noahhs

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   by noahhs 12y ago

   Aside from safety, there's another insurmountable obstacle to space disposal: cost. You may not appreciate just how much spent fuel there is. I did the math once. Launch cost per pound, times number of pounds of waste, came out to over
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   by noahhs 14y ago

   I notice the strong demand on HN for empowerment literature. Personal productivity, existential self-determination, etc. People write with a sense of being illuminated, of knowing something that others don’t. A thinking person should not tr
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   by noahhs 15y ago

   Today's outage took down our website, our computing grid, everything. And this afternoon, when Microsoft said "the majority" of Azure clients were back up and running, we were still in the dark. Dammit.
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   by noahhs 15y ago

   Still waiting for that price drop. I understand if you have to wait a few weeks, to appease the buyers.
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   by noahhs 15y ago

   I would have bought it if it were $1.99. Just a data point for you.