seanflyon

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by seanflyon 12y ago
"Debt-Free" is a real stretch. > In contrast, students at Make School pay tuition through their internship earnings and 25% of their earnings in the first two years on the job. Coming out of a 6 month program owing $45k of futu
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by seanflyon 12y ago
I am well aware of Bogelow. When do you think they will have their first human occupied station? I will bet you any sum that it is after NASA astronauts take a ride on SpaceX. Yes other customers for human spaceflight will exist, but rig
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Cities get much more revenue from sales tax than from property tax. That means that your notion of parasitic exurbs is backwards.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
The context here is NASA moving slowly and the possibility of SpaceX launching without their involvement. Can you think of a single customer for that? Try to get Russian permission to got to the Russian side of the station without NASA in
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by seanflyon 12y ago
There is no investing through crowd-funding sites. It is all either donations, or pre-purchasing a product.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Without NASA there is no customer for manned spaceflight.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Binary scenes are optional. Text format scenes (similar to xml) are better, but still not easily merged.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Assuming you mix it hot, how does that effect the Soylent? Does anything break down and lose nutritional value?
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by seanflyon 12y ago
It seems that you agree with me that funding is not NASA's primary problem (I think I am actually more optimistic about NASA's competence). The point I disagree with is "Technology is more expensive". Technology has go
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Yes
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by seanflyon 12y ago
How well the course works is not a boolean. The free course could be helpful. The paid course could also be helpful.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
While their are also massive inefficiencies in the private sector, the public sector does not have the same ability to fail. Those private companies need to be efficient enough to avoid bankruptcy.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Their budget during the Apollo program was 50% higher than it is today. I don't think funding is the primary problem.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
The book is better, more so than is normally the case. Much more depth and nuance to the characters.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
I see your point. "I will invest more money in educating our children better" is not a vague as "Hope and Change", but it is still quite vague.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Work: activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. I'm not sure what definition you are using or how "the entrepreneur redefines work", but if you think that 'real' work
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Could you elaborate on the distinction between education and training and why you think a single institution should not do both? I think colleges should teach things that are things that are directly applicable to a job as well as things t
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by seanflyon 12y ago
It is right to be disgusted with domestic violence, but that does not mean that you should not care about other problems. We should not limit ourselves to only care about the single worst problem.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Perhaps a good first step would be to have a discussion "For the purposes of armchair moralizing", not about the law as it is written, but how it should be.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
A dream that cannot pay for itself is not a business. Do not seek venture capital for your hobbies.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
You and I read his advice quite differently. Once you quite your job to pursue your dream you have a finite runway determined by your savings and minimum expenses. He is suggesting you use that runway to build you dream instead of using i
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Indeed. Braid was a landmark indie game, but not the first by any stretch of the imagination.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
In War soldiers do not get the same benefits as civilians accused of a crime and we keep insisting we are at war with "terror". While I think that in most cases terrorists should be treated like any other murderer, classifying so
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Criminals should be dealt with through our criminal justice system, including the presumption of innocence. If someone wiped out my life savings, I would be upset and want them to be prosecuted, but we don't need to call them a terror
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by seanflyon 12y ago
> It's a pretty specific definition Please elaborate. I have not heard this specific definition.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
I find your argument discerning, even terrifying. You are therefore a terrorist, right?
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by seanflyon 12y ago
The carbon does not go free because it is bound up in some organic compound, almost always a hydrocarbon (which of course requires Hydrogen) and would still combust at 460 Celsius. Perhaps if this life-form lived exclusively in the upper a
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by seanflyon 12y ago
That makes sense, though at some point being at the bottom of a gravity well becomes a real drag.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
Even a sci-fi terraforming bacteria can't change one atom into another and Venus is very low on Hydrogen.
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by seanflyon 12y ago
I think you need some way of binding the O2 so that it does not just recombine with the C, perhaps by importing large quantities of H2 allowing you to turn the Oxygen into water.

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