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by spfzero 5y ago
Digital Ocean customer here, with tons of AWS experience. Like DO better. Just an anecdote.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I’m on the fence. I definitely see your point, it’s solid. But I also think this (even only 5 million) incentivizes more of the same. It’s no stretch to see we’re in for an increasing amount of this.
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by spfzero 5y ago
At some point though, if everything is solid, known, accepted scientific fact, there’s not much room for the “fi” in sci-fi.
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by spfzero 5y ago
That part of the movie, about the moon landing history being purposely witheld from kids, just devastated me.
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by spfzero 5y ago
In free fall, in a strong gravity field, you would be torn apart. Just as comets nearing A gas giant, except many times more forcefully. One end of you is attracted more than the other. In a strong enough field, you would become a string of
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by spfzero 5y ago
Which “developing” countries are running world class fabs these days? Taiwan and South Korea are definitely first-world countries, as much so as the US.
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by spfzero 5y ago
It almost sounds like you are saying that if China sailed ships in international waters it would start a war. They do that all the time, and have been doing so for decades. Did I miss a world war?
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by spfzero 5y ago
What Facebook really believes is that they can escalate this and buy themselves a few months even knowing they will eventually loose. Whether or not it is eventually enforced, they’ve bought some time and they can easily afford the cost.
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by spfzero 5y ago
The parent is not saying exposure to Cov-1 provides long-term immunity to Cov-2. Why are you confusing this? It says exposureto Cov-2 provides long-term immunity to Cov-2, as you would expect.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this!
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by spfzero 5y ago
Taking short exposures and stacking also can help by removing the effects of periodic error in the mount gear-train (or belt-train).
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by spfzero 5y ago
There's two thousand of them for every ton, so yes! :-)
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by spfzero 5y ago
I wonder if cheese, in this case, is a proxy for "not eating a low-fat diet"? Since low-fat eating usually (but not necessarily) involves eating more "low fat" sugary, processed items, seed oils, and refined carbs, than
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by spfzero 5y ago
Didn't Blue Origin, as a company, start 2 years before Space X did? This is the strange part to me. Blue Origin started sooner, has a billion dollars a year of cash from Bezos, and still seems pretty far behind. I'm hoping New G
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by spfzero 5y ago
Not sure. When I think of the assembly line, I remember Henry Ford, not the president at the time. Airplanes, the Wright brothers, discovery of DNA, Crick and Watson, etc. So there are counter examples, but I think you have a point that pol
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by spfzero 5y ago
If you and I were walking down the street and saw a dead cat on the side of the road, I would tell you that cat was possibly hit by a car, and I'd be justified in saying that. I have only two pieces of circumstantial evidence: the loca
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think more than a left-right thing, this is a different axis. Some people are just more fearful in general. I've been surprised by friends of my same political persuasion that have acted in ways I would honestly need to call, not-qui
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by spfzero 5y ago
In your first paragraph, you say there's no way to contact trace outdoors, and in the second you say there are documented cases of it happening. There are ways to predict your chances of getting infected from someone outdoors. You back
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by spfzero 5y ago
A “conspiracy theory” implies a cover up. That’s very different than a hypothesis. Many hypotheses start out with no direct evidence, just an insight. Relativity is a good example. The hypothesis that Covid-19 escaped from a laboratory alre
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by spfzero 5y ago
Same here, writing code seems to map better to what you would step through solving the equations by hand. You can see how the equation “works”. But it may be, that I just haven’t gotten my mind wrapped around the concept of programming with
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by spfzero 5y ago
You would need to not only outspend them, but at least match their engineering. Either one alone would be a tall order. But they should at least try, consumers will benefit even from a close miss.
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think a big part of the “joy”, is pursuing your own idea of what would be cool to make. Start a side project, and not one you think would be lucrative, or that other people would be impressed by. Just something you yourself are fascinated
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by spfzero 5y ago
Sometimes, well, actually all the time, you can’t exactly predict the eventual demand for a new, unique product.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Well, whatever they used to do before they connected everything to the internet. What about just do that?
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by spfzero 5y ago
Great organization there, and the people donating time do actually work enough hours to amortize the training time. It’s less useful from a corporate publicity standpoint though because of the time investment. Plus your employees are being
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by spfzero 5y ago
IIRC he was talking about the cash outlay for fuel. That’s the marginal cost to launch not counting the amortization of the rocket itself plus launch facilities etc.
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by spfzero 5y ago
It depends on how you measure renewables. Lets say solar, is the measurement made during the day? Because for most of the clock, they added zero solar. Or wind? Was it measured when the wind was blowing, or not? The lost nuclear was 24&#x2F
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by spfzero 5y ago
I would say that’s pretty good given Canada’s standard of living.
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by spfzero 5y ago
There will always be demand for CA real estate. Wealthy people from all over the world will happily pay top dollar for the homes of EOL’d boomers. Don’t expect prices to drop any time soon, at least in the desirable ares.
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by spfzero 5y ago
So true. I helped out sorting produce at a food bank for a company organized event. Clearly we were an imposition on the workers there who were far more efficient and then pulled away to spend a half hour training us to do their job poorly

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