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by trixie_ 7y ago
The decade doesn't matter. NASA is making poor decisions today with SLS, just as it did with the shuttle in the 80s. The reality is it was possible to build cheap reliable reusable space vehicles with 70s technology.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I think you answered your own question. You can’t go further in space to explore if the costs are high. NASA has the funding and power to shape requirements that make those Uber rides for their probes much much cheaper.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
By funding science they’ve actually held science back because the costs of access to space have not decreased. You can do a lot more science when the costs are low.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Simple, by putting out contacts for reusable, low maintenance vehicles. NASA is in the position to define the requirements for bidders.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
If you were right then NASA and every other country would be doing it now. But you’re not right. There’s nothing about the computers or engines that couldn’t of been done decades ago.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
NASA hasn’t been actively trying to drive down the cost of space. If the had it would of unlocked space for all of us decades ago. It took SpaceX investing their own profits into building a reusable booster. And now they’re doing the same f
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by trixie_ 7y ago
10 minutes is nothing. A wire transfer can take hours. A bank transfer can take days. A wire transfer might cost you 20 bucks as well. Bitcoin is amazing at transferring large sums of money quickly, internationally, for a low overhead cost.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Is it coordinated across experiments?
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by trixie_ 7y ago
But is the research using these tools coordinated? Or are these tool created and then independent researchers schedule time to use them?
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by trixie_ 7y ago
It feels from the outside, academic research is performed by an individual or small group that culminates into a paper at the end. When attacking large problems in physics or biology this seems short sighted. A potentially better way would
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Looks like it's still kicking https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder
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by trixie_ 7y ago
No one thinks Jobs or Musk comes up with all the ideas, or 'takes credit' for others work. They are the figureheads of their respective companies. And just as the engineer builds the product, their job is to sell it. You'd be
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I’m on the beach right now, comfortably reading and replying to this thread with one hand on my SE. The other is shielding my eyes from the sunset.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
There will always be groups of people who wish to be independent. Regardless if they're travelling to the new world or into a space. Some kind of authority trying to keep everyone together would not end up in the utopia scenario that
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by trixie_ 7y ago
You can write very simple ORM code that results in very complex and verbose SQL. Especially when you want to return structured data that includes internal aggregations. If an ORM is not used, you often see a lot of data manipulation after t
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by trixie_ 7y ago
At my company we use C#/EF with 50 developers and a gigantic codebase and database. A statically typed binding to the database with 'find all references' etc.. The ability to write a few lines of simple understandable code th
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by trixie_ 7y ago
You are right. I've done a lot of development in AIR myself and it is super impressive. Easy TypeScript like language. The Flex SDK is mature with all the standard stylable controls you need. Dedicated IDE that just works great. Easy d
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by trixie_ 7y ago
It's a great example. No rule will tell you why one is funny and the other is not.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Right now there are 14 Ohio class submarines in the water, each with up to 24 ICBMs, each missile with up to 14 warheads of 100 kilotons. As of 2014 there were 488 cities in the world with over a million people. If somehow even half of that
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Yes. It means you've been around long enough to have been burned by following the latest trend.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23-38 in 2019) will be considered a Millennial..
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by trixie_ 7y ago
https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/blob/master/src/Te...
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by trixie_ 7y ago
There are a bunch of websites that will help compile your crypto trades into the forms you need for your taxes. This year I used cointracker.io and it worked pretty good for me. It created a file that was easily imported into TurboTax. Also
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I wonder if you were in a room with Fish and Wildlife employees, how long it would take you to realize that you are way out of your depth.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Armchair expert case in point. If you think you know a better way, then do the work and propose a rational solution to the problem at hand. Saying, 'experts have been wrong therefore my opinion is just as valid' is a poor contrib
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by trixie_ 7y ago
According to the article the Fish and Wildlife Service has researched this extensively. Reports have found it's 'consistent with the state’s marine protection and water quality policies.' Experts who make this their livelihoo
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by trixie_ 7y ago
Between silos and submarines, thousands of nuclear warheads out there ready to go right now at a moments notice. The entire complex system antiquated and built/maintained by the lowest bidder to boot. So far we are very very lucky.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
On a crypto only exchange, if you want to have some of your holdings fixed to the dollar then you hold it as tether. Usually because you are getting out of crypto or waiting to get in. Taxable events are on you to report and pay regardless.
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by trixie_ 7y ago
I think so. If you look at the total amount of code, his total emails and forum posts - there really isn't much. I wouldn't put it past him as a side project given his past. Also most of the code was done by the beginning of 2009
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by trixie_ 7y ago
My money is on Paul Le Roux. He is a pragmatic programmer who wrote encryption software for Windows in the 90s and in the 2000s he had a real need to move money around outside the traditional systems. Bitcoin was scrappy windows software as

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