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by neaanopri 6y ago
"Speed" is latency and bandwidth. Bandwidth is solved with phased-array antennas at a high carrier frequency (Ku/Ka?). The high carrier frequency allows for high (literal) bandwidth. However, the phased-array antennas are p
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Bent-piping to a GFW ground station makes a lot of sense
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by neaanopri 6y ago
We've decided not to do anything. Any other conclusion is foolish optimism. The effects will happen.
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I'm skeptical 'big oil' campaigned against nuclear. Oil doesn't compete for power generation, fossil fuel power is mostly from coal and natural gas. I would totally believe coal companies did that
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by neaanopri 6y ago
100% Rent control in crises makes sense. Rent control was applied in WW2 in NYC for example. Just like rationing is a good response in a crisis, but not in "peacetime".
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Risk tolerance is not just engineering, but also how comfortable we are risking human lives. In a "good war" like WW2 we should recognize that fighting that war is worth the risk and that casualties are going to happen. We don&#x
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by neaanopri 6y ago
You can view homosexuality as an identity or as a behavior. Recently the identity option has been emphasized. Part of those is because it offers more legitimacy: if I can convince you that: 1. Gay people exist 2. I am gay Then, my homosexu
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by neaanopri 6y ago
It's probably the BOM cost. I've seen the "burn up in the atmosphere" constraint before, and it struck me as a bit crazy for Shoot First and Ask Questions Later SpaceX to care about this
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by neaanopri 6y ago
You're running a "resistive heater" which turns 1 unit of electricity into 1 unit of heat. Heat Pumps can "pump" heat from the outside into the house, and this get more than 1 unit of heat from 1 unit of electricity
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Don't adjacent solar panels shade be each other? If not, then are the panels spaced less dense than they could be if they were fixed?
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I can't believe I had to scroll down this far for someone to point this out.
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by neaanopri 6y ago
If there's abundant pure hydrogen, synthesizing methane gets a lot easier, and we can use natural gas infra with no modifications. One of the cases I think about for Hydrogen is moving energy around globally. The Sahara has tons of en
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by neaanopri 6y ago
One of the reasons liquid methane works well as a rocket propellant is that rockets need to carry their own oxidizer with them. Because methane is a smaller molecule, less oxygen is required to oxidize a given amount of methane. With an ai
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by neaanopri 6y ago
That sounds like a helpful hint as to what the "price of carbon" should be: $500 per ton of aviation fuel burned or so
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Masks work. If everyone is wearing a mask, there are at least two masks between you and an infected person. Masks don't provide 100% protection, but nothing does. However, masks are important, because they enable people to safely pe
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by neaanopri 6y ago
To be fair, Delta IV had been flying for decades
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I totally agree. I think the plans right now just aren't going to happen, a cycler probably makes the most sense
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I mean there's not _no_ market, but I agree it's specialized. I could see this capability making sense for high-value, time-sensitive construction projects, such as oil rigs or wind turbines. Also, the "global" nature m
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by neaanopri 6y ago
US Military is used to training recruits to use high tech equipment, and had the pockets to buy hardware to sit around "just in case"
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I completely agree with you, and I'm thinking of blind people and some people with epilepsy who have animals which can detect and manage their seizures.
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Agree with the sentiment, String Theory is (right now) untestable. However, virtual particles are part of the standard model and have been indirectly shown to exist by particle accelerators. "Shown to exist" here means "a t
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by neaanopri 6y ago
None of the Trump voters I've encountered can even be remotely described as shy
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I totally agree with you. So why hasn't this happened yet? I believe this is because what we have here is not a technical problem, but primarily a regulatory and legal problem. If the political leadership of the NHTSA had the will to
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Revenue
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by neaanopri 6y ago
This article is so smug. It reminds me of Communist arguments AGAINST worker's rights. These communist arguments boil down to: "we should not try to make workers' lives better, because in order to have The Revolution, worker
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I find that what causes SW to break most often is changes to the OS, either other app updates or OS updates. I work in a hardware company, and for any important function I usually set up a dedicated computer, install the software, and then
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by neaanopri 6y ago
I have been following this blig for several months, it really is done of the best writing on the internet
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by neaanopri 6y ago
Amazon successfully created a monopoly, with a combination of choosing the right market, and good execution. Uber failed to create a monopoly, both due to their choice of market and poor execution. Just because it is possible to create a mo
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by neaanopri 7y ago
This is a crisis, not a normal time. Fixing this system will make the difference between real people getting unemployment checks or nothing. That's worth enduring a bad boss for.
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by neaanopri 7y ago
To be fair, Boeing is developing a new capsule, while SpaceX is making Dragon 2, drawing on the legacy of Dragon 1, which they were awarded at least $1B for. This sort of issue would have shown up on the first Dragon 1 flight if SpaceX had

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