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by qayxc 6y ago
> Is it though? Yes, it is - because it's actually 2500 videos per MINUTE, not per hour, mea culpa. So your 30,000 reviewers would actually have to be at least 1.8 MILLION.
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by qayxc 6y ago
Yes, thanks.
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by qayxc 6y ago
That's basically what the author suggests when they say: > Anyhow, I truly believe humanity has to rollback to operating at a human scale. It's impossible to operate a complaints-platform on a global scale if it's run by h
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by qayxc 6y ago
> Do most people who are not progressive westerners care? No. Africans care [0] [0] https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2021/0407/Amid-pandem...
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by qayxc 6y ago
Funny you mention that. First of all, that's nothing new - years ago a simple external EEG was enough for users to move a mouse. Now available as off-the-shelf hardware and with OSS projects to boot [1] Secondly, nothing that was shown
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by qayxc 6y ago
> It was an air bearing in a reduced (but still fairly high) pressure tube. You are a funny guy :) According to the source [0], the pressure was intended to be 100 Pa ("about 1/6 the pressure of the atmosphere of Mars"). T
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by qayxc 6y ago
In this case, however, scepticism is more than warranted. Just comparing the mission statement of NeuraLink (from their homepage) with the wild claims of their most prominent founder (Musk) should make you stop and think for a second. The a
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by qayxc 6y ago
The difference between moving your eyes and fingers and open brain surgery in terms of both cost and risk render this argument somewhat pointless. Costly high-risk surgery that might kill or lobotomise you is not very appealing compared to
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by qayxc 6y ago
I'm curious, what would a solution look like that's even safer than a touch interface (mouse, keyboard, screen) or voice?
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by qayxc 6y ago
Too bad the article dates two weeks back :D
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by qayxc 6y ago
In the end it's all about a very simple equation: E(kin) = ½mv² so it's all about exhaust velocity. The closer you can get that to its theoretical maximum (e.g. c), the less reaction mass is required. But the question still remain
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by qayxc 6y ago
These measurement techniques are useful in other areas, too. Less error means more confidence in results for experimental physicists and potentially one less source of error to care about.
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by qayxc 6y ago
I see one little caveat with this argument, though: is it always known in advance that something really is impossible? As long as there's enough resources to go around to pay 8 figure meme-value dollar amounts for digital assets withou
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by qayxc 6y ago
Scepticism is way too often confused with negativity, pessimism or even outright hostility. It's also often overlooked that a solution might not be the best fit for everyone. Just like it's best for the Falcon 9 to discard the sec
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by qayxc 6y ago
Heading there doesn't mean the engines they're currently using are already at that point.
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by qayxc 6y ago
He wrote that they were well on track for <$1 M for V1.0. Find me a tweet where he actually states that Raptor is at V1.0.
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by qayxc 6y ago
> Well, they are shooting at a per Raptor cost of 100k long term 250k short term. Even assuming it is 4x as much now, that is about 3m for the engines. That's some super optimistic numbers you chose there. There's no reason to
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by qayxc 6y ago
I don't believe the $10 mil figure for one second. That'd mean a Raptor engine would cost less than $1 mil and that just can't be true - that'd be about half the price of a much smaller and less complex Merlin engine...
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by qayxc 6y ago
The stainless steel is irrelevant. They lose 3 raptor engines per crash and that hurts. A lot.
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by qayxc 6y ago
Just get a motorbike! Whenever I got stopped by the police and showed them my paperwork (i.e. a huge list of ABEs - like 10 or so), they just got annoyed and told me to just drive away already ;) Half the stuff wasn't even approved for
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by qayxc 6y ago
France has different problems, though. Nuclear power stations need to shut down in summer when temperatures get too high and cooling is insufficient (this is done mostly to avoid killing plants and fish in the rivers). Whenever there's
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by qayxc 6y ago
> In the same way, I believe consistency is probably a more important thing than actual indentation and spacing. If it sees it often enough, the brain can pretty quickly adapt to about anything. Sure thing. The author just argues that we
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by qayxc 6y ago
Not just in Javascript. Since blocks define a scope, visibility and unexpected lifetime issues may occur in other curly-braces languages like C and C++ just as well. Using blocks like that is something you should be very careful about - mig
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by qayxc 6y ago
The main problem is that code isn't like other text. Strict rules are BS because they count characters that don't contribute to the actual content that you're parsing. This includes punctuation and especially whitespace. I te
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by qayxc 6y ago
> I wouldn't mind if languages left no freedom for formatting and enforced a style. People would get used to it and a lot of ultimately fruitless discussions wouldn't happen. That's exactly what enforced style guidelines a
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by qayxc 6y ago
The reason it's inevitable is because you're not addressing a specific target audience as soon as you're doing it on the internet using your actual identity or in the presence of the media as a public figure. Sure, you can vo
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by qayxc 6y ago
That's a nice ideal, but unachievable. Social norms exist because people in general are incapable of doing exactly that. It's not just "hard" - it's outright impossible. You're basically wishing for no one to e
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by qayxc 6y ago
All that was granted to RMS, even to a degree most others don't. The problem with RMS (and way too many other public figures) is the inability to just keep their mouths shut every once in a while. Everyone - especially in the age of so
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by qayxc 6y ago
That still has nothing to do with Biology probably not being the right approach to use here. Evolution doesn't know or care about space travel. It's separate concerns entirely. One is a function of the environment and adapting to
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by qayxc 6y ago
Sure, why not? Chemical composition, temperature, and pressure of the atmosphere are just physical parameters (e.g. elements of a feature set) like any other (e.g. colour and intensity of pixels in an image). Everything that can be measured

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