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by peeters 5y ago
Yeah I can definitely think of catastrophic scenarios where a ship couldn't help you, it's just the article makes it sound like an impossibility. > However, if the pack’s three pounds of fuel runs out, if another astronaut does
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by peeters 5y ago
In the context of Gravity this omission kind of makes sense, but the article ignores the ability of your ship to pick you up. The RCS of orbiting ships is extremely precise. As long as they know your relative velocity they'd be abl
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by peeters 5y ago
Well if you managed to deorbit yourself you've already broken all physical laws, so it's difficult to say what would happen after.
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by peeters 5y ago
I think it's sound financial advice, I'm just saying "don't trade your company's stocks" isn't really a sufficient solution to avoiding insider trading.
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by peeters 5y ago
If you work for a company that grants stock via shares or options, you're going to have to sell them at some point. At which point insider trading applies.
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by peeters 5y ago
But where does that say that the British would send Brits back to Ireland? Edit: The article mentions a single example of an escapee being sent back from Northern Ireland, not GB. > He had lunch at a nearby hotel, left without paying and
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by peeters 5y ago
We also haven't had a world war in 76 years. I'll take an occassional shortage on non-critical goods over a major war every 20 years.
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by peeters 5y ago
This was all over the news. That said nobody in Canada was expecting Biden to be less protectionist, it was clear he was cut from the same cloth as Trump as far as his thoughts on globalization and allies went.
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by peeters 5y ago
It's worth noting the WTO has repeatedly ruled in favour of Canada that this cost structure does not amount to subsidization. This is just pure pandering to the U.S. lumber industry. Guess what? Canada has a lot of forested land. I
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by peeters 5y ago
> They weren't allowed to return home / escape (they'd be sent back after crossing the sea) Wait I'm sorry, if a British prisoner escaped Ireland and made it to Britain, the British government would send the prisone
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by peeters 5y ago
There are plenty of things that can poison the user experience that don't rise above the sub-conscious. Just because you don't notice something doesn't mean that if that thing is improved, you won't have a better experi
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by peeters 6y ago
Well not to put a dollar value on the contribution but he gave companies $500k in accessible capital which they used to grow or recover.
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by peeters 6y ago
> The total size of the compressed file and decompressor (as a Win32 or Linux executable) must not be larger than 99% of the previous prize winning entry. Emphasis mine. You can make a highly specific compressor, but it'll need a
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by peeters 6y ago
> It does seem to be true that countries which experienced the SARS epidemic first-hand developed what we might call institutional antibodies, and were quick to impose various controls (especially contact tracing) which were more effecti
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by peeters 6y ago
Yeah that's what I was getting at. SARS-COV-2 seems to have hit this sweet spot of being deadly enough to eclipse the death toll of similar viruses like influenza, but not deadly enough for people to take it as an existential threat.
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by peeters 6y ago
The mortality rate is what terrified people about SARS. It was a big deal. 50% for people 65 and older. 15% in the general population. This incidentally made it far less reproductive.
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by peeters 6y ago
Sand does nothing to melt ice and snow. It's used for traction.
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by peeters 6y ago
> Obviously salt is the cheapest, otherwise it wouldn't be in such high use. Not sure why you would assume that's obvious. The various solutions vary in effectiveness due to a number of factors, and are not equal in what they a
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by peeters 6y ago
*Rob Ford
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by peeters 6y ago
Presumably GP is talking about coercive imprisonment (e.g. contempt of court). If the court has ordered you to give something up, and you don't, they can imprison you to coerce you to obey.
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by peeters 6y ago
Not to discount the question, because it's still interesting, but most of SpaceX's hardware doesn't leave the ionosphere.
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by peeters 6y ago
It's not weight, it's because they're proven and reliable. You don't want to risk the success of the mission on unproven hardware. For secondary purposes they have no problem running more modern silicon. E.g. the Ingen
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by peeters 6y ago
The Ferrari metaphor is revisionist at best. The F-35 program wasn't created to build a Ferrari, it was designed to build the best, cheapest commuter car possible using economies of scale and shared cost. That the only role left for
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by peeters 6y ago
It's an inference. The author is saying that because the Air Force is pursuing a new plane with the same fundamental goals that launched the F-35 program, then the F-35 evidently failed to deliver. He's saying they're rea
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by peeters 6y ago
Why on earth are we accepting IBM tenders for government software contracts after the Phoenix shitshow?
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by peeters 6y ago
> which would seem to imply that poorly-made software can be grounds for a lawsuit. That doesn't necessarily follow, lawyers have a long tradition of including "cover your ass" clauses even if they don't think it&#x27
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by peeters 6y ago
Note that this one has fallen out of favour a bit because WealthSimple stopped supporting end-user encryption so that they could mine your data. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/indigenous-nations-and... It
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by peeters 6y ago
Ah Google, where the first rule is "don't be evil", and the first axiom is "machines cannot be evil".
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by peeters 6y ago
You also cannot join non-GSuite meetings, or at least for the educational version of GSuite.
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by peeters 6y ago
Yeah that's straight up malpractice. If there's a 99% chance it's Covid and not something else, you do the Covid test first and if that comes back negative, then you test for the "something else" (if symptoms are

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