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by zentiggr 7y ago
In this case, a hyperbolic trajectory means the orbit isn't closed, which also means the the object's velocity is above escape velocity. The only thing that would possibly change it to a capture scenario would be an extremely clo
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Your false dichotomy is that sure, your flat-earth approximation is fine, but only on basically personal scales (up to a few miles or so). You can't charactierize your loacl approximation as a general theory because it will fail as soo
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by zentiggr 7y ago
(12 years of corporate IT support experience and 40 years working with tech in general) Because it's human nature to only care about details that you believe you need to know in order to manage some part of your life. If you don't
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Thank you for mentioning the departure fee... That just took AWS off the table for me unless I'm pushed into it by other (paying) parties.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Then you've identified the "real investors" who are exactly the class I'm talking about. If money is more important, and the cost to society less important, in their value system, they are as much a part of the problem
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by zentiggr 7y ago
And they'll wind up like the American middle class, paupered by the corporate/government back pocket usurpation of process in pursuit of profit and control. If I could take a time machine back to stop one influential person, it wo
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Then US shareholders need to be reminded of the fact that they are moral agents as well as financial ones. The reality is that while a "shareholder" title means you want dividends from your holdings, that title attaches to a real
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Another option for us phone-always-in-reach types is the idle/incremental games. (Not a plug, I just happen to be trying out Antimatter Dimensions for now.) The usual setup has you co a bunch of clicking and watching whatever numbers
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by zentiggr 7y ago
A conviction years before on exactly the relevant charges certainly should have cast suspicion on him showing up with young girls in tow, especially when they would be arguably unnecessary in that meeting context.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
What makes you think anyone with billionaire status thinks about anyone of lesser status as anything but cogs in their personal machine? So their existence depends on others, in reality... when did they last have any contact with reality in
731.
by zentiggr 7y ago
The critical difference is that your reading it to your children is not distributed or for sale, therefore is in private fair use.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Sounds like this PCR software should be structured around letting the operator enter information almost as freeform as possible, basically collecting timestamped notes that are reviewed and formalized afterward. UI up front can be very fast
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Instead of effortless PR statements like this, let's have a Fortune -5/-10/-50/-100/-500 of the costs companies have incurred from pollution and resource consumption and let everyone claw to the top of the "lea
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I was a bad fit for my high school's Computer shop curriculum. Sophmore year I was supposed to learn COBOL. I also learned Fortran-77, the Prime mainframe's JCL, found and learned the assembly language for the Prime 750, accidenta
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by zentiggr 7y ago
ICBMs require significant infrastructure, for storage, fueling, and launch. Once in the air, their targets are known quickly and intercepts are difficult but possible. (Airspeed is their only defense.) Cruise missiles require much less pre
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Duckduckgo?
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by zentiggr 7y ago
If you do start to see anything coherent, begin to doubt your sanity. Rule #1: we must all stick apart
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by zentiggr 7y ago
The hundred billion dollar companies have the ability to buy the storyline they want portrayed in the media. How many of those individuals can do the same? May as well have no voice unless they collaborate.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
As a former software guy, life long computer hacker, who moved to desktop support for years, I ran into new people hired as programmers who had to be coached to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del properly to log into their newly deployed laptop. I'm wor
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Father worked at DEC; picked up a PDT-11/150 on discount as a home system. Intended by DEC as an industrial controller. Low-level LSI-11 processor variant, 128k RAM, (2) 8" floppy drives. The case was 75% floppy drive, 25 % proc
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I know this is going to get downvoted, but... "...these are the cries of the carrots, for tomorrow is the harvest time, and for them, it is the apocalypse!"
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by zentiggr 7y ago
If that were the only way we produced meat, I would be far less opposed to consuming it. Mass production in unhealthy factory styles is the majority source. Any incentive to end that process is a net gain in my view.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
So we split Google, Facebook, etc into two parts - content with no ads, and the "yellow pages" that are ads only, for when you want to go find product info. 2nd option... add a useful/not useful flag to every search result, s
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Not a luxury when it's a net negative to your health to drink it. Lawmakers have slowly banned advertising for more and more obviously addictive and harmful things. They just can't make headway against the most pervasive and least
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by zentiggr 7y ago
> It's not like the money magically vanishes to never be seen again No, it remains in corporate budgets, which, without all the marketing spend, can be shifted to better wages, charity work, capital investments, better wages, safety
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by zentiggr 7y ago
And now you have two problems. But at least the worst is better than most everything else.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
Again, false analogy. Video game players are not putting other people at risk by not being social.
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by zentiggr 7y ago
That is a societal level ticket for "disturbing the peace"
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by zentiggr 7y ago
I was a data wrangler for a large retail company that put a microVAX in each store for pricing and stock tracking, about the same time as scan guns were first introduced. It helped me get that job that my dad had worked at DEC for years and
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by zentiggr 7y ago
OMG can I come work for you? Been coding for my entire life, just don't have the resume text to back up the fact that I can learn just about any language/tool/framework/gizmo that I come across, so trying to get hired to

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