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by wumpus 5y ago
Homeowners in that area are required to remove brush and fuel around their houses by insurance companies. Why do you think thinning (cutting down live trees) is needed? The link you give doesn't talk about thinning, and is (unusually)
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by wumpus 5y ago
OP is misrepresenting the facts, but OK, I guess it's their right to do that. Edit: He said, "I was being hyperbolic to make a point,"
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by wumpus 5y ago
Indeed, a lot of astronomers use them that way.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Why not just go back to the Julian calendar? You'd avoid a lot of software bugs.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> stand in the way of any progress. What does this mean? If they have to build the road and/or tunnel farther away from the henge, is that not progress? Or should they just demolish the damn thing, because that's progress? The
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by wumpus 5y ago
I don't think the governments are out of touch, I think that ESA in particular likes putting out self-congratulatory press releases that don't mention any competition. BTW this is different from uploading new software to a satelli
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by wumpus 5y ago
I've been complaining about human spaceflight on the Internets for 35 years, I think I've got the politicking down.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Given that this was all different people, I'm not sure why you chose to interpret #3 as not knowing that NASA != SLS. As I said, critics focus on SLS. I could easily have made statement 3, and I work at an org with plenty of NASA fundi
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by wumpus 5y ago
... it's pretty clear that the person who said that is unaware of the full scope of NASA's programs. But that's not the person you replied to. You replied to someone specifically criticizing SLS.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Does NASA have mulitiple programs, some of which are more effective than others? Hint: SLS/Orion is not Planetary Sciences is not Earth Sciences is not Aeronautics is not Astronomy.
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by wumpus 5y ago
NASA is already NASA + private enterprise. What's failing is the cost-plus parts of the human spaceflight program.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Have you noticed that most critics aren't complaining about all of NASA, but mainly about SLS/Orion? On reddit, what usually happens is that SLS defenders try to misrepresent attacks on SLS as an attack on all of NASA, parenthood,
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by wumpus 5y ago
Sung languages and spoken ones are different. From these comments it sounds like you don't sing much. I recommend this 1996 book by McGee: Singing early music : the pronunciation of European languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renais
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by wumpus 5y ago
So in GA, it's still considered an accident, not a routine* wear situation. Edit: spelling
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by wumpus 5y ago
Odd, then why does insurance pay for it in many places? As if it was an accident. In CA and VA and probably many other states, $0 deductible.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Check out how much flak VW is getting for using drum brakes in the rear of some EVs.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I'm not sure who was advocating non-functional brakes? I looked around the conversation and didn't see anyone with that opinion. I mean, maybe you think yuppie_scum thinks that, but in my case, I know my brakes look like new becau
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by wumpus 5y ago
It's as if your assumption that Tesla QC hasn't changed is wrong.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Breaking your windshield is an accident, according to your insurance.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Are you aware that most EV drivers rarely use the brakes? At 50k miles, mine look new.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Another car example is GM's OnStar system, it first shipped in the fall of 1996. GM didn't give much compensation to these early car owners when the analog cell signal was turned off at the end of 2007. Tesla is about to give me a
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by wumpus 5y ago
I was attempting to educate you, not engage with you assigning blame. I see I made a bad choice.
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by wumpus 5y ago
A bunch of missing residents belonged to the same synagogue. The IDF unit was one of several international search and rescue teams to volunteer.
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by wumpus 5y ago
That song is an excellent example of Libertarian fiction that didn't happen, but it still regarded to be a cautionary tale. Which brings me to the joke about Lord of the Rings and The Fountainhead...
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by wumpus 5y ago
How many petrol stations do you need to equal the bandwidth of almost all charging happening at home/work?
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by wumpus 5y ago
obxkcd about days below 0F in St. Louis https://xkcd.com/1321/
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by wumpus 5y ago
My point was that the thing the Dell PC has to do with California is that those 2 chips were designed here.
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by wumpus 5y ago
"AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series graphics." One wonders where you think these chips were designed? I used to live between the AMD and NVIDIA campuses.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Solar is so cheap that it's now worth it to point solar arrays towards the 5pm sun angle, for utility-scale deployments that get time-of-day pricing.
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by wumpus 5y ago
It's a risk, and the FCC requires that you plan on not killing people on the ground if your satellites are going to re-enter.

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