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by xoa 1y ago
> I think Trump could simply pardon them, unfortunately. FWIW I think you're not correct here, or rather, it's not merely irrelevant but would actually harm them. The pardon power protects against criminal prosecution by the f
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by xoa 1y ago
> Not. Often obvious simple solutions are overlooked. I'm not sure I'd say "often" has something like what you offered up been overlooked by SpaceX. We're long, long past the early eras when everything was first
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by xoa 1y ago
Can't tell if you're joking or not, but SpaceX has indeed been collaborating with astronomical observatories to reduce the apparent magnitude (brightness) to ground for Starlink satellites. It's not as if the potential issues
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by xoa 2y ago
This painfully speaks to me, though on the hoarding front I was convinced to get rid of certain old stuff and now I honestly regret giving up my old Bondi Blue PM G3 400. But on a more recent note I do still have an original Mac Pro and rec
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by xoa 2y ago
It's not snark, in your reply you for whatever reason cut out the context at the end of the sentence. "Lucky 10k" is referring to this xkcd comic [0] which I thought was a pretty good one and I've tried to take to heart.
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by xoa 2y ago
Sunshine/Moonlight are awesome, but fwiw in this specific context it's worth noting that macOS support with Sunshine is still extremely experimental and janky. It's Homebrew only for now, and when I tried it out last the main
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by xoa 2y ago
> How would it not require an internet connection lmao, it's a remote connection tool I'm kinda surprised you've managed to be on HN for 5 years and never come across the concept of a "LAN" or "VPN" be
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by xoa 2y ago
"Secure", particularly when used in the casual general public sense, is a pretty overloaded term. All real security is in the context of a specific threat profiles, and makes tradeoffs vs other required functionality. Signal is de
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by xoa 2y ago
> Technically NASA contracted with SpaceX (and several other companies as well, such as Boeing) to develop crew–rated versions of their rockets No, the initial NASA contract was for cargo delivery via the Commercial Orbital Transportati
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by xoa 2y ago
> Why is it important to note that it was not orbital? Orbital is what actually provides any significant economic value. But the nature of the Rocket Equation, effects with atmosphere, and how those interact with the limits of our mater
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by xoa 2y ago
> Problem here is that we don't know what could have happened if USGOV had properly funded NASA and the sciences instead of cutting it back to the bone and then subsidising SpaceX. Uh, SpaceX didn't come into being until 2002.
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by xoa 2y ago
I used to feel somewhat more this way, but after studying more history as well as living through 40+ years of the tech and other revolutions I actually am now not so sure. Yes absolutely, environment makes a difference, but it also looks pr
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by xoa 2y ago
No, but while the situation in the US is (relative to our own history and the Constitution) very bad, in this particular instance there is nothing particularly special. It's equally "unsafe" to travel to any country on the pl
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by xoa 2y ago
> Whatever happened to the whole debate around Ubuntu including ZFS modules by default in Ubuntu? At the time it originally got proposed, I feel like I remember basically everyone other than Canonical agreeing that this wasn't allow
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by xoa 2y ago
According to a quick search, Viking Energy apparently will have a 220 cubic meter tank, which would equate to 220000 liters of ammonia. In aquaculture apparently ammonia reaches an almost universally high damage/lethal combination for
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America Doesn't Just Have a Housing Crisis. It Has a Moving Crisis(theatlantic.com)
6 points by xoa 2y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 2y ago
> IT was not "built by the government" either. [...]both private companies. It was funded by government. Eh? Apollo was built by private companies too. So were the B-52 or F-35 or SR-71. Using private companies to build and do
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by xoa 2y ago
> Countries can tell companies what the maps of their countries should look like and what things should be called. Not in America. The First Amendment means private entities, individual or organization, are free to draw maps and name th
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by xoa 2y ago
> Ultimately, it is the same as censorship. No, freedom of speech is not censorship, no matter how hard so many try to push the idea. Censorship involves the use of force, be it direct or implied, not others choosing not to give you sup
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by xoa 2y ago
To truly answer this you'd need a free market in energy, which amongst other things would also require answering the question of "is fossil fuel power viable without subsidies", which in turn would require halting the current
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Canadian Super Scooper plane grounded after hitting civ drone over LA wildfires(cnn.com)
3 points by xoa 2y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 2y ago
To start with the last first, I would argue your general (and not uncommon) thesis is off in one key respect: it's not primarily (though in some percentage it may be) a matter of people building where they shouldn't have per se,
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by xoa 2y ago
> But as a security generality - email is vastly less secure than human nature wants to assume that it is. I don't think this has to do with "human nature" anymore than http did. It's a very important, powerful form
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by xoa 2y ago
I appreciate you making an effort to visually display things, but FWIW I don't think that (or sibling) really gets to the root issue, which is less of capability then practical convenience and compatibility. Mac native Terminal perfect
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by xoa 2y ago
A very cool entertainment one (vs other good examples given so far) that got some nice attention on HN earlier this year [0] is the videogame Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Full GPL3, wonderful fun with a lot of great effort put in and very activ
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by xoa 2y ago
> Something like claiming that this was outside the scope of the authority granted to the EPA by Congress But that's the thing: it's not. The waiver process is an explicit, black and white textual part of the Clean Air Act [0]
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by xoa 2y ago
Actually, yes? There's a long formal process to go through in granting a waiver, but if a state does get one there are no further triggers or expiration within the waiver period. And there isn't any process to rescind it either af
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Victory over the Largest Hornet Species(aphis.usda.gov)
3 points by xoa 2y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 2y ago
easyDNS still seems good for those who want a more old style "full fat" registrar like gandi was? I know some folks I respect who have long used it alongside Route 53. Though they don't appear to support hardware tokens which
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The Spysat and the Shuttle (2017)(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by xoa 2y ago|0 comments

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