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by ctdonath 4y ago
Employees can quit. Customers can buy elsewhere. Corporation isn't going to shoot them for doing so.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Likewise. Have read it several times, clearly heroic action (albeit perhaps gruesome), never seemed "horror". Never occurred to me there was "something to be afraid of" after the overwrought funeral, at least nothing mor
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by ctdonath 4y ago
A few, yes. Not by the thousands, short of taking ALL satellites out.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
SX is actively solving the light pollution problem. A few satellites orbiting use far fewer materials to provide coverage of the entire planet than doing so terrestrially would. As Starlink satellites age out they de-orbit. No space junk. Y
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Tell that to the Hoh tribe, and many similar, who had zero data connectivity until Starlink connected the tribe to the world for just $150/mo.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Most things are probably cheaper to replace than to bring back from the most remote area on Earth, and far cheaper to leave for someone else to use than make them bring their own. If unwanted, it’s trash - too expensive to move when there’s
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by ctdonath 4y ago
I keep providing drawings, and it mostly just produces other drawings. Thought it was to fill in content accordingly. What am I missing?
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by ctdonath 4y ago
With room occupancy detection, it should start modeling likely HVAC needs - able to predict accordingly, and adjust power use & timing jitter accordingly.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Seems a rather demeaning choice of name, given the content currently dominating the site.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Massive tomes work well as audiobooks: expert reader paces the content well, forcing you to carry through the bogged-down parts. Anecdote: War And Peace was so massive it broke my audiobook reader app. 400 pages in it just quit progressing.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
$0 is the real minimum wage. If one cannot produce value commensurate with wages, the wages will end and alternative work solutions found.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
May be the point, but is grossly unrealistic. Wages trade value of work for currency (as a convenient abstraction from barter). If the work is not of mandated value, the employment evaporates as employers find other means of getting the wor
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Minimum wage: if you can't produce enough, you're not allowed to produce at all.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Night happens.
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by ctdonath 4y ago
Prospect of a nuclear-powered desalination plant supplying its own fuel? Awesome.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
You need a computer to compile at all. If you’re doing iOS you probably already have an iPhone. Old physical phones (cheap) are fine for dev, can simulate latest. $100/yr only needed if you’re actually charging for the app - which shou
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Agreed, there were numerous "green lights" given by Biden. This "will not send troops" comment was the most blunt/clear of all.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Transcript of speech?
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Biden's spokesperson stated today "US will not send troops to help Ukraine under any scenario." Seems a concession, if not directive, to Russia to invade Ukraine.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
In context - using solar energy to extract atmospheric CO2 and manufacture methane - yes. We're not discussing "massive deforestation" here. Germany's biofuel mandate does not affect rockets in Texas.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Consider Twitter as a Shiri's Scissor: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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by ctdonath 5y ago
These launches are getting SpaceX the money to advance to methane-powered rockets: they will literally make rocket fuel out of air and sunlight, making them absolutely carbon neutral.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Remember: the US Constitution includes "letters of marque" clause, empowering Congress to grant citizens' requests to wage private warfare against foreign entities. Wish people would exercise this option more.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Those camera manufacturers quickly eliminated that capability, likely via optical filtering. That was about 20 years ago. Consumer-grade cameras do not have that ability nowadays (bad publicity).
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by ctdonath 5y ago
https://tomlehrersongs.com/lobachevsky/
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by ctdonath 5y ago
That's...preposterous. There are a great many illegal acts that are so rarely enforced that the act is normalized, with enforcement surprising the culprits - speeding and rolling stops being the primary examples. Such are normalized be
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Illegal is binary. Enforcement is what's squishy, because liability normally doesn't address deep pockets.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
This is one of the really hard issues of automation: humans normalize disobedience to the point that strict obedience ranges from irritating to dangerous; the gap is not an engineering problem.
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by ctdonath 5y ago
It has been popular for a long time. Internet has made concept exposure & social networking easier. My parents did it as hobby and crisis management; two generations further back my relatives were living it in earnest as norm for immigr
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by ctdonath 5y ago
Optimally, it's obtaining a sufficient plot of bare land and building a roughly self-sufficient complex thereon (home, barn, workshop, garden, orchard, fuel/power, pond, robust kitchen, storage, and/or etc). One may buy a pro

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