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by thmsths 2y ago
I won't comment on the specific numbers or enforcement mechanisms. But I strongly agree that we need reasonable SLAs for the government. My only worry would be how to deal with abuse.
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by thmsths 2y ago
There is a very good counter argument to the liquidity issue: property taxes. Most Americans have a large portion, if not all of their net worth tied up in their house. This is a very illiquid asset. Yet we have no problem taxing them at ar
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by thmsths 2y ago
Regarding your last point I think it's a great attitude to have regarding safety in a nuclear power plant. It prevents the normalization of deviance. Which in turns helps prevent the larger accidents we typically associate with nuclear
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by thmsths 2y ago
This sounds like something that could help us become really good at photonics though. The major issue when trying to displace the good old silicon transistors is that we have invested so much in the tech and they are just so good that compe
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by thmsths 2y ago
No, because I don't have another data point to compare. In the case of Starliner, there was a competitor, with a lower bid, that launched 4 years prior and did not suffer a billion dollar loss to top it all.
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by thmsths 2y ago
And they did it a year late and over budget (thankfully they had to absorb the loss), despite submitting a much higher bid than their competitor. So it may not be a total failure since they did eventually launch, but I would hardly call thi
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by thmsths 2y ago
So if I understand correctly the new format has performance benefits, partly due to shorter traces and a better connection to the motherboard. So would this format eventually come to desktop too?
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by thmsths 3y ago
I have always seen this as the ultimate exercise in bike shedding. We can't make any progress on how to properly store nuclear waste because nothing short of perfection seems to satisfy the critics, the goalpost is constantly moving an
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by thmsths 3y ago
This just boggles my mind. First time I heard about this was when I saw the headline on Fox News, and I initially thought it was just an hyperbole. But now I see it repeated in more reputable media orgs and I still can't understand how
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by thmsths 3y ago
I an curious too since that's exactly how I use the product: to keep my documents safe. I always assumed OneDrive keeps a local copy AND sends another copy to the cloud.
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by thmsths 3y ago
From my recollection, even in a fusion bomb, most of the energy comes from the fission. I don't fully remember/understand the physics involved. But apparently the fission reaction triggers the fusion reaction (that part I get) and
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by thmsths 3y ago
Quick question regarding DYI radars. What's the legality of it? I would assume the radar frequency bands are reserved (I could not find much information on this with a quick google search). I wouldn't want to get a visit from the
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by thmsths 3y ago
Maybe it's naive, but I wonder if escalating fines then sanctions against countries responsible for a lot of cybercrime could work. Right now the incentives are all messed up. If citizens from country A lose millions from scammers in c
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by thmsths 3y ago
I (maybe naively) thought the staff did not have a backup key to the boxes (hence why they charge for drilling if you lose your key). Because if they do it completely defeats the purpose of the SDBs...
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by thmsths 3y ago
I wonder if we couldn't use an oxygen concentrator as a first stage instead of relying on stored oxygen. This would obviously increase the cost of the appliance (probably by a significant amount) but it would be safer and less disrupti
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by thmsths 3y ago
Totally agree, I am not trying to single out specific countries. Now we just need to figure out how to deal with the consequences of that, because so far we have only been relying on bandaids: exhort people to have more kids, offer subsidie
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by thmsths 3y ago
I would not dismiss the link with individualism but I am not convinced that it is a cause, if anything I see it as a consequence. When you are raised as part of a large family with several generations in the same house you probably have a m
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by thmsths 3y ago
I have come the conclusion that kids have basically gone from asset to liability over the last century. And even if they may not express it in these terms or have hard numbers to back it up, people know this intuitively. In the 1920s there
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by thmsths 3y ago
Given that Google owns Chrome, the most used browser by a wide margin, I am surprised they don't leverage this to improve their search results. The consensus seems to be that SEO has won, that experts are stuffing websites with keyword
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by thmsths 3y ago
Shift to selling more SUVs maybe? After all the linked article mentions that the crown vic replacement is an SUV.
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by thmsths 3y ago
This is a real eye opener, thank you for your comment. I always thought that grid upgrades for EVs were squarely in the "feasible" category so I always dismissed the "but what about the grid?" anti EV arguments. But I di
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by thmsths 3y ago
I think your model is missing an intermediate step after financial troubles but before closing stores: aggressive cost cutting that ruin the product/experience. By the time they have gotten around to closing the underperforming stores,
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by thmsths 3y ago
And NASA can be fast too. If I recall the Genesis of the Voyager missions correctly, someone noticed the once in a lifetime opportunity where the planet would align properly for a probe to visit a lot of them in using clever gravity assists
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by thmsths 3y ago
Probably because they insisted on not using any CGI and doing everything with practical effects instead. I think this is an absolutist take and I would have preferred they used a bit of CGI were it's warranted. Like that nuclear detona
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by thmsths 3y ago
Regarding your last point, wouldn't higher interest make housing a less attractive investment since now you need housing to beat the higher returns from bonds?
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by thmsths 3y ago
I don't know if one trajectory is more efficient than the other, but space propulsion systems are quite tricky and if I remember correctly the X prize was trying to incentivize doing things on a budget to "democratize" access
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by thmsths 3y ago
I would also naively expect that trying to intervene directly is dangerous. Organized hints at multiple people, you do not want to start escalating things in such a situation.
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by thmsths 3y ago
This, exactly this. A big part of what got us into this mess is that data is very very cheap to collect, store and process with modern computing. And there is basically no other cost or downside to dealing with the data. This has led to a g
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by thmsths 3y ago
Oh just to be clear, I fully agree. I brought up the counterforce vs countervalue topic because I thought it was an interesting way to further the discussion. But I have to admit that the arguments in favor of "they would only target o
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by thmsths 3y ago
The "bachelor for everything even if it has no direct correlation with the work" mentality is a real plague. It's causing issues with airline pilots too. From what I understand the FAA does NOT mandate it, they "only&quo

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