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by wumpus 4y ago
@upwardbound appears to be mentioning vegetarians as flamebait, so if you want to engage with that, be my guest.
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by wumpus 4y ago
This has nothing to do with vegetarians, and responding will only bring woe.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Ocean fishing requires very little energy input So all of those studies pointing out that most ocean fishing only happens because of subsidized fuel are wrong?
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by wumpus 4y ago
Tesla did make money for a couple of quarters only because of incentives, now they're solidly profitable. It's fun to watch how many years people will post this former "fact" for!
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by wumpus 4y ago
> They need the specific impulse that hydrogen offers. They wanted it, sure: there's more than one way to build a big rocket, and the choice that Congress/NASA made was to use hydrogen on a sustainer stage. They could have made
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by wumpus 4y ago
Let's see: killed a ton of people, was extremely expensive, ...
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by wumpus 4y ago
Big tanks are a big part of why SLS is financially inefficient.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Geology is 100% political when it is talking about climate change. Imagine how political geology was when it was the major proof against the world being created in 4004 BC.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Your nuclear neighbor that has a ton of their nuclear plants offline because of excessive heat preventing adequate cooling?
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by wumpus 4y ago
Have you ever vacationed in Europe? Remember those VW execs arrested while going to vacation in the US? Part of "dieselgate".
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by wumpus 4y ago
The European Commission sent me some questions about competing with Google. I couldn't figure out if it was because I was a search engine, or if it was just that I had an app that competed with some part of Google. Either way, I asked
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by wumpus 4y ago
Twitter's recounting of the story disagrees with you: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio... I'll take their word over yours.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Showing an ad to an EU citizen or someone in the EU is doing business in the EU, says the EU. But indeed, you are correct that geoblocks reduce liability.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Tons of companies can provide services to cruise ships, with bandwidth and latencies depending on how sophisticated their satellites are, and their choice of orbits. SpaceX has 3 direct competitors in similar orbits. All 3 have global (ITU)
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by wumpus 4y ago
I have both the watch complication and a menu-bar app on my Macs, but then again I'm an astronomer who works in a world-wide collaboration.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The HLS and Gateway Resupply contracts were fixed price. I'm sure neither was easy to estimate.
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by wumpus 4y ago
There are several examples of recent competitions that undercut your thought experiment: HLS, Gateway Resupply, Commercial Crew, Commercial Cargo, ...
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by wumpus 4y ago
So if SpaceX wins a contract, such as Commercial Crew, that's pork barreling?
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by wumpus 4y ago
> 'move fast and break things' Wow, they invented that phrase? I had no idea.
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by wumpus 4y ago
The best way to get high launch frequency for a crewed rocket is to have it launch on top of an existing, heavily-used uncrewed rocket. Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 are two examples. NASA's safety advisory board has said very positive things a
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by wumpus 4y ago
Falcon Heavy is fully certified for the most difficult level of uncrewed launches by NASA and the Space Force -- including reusing side boosters. NASA's crewed rating is one step farther, but not a huge step farther.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I've seen a lot of people claim that, but it's misleading. Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket to LEO, GEO, TLI (trans lunar injection), and higher energy orbits like the ones you use for Jupiter and beyond. When SLS finishes
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by wumpus 4y ago
The ad revenue is worth pennies, and the "choice" of using an adblocker vs paying 10 pounds extra is pretty invisible. Neither of these are what anyone asked for.
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by wumpus 4y ago
This discussion definitely sets a record for "people writing the most words to explain to me things I already know". Hopefully some spectators got something out of it. Fun story, I once volunteered to play a piece at 440 and a pie
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Perhaps you're used to organs and keyboards with different tuning choices?
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by wumpus 4y ago
I am not aware of any manuscript having different tuning of organs vs other keyboards in the Renaissance or Baroque eras... can you cite one? The Wikipedia article for Wolfsquinte makes it clear that it has nothing to do with keyboards or o
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by wumpus 4y ago
Some players of fretted instruments move the frets to match individual pieces of music. In modern rock music, some musicians will change guitars every song to have sweeter chords depending on the particular chords in that song.
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by wumpus 4y ago
You probably were "sweetening" chords without realizing it.
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by wumpus 4y ago
About 80% of the article is devoted to explaining why your comment is missing the point.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Most search engine people don't call ahrefs or semrush search engines -- they're SEO tools. Having to have existing market share as a search engine is going to really limit the number of participants.

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