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by simonh 3y ago
I suppose you could avoid bringing the mission control teams into the conspiracy by feeding them perfectly faked data for the whole of each mission. All you’d need is another huge team of engineers and their support staff to generate all th
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by simonh 4y ago
I think you’re lowballing it, but anyway you’re forgetting the enormous rocket* everyone saw take off. It had to go somewhere. Mission Control had 30 people in the room at a time, and each console had its own engineering room with about a d
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by simonh 4y ago
You’re not the only one, but there don’t seem to be many of you. There’s just way too much evidence it was a real space program and all the counter arguments are weak, flawed or straight up based on absurd misunderstandings and misinterpret
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by simonh 4y ago
I understand that the individual AI generated elements can’t be copyrighted, but in this case the final product is a huge amount more than that. It’s a collage of such elements, plus cropping, filtering, colour grading, composition in the p
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by simonh 4y ago
I think the problems with politicisation of the judiciary and general venality in the US are due to the same dynamic that erases democracy in communist countries like the USSR and China. Hear me out. In the USSR and China you do have democr
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by simonh 4y ago
In the west almost all but a small fraction of military procurement is satisfied by private industry. That was just as true in WW2 as it is today. The question is how you manage that.
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by simonh 4y ago
Falling a distance of 1 metre would take 25 seconds, and for a step 10cm high it would take 8 seconds. If you exerted the same force to lift your body upwards as you'd need on earth to rise by 5cm, as in going on tip-toe, you'd ju
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by simonh 4y ago
In general yes, particularly vandalising the paintings is criminal. The thing with movies though is you can have multiple versions just fine. So while I have no interest in ‘updated’ versions it’s not necessarily as visceral an issue. The p
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by simonh 4y ago
Yes to liberal arts, absolutely, but it’s not liberal arts that’s trying to stick its oar in to the place of science in society. It’s made up bullshit ‘social science’ that’s one step away from parapsychology and crystal healing. Liberal ar
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by simonh 4y ago
If you need extensive industrial infrastructure in orbit, maybe make that from resources mined from asteroids. Ship high value finished goods down from orbit.
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by simonh 4y ago
For the receiver yes that's ballpark. I'm talking about the size of the microwave transmitter array in orbit beaming power down to the surface.
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by simonh 4y ago
Having a huge market share by itself is not a problem. If you just make a hugely popular product that more people buy without coercion or exploitation, that's fine. It's just people making that choice, and they are free to do so.
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by simonh 4y ago
The argument there for Apple is whether the App Store is a product, or a feature of their product. In Google's case they have chosen to offer their store un-bundled from the base OS. Apple does not, for them it's just a feature of
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by simonh 4y ago
It's not clear that the SSNIP test would actually meaningfully show any significant distinction between the possible market definitions in this case. It seems likely that none of them would pass this test.
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by simonh 4y ago
Musk is on record saying it's a complete non-starter. There are all sorts of problems with it. Beam spreading is a huge problem, the ground receiver would generally have to be about 10x the diameter of the transmitter and these would n
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by simonh 4y ago
It's already happened without them, but yes, their involvement doesn't bode well.
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by simonh 4y ago
After the outcome of the one known encounter between Wagner and US forces, in Syria, I don’t think so.
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by simonh 4y ago
One thing they missed was the importance of two things. A full 32 bit pre-emptive multitasking workstation class operating system with a full TCP/IP networking stack under the hood. Combined with a desktop class object oriented GUI app
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by simonh 4y ago
You can see huge chunks of debris flying into the air on launch, and half a dozen engines were out by the time they were visible. The discolourations and asymmetry in the plume indicates damaged engines. The term of art is engine rich exhau
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by simonh 4y ago
We’ve had software making business decisions for decades now, so this really isn’t a new problem. When is comes to finance laws, intent doesn’t work like that, the onus is on the company and it’s employees to prevent the criminal activity.
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by simonh 4y ago
True but with nuclear you can usually schedule the downtime well in advance. With wind it just stops whenever, whether you’re ready for it or not.
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by simonh 4y ago
Soyuz has only had 140 flights, and had some non lethal mission failures in recent decades. It’s a manned mission vehicle only though. Overall I don’t think you can really say one is more reliable than the other, they’re both very reliable.
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by simonh 4y ago
And Falcon 9 is now the world's most launched system, with the record for the longest run without failures. So their approach seems to be working.
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by simonh 4y ago
That only matters after you’ve gone operational though. The difference here isn’t risk appetite for operational launches, it’s risk appetite for test launches. SpaceX expects to do many, many more test launches than SLS, in fact counting St
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by simonh 4y ago
The article suggests using polar craters that remain in shadow. That would limit your field of view quite a bit though.
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by simonh 4y ago
It's getting hard to keep taking what you're posting here seriously. It's so wildly over the horizon from reality, it's hard to see the point of replying. There is zero threat to the dollar. Demand for dollars is higher
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by simonh 4y ago
The Yuan has lost 7% of it's value against the Dollar in the last 3 months. The fact is the Dollar is incredibly strong, it's up over 6% on a year ago. Yes trade in marginal currencies like the Yuan is up because Russia is despera
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by simonh 4y ago
Sanctions are greatly increasing the cost of the war to Russia, and reducing their industrial capacity to wage it. Their rate of shelling as been falling steadily, and they are losing armoured vehicles at twice their replacement rate. Their
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by simonh 4y ago
Left and Right didn't have their modern meaning back then. In Old English riht meant straight, as in direct or not bent. It later assumed the meaning of correct as in right and wrong. Lyft meant weak. Their reference to handedness seem
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by simonh 4y ago
Here's an actual quote: “The price cap is specifically designed to reduce Russian revenues and Russia’s ability to fund its war of aggression whilst limiting the impact of Russia ́s war on global energy prices, particularly for low and

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