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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Good point. Similar situation with compliant mechanisms research. Compliant mechanisms have been around for many decades, but rigorous command of the design of compliant mechanisms has not.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Your link leads to music. Did you mean to link something else?
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Beyond all the theoretical implementation complexities of space elevators, we don't even know of a single material with the required tensile strength. Graphene was thought to be strong enough, but recent research found practical graphe
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
This could have an application for licensing satellites in other jurisdictions. Every jurisdiction has different rules, so sometimes you can get an advantage or get done what you need to in a different jurisdiction
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
"No Rules Rules" by the CEO of Netflix talks about some good antidotes to this problem.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
As an object of study Jupiter is definitely unique in our proximity and valuable. Generally, it seems strange to think some aspect of nature has to be valuable.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
The studies mentioned are for supplementation. I'd be interested to see studies on vitamin D benefits through sunlight exposure instead. It may be that these studies are proving not that increasing vitamin D levels can prevent disease,
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Can you provide a source for dust on Mars being jagged? If I understand correctly, this is true on the moon where erosive processes weren't present historically. But on Mars, we have ample evidence that they were for millions of years.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
There's definitely a lot of need for innovation in CAD, so nice work building and putting something out there. I don't see any details in the readme. It's kind of hard to evaluate what you've built without them. Care to
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Wouldn't the ocean shield the undersea cables from the storm? Water is supposed to be a good barrier against solar radiation and has been proposed for deep space applications shielding astronauts.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
At the moment, we'd pay several X over price versus not being able to find needed ICs at all and having to redesign our satellite for ones that are available.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
> It was the most devastating experience of my life and involved all the emotions here: grief, anger, depression, self-blame, guilt, etc. I came to realize that this experience was fairly common for failed founders and business owners bu
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
The headline makes this sound really novel, but I see it as another example of governments being out of touch with industry accomplishments when they aren't published in journals (but are available elsewhere). SpaceX has been pushing s
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Thousands of children. That's tragic. I've been lamenting children's loss of free range. I thought it was due to saliency bias around kidnapping, but it sounds like the auto companies may be at larger fault.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Sometimes the solution is to get rid of the problem. Take tobacco for instance. May not be true of cars, but I'm pretty bitter about the unhealthy car-centric societies that 100 years of auto lobbying has left us with.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
It's like saying: ~Don't attack the tobacco companies, talk about alternative forms of recreation.~ Sure, but also attack tobacco companies. Sometimes the solution to a plague is to attack the plague.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
This immediately makes me think of the role attacking pedestrians played in the rise of the automobile. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history The auto companies played dirty. Maybe it&
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Cool! I was just thinking about this!
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Google "tyranny of the rocket equation"
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
Source? I would actually expect there to be around the same amount of drummers, but more people making music.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
The orbital index isn't mentioned but should be. It's an incredible newsletter on the space industry.
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
I wonder how the variance in well-being changes with income. Bigger or smaller swings?
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
This ranks highly on the Black Mirror scale (how many Black Mirror episodes could be written about it).
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
I can only consume audiobooks if I'm doing something else. It seems I have to push my brain to the edge of activity it can absorb at once. Too little activity (just listening to an audiobook) and I get bored and distracted. Too much ac
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by patrickwalton 5y ago
My solution is walking while I read. As a result, I end up walking for 4-6 hours at a time when I have a lot of reading to do. My biggest struggle is finding good e-readers that can handle all the reading formats I need, sync annotations, a
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by patrickwalton 6y ago
NPR just did a show on consumers fighting back against the HP Inkjet model https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/968704526/why-printers-are-th...
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by patrickwalton 6y ago
I was able to add dimming capability to the lights in my rented apartment where it wasn't available before using smart lights. That was a pretty big benefit to me.
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by patrickwalton 7y ago
Working on a hardware startup, I'm seeing that hardware infrastructure is way behind software infrastructure. Figuring out to test a new iteration in a week feels like magic, when software companies can deploy iterations in an hour. I
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by patrickwalton 7y ago
I've kept extensive notes for years and always find I never use them, so now I'm transitioning towards only taking notes in actionable format, as GitHub issues, task list items, etc.
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by patrickwalton 7y ago
Very cool! I'll bet we could use this to make it really easy to document any unique issues that come up while assembling iterations of our satellites.

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