jacobreg

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by jacobreg 3y ago
Oh interesting, so all the content is out there but each user gets to decide how what they see is moderated?
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by jacobreg 3y ago
Deplatforming people doesn't boost their message though. You don't get the Streisand effect when its 1000 trolls instead of one famous person. Also the free market of ideas just hasn't proven effective at stopping harassment
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by jacobreg 3y ago
I mean yeah, it's a scary time to be a queer person. Lots of our rights and protections are under attack now in ways they weren't 5 years ago. I hadn't heard that kiwi farms was back up, that's deeply disappointing.
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by jacobreg 3y ago
There's a lot of consideration of if we could, and previous little of if we should. Unmoderated sites inevitably become breading grounds for harassment and worse, especially as more mainstream platforms get better at driving this conte
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by jacobreg 4y ago
The point isn't that its one or the other, the point is that spending on social programs is much cheaper than national security programs and makes a more meaningful difference in more peoples lives. The point is that either-or is a fal
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by jacobreg 5y ago
They don't want to fly it with the rover nearby. It needs to get to a safe distance before they can fly it.
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by jacobreg 5y ago
That sounds terrifying for the divers
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by jacobreg 6y ago
I think its reasonable to write off development costs, given that it was the first of its kind. This is why we have government funded research: to create technologies that would be too risky for any private company to pursue. The question s
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by jacobreg 7y ago
Not quite, it's causing someone to commit a crime they wouldn't ordinarily commit, so it all depends how pushy they were about it. If you could argue they coerced the contractors into doing the work, that's entrapment. But in
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by jacobreg 7y ago
How does the jurisdiction work on this? Presumably not all regions of all countries involved in ICANN have this power.
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by jacobreg 7y ago
Oh the story behind that is a wild ride from start to finish. Babson's sister drowned when they were children, and he decided the real reason that happened is anti-gravity technology wasn't sufficiently advanced to prevent her dro
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by jacobreg 7y ago
It's not ridiculous to say the urbanest area should try to set an example for other urban areas
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by jacobreg 7y ago
Sorry, are you implying that a life might not be worth $50 to save because they might be a burden on society?
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by jacobreg 7y ago
On the other hand I had a professor who wrote a book just to teach this particular course, and sold it for $5. It was a great text and a great course.
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by jacobreg 8y ago
I've heard Garmin pilot stacks up reasonably well
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Makes sense. Didn't NASA give them finding to develop the crew dragon though? Is that factored into the launch cost figures we see?
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by jacobreg 8y ago
I thought the going rate for falcon 9 reusable launches was $60 million a flight. With 7 astronauts shouldn't that work out to $8.5 million per astronaut? That's not accounting for the cost of the crew dragon, but I'd be surp
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Sure, but companies have a heck of a lot more bargaining power than individuals. I don't think "this didn't cause large numbers of employees to quit" means that this was okay.
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Sorry, I may have worded that confusingly. The important number is 10,000 MSL. If you don't go above that you don't need ADS-B (as long as you stay out of the other airspace mentioned). They make an exception for people flying aro
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Oh whoops, I misread as "airplane"
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Even after 2020 ADS-B out won't be required in much of the airspace in the US. Only within 30 nautical miles of a class B airport, within the lateral limits of a class C airport, within class D airspace, and above 10k feet (but not bel
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Eh, not really. It's an impressive piece of technology, but in the end it failed to realize the goal of low cost access to space through reusability. It made so many sacrifices to get reusability and the crossrange the air force wanted
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Not to mention that far more than a lifetime has been collectively invested in it. Given its budget of $400M, and assuming an engineer costs roughly $1,000/day, we have about 1000 people-years invested in this project.
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Or at least price the unsustainable goods to reflect the harm they're doing to the environment, and use that extra money to help fix it.
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by jacobreg 8y ago
I don't think autopilot is included to improve their current product, but rather to give them a head start on full autonomy. I think the reason they've rolled it out is so they can crowdsource the testing of their software. I&#x27
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by jacobreg 8y ago
They are testing causation. The researches deprived subjects of sleep on predetermined nights and observed the results to be a buildup of this protein.
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Not to mention even in all those areas (except A and B airspace), there are still aircraft exempt from the ADS-B requirement. The mandate only applies to aircraft certificated with an engine driven electrical system, so gliders and piper cu
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by jacobreg 8y ago
Altitudes flown aren't independent of heading. Depending on whether you are VFR, IFR, flying magnetic east or west, you will fly at specified 500 foot increments. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/9
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by jacobreg 8y ago
>Political correctness and affirmative action are based on the idea that pretending the world is an ideal version of itself will eventually make it that way. That is the opposite of how it works. Affirmative action is accepting that the
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by jacobreg 9y ago
Aren't there massive safety concerns with that? I certainly wouldn't want any of those things controlled by an arduino and code I hacked together.

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