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by perihelions 9mo ago
This is a misidentification: > "The CTC-1 constellation proposes to be at 510 km altitude and 97.4 degrees inclination[0]" That's an unrelated "CTC-1"; your reference [0] describes American CubeSats. This isn&#
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by perihelions 9mo ago
Seems like a big flaw that low-orbit constellations have a dependency on GPS, which are high-altitude satellites. They're 40x further away and so have 1,600x greater path loss. Why can't they use their own satellites for this? &gt
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by perihelions 9mo ago
This HN thread is ongoing, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 ( "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great (theverge.com)" ; 20 hours ago, 596 comments)
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We Stand Together as a People(siumut.gl)
2 points by perihelions 9mo ago|1 comments
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by perihelions 9mo ago
In the context of the instant "debate", this is missing the mark. The moral question isn't what happened hundreds of years ago to dead people; it's what do living people want (as is their right to self-determine), and th
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by perihelions 9mo ago
This describes NASA's pre-flight quarantines since Apollo 14, and makes (very brief) references to in-flight diseases (and apparent transmission) prior to Apollo 14 ("upper respiratory infection"; "viral gastroenteritis&
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by perihelions 9mo ago
Without taking a side, I'll share the interesting detail that NASA did not historically grant much medical privacy to astronauts. You can read medical reports of the Apollo-Soyuz crew here (documenting their poisoning by toxic rocket f
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CES 2026 Worst in Show(theregister.com)
26 points by perihelions 9mo ago|4 comments
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by perihelions 9mo ago
The Soviet Union had a population larger than the United States' at the time of its collapse. North of 100 million people were liberated virtually overnight from direct Russian rule, from USSR states (over 50 million in Ukraine alone);
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by perihelions 9mo ago
How they exfiltrated footage of the 1989 massacre is an interesting story in its own right. The AP photojournalist who captured (among others) Tank Man couldn't safely walk the streets, so he recruited a random tourist to smuggle his
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by perihelions 9mo ago
The license is for selling a commercial service to the general public; the underlying activity (following people in public places) is lawful. It's how much of journalism works: they're labelled "paparazzi" when it&#x27
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by perihelions 9mo ago
A Time source is alleging hundreds of protestor deaths in Tehran[0]. It's a repeat of 2019 [1]; the network blocks aren't incidental, it's their purpose to create cover for coordinating massacres. [0] https://t
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by perihelions 9mo ago
Unedited audio: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/minneapolis-mayor-d...
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by perihelions 9mo ago
> "It is not realistic policy." Literally already happened, two weeks ago (Thierry Breton / Digital Services Act).
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by perihelions 9mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374248 ( "Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)" ; 16 days ago, 39 comments) ( "Rogers called [Thierry] Breton – who served as t
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by perihelions 9mo ago
That would unfortunately repeat the playbook of their 2019 internet blackout, which was likewise a cover to the government massacring " as many as 1,500 protestors ". > "To block the sharing of information regarding the p
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USA TODAY mapped the potential consequences of a strike on US missile silos(usatoday.com)
3 points by perihelions 9mo ago|0 comments
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by perihelions 10mo ago
Radley Balko: > "According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation)." > "Trumpy U.S. Atto
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by perihelions 10mo ago
The primary source this seems to be reporting on is this link, which was posted earlier today and now 404's, https://dps.mn.gov/news/bca/bca-statement-regarding-investig... ( "BCA statement regarding inv
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by perihelions 10mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260108163819/https://dps.mn.go...
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Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting(pbs.org)
338 points by perihelions 10mo ago|62 comments
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by perihelions 10mo ago
Primary source is: https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/07/ice-officer-fatally... ( "Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer" ) https://web.archive.org/web/20260108053100&
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by perihelions 10mo ago
The Washington Post quotes that, > "“I’m a physician,” the man protested." > "“I don’t care,” the officer replied," https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/07/ice-
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by perihelions 10mo ago
https://imgur.com/a/vmnLFWv The mother's 6-year-old child's stuffed animals overflowing the glovebox. The child has lost both parents and is now an orphan.
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by perihelions 10mo ago
They (Google) routinely do that with or without ID laws; they have more than enough PII in the common-case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796550 ( "Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos
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by perihelions 10mo ago
Here's primary-source links to the full statements by Greenland's PM (in dual Greenlandic / Danish)[0] and Denmark's PM (in Danish)[1]. [0] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1457648783035292 [1] h
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by perihelions 10mo ago
That's the interesting part! (And which the submitted NYT story regrettably neglects). It's a chemoautotrophic ecosystem[0] largely independent of the sun, and of photosynthetic life. Akin to hydrothermal vents[1] in the ocean, an
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Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying France's first lady Brigitte Macron(apnews.com)
14 points by perihelions 10mo ago|2 comments
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by perihelions 10mo ago
In the Civil Rights era, segregationist states' police would systematically[0] stop and fingerprint black people, without individualized suspicion, to see if they were in criminal fingerprint databases. There's nothing new under t
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by perihelions 10mo ago
> "Basically anyone who trusted the government at any point in the past." Over one million Afghanis voluntarily gave America their iris biometrics; now the Taliban has that data. US military negligently failed to secure it. L

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