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by rlt 8mo ago
I mostly agree with you, but I don't understand the latency argument. Latency to where? These satellites will be in a sun-synchronous orbit, so only close to any given location on Earth for a fraction of the day.
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by rlt 8mo ago
Figuring out how to radiate a lot of waste heat into a vacuum is just building very large radiators.
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by rlt 8mo ago
His time estimates are notoriously, um, aggressive. But I think that's part of how his companies are able to accomplish so much. And they do, even if you're upset they haven't put a human on Mars fast enough or built one of h
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by rlt 8mo ago
We also don't have fully reusable launch vehicles, yet. But we will shortly. That will decrease the cost of launch by at least an order of magnitude. Still there will be a lot of engineering problems to solve. 2-3 years seems very shor
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by rlt 8mo ago
Sure it is, just not economically at that scale yet. But if Starship brings the cost to orbit down significantly, maybe.
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by rlt 8mo ago
A large piece of aluminum with ammonia pumped through it?
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by rlt 8mo ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. Much cheaper to transfer data than energy.
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by rlt 8mo ago
A "fully and rapidly reusable" Starship would bring the cost of launch down orders of magnitude, perhaps to a level where it makes sense to send up satellites to repair/refuel other satellites.
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by rlt 9mo ago
Obviously because murder requires intent. It might be negligent homicide though. There’s a big difference between someone randomly clapping their hands and an agent seeing/hearing that a detainee has a firearm, then hearing the firearm
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by rlt 9mo ago
Hanlon’s Razor
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by rlt 9mo ago
The hype is simply due to this being the “ChatGPT moment” for personal agents. It’s showing people the future. The software itself isn’t particularly impressive.
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by rlt 9mo ago
> But they reason they were in that state to begin with is because you don’t inherently derive value from their organization. You don’t derive more value from their organization than the cost of manually organizing them. AI tools drama
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by rlt 9mo ago
For iMessage I don’t think you actually need a second phone number, you can just make a second iCloud account with the same phone number.
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by rlt 9mo ago
If it misfired it likely misfired as it was being taken, not while in his holster. If you’re detaining someone who has a gun and a gun goes off it’s incompetent, maybe negligent, but not murder to react by shooting the guy who had the gun.
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by rlt 9mo ago
No, really, the Sig Sauer P320 is known for unintentionally discharging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759664
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by rlt 9mo ago
If there were any evidence of widespread deportations of people who shouldn't be then I think you'd see more people speaking up, but there's not. People don't have to caveat their support of every policy with hypothetica
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by rlt 9mo ago
Poor training seems plausible, if not likely. But then it's not murder / "extrajudicial killing".
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by rlt 9mo ago
The Sig Sauer P320, which is what Alex Pretti had, is notorious for unintentionally discharging. Various law enforcement agencies and militaries have stopped using it for that reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_S
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by rlt 9mo ago
If the president campaigned on a promise to arrest everyone breaking marijuana laws, then maybe.
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by rlt 9mo ago
Where are you getting the idea that 10 innocents are being deported for every 1 illegal? Or that the "majority" of people supporting the crackdown would support that? The information I can find suggests only a handful of cases, ma
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by rlt 9mo ago
How would they target people using voter rolls? Is the concern that it includes party affiliation? Couldn't they just provide the rolls without party affiliation? Honestly it seems crazy even state governments know party affiliation. I
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by rlt 9mo ago
I think you just proved mediaman's point.
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by rlt 9mo ago
Starlink and some other constellations absolutely do maneuver if a close conjunction is predicted https://starlink.com/satellite-operators
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by rlt 9mo ago
Multiple ground stations are a fine solution for backhaul, but not most end-user use cases.
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by rlt 9mo ago
Bitcoin
116.
by rlt 9mo ago
Not only edge cases and standards, but also tons of performance optimizations.
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by rlt 9mo ago
These are hypotheticals / estimates, not verifiable. If the funding cuts were so critical why have other wealthy countries or individuals not stepped in to fund them? Are they all evil too?
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by rlt 9mo ago
I read a bunch of the relevant social media posts and emails and concluded that all parties are acting deeply childishly. Nate shouldn’t have made a website with a domain name with Phil’s name and photoshopped meme, and brought it back up o
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by rlt 9mo ago
[citation needed]
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by rlt 9mo ago
I've seen a number of previous skeptics change their tune with Opus 4.5.

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