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by pdonis 8mo ago
> If those were unmanned test flights pushing the vehicle limits As far as the launch to orbit, which was the flight phase when Challenger was lost, every Shuttle flight pushed the vehicle to its limits. That was unavoidable. There w
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Ah, I see. But in fact the body flap was not inoperative, and the Shuttle landed safely. So this looks to me like a case where Mission Control turned out to be justified in not telling the crew what had happened. One thing I wonder about is
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> Unmanned testing in similar conditions before putting humans on it might've resulted in a nice explosion without loss of life that would've been much harder to ignore The loss of the Challenger was the 25th manned orbital
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> They very nearly lost the first shuttle they launched. Which mission are you referring to? If it's STS-1, AFAIK there were no close call incidents during the actual flight, but the mission commander, John Young, did have to veto
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by pdonis 8mo ago
I don't think so, because both losses were due to bad management decisions under irrational political pressure, not any lack of engineering knowledge that more unmanned testing could have provided. Challenger was lost because NASA igno
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by pdonis 8mo ago
So if you're running multiple SSIDs on a single router, but all of them use encryption and require a passphrase (i.e., none of them are open), the attacks you are describing don't work? To clarify, the passphrase for each SSID is
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by pdonis 8mo ago
"Anode-free" is a bit of a misnomer; there is still a charge collector and electrical connection on the anode side. It just means that, when manufactured, the anode-side charge collector is bare (no lithium electroplated onto it);
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> What is it, if anything, about magic that draws people to it? Simple: if it's magic, you don't have to do the hard work of understanding how it works in order to use it. Just use the right incantation and you're done.
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> many of the changes we are talking about don't even really cost us anything This is the part that seems to vary widely based on which warming alarmist you're talking to. Many of them are not saying there are things we cou
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Classic. I also love the scene where he tells the squadron of which he's just become CO that they should think of him as God.
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Ok, so then why do they need all this other Federal legislation?
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Instead of lobbying for taking away everyone's privacy, why isn't the government going after those they say are the actual culprits? From the article: "The attorneys general argue that social media companies deliberately desi
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> There was no reason to lie about knowing the Scots language well enough to be the primary contributor by volume to Scots Wikipedia Yes, there was: becoming the primary contributor by volume to Scots Wikipedia (which probably doesn&#x
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> a specific strategy adopted by corporations using the internet for commercial purposes. Isn't that what's driving the pollution of the Internet by LLMs?
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by pdonis 8mo ago
If "AGI" means something much less capable, it would also pose much less risk of a catastrophe.
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Perhaps not, but if it was there before and then got suddenly removed, that ought to at least raise the suspicion that the organization's nature has changed and it should be re-evaluated.
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> your mission statement in your IRS filings is part of how the IRS evaluates if you should keep your non-profit status or not. So has the IRS spotted the fact that "unconstrained by the need for financial return" got deleted
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Not only really telling, but AFAIK illegal for a 501(c)(3) organization.
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by pdonis 8mo ago
Thanks, that helps!
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by pdonis 8mo ago
So this link redirects to a page that wants me to either create an account, or log into one I already have, before it will tell me anything about this product. Sorry, no.
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by pdonis 8mo ago
> if robots were doing literally all the work Let me know when ChatGPT can do your laundry.
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> I don't know why you turned that into being about the IRS Um, because that's what I orginally began talking about when the topic of taxes came up? Go back and look at the first post of mine in this subthread where I explici
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> general principles of accounting. I'm not sure what those have to do with this question, since it's a legal question, not an accounting question. > I feel pretty confident that if a state tax authority agrees with the d
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by pdonis 9mo ago
The IRS is Federal, not state. State tax codes are generally much easier to comprehend. But to describe the US Federal tax code as Byzantine would be to give too much credit for obfuscation to the Byzantines. :-) That's why it's s
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> For purpose of taxes, that is still treated as a sale in the earlier year, right? To the best of my knowledge, yes, the date of closing, which is the date on which the deed is executed, is the date of sale for tax purposes. Note, how
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by pdonis 9mo ago
"Recorded according to law" refers to separate Florida statutes that specify how that's done--with the county clerk in the county where the property is located. > it just means that the deed needs to have been recorded s
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> the point is that this is actually not true It is in Florida, which is where I live. Florida Statutes section 695.01: "No conveyance, transfer, or mortgage of real property, or of any interest therein, nor any lease for a term o
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> if you don’t lodge them with the land title registry, they don’t legally exist as far as land titles go. As I pointed out in another post downthread, that is also the case in US jurisdictions that record deeds: if the deed transferri
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> In the Torrens system, if you do not register the transfer of property with the government, then the transfer hasn't happened. This is also true of county clerks in the US: any transfer of property in the county has to be record
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by pdonis 9mo ago
> at least in some places in the US that's actually just a log of some kinds of transactions That's true--but as I pointed out just now in response to another post, since there is no single government having jurisdiction over

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