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by neolefty 3y ago
They seem pretty good for getting to low orbit, and once you're there, lots of possibilities for propulsion open up.
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by neolefty 3y ago
Mostly it's moar stages. Each stage of a kerolox engine can get you about 5 km/s, and LEO is about 8 km/s, so two stages works pretty well. Velocity for LSEO (low super-earth orbit) might be 11 km/s, so you'd need a
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by neolefty 3y ago
Or a jet stage followed by rocket stages.
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by neolefty 3y ago
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by neolefty 3y ago
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by neolefty 3y ago
When you have surplus photovoltaic capacity — an increasingly common situation — you could turn it to electrolysis. You still have to pay for the equipment, but it sounds like it could be pretty cheap. It would cut out the cost of mining, a
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by neolefty 3y ago
This is so true, and so wrong. We will look back and see it as outright barbarism. I think we're headed towards a major Constitution revision (or a sequel to the Declaration of Independence) within a couple of generations, and the &quo
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by neolefty 3y ago
Some big auth providers throw in a few extra signals too. Your IP address changes? That might hurry up expiration a little. Your user agent changes? Big red flag. Etc.
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by neolefty 3y ago
They also expire faster when suspicious things happen, such as your IP address changing. Auth providers are pretty quiet about what they find "suspicious" — some are obvious, some are clever.
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by neolefty 3y ago
We know why it fooled everybody, but AFAIK the material doesn't have any outstanding properties. With certain impurities and under certain conditions, it: - has a striking drop in resistivity during a temperature change — a property pu
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by neolefty 3y ago
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by neolefty 3y ago
I think it's natural for new tools to be Propietary, while Free alternatives of the basics work their way up the chain: Most of the cost of software development isn't in writing software — it's in the exploration of the solut
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by neolefty 3y ago
A UBI coin like WorldCoin needs proof-of-identity as well, to prevent duplicate payouts.
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by neolefty 3y ago
And using biometrics is itself a hack to circumvent the vagaries of government ID systems. So you'd be hacking around a hack. It makes me think at some point we'll be back to inventing government-issued IDs. Or um using the ones w
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by neolefty 3y ago
The ideal government would be the ideal partner — unfortunately the governments of the world are far from ideal. So I can understand why you'd want to circumvent them. But in the end, we do need government, and circumventing them just
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by neolefty 3y ago
I think the trick is to learn how to scale it up. One view of human history is to see it as increasing scales of fellow-feeling and practical cooperation.
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by neolefty 3y ago
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by neolefty 3y ago
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by neolefty 3y ago
I heard it about Berthold K P Horn https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/berthold-horn/ , professor of machine vision. And it was extra convenient because he wanted to output the result of the computation as an image any
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by neolefty 3y ago
So is this plane totalled? Or can it be repaired and returned to service?
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by neolefty 3y ago
Some societal implications: * Kids playing with iron filings sounds a lot safer than kids playing with gasoline. "Don't leave your magnets in the fuel tank; it clogs up the lines!" * The gasoline party scene in Zoolander woul
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by neolefty 3y ago
True, if we're getting it the traditional way. Fortunately, iron oxide can be reduced using hydrogen. In the article, they conclude that the system cost of shipping iron and iron oxide back and forth from an electrolysis facility (pres
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by neolefty 3y ago
They mention that with hydrogen. It's cheaper to produce hydrogen but much harder to transport it. Fortunately, hydrogen can reduce iron oxide, which turns out to be a great complement. Their analysis is that the system cost of burni
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by neolefty 3y ago
It could become as low quality as some of my SMS threads!
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by neolefty 3y ago
Reddit premium subscriber here — I use it because it hides ads, I get a lot of value from Reddit (and want to make that sustainable, if possible), and Premium gives me stickers I can award to comments occasionally in addition to upvotes.
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by neolefty 3y ago
Or trying to catch up to Apple?
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by neolefty 3y ago
It leverages the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) https://mlir.llvm.org/ which is a follow-on from LLVM, with lots of lessons learned: https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/12/27/lessons-
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by neolefty 4y ago
I ran across this out of curiousity, and just thought it was so well-written and a great scientific subject. I especially liked the identification of controversies, such as "How did hydrolysis of water arise?", while not taking si
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Early Evolution of Photosynthesis(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by neolefty 4y ago
Yes, I will end up depending more heavily on sources that I know are thoughtfully edited by humans. Unfortunately, that set will diminish if bot herders overwhelm crowdsourced sites.

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