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by nordsieck 2y ago
> But nevertheless I still think it's worthwhile for us as a species to look at ways we can cross the planet faster. I think eventually (maybe in our lifetimes), the idea of taking a flight that takes you into outer space won't
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Due to the the time it takes at either end, there's a fixed minimum time cost to flying. Maybe three or four hours counting both ends. To be fair to airports, the arrival side hasn't really changed post 9/11. If you chec
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Regardless of the specifics of this issue, it is objectively a huge power grab for a president to vow to not enforce a law that had bipartisan approval of both the legislative and judiciary branches. Isn't that the road we've
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by nordsieck 2y ago
I feel like an m-series mac mini would be a really good fit for that - plenty of juice for when you need it, but very low idle power draw. The small size (especially for the m4 version) is an added benefit.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> I think the simpler explanation blatant corruption, since the legislation is moving judicial responsibility from from the judicial branch to the legislature and president I mean, that's true of basically all administrative agencie
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> food in the US is overly colored for no other reason than it looks cool My understanding is that a lot of food is colored to look "natural" for uniformity. A good example of this is applesauce.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> If you're going to buy a laptop stand anyway and you have the choice between A) a plastic stand or B) this recycled stand, does it make more or less sense, in terms of environmental impact, to buy the plastic stand over this one?
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> I'm reminded of similarly useless "sustainable cardboard furniture" that came out about a decade ago. Apparently no one learned their lesson, because the cardboard olympic village beds were also (allegedly) pretty terrib
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> We've had CIFUS for decades. The only change is now we say no to Japan teaching us to make better steel. I'm curious what you mean by that. Most of what I know about steel is in relation to knives (and peripherally, swords, a
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by nordsieck 2y ago
IMO, the primary reason for this is because WCS is danced to contemporary music. When the music changes, the dancing changes to suit it. I think your example is actually quite illustrative of this - the 2nd song had a lot more "swing c
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by nordsieck 2y ago
A few examples as illustration: Sylvia Sykes dancing Lindy Hop[1]. An example of Savoy style Lindy Hop[2]. An example of Sylvia Sykes dancing West Coast Swing[3], a swing dance that was heavily influenced[4] by Hollywood style. For the keen
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> So basically raw pointers with extra hoops to jump through. That's one way to look at it. The other way is: raw pointers, but with mechanical sympathy. Array based data structures crush pointer based data structures in performance
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> It does not take away how good he is Honestly, your anecdote makes me respect him even more. Few people go to those lengths to prepare.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> 21% of Americans have experimented with consensual non-monogamy at some point in their lives, far more than two decades ago > Not only do I not believe that statistic, but the footnote citation seems to be broken. I guess it depen
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> is there any reason to think this will be a trend all over the world where people have shitty internet? I think it really depends on why the region has bad internet. If it's because the government officials wants kickbacks from
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by nordsieck 2y ago
The issue is, there just aren't that many satellites in orbit. 7000 (for SpaceX, less for other networks) for the globe means that only a few connections over a particular geographical area end up causing serious congestion. SpaceX is
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by nordsieck 2y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> There are only three things the UK uses Imperial units for: road signage (speed limits, distances, and vehicle dimension restrictions; and since 2016 all new dimension restriction signage has to be in dual-SI and Imperial units[1]), be
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> The thrust of the engine can (and should) be measured in newtons though. It's very common to measure engine thrust in ton-force because it makes it easy to compare the thrust to the weight of the rocket, which is a critical metric
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Are they as high up that it could start orbiting? 1. No 2. Orbit is more about speed than height. You have to get high enough that the atmosphere doesn't aggressively degrade your velocity, but the key is to hit ~8km/s, altho
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Either way, this makes little sense overall. If a CA is trustable, it can be trusted to sign a certificate for any domain. And if it's not trustable, then you can't trust it for any domain. That's a silly position to tak
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> In Go, it's possible to actually make a Goose and have it as just a local variable living on your stack, but, the language insists that anybody can conjure one into existence despite having no basis for doing so, the resulting Goo
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> The risk of loss of payload actually goes DOWN with more launches, making costs cheaper the more a booster is reused. I don't think that's true. All of the F9 failures[1] have been due to the 2nd stage. And that's new ev
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> In the past this at-cost dealing would have been considered monopolistic enough to force divestment I guess we'll see what happens. As with most things monopoly related, the critical fight is over how to appropriately define the m
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> On the commercial side Blue Origin has been slow in starting but they are almost ready and will have relatively cheap launches. [citation needed] Sure, New Glenn is designed to be a partially reusable rocket. But it's far from cle
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> SpaceX - may or may not be profitable in the last year - it's hard to know. Until recently definitely no profitable SpaceX is very much in the same position as early Amazon. If they wanted to, they could be profitable today. But t
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by nordsieck 2y ago
IMO, one of the central problems is the cost of launching stuff into space. Today, SpaceX offers world leading low prices to launch satellites: $4 m / tonne[1]. But Starlink has access to launch at cost , which is $0.86 m / tonne
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by nordsieck 2y ago
It's not very likely. USC students just broke the non-government, non-corporate rocket launch altitude record, reaching 143.25km[1]. But that is still a long way from the ~500km that Starlink operates at. On top of that the person woul
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> I don't know what the intersection of that with the affordability is, though. My understanding is that the monthly cost for Starlink varies pretty wildly across the world. Presumably the same would be true for this cell service -
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by nordsieck 2y ago
To put some numbers to it, it looks like SpaceX started launching direct to cell satellites at the beginning of the year[1], and by July they had over 100 in orbit. Not sure how many are in orbit right now, but I wouldn't be surprised

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