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by nkoren 9y ago
They don't launch from barges. They land on them.
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by nkoren 9y ago
The 2nd and 3rd hanzi/kanji they used were quite literally the words for "moon" and "sun" (at least in Japanese, where they also mean "month" and "day").
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by nkoren 9y ago
Yeah, my sample is fairly biased in that direction. That and rickshaw wallahs who'll speak the language of their market I guess.
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by nkoren 9y ago
I'm all in favour of opting out of taxes -- provided that one simultaneously opts out of using public roads and utilities; opts out of being protected by public police, fire, and emergency services; opts out of using public legal regim
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by nkoren 9y ago
I am not a native Hindi speaker by any means, and I certainly haven't done math in it. But my experience (in places like Delhi) is that people routinely use Hindi up to 20, then give up and switch to English.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Oh you're good.
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by nkoren 9y ago
I think that's a feature rather than a bug -- or, rather, a requirement for preventing buffer overflows. A hard wall at the limits of the addressable memory would be too obviously artificial, so that was a no-go. But time-dilation allo
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Cryptocurrencies and taxation in Iceland(twitter.com)
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by nkoren 9y ago
Got some news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#End_of_empire
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by nkoren 9y ago
> this approach has to come down in cost by 10× to even compete with our current vernacular architecture, let alone improve on its pricing. I'd like to be wrong, but that seems like a kill shot to me. Not only does the new system ne
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by nkoren 9y ago
First of all, I really genuinely hope that you succeed. You're attacking a Hard Problem, and one that very much needs to be solved. That said: I'm fairly skeptical that your approach will work. Maybe you've seen an angle that
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by nkoren 9y ago
I've spent prolonged periods living away from artificial light. In such situations, the lunar cycle has a profound effect on your psychology and sociology. New moons are quiet times, and wildest parties happen at full moon. Makes me
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by nkoren 9y ago
The distinction between dialects and languages is always rather dodgy and politically loaded (as anyone who uses the words "Chinese Language" soon finds out). One of the better working definitions I've seen is that "a la
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by nkoren 9y ago
I'd say it's been a worthwhile investment -- but not really on the merit of the community. That's probably my own fault: the community seems cool and I probably ought to be less of a hermit. There are certainly plenty of Chin
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by nkoren 9y ago
You mean to the Western mind? I've got one, so yeah I feel somewhat at liberty to make mildly self-depreciating jokes about it. Sort of the way that Woody Allen is allowed to make good-natured fun of pedophiles. Egads, that's terr
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by nkoren 9y ago
> Why fetishize diversity for its own sake, especially when it's a barrier to communication? Ĉar diverseco estas la bazo de ĉia belo kaj ĉia kreemo. Sin diverseco, vivo estus sensignifa. > I think we should all speak one language
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by nkoren 9y ago
How does phonological complexity affect these things? I'm not a linguist, but Hindi at least seems way complex, with a much larger phoneme inventory than other languages I've studied.
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by nkoren 9y ago
> The language and script change every five hundred miles Huh, somebody is making a vast over-simplification, presumably in a well-intentioned attempt to package this in a way the Western mind can comprehend. Which frankly is futile. Ind
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by nkoren 9y ago
Ugh, no. Human drivers kill about 1.3 million people per year. Since the second world war, human drivers have killed more people than all wars and genocides put together. This is personal for me: human drivers have murdered far too many of
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by nkoren 9y ago
For the most part, yes. Changes in the regulatory system have been one of the critical enablers for this during the last decade. The key area where the regulations haven't particularly kept pace is in extra-terrestrial property right
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by nkoren 9y ago
Meta-comment: I haven't seen this noted elsewhere, but there's been a very sudden and significant acceleration in the pace of space launch. So far there have been 22 launches this year, which is about double the pace of last year.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Podaris | Full or part-time | REMOTE | London, UK Podaris ( https://www.podaris.com/ ) is re-inventing how the world plans its cities. We're developing a platform for urban infrastructure planning, with a focus on agile,
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by nkoren 9y ago
This is a good point. There are however a number of innovations that are poised, or could potentially be poised, to increase electrical demand, from electric vehicles to interstellar laser propulsion. But in every case I can think of -- wit
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by nkoren 9y ago
> [Jevons Paradox] It is not related to the cost of the final product. I don't believe that's correct. From the Wikipedia article: "Goods and services generally use more than one type of input (e.g. fuel, labour, machinery
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by nkoren 9y ago
The problem is that energy as energy gets cheaper, it becomes an increasingly marginal part of cost of what uses energy. Eg., let's say you've got some good/service, of which energy is 10% of its lifetime operating cost. If
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by nkoren 9y ago
Simple explanation: Jevons paradox is an observed correlation that has held true for certain notable industries at certain periods of history, but is not a law of nature. Demand for anything is neither infinite nor infinitely elastic. But
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by nkoren 9y ago
Yeah, here's a diagram showing the inner fairing dimensions: https://marssettlement.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/falcon9fa... "Fairing 2.0", which just flew yesterday for the first time, is larger bu
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by nkoren 9y ago
It's actually the length of the fairing that's the issue. The Falcon fairing can only accommodate payloads 11.4m long. The BA 330 is 16.8m long, and that doesn't compress at all.
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by nkoren 9y ago
> I am so far beyond mind game stuff being able to help...I need Maslows bottom rungs stabilized before I can do the rest...people always expect you to do it backwards. Oh yeah, I definitely appreciate that self-actualisation can't
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by nkoren 9y ago
This. I grew up in Los Gatos, but now live in London. Virtually anywhere in the city there are decent shops within a 5-10 minute walk; this fact alone makes London vastly more liveable than 95% of Silicon Valley. This is only viable with

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