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by nkoren 6y ago
Literally the next sentence provides strong (if circumstantial) substantiation for this.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Yep, you export a lot of nice flowers and vegetables, and import a lot of meat. This makes fine economic sense in the context of well-functioning system of global trade. But if that system were to shut down and you had to produce all that m
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by nkoren 6y ago
If people ate money, that would be true. But the important thing for self-sufficiency is not the monetary balance of trade, but the caloric value of trade. It is typical for smaller countries to export high-value refined agricultural produc
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by nkoren 6y ago
The amount of food that a country exports is orthogonal to its capacity for self-sufficiency. Your example of the Netherlands is a perfect illustration of this. In monetary terms it's a net exporter, but in caloric terms it's a ne
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by nkoren 6y ago
I co-own a company that is a supplier to both SpaceX and many of their customers. I haven't worked on a launch license myself, but between what my company does and various friends in the industry, I'm familiar enough with the proc
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by nkoren 6y ago
I'm guessing you haven't bought a lot of rocket launches. Launches are often bought years in advance (although SpaceX is reducing that to months, it's still not days or weeks). For payloads, they need to be certified for thin
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by nkoren 6y ago
I'm an architect / urban planner who used to live in Phoenix (Tempe, actually). There's absolutely no reason a city in that kind of environment can't be walkable, even in the height of summer. There are two key component
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Missing Large Housing(twitter.com)
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by nkoren 6y ago
Self-driving is a Hard Problem. I'm sure that there's an incredible amount of sophistication going into a system like this, and I have sincere respect for all the engineers working on it. Nonetheless, o, the hype! Some caveats: 1.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Well, from a safety point of view, you'd obviously be much safer going with New Glenn or SLS. There's very little risk if you never leave the ground.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Working microphones. They've sent microphones previously, which have either failed or been on missions that crashed.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Nit: propulsive landing was not only feasible but actually done in the late 1960s. On a human-rated Single Stage To Orbit vehicle, no less. Okay, fine, so it wasn't to Earth orbit, but still...!
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by nkoren 6y ago
Yep, I'm definitely making no positive statements as to the absolute location of my brain, or its state of empicklement.
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by nkoren 6y ago
This seems rather optimistic to me. There are days when I count myself lucky to be able to debug my own code. And it's maybe about seven orders of magnitude less complex. And has comments. And unit tests. I'd be willing to bet t
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by nkoren 6y ago
That was not a dispute about payment.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Sadly, neither. Transport planner working in this Garriott-funded project: https://web.archive.org/web/20150508071259/http://www.austin...
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by nkoren 6y ago
If you need another data point, I worked on a (non-software) project for Garriott. He was awesome and I'd do it again in a second.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Anecdotal, but the only charger block I've ever had explode was from a MacBook. In its favour, it didn't fragment or catch fire. But as it shuffled off its mortal coil, the white plastic casing momentarily shone like the sun. Was
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by nkoren 6y ago
Podaris | https://www.podaris.com/ | London, UK / REMOTE Podaris is changing the way the world plans its cities. Our aim is to bring together all the stakeholders in the urban development process -- planners, engineers
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by nkoren 6y ago
Forwarding this to a friend of mine who owns a BDSM-themed coffeeshop...
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by nkoren 6y ago
It looks like that book is from 2006, predating widespread recognition of Göbekli Tepe's significance. At the time, from my recollection, the mainstream view as that human culture at 10k BPE was nowhere near being able to produce the k
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by nkoren 6y ago
https://www.theonion.com/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-...
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by nkoren 6y ago
Yep, there are no good choices here. Parler is an organizing venue for Trump supporters attempting to overturn a democratic election and/or storm the capitol, which also has a rather anti-democratic feel to it, no? So you can think of
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BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima(sites.psu.edu)
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SpaceX Starship high-altitude test flight(youtube.com)
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by nkoren 6y ago
Damnit, last year I walked straight past that mochi shop without even realising it. And now I'm hungry. (Seriously, though, the snacking in Kyoto is epic. Lovely temples and all, but when I go back, my first stop will be at a yatsuhash
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by nkoren 6y ago
what i'm curious about is how the 2007 zoomquilt2 has an easter-egg for the 2015 zrkadia.xyz in it...? Did the former inspire the starting frame from the latter, or was it retroactively retrofitted?
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by nkoren 6y ago
They've got an orbital plane planned at 80 degrees, which will get pretty close.
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by nkoren 6y ago
Old-school angels were just as likely to rip your face off as serve you tea and cookies. Read the older Abrahamic texts, and it's clear that to encounter an angel was often a terrifying experience, even when it went well. Obviously the
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by nkoren 6y ago
It's been a long, long pandemic...

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