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by rmtech 7y ago
The doctor doesn't have to inform them in an anxiety-inducing way. Just say they they need more regular checkups to make sure they stay healthy.
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by rmtech 7y ago
I've never understood why they make planes with 1-2 sensors for a crucial reading like airspeed. Why not have 20 airspeed sensors of 5 different types? It's an obvious failure mode that your one sensor will fail and then the pilot
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by rmtech 7y ago
> have no faith that those people would respect my rights of free speech at all. This sounds like a defect-defect equilibrium taking shape.
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by rmtech 7y ago
What's the best way to use that kind of thing? Is there an app that's recommended?
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by rmtech 7y ago
yes that's what I meant. The concept of free speech.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> there are plenty of free-speech oriented or even right wing mastodon instances, the signal to noise ratio on these is pretty good and there is actually content worth engaging with. any recommendations?
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by rmtech 7y ago
"50% of Trump supporters are a basket of deplorables" - hate speech?
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by rmtech 7y ago
> classical definition of free speech is easily abusable the classical definition of unfree speech is easily abusable, which is why free speech exists. If an idea is bad, the best way to beat it is with better ideas. Of course some bad i
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by rmtech 7y ago
They were criticising developers who worked on Gab, not just some specific piece of content, presumably with the aim of removing Gab as a platform.
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by rmtech 7y ago
This is the final straw for me, I just installed firefox and changed it to my default browser.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Sending materials to Earth will cost as much as sending them into space, as the materials must land safely and be recovered as efficiently as possible. that's not true because the journey from space to earth has an aerobrake optio
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by rmtech 7y ago
> A return capsule for metal/rocks pretty much just needs to be a heat shield on the front of a dumpster with some parachutes, so not very heavy. The problem is that "just" a cargo return capsule would still be very expens
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by rmtech 7y ago
I would not pay 3.5× as much for chicken just to look at a nice photo. Chicken breast in Europe costs about $7-10/kg. I'm not made of money, I can't afford $30/kg chicken.
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by rmtech 7y ago
At some point it will be worth it to mine asteroids and bring the stuff back down to earth. I think that point will be when the scale of the mining is absolutely huge, and the infrastructure is amazing, and the price of the stuff we're
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by rmtech 7y ago
I think what holds it back is that our space infrastructure sucks. To mine stuff - even really expensive stuff - and still turn a profit, it has to be sufficiently cheap to do all the mundane things like get the equipment into space, repair
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by rmtech 7y ago
> relatively pure platinum might do it the question for that is how much you would have to get to cover your fixed costs. Still, deorbiting stuff in a controlled way is going to require something to be sent up - some reentry vehicle. And
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by rmtech 7y ago
It's harmless.
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by rmtech 7y ago
0.1 seconds of kitchen microwave energy is not going to hurt you.
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by rmtech 7y ago
it's certainly possible. I guess we'll never know.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> They are smart people but they still fell for it. If they fell for that then they're not very smart. Would a smart person fall for it if a random hobo turned up at their door and claimed to be Jesus, but BTW he really needs you ca
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by rmtech 7y ago
> delivering materials from orbit to the ground As far as I am aware, there is no material that is expensive enough that it's worth the cost of moving it from space to earth. Even pure gold from space would be a loss.
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by rmtech 7y ago
It's not necessary to confirm that withgoogle is a real Google domain because the page isn't asking for any information. Of course it could have drive-by malware on it... but so could any link
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by rmtech 7y ago
what did you do to it???
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by rmtech 7y ago
So why didn't he go to Sweden? Even if guilty and they can prove it, a Swedish jail is probably nicer than a US one and I doubt he would go down for longer for the alleged crimes in Sweden than for those in the US. What was it - sex wi
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by rmtech 7y ago
ok. So it's kind of informal at the moment. Maybe in the future we'll see more hacking of libraries (people managing to deliberately sneak exploits in) and in response stronger lockdowns on important library code.
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by rmtech 7y ago
I think the benefit of this is that other people can't easily see what you posted. For example recruiters for jobs, journalists or activists trying to publicly doxx or embarrass you, stalkers, people with a grudge against you, etc. I
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by rmtech 7y ago
I've never coded Rust - is there any distinction between a really important crate used by millions of people and something really obscure with 3 users? Are all the crates subject to security audit?
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by rmtech 7y ago
There's an important tradeoff going on between library code that is (in theory) trusted and library code that is less trusted but has other advantages like solving a problem better or being a solution to problems that the most trust co
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by rmtech 7y ago
yeah, I think this should be repeated several times & with some better controls such as people who are bedridden for a different reason.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> combine all those premises, the "pretty noticeable" correlation might be something like ten percent it might be, but it will probably be significantly higher.

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