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by simiones 2y ago
Columbus was just wrong, he was not motivated by some higher goal. And no, it's not a good plan against a nuclear war, Mars is far far far less hospitable than the Earth would be if we launched all of the nuclear weapons we have today.
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by simiones 2y ago
I'm not saying it's impossible to send people to Mars and even bring them back. I'm saying there is no point whatsoever right now, at least no material or scientific purpose. Of course, building a "city" on Mars is
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by simiones 2y ago
Then what is this hardware that you'd want to run in space, that needs more power than it can generate on its own?
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by simiones 2y ago
Columbus very very much didn't plan to die (though he very much would have if he didn't get lucky that there was a whole new continent there). His plan was to land in India, which he thought he would reach around the time he actua
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by simiones 2y ago
How is putting solar in space more useful than putting it on Earth? You still have the problem of a capricious atmosphere between the source of the beams and the place where you need the electricity. Sure, you can slightly modulate and do a
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by simiones 2y ago
I believe that is illegal in every country, putting human remains on foreign bodies.
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by simiones 2y ago
Like? What industry really needs things floating in space that are only constrained by cost to launch? I can see lots of science mission perhaps, but even that seems somewhat limited.
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by simiones 2y ago
Given how many pieces were being burned away, the fact that the camera and telemetry survived is amazing.
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by simiones 2y ago
The second stage is basically gone, so it seems the new heat shield failed pretty badly, though still better than the previous one. Congrats on the booster, still an awesome achievement! Still a long way to go, unfortunately. Edit: seems I
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by simiones 2y ago
What I've found with some cursory googling is mostly place names, which I agree often have major differences between spelling and pronunciation. Even there, many of the examples on the Wikipedia page are still plausible spellings for t
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by simiones 2y ago
I think the GP is referring to a different part of the Japanese numbering system: the two different numerals used with different counting words for 1-10; e.g. the fact that you say "muttsu no koto" [6つのこと] for "six things&quo
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by simiones 2y ago
I don't think any "common way" of this kind really exists. In my country, the common way to write "second" ("a doua") is either II or II-a (so using roman numerals). In French, either 2eme or 2e are the co
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by simiones 2y ago
The dialects of English (such as Scots) most certainly do not spell words the same as a general rule. The fact that there are slight pronunciation differences between different accents of standard English is not at all the same as writing
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by simiones 2y ago
Unfortunately many people, in particular the leaders of industry in the USA, believe essentially the opposite: that any company almost has a duty to extract as much profit as legally possible, or even beyond, assuming profit > fines.
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by simiones 2y ago
The use of 2nd is a better example of the limitations of this system. The reality of written Standard Chinese is that you'd use "2nd" to write both "second", but also "deuxieme", instead of writing "2
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by simiones 2y ago
As far as I understand this, this is quite an oversimplification. The differences between different dialects of Chinese is huge, especially in terms of vocabulary. The writing system isn't as purely logographic as it is often touted. T
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by simiones 2y ago
Honestly I think both things are true: the consumer apps division of MS is more open and is being allowed to follow the money, even to other OSs. The Windows division is doubling down on all of the worse practices that the law allows them t
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by simiones 2y ago
I was prescribed probiotics every time I was prescribed an antibiotic in the last few years, even by a dentist. This may vary a lot by country, though.
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by simiones 2y ago
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that all coffee in Valencia is bad, not at all. I had a chance to visit the city and found some really good coffee too. It was just enlightening to understand why that particular coffee tasted so bad
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by simiones 2y ago
There is some amount of Russian money all over the political spectrum, but it's only really characteristic of the Right (think Orban, Le Pen) and the Center (especially in Germany, with examples like Gerhard Schroder becoming a VP of G
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by simiones 2y ago
To be fair, most executive bodies of most countries are not directly elected. You don't vote for your Finance Minister or your Secretary of State in any country I know of. It's true that the EP has uniquely little power compared t
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by simiones 2y ago
In this particular case, the Council is still debating and amending a proposal by the Commission before it is sent to the EP to actually vote on. So I don't think anything there is truly wrong.
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by simiones 2y ago
By whom? She is still one of the world's foremost figures in the fight against climate change, but also in other activist fights (like the fight against apartheid in Israel).
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by simiones 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that in the EU (and the USA), even fictional CP is illegal. That is, even drawings or stories of CP are illegal, and certainly AI-generated images would fall under that banner.
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by simiones 2y ago
Not all of it, for sure, but certainly some amount of it. Most perpetrators of child sexual abuse are close to the child, either family members or authority figures (priests, teachers, etc). I expect at least some amount of CSAM originates
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by simiones 2y ago
This is an absurd take, Russia has given up any pretense of "communism" for 35 years. As far as I can tell from a quick look on Wikipedia, the party has been at least mildly anti -soviet since 1968. Most importantly, it is very o
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by simiones 2y ago
Maybe that explains an experience I had when I was at Kubecon in Valencia a few years ago. The free coffee was some of the worst coffee I've ever had. It was filtered coffee, so not even very strong, but very bitter and tasted deeply b
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by simiones 2y ago
I'm not saying it can't work, I'm saying it's no one's first choice, even today. It's just extra risk, less usable (10.0.123.234 vs fd00:ec2::1234:5678), extra hassle (multiple IPs per NIC, extra hoops to acces
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by simiones 2y ago
I have a lot of difficulty in understanding why you think it's "trivial" to launch a satellite, but not trivial to build a cellphone tower.
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by simiones 2y ago
Satellite internet is inherently a niche market. The physics simply don't allow for example good satellite coverage of even 10% of NYC, because you just can't get enough satellites flying over NYC at the same time to handle that m

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