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by mmooss 9mo ago
NASA's work has been reduced to a "handful"? What is the point of writing that? And there is far more to cost of missions and their hardware than launching them. How much of JWST's cost was the launch?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> It is a strange comment to make about a film set inside a prison, but “The Shawshank Redemption” creates a warm hold on our feelings because it makes us a member of a family. Many movies offer us vicarious experiences and quick, superf
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> lots of cheap orbital rockets It's valuable for sure. It's nothing like, "The one person who is advancing our space faring abilities by leaps and bounds". There are many others, and many are doing more (again, NASA,
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The Church of Capitalism (as opposed to small-c capitalism) is the ideology of here and now; that's what I was talking about. The capitalist-communist dichotomy - a favorite of ideologues in both groups - is not something I was referri
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> I believe we already have the resources to colonise the Moon and maybe Mars right now. That is or was essentially the mission of the US government's Artemis program, as I understand it. Some elements of the plan are (or were): &#x
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> The one person who is advancing our space faring abilities by leaps and bounds The overwhelming amount of the work is done by NASA, ESA, CNSA (China, going to the Moon), and other space agencies. Musk has built orbital rockets. > ro
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by mmooss 9mo ago
You're in an IT forum and can't imagine implementations of both the smallest and largest scales? ICs are built at nanoscale and have to deal with quantum effects. PNT systems are so large that they have to deal with the speed of l
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by mmooss 9mo ago
How can you look at current and recent US science and call it 'entitlement'? Have there been larger cuts anywhere in modern history?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Very much yes: Knowledge is valuable itself. We're discovering the secrets of the universe. The owners of capital have created an amazing, self-serving ideology in the US (and elsehwere): If something doesn't help them make money,
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by mmooss 9mo ago
We don't need uncited, selective data. It would be relatively easy to directly measure the relationship between vegetarianism and height. Also, height is determined early in life. Many people become vegetarian in adulthood. Becoming ve
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Is this attached to the wrong comment? We weren't talking about the OP. > I’m not seeing anyone proposing actually making the situation better, or addressing why people might consider these jobs better than their alternatives. That
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Thanks. I think your vision is much more useful for most day-to-day work for most people. It's interesting that a new office suite would aim in that direction.
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It's not a slight correction, those claims are the exact problem - the propaganda of the powerful: Give up, there is nothing you can do. People in democracies can easily vote to change where power lies (that is, power lies ultimately w
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The description of the Docs project, at least on the OP page, is interesting: "A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React." An office suite's 'docs' compone
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by mmooss 9mo ago
I don't question your good faith. You seem to have fallen into a trap of many of good faith (and those of not-so-good faith): For ~ the first half of the 20th century, the leading scholarly theory on US slavery was that the slaves were
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> Merely watching videos, even of disturbing material, doesn't even come close to being as bad as those and some other professions. The research and reporting, which looks at actual people's experiences says otherwise. This iss
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> Come on, you know that's not analogous. Maybe not analogous, but closely related: Many of those suburbs were built for people who wanted to segregate themselves from minorities, and took steps to keep them out. > when people br
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Most northeast American cities are older and denser - Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore (at least parts of it), Washington DC (at least parts of it) ... smaller cities on that region too.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
I think the OP is a very interesting perspective when 'animal instincts', sharks, and hyper-aggression are put forward as necessities for success. > Diggins is the Michael Jordan of United States cross-country skiing—the best e
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Even in Her Victory Lap, Jessie Diggins Is Always Thinking About Others(si.com)
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by mmooss 9mo ago
For the most part, they only have the power others give them.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> it wouldn't be surprising if page numbers were a solution to help printers not mix up pages. It's an interesting idea. Remember they printed large sheets containing many 'pages', I think even in different orientatio
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The primary obstacle is discussions like this one. It will be enforced if people insist it's enforced - the power comes from the voters. If a large portion of the population - especially the informed population, represented to some ext
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by mmooss 9mo ago
There's this from 2022, but there are probably many concerns from Wyden: https://apnews.com/article/congress-cia-ron-wyden-martin-hei...
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by mmooss 9mo ago
One major issue is system management: Installing another app, such as Signal, on your personal computer is one thing. On 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 computers, installing it, configuring it, changing settings, updating it, backing it up, loc
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Social media is being banned for minors in multiple countries, and more are seriously considering it. But if people keep proselytizing that nothing will happen and all is hopeless, it's going to be hard to get people together to suppo
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Just looking at the US, tobacco comes with warnings, there are limits on advertising (see any tobacco product commercials on TV?), and the manufacturers lost a lawsuit leading to massive fines and many of these outcomes. The idea that we do
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by mmooss 9mo ago
I saw an interview with an all-time great NBA basketball player. He was a top high school player and described his childhood like this: When you were at the movies, I was practicing. When you were on dates or hanging out with your buddies,
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by mmooss 9mo ago
It depends on the field, afaik. I know someone who was an exceptional classical pianist, but they told me they knew they'd never make it in that field: They started at age 15, which was much too late to acquire the skills needed. Profe
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by mmooss 9mo ago
in what social venue do you find high-quality content? I don't know of any that come close to matching serious publications, IME.

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