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by sigstoat 8y ago
Zubrin's plan discusses where all the other atmosphere comes from. do you have some specific problem with the suggested process?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
happened once? because the gravity changed? it'd be an ongoing process. and only hydrogen and helium are currently prone to jeans escape on mars. the current dominant mechanism for atmospheric loss is the solar wind. which eats away ~1
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> You can't really terraform Mars either what's wrong with Zubrin's plan? > not enough gravity. what's gravity got to do with it? ADDED: if you're going to tell me the gravity is necessary to hold onto the atm
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> For all intents and purposes that's excessive. certainly neither one has even the pressure to keep a human alive for any amount of time. mars has got teratons of carbon dioxide, which is useful stuff. little bits of some other han
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by sigstoat 8y ago
this is suggested frequently in these threads. it is already used in the very limited application where it is useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer "It is also impossible to control attitude in all th
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by sigstoat 8y ago
ubiquiti is the least expensive stuff that actually works. edgerouter x https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeRouter-Advanced-Gigabit-... ap-ac-lr https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Unifi-Ap-AC-Long-Range/dp
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by sigstoat 8y ago
as a simple example, not necessarily realistic, consider the circuit boards of the iphone. yes, they've got to ship the gerber files to china so the boardhouses can fab the boards. but those are just images of the copper and mask layer
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by sigstoat 8y ago
that stricken law just banned states from permitting certain forms of gambling. the states operate the lotteries themselves. they could just stop doing so.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
easier to get rid of lotteries; no constitutional amendment required. some of the beer spending also comes from people more able to tolerate the wasted funds; those with the least are the most likely to play lotteries. https://jo
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by sigstoat 8y ago
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14296470/1/americans-spend-b... so the average american doesn't have $400 saved up, _and_ spends $206 per year on lotto tickets. if we're in society collapsing danger
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by sigstoat 8y ago
if the property is owned by a REIT, which is itself owned largely by retirees, who exactly goes on the list? (i just looked up a bunch of major REITs, and only EQR, Equity Residential, has >1% ownership by insiders. despite that, it has
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> That would still be an extremely useful invention. already invented, already in use, not as great as you'd hope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer > I guess if it based on magnetic fields, then it
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by sigstoat 8y ago
https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Instead of saying that college is not worth it, why don’t we do MORE to make it free? you don't make things more cost effective by changing who pays for them. you just get more people taking advantage of the cost ineffective good.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
it sounds like they were trying to get a sales job. maybe the doctor's note should read "healthy now - much better at lying, won't be caught next time"?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
IEM has received multiple no-action letters, and also has limits. So basically the same situation as PredictIt.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
the jury gets to know the the value, and the error, and weight it accordingly, along with the rest of the evidence. also the acceptable error on the GC/FID testing used for blood alcohol is 3-5%, depending on lab, etc. so that's 0
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by sigstoat 8y ago
the government buys some of very nearly everything and uses them to carry out essential public functions. you've got to have a better criteria than that.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
if they want to improve the bail situation, they could help fund the setup of more organizations like the bronx freedom fund. http://www.thebronxfreedomfund.org/ the stats on the freedom fund's site don't make it
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by sigstoat 9y ago
> Why on earth are people downvoting this comment all of your comments appear to be getting downvotes, probably because they look suspiciously as though you haven't even spent 45 seconds on the website, despite being in the database
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by sigstoat 9y ago
> Could somebody clarify the license? I was excited this was Open Source, but then some people say you are only allowed to run it on MacOS? How can that be? there's nothing to clarify. there are people spewing nutty weirdness, and t
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by sigstoat 9y ago
plenty of companies already make batteries for space applications. and the environment is demanding enough, the budget large enough, and the production volume low enough that more exotic battery chemistries are used. https://en.w
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by sigstoat 9y ago
> I don't see any mention of drugs so I'm assuming he was sober. tox results in a situation like this would take at least a few business days, even if you're willing to do an incomplete run with the samples on hand, and ev
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by sigstoat 9y ago
a 2015 survival analysis of the data had WD looking better. http://blog.applied.ai/survival-analysis-part3/ it'd be nice if folks would repeat the more in-depth analyses more often, as they can produce better answ
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by sigstoat 9y ago
as someone who can edit posts freely, you've got to change a minimum amount of stuff. you can't just add a comma or change one word. (also as the sibling comment points out, once you can do that, you don't get anything for it
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by sigstoat 9y ago
> I think the core problem is that they've focused too much on being like wikipedia (a single authoritative, comprehensive answer to each important question), and not enough on helping people to learn. Over time a site will grow a c
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by sigstoat 9y ago
i've seen them online, but have not had a chance to try them in person.
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by sigstoat 9y ago
what are you on about? decoding the movies has nothing to do with anything.
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by sigstoat 9y ago
> Second, trade jobs are usually pretty tough on the body. After a couple decades of work your body begins to break down, assuming there are no workplace injuries to put you out of commission sooner. the electrician i hire is in better s
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by sigstoat 9y ago
right now the limited resolution of the displays is a bit rough. when we’ve got 4k per eye or so, it’ll be more of a contender. (not having to have a gtx1080 whirring away in the same room would also help)

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