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by agrajag 3mo ago
GDP is a measure of the amount of commerce per year, while global wealth is a net accumulation of all the work that has happened in human history. Billionaires obviously get a disproportionate amount of income per year, but it’s far from 20
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by agrajag 6mo ago
I’m sure it would be fine if it was quoted, but it seems obvious the policy is to not represent AI generated content as human
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by agrajag 2y ago
They autogenously pressurize the tanks - they heat up the cryogenic propellants with the engines and use some of the gas to pressurize the tanks. In Starship’s case it’s methane and oxygen.
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by agrajag 2y ago
Reputational damage from this is going to be catastrophic. Even if that’s the limit of their liability it’s hard not to see customers leaving en masse.
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by agrajag 2y ago
> The primary take-away seems to be that, since 2015, Republican confidence in higher ed has dropped 36%, and Democrat confidence has dropped 12%. It’s a little hard to tease out how much of this is due to the demographics of Republicans
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by agrajag 2y ago
This is some serious cherry-picking. It's going private at a price below the initial IPO price of $48 from 3 years ago, and has generally significantly underperformed other tech stocks. They might not be about to die, but they're
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by agrajag 2y ago
> Congestion pricing hits the lowest earning individual the highest. This is true for anything that you buy. I’m not sure why being able to drive a car into the Manhattan CBD deserves special treatment. It also already has an excellent s
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by agrajag 3y ago
You can attach pdfs of brokerage transactions to your e-filed return (and FreeTaxUSA prompts you to do so in the filing section)
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by agrajag 3y ago
This is absolutely a problem that interacts with scale. With 1M servers you’re almost certainly dealing with hundreds of service owners, and some of those are going to need additional features you don’t have to worry about with 100 servers.
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by agrajag 3y ago
Apollo missions were done at incredible expense, and didn’t provide any longevity. We’ve had humans in orbit on the ISS continuously for decades, sent probes to the edge of the solar system, landed multiple robots on Mars, and revolutionize
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by agrajag 3y ago
If a state or local government wants to forbid tipping it doesn’t have to be this complicated. Pass a law that says it’s forbidden, that credit card merchants and POS merchants must disable tipping functionality, and for cash tips up a hotl
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by agrajag 3y ago
It would be a gross failure of an HSM to allow private key material to leak in any way.
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by agrajag 3y ago
If you’re paranoid the worst thing to bring is a personal phone. The best thing would be a burner with nothing on it. I’d be okay using someone else’s chromebook though, at least you know what data you’re giving it.
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by agrajag 3y ago
Google actually describes an entirely plausible mechanism of action here at [1]. old content slows down site crawling, which can cause new content to not be refreshed as often. Sure, one page doesn’t matter, but thousands will. [1] https:&
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by agrajag 3y ago
According to this article[1] from 2022 at higher concentrations it has a reduced sweetness response and leaves a lingering sweet taste. Supplementing it with real sugar means they don’t need to go to higher concentrations. [1] https:/
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by agrajag 3y ago
According to the flight plan published by SpaceX, the booster is going to attempt a hover in the gulf to simulate a landing, while the Ship isn’t going to slow down at all after reentry and will impact the ocean at a high velocity.
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by agrajag 3y ago
I mean, SVB did exactly this, and management got fired an equity zeroed out. Other banks aren’t looking at SVB and wishing that was them.
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by agrajag 4y ago
The author is right that treating housing as an investment is a mistake, but doesn't take their analysis far enough. In the case where no new houses are built and their house appreciates significantly, after they sell their house _they
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by agrajag 4y ago
Agreed. _Someone_ has to deal with the drift between astronomical time and earth time, better the class of software that deals with space than every time critical system in the world.
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by agrajag 4y ago
The rate of drift is so slow that people will never care. Even over thousands of years when an hour of drift is accumulated there won’t be a manual adjustment - people will have just gotten used to different times of day having sunlight, wi
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by agrajag 4y ago
You can’t realistically argue that twitter will have as easy a time hiring as SpaceX and Tesla. They might have the same shitty working conditions, but without the risk of the company going under in a year or two. Plus everyone already the
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by agrajag 4y ago
You’d be surprised at how much you can fuck up a ship as a CO without life-changing consequences. Unless there’s gross negligence a CO is almost certainly not even going to get discharged even if their actions lead to death of a sailor. The
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by agrajag 4y ago
A major problem is that life in the Navy sucks too much compared to the civilian world, so that most of the competent Naval Officers leave, and you end up with a pretty small pool of competent leaders. It’s a super weird dynamic where junio
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by agrajag 4y ago
You're assuming that the people of Jackson have a voice in their government. The city is majority black, and in Mississippi that's more enough than enough reason for the rest of the state elected representitives to reject any aid
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by agrajag 4y ago
The NASA contract model has already changed substantially. Even Bill Nelson, the current administrator and former senator thinks that cost-plus contracting is no longer the way foreward. A lot of this is directly attributable to the success
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by agrajag 4y ago
With TikTok I do worry about the short form nature of it and impact on attention spans. TV is also very passive, but most content still requires thinking about a narrative for an extended period.
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by agrajag 4y ago
Astronomers whose software uses UTC and isn’t able to change to UT1, and who don’t need precision less than 1 second, but more than 3-5 seconds or so will be worse off. This seems like much less net inconvenience than what the tech industry
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by agrajag 4y ago
> ... the solution is simply to use International Atomic Time (TAI) internally, and convert it to UTC when you want to display information to a user. From a software development perspective this seems monstrously more complex than just m
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by agrajag 4y ago
For the wavelengths that the telescopes are designed to observe (primarily ultraviolet & visible for Hubble, though it can do a little bit of infrared, while JWST looks at Infra-red and mid-infrared) resolution is fairly comparable, tho
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by agrajag 4y ago
That's the distance of an object away that has a parallax of 7.3 arcminutes and a baseline of 1AU. The 7.3 arcminutes referenced here is the width of the image on the celestial sphere.

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