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by nordsieck 2y ago
> My prediction is that the experience would get even shittier. Since everyone would be tuned out, there’d be even less reason for the airline to care. What can the airlines do to make it worse? I suppose they could cut out soda and pret
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> The more time passes, the less I can shake the feeling that the world would be better if we tuned out our environment less. That may or may not be true in general, but air travel is one of the most oppressive environments people regula
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Yes, for most of the booster return it’s ‘gliding’ with the rocket engines completely shut down. Watching the video, it looked like the bottom of the rocket was glowing hot, but the engines were cool. I imagine that means they were pro
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> The detonation at the end was pretty spectacular too, but I suspect that structurally the tanks failed as the rocket hit the water vs anything that was an engineering failure. It's possible that SpaceX programed the AFTS to trigge
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> All forms of structuring society are "regulation" If you're going to count the emergent structure that forms from voluntary cooperation as "regulation", the word loses its meaning. > Capitalism doesn't
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> The extreme here is underpaying the professors and researchers so much The problem is not that those people are underpaid. The problem is the morass of regulation that prevents people building enough housing where they want to live, wh
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> should we rethink the way we reward work to prioritize things that help society instead. The problem is that everyone has different ideas about what helps society. At least the current system, where people are compensated based on supp
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> in practice, all the complexity of C# building disappears into Visual Studio IMO, that's even worse. It means that when you want to learn C#, you're also forced into learning a complicated tool that isn't really useful f
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> No, some things just make sense. Having everything shipped in randomly sized containers is terribly inefficient. That's half the value. The other half is that standardized containers dramatically reduce "shrinkage" at th
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> I think most manned war vehicles are dead now. IMO, submarines - especially nuclear subs probably have decades of life left at a minimum. But yeah - everything else is starting to look very vulnerable.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
Apparently they do care. https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1840851200972833175
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> NASA pays the same price per seat in the Dragon as the Soyuz because they prefer not to fill up all the seats. That is incorrect. There are now a maximum of 4 seats in Crew Dragon.[1] While it's true that NASA had plans to take do
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Wouldn't the cost of anything only significantly decrease after a second competitor becomes competitive? Why would SpaceX decrease costs further when they are already the cheapest? That's certainly the textbook economics answ
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> As much as I dislike Musk, this is really not true at all. It is a order of magnitude cheaper post-SpaceX to launch things into orbit then it was pre-SpaceX Indeed - not only has SpaceX lowered the cost to get payload to space, they&#x
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> 3 failures in 3 months To be fair to SpaceX, the FAA has never cared before when a F9 1st stage hasn't landed properly. Not landing a booster is technically a failure, but I have a hard time giving it similar importance to a 2nd
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> By all these scales, SpaceX does pretty well, compared to other highly established companies, like, say, Boeing It's been a while since Boeing has launched anything. But yeah - SpaceX does well compared to ULA, ArianeGroup, Roscos
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> The only thing YC has to do is produce a portfolio of companies that looks good enough that other VCs invest into that. This is completely disconnected to building viable businesses, as they just don't have to be the ones that are
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> That's a paid service that some people balk at. AFAIK, it's only a paid feature to play video in the background.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Kinda is, and it’s all Elon’s fault. Not sure what you mean by that. Are you suggesting that Elon/SpaceX sabotaged Boeing Starliner program? Because it seems pretty obvious that Boeing did that all on their own.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> This will absolutely go in missiles to handle GPS jamming Depending on when the tech is available, preventing GPS jamming of drones is probably much more urgent in Ukraine.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
What's amazing to me is that journals don't require researchers to submit their raw data. At least, as far as I know. The only option for someone who wants to double check research is to completely replicate a study, which is quit
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> weren’t timeshares scams in and of themselves? They're not technically scams. Just generally not good things to own for most people. If you use your vacation time every year for the rest of your life, they can be decent. It's
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by nordsieck 2y ago
Exactly. There are already tons of stand alone trays and chargers.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of the "Citogenisis" XKCD https://xkcd.com/978/
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> I want web pages and web apps to be distinguishable, and not have every newspaper article and blog post hosted inside of a heavyweight application framework that either breaks or re-implements all kinds of basic user agent functionalit
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by nordsieck 2y ago
>> YouTube accounted for 8.5% of total TV viewing in May, while Netflix was a close second at 7.9%. Assuming that's true, I still don't think it matters that much. I expect that a very large proportion of Netflix that&#x27
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by nordsieck 2y ago
He's been that way for at least 10 years, from what I can tell.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> I worked in the CC system; but, they were primarily focused on getting students to take their generals (call it what it is: an Undecided major). While this is great and all, most companies are expecting even their interns to have a &
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Could include some locally sourced "raw water" Pro tip: it's cheaper to sell to consumers if it's dehydrated first.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
Exactly. I know so many people who simply don't respond if the incoming call isn't in their address book.

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