tsotha

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by tsotha 12y ago
Wellll, it's going to be a lot sooner than Mars. They inked a contract recently with the USAF to use a pad for landing. I don't know when that's supposed to happen, but the barge was never more than a stopgap until they cou
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by tsotha 12y ago
They were able to do just fine with the F9R. I don't think this is a problem.
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by tsotha 12y ago
The fact that he deleted it implies they decided that wasn't the case after all, or at least wasn't the whole story. They didn't handle media very well this launch, what with the fumbled video release and then a retracted twe
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by tsotha 12y ago
I find this a bit surprising given the amount of testing they did with F9R.
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by tsotha 12y ago
This reminds me a whole lot of those "modeling agencies" that charge reasonably attractive young women with no hope of making it as a model for photo shoots.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Yes, I do, and that's why I'm laughing at what you wrote. Just how do you arrive at a numeric probability for an event for which you have no way of assessing the likelihood of occurring?
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by tsotha 12y ago
Sure, but for that to be efficient you need aerodynamics based purely on mass and drag coefficient for each part.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>But you shouldn't also pretend you have zero information. If you've never done something before you really have no idea if it's going to work, and in rocket launch everything that occurs after the last failure is a comp
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by tsotha 12y ago
Still... you can't assign a probability to something that is, by definition, unknown. "This is just a complete guess..." <-- reasonable "Bayesian analysis tells us..." <-- smells of ass
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by tsotha 12y ago
How can that make sense? Until they actually get a successful landing they can't be sure they don't have a problem that causes a failure 100% of the time.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Hopefully that means there wasn't too much damage to the barge.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Take a look at the before and after pictures. Forest covered half of North America. It's all gone. Pictures of North America? What pictures? North America is more heavily forested than it was 100 years ago. >We're talking
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by tsotha 12y ago
If you have to you can run vehicles off of anything that burns. Thus the wood-fired trucks in North Korea.
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by tsotha 12y ago
We have not "deforested the planet". What are you running on about? You can make glass without fossil fuels. If you have energy you can make fossil fuels from air. The key part to replacing fossil fuels is having the energy. H
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by tsotha 12y ago
They probably could have used that wheel when Pizarro showed up.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Oh, we definitely should open Yucca Mountain. Maybe with Reid out of the Senate it will happen. But we definitely don't want to "get rid" of it.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Besides, nuclear waste is still mostly unburned fuel which could be reprocessed and burned for power in special reactors. That was my reaction. Future generations will want to use that stuff for fuel. There's no reason to launch
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by tsotha 12y ago
Hmmm. Maybe I'll give it another shot. I started Anathem twice and just couldn't get into it.
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by tsotha 12y ago
I don't see how this makes sense. If I hired a bunch of great developers at great cost I would have even more incentive to maximize their output than I would if I hired a bunch of mediocre people at a lower cost.
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by tsotha 12y ago
None of this should come as a surprise. The powers that be looked at employment statistics and decided if everyone had a college degree we'd all be upper middle class and the toilets would clean themselves. But that's pushing on
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by tsotha 12y ago
No, they are not the same at all. HFT requires automation, but you can (and should, IMO) have automation without HFT.
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by tsotha 12y ago
I'm not so sure the pay is that much better after you factor in taxes and the cost of living. The difference would have to be enormous before I moved to NYC.
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by tsotha 12y ago
I don't think you can conflate automated trading with HFT. You could certainly gain the benefits of automated training without HFT, something that would probably save a boatload of cash.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>But this is obviously not true, there is nothing that justifies the assumption that maximizing your gains will simultaneously maximize gains for society. That's not clear to me at all. If society gets wealthier as people pursue th
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by tsotha 12y ago
It's interesting to note "money laundering" wasn't a crime until 1985. Before then you could legally move your own money around without notifying the government.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Larger funds do cost more to manage. There's a point at which you have to diversify not to mitigate risk but because large buys drive up the cost of the purchase. Also, there are a whole bunch of extra SEC rules that kick in when you
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Although terrible for the affected, in the US the unemployment right now is 5%... U3 is a fanciful number, both because people are using disability insurance as a way to collect benefits indefinitely and because once you give up looking
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by tsotha 12y ago
It's going to be a lot harder for the DEA to assert some sort of national security privilege.
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by tsotha 12y ago
I don't see how you get there from here. It's not up to your employer to make sure your life is situated to have a family. That's your responsibility.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>The "social contract" is an abstraction to quantify certain elements in human interactions through society. Yes, and we have a concrete implementation of that abstraction in the law. >What is real, is the necessity of a hum

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