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by s_q_b 10y ago
Well, really all three are due to insufficient launch capbility. We'll have to assemble the colony ship in orbit. Really, we need to build the Orion nuclear pulse ship for heavy lift and intra-stellar transport. Without a reworking of
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Venus could well have been habitable, but the runaway greenhouse effect stopped that. I'm sure there's thousands of types of planets out there "just like Earth, but..."
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Build a 1g spinning section, if that's what's needed for a generational ship. Such "slowboats" are going to need to be: 1. Incredibly expensive. 2. Massive beyond the scale of anything ever assembled in orbit. 3. Big eno
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I would characterize it as more of a joint sovereignty pact, with all agreeing to accept a currency, and all in a mutual defense organization. It's not a pure federal government, but it's at least a confederacy. But, to address th
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Yeah, in some countries "the blockchain" strongly implies Bitcoin itself, whereas in others, particularly the US, "the blockchain" could refer to a blockchain in any setting, e.g. an altcoin.
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They don't force anyone to do anything. They just refuse to accept currencies for taxes, other public debts, and government purchases. That's what creates the adopter base and the lock-in. Bitcoin is a game changer. It is held up
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by s_q_b 10y ago
You've reframed the concept in a very interesting way. Another permutation: It's almost as if a government holds your liberty as collateral to ensure use of their currency domestically.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
They lost their force and power of taxation. It's actually a great example of how fiat currencies work. No "tanks", no taxes, no currency.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The USD and the Euro are backed by the fact that the government will only accept payment in those currencies. That's why it says "for all debts, public and private." The strength of a state-sponsored fiat currency is two-fold
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by s_q_b 10y ago
In the US at least, the semi-governmental FDIC automatically publicly insures accounts , not banks, up to $250,000. In addition most banks are privately insured against fraud. I've dealt with an 8k fraudulent charge on my card before.
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Yes, times are changing. These universities offer far less while churning out Masters' degrees. No company I have ever worked for in this area had cybersecurity degrees that could code. Ever. I work for the National Satellite Operation
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Later in the game, sure. Who's going to build the early toolset? Who's going to own it? Will their be a FOSS API, or will we be locked in? All of that design infrastructure needs to be built by somebody, and that somebody stands t
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I mean, I earn more than my boss, but he's still in charge. He gets the credit for the software projects I actually have to manage. So it's likely he'll rise up the ladder more quickly, and earn a multiple of my salary. Yet,
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by s_q_b 10y ago
What is extremely frustrating is the rise of "cyber security" Masters degrees. The vast majority of these people have never written a single line of code. They don't understand security, because they can't understand the
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by s_q_b 10y ago
But you're not describing what will happen. You're speculating based on your axiom that all offenders are recidivists.
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There was no obligation to me, just an opportunity to help. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," is a good secular rule as well as religious. I believe we'd be better off as a society if more people simply hel
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by s_q_b 10y ago
You're assuming the thief is a rational actor. I assure you, he was not.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
You speak of "their mental health issues", as if psychiatric disorders are a purely personal burden. I would no more refuse to help a mentally ill person than I would refuse to perform CPR on a person having a heart attack. They d
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by s_q_b 11y ago
One problem is that, even if you have your device GPS tracked, it can be hard to get the police to intervene, especially in large cities. Someone once stole my iPhone 5. I had find my iPhone enabled, and the phone was locked down. The thief
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The i8 isn't messing around. It's a 0-60 in 3.6 second 29 mpg car, with a completely different design than Tesla. It's a genuine production vehicle, not a concept. That's not too bad for a stodgy old company. Large ships
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Washington D.C. and the companies in the NOVA area in general have excellent policies regarding electric cars. You can take the HOV lane to work, and there are free electrical charging stations at the office parks and in public garages in m
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by s_q_b 11y ago
In COIN missions, when operating very close to the enemy, you often need to get close enough to for visual confirmation. The truth is, with guidance you can hit a dot at an arbitrary distance. But without visual, it's awfully hard to b
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by s_q_b 11y ago
It was always morally good for the consumer. Apple's stance may have tweaked the business incentives back in line with the moral good. Apple has always been big on the idea that best way to alter behavior is to alter incentives.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
One example: Bar Receipts are used to Indict Suspect in Fatal 2013 Hit-And-Run. >> Investigators interviewed witnesses and obtained bar receipts to determine when, where and how much McIvor had been drinking, said Sgt. Tony Landato, a
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Constitutional rights shouldn't depend on the number of people in the car.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
They already analyze bar receipts.
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Well, I keep up on my journal reading, and my sister's a medical doctor from Penn. The first serious proposal for preliminary trim5-alpha based gene therapy was released in 2015, without much reaction. Some previous work has been don
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The biggest problem with HIV is that when you're dealing with one person with "HIV" you're actually fighting dozens of different adaptations of the virus, much like how cancer tumors differentiate into dozens of cell typ
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At the height of its extent in 1350, the Mali Empire was second only to the Mongol Empire in size, power, and population. Their possession of North Arab ship-building techniques, understanding of Greek geometry and mathematics, and knowledg
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by s_q_b 11y ago
*better than European

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