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by worrycue 5y ago
His people are celebrating a successful and safe launch and recovery. It would be weird as their boss to not partake at least a little wouldn’t you say?
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by worrycue 5y ago
Well to be fair, his team is celebrating a successful (and safe) launch and recovery, as their boss it would be weird if he didn’t take a moment to participate in it.
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by worrycue 5y ago
In contrast to people super hyped about space I have a far more pessimistic view. I feel that if the US spends enough money they will get to Mars, leave some instruments, and maybe go back a few more times, then … everyone will forget about
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by worrycue 5y ago
I’m going to stick my neck out here. Not sure where the squealing you talk about come from. Bezos just handled the champagne quickly and got back to Shatner who was clearly having a lot to process. I swear people here just don’t like Bezos
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by worrycue 5y ago
I don’t know about not having deliverables. Aren’t the deliverables of their subordinates their deliverables as well? i.e. If things don’t go well the guy in charge eats the blame as it’s his/her job to make sure it does.
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by worrycue 5y ago
None of those changes are made because the old ways are old though. Those changes happened because the new way is cheaper and/or more convenient.
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by worrycue 5y ago
> currently only 1 or 2 new reactors are under construction and both late and way over budget. So in a few decades France has forgotten how to build reactors on time and in an affordable way?
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by worrycue 5y ago
The RTX 3080 already uses 320W (peak?). By next GPU generation who knows. Good lord, just 2 generation back GPUs like the 1070Ti consumed 180W. Even if you add a CPU (of that era) like the i7-7700 with it 65W draw, that just 245W. Now a vid
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by worrycue 5y ago
And make your AC work even harder during summer or if you live in a tropical/desert/…etc. climate.
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by worrycue 5y ago
Ignoring whether anti-monarchy is a western idea or not, monarchy has quite a lot of deficiencies. Japan itself I would argue has highlighted said deficiencies. Emperor Taishō had various neurological problems. His son Emperor Shōwa (AKA
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by worrycue 5y ago
Any examples?
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by worrycue 5y ago
I suppose my point is you are still burning fossil fuels - admittedly less of it - in most cases (for now) so you pay into the shipping of that stuff around too.
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by worrycue 5y ago
Where the sun is shining/wind is blowing might be too far away. There are limits to how far we can draw power from technically, economically, and politically. Also other regions need power too so you would be straining their supply - u
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by worrycue 5y ago
Well just last month … https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-rec... Renewables like solar and wind depend on the weather - which we cannot control at all. Non-renewables have dependencies too like po
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by worrycue 5y ago
Frankly, I wonder if we will ever be completely free from fossil fuels. Renewables have a few problems that need solving. What do you do when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing? Storage would fix that except we don&#
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by worrycue 5y ago
Aren’t most power grids still powered mostly by fossil fuels. You have to pay for the fuel one way or another - i.e. if it’s not gasoline, it’s coal or natural gas; unless you charge only at peak solar/wind power generation and there i
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by worrycue 5y ago
> in the old days the smartest kids of the block were lured to figure out how to get to the moon and how to get electricity from splitting atoms Part of it I think was just money. Wasn’t that all funded by the government? If you throw mo
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by worrycue 5y ago
> I grew up watching the original Star Trek series in reruns in the 1970’s. And you are still alive today, that means you lived through the transition from analog to digital and the arrival of the Information Age. That’s a pretty big thi
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by worrycue 5y ago
> The shunning and shaming tactics used by online mobs are a very particular form of human aggression. I just realise how similar the Twitter mob and 4chan harassment mobs are. They are basically 2 sides of the same coin. Even using the
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by worrycue 5y ago
Still learning a language (or a carpentry tool for the matter) is a cost no matter how easy. It would be great if we could have a unicorn language that can do it all optimally - or at least adequately. Then we can fully focus and master tha
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by worrycue 5y ago
The photoshopping just moved from print only to print and Instagram IMO. Instagram is just a different form of it. Maybe it’s worse since people might feel more of a connection with people on Instagram (and feel they are more authentic thus
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by worrycue 5y ago
You know, Facebook is actually in the best position to rollback “social media” as we know it today. They just have to go back to linking only people who actually know each other in real life - and maybe at most a few degrees of separation;
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by worrycue 5y ago
> I recall a classmate in college relating to me that he had put in over 8000 hours in various games. It’s possible that if it wasn’t video games it would have been something else like partying and drinking. Some people do it to escape,
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by worrycue 5y ago
It’s a positive feedback loop. Introduce people to outrage. Spur them into “action” where they create more “outrage content” (comments, posts, … etc.) for you in return for attention and praise (Likes, upvotes, … etc.). Outrage content grow
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by worrycue 5y ago
> Again: Petrol does not mollecularly diffuse through solid material and embrittle it in the process. Don't use metal. If you do replace it periodically - let's not pretend batteries last forever either. A bit of leakage is ac
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by worrycue 5y ago
Hydrogen storage seem like a pretty mature field, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_tank We have dealt with gasoline, which can leak and is just as dangerous, IMO just fine for decades - and gasoline vapor has a
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by worrycue 5y ago
The original post had a reference to the Port of Beirut which had a ammonium nitrate explosion. That type of explosion don't require oxygen to my knowledge - denotation is caused by shockwave and in fact ammonium nitrate is itself a st
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by worrycue 5y ago
> An acre full of pressurized hydrogen sounds like a Port of Beirut moment waiting to happen. You still need oxygen to react no? If it’s pure hydrogen …
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by worrycue 5y ago
> More choice in products is always better than less. Not if your market gets flooded with low quality products resulting in the loss of consumer confidence in your market. The 80s video game crash was partly caused by that. But I suppos
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by worrycue 5y ago
Advertisers pretty much decide what get monetised on YouTube if you think about it - the money YouTube gives out is advertiser money after all.

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