y ago
More correctly: In states where individual rights are protected.
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by mlindner 2y ago
The democrats having to overcome a 5pt disadvantage (I haven't checked if this is even accurate) would just be because of the lag in the system with people moving to blue states from red states. If the reverse happens then it'll b
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by mlindner 2y ago
Extreme emphasis on verbal consent is one example of the "sex negative messaging" I was referring to.
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by mlindner 2y ago
The Electoral College and the Senate are not the same thing and are entirely unrelated to each other. So which are you talking about exactly? Maybe you're just quoting things you heard by rumor? But seeing as you changed the argument t
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by mlindner 2y ago
No "mob rule" is a direct democracy system that is effectively tyranny of the majority. That system does not and cannot work. All forms of practical democracy are some measure away from that, to varying degrees. Secondly, the elec
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by mlindner 2y ago
Have to say that a lot of hacker news contributors really show their colors around events like this. This is a completely good thing to do and well past due.
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by mlindner 2y ago
By removing a few Russians who are more than likely to leave the country anyway?
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by mlindner 2y ago
In general the courts shouldn't be pushing big ticket ballot propositions... That isn't their place. The reason they're not elected is explicitly so they can't be (to the maximum extent possible) affected by the ballot b
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by mlindner 2y ago
Worth mentioning that companies like Starlink make it trivial to cancel service.
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by mlindner 2y ago
I know it based on what in-the-know reporters (dedicated space industry reporters) have said, what I've read in some books on SpaceX's history and the (albeit very limited) contacts with people I have who work in the industry. I c
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by mlindner 2y ago
The California Coastal Commission has no authority over a Federal (Military) launch range so there's no need for real concern. Yes using people's personal opinions for denial is illegal, but it's moot regardless. So I'm
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by mlindner 2y ago
Burt Rutan, one of the most legendary aerospace engineers of all time used to do regular long presentations to people on why global warming was not man made. Some of them are archived on youtube. And there's many other cases of otherwi
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by mlindner 2y ago
They do this every launch unfortunately. Youtube seems completely inept at stopping them. They make enough money to hire hundreds of thousands of fake accounts to subscribe.
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by mlindner 2y ago
The previous launch was completely successful. No damage was significant done to the wildlife near the launch pad in any previous launch, at least no more than is done to the wildlife during any launch that happens anywhere in the world. Th
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by mlindner 2y ago
> But there should be some oversight. You cannot just let a private company do whatever industrial processes wherever they want in the name of progress. Then we're in agreement as is SpaceX and even Elon Musk. He's previously s
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Should also be noted that Flight 1 was originally attempted to launch on April 17th.
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Yes, literally, but the arms are massive and not directly controlled by humans.
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by mlindner 2y ago
> They are basically completely dismissing government oversight as "unnecessary obstacles to progress". SpaceX works quite well with the government and doesn't mind oversight with regards to safety at all. What they don&#x

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