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by sangnoir 2y ago
Cool story. The Falcon 9 is not going to Mars any time soon.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It was done by NASA, who have a culture of triple/ quadriple checking and being very careful about mitigating risk in ways that may seem inefficient to some. I don't see NASA leading the effort to Mars in any meaningful way beside
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> We are in fact far more ready for sending crewed missions to Mars than we were to sending crewed missions to the Moon when JFK made his Moon speech When JFK made the speech, it was in the middle if the cold war and there was a realisti
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Schiphol was already the superior airport for connections anyway, not being arrested just sweetens the deal.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> As any engineer in East Asia can tell you, there is nothing especially collaborative about tech in Confucian culture IIRC, Bunnie (Huang) mentioned how freely data flows in Shenzhen for hardware hacking, versus pulling teeth trying to
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Biden chose not to use the power available to him to its full extent. He could have done something really extreme with the immunity he was granted by SCOTUS, but instead, he disavowed it.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A surprising number of Trump voters do not understand how tariffs work and believe the exporting country pays. They are intentionally ignorant, so they'll tell you inflation is not the outcome they wanted, even though it's an obvi
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by sangnoir 2y ago
"No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law&qu
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by sangnoir 2y ago
How very Soviet; installing political commissars to spy on renegades and ensure everyone on the right side of the Politburo^w President.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Every media processing or delivery service you've interacted with in the last decade is a lib-ffmpeg wrapper, including broadcast TV, streaming, or anything remotely related to re-encoding video. I'm only being slightly hyperbolic
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> You are not in business to train people for your competitors or the industry. If only employee retention were not an inscrutable black box. What are the poor job-creators to do in the face of ungrateful, capricious employees who can at
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Thanks - those are correct terms for aircraft in flight, that don't apply to out-of-control vehicles on the ground. An airplane that loses traction and rotates about it's vertical axis is spinning, not yawing.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It was bipartisan because the Democratic party swung rightwards (towards the center) on economic policy under Clinton with the said "Third way[1]", which combined being socially progressive with economic liberalism, i.e. cozying
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Manufacturing in Shenzen was economical, just not as maximally profitable as it is now. Economies of scale are a thing. Apple, and Google could have been formed anyway on earth, but there were advantages of being in Silicon Valley that comp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Is VAT a better system? Arguably, yes—given that the majority of countries worldwide have adopted it as their preferred taxation model Most VAT countries I know that are not Saudi Arabia have VAT and income tax.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A good chunk of that cohort specifically voted against high inflation.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Trump is on record deriding the CHIPS act, which does exactly that.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Would the subsidies be funded by the tariffs? If so, perhaps having the government print the vouchers ans have buyers apply for the vouchers 90 days before procurement by filling out the TF-1735 form, get the voucher, supply it to the impor
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Shipping is extremely cheap these days. You can move any manufacturing you want, if you're determined to do so. Sure, this works when you know exactly what you want. If you're prototyping or looking for a replacement componen
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> There’s a reason the American left opposed free trade until five minutes ago I don't know on what scale your clock runs on, but Bill Clinton's "Third Way" campaign was 35 years ago. China's admission into the W
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> It does, however, invalidate the original argument, which was that tariffs are being promoted by the rich because it's better for them than the existing income tax If I were to steelman that argument, I'd say getting rid of i
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's telling that nowhere in you ad hominem did you attempt to give a simplistic answer to an argument against your position that a middle-schooler could construct; they may not know the Categorical Imperative, but can intuit what&#x27
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Were all your employees blank slates when they joined, or did they "use" their previous employers to gain the skills required to become hirable by you? If your training is so valuable, why aren't you charging for it? I'm
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What you describe in the second sentence - rotating around the vertical-axis - is typically termed a spin . I think parent was saying the roll was along the planes' length rather than tail-over-nose, the latter usually result in the ai
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I wonder why they grouped languages from the Middle East and South Asia together Geography
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Buy a Pinecile[1] from Pine64. It's currently discounted to $25.99 (excluding shipping), and it's both cheap and has a great feature list that makes soldering a breeze. 1. https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-sm
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Yes. Public companies just have more reporting requirements, but as long as an organization deals with Securities like shares, they fall under the SEC's ambit, public or private. I think the OpenAI's non-profit to profit transit
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by sangnoir 2y ago
For the majority of humanity, it's several days' worth of wages vs several weeks or months.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> you either want to get into electronics or not. If not, there's no real point in spending the money, even if it's $2 It's fuzzier than that; there are hobbies that look fun but I can't decide if I want to fully inve
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by sangnoir 2y ago
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