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by jaycroft 3mo ago
I think you missed a factor of 1000 somewhere in there: Each satellite weighs about 1 ton, there are about 10,000 of them. That is 10,000 tons in orbit for the constellation, not 10. Assuming a 5 year decay, that's 10000/5&#x2F
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by jaycroft 3y ago
There are two separate incidents here in the same article. Yesterday a tire was filmed falling off a 777 that was 20 years old. The 737 Max that rolled off the tarmac happened today.
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by jaycroft 3y ago
283 meters, not 2.83km. Still big though. The helium is stored underground in a salt dome (that was once full of natural gas). See here for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
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by jaycroft 3y ago
A 17dB reduction in power is not 17 times less! It is a reduction by a factor of 10^(17/10) or about 50 times.
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by jaycroft 3y ago
"In this case; how do they recombine..." that is exactly what the article is about. E-fuels are atmospheric carbon dioxide that is electrolyzed using renewable sources and combined with additional hydrogen in order to produce oct
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by jaycroft 3y ago
"Carbon is extracted from the air in the form of CO2 and combined with the hydrogen in a process called synthesis." It seems like at least re-burning the carbon that's already in the air is better than burning new dug up carb
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by jaycroft 4y ago
I think the parent is saying that the new CRO is bad not because they caused the dumpster fire - the new CRO is bad because after interviewing in January, they saw the dumpster fire and either thought it didn't matter, or that they cou
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Because now the bank has to pay interest to depositors of $150M instead of $100M, which means that they'll pay a lower, less competitive rate. So, in order to keep customers, banks are incentivized to lend out any and all spare cash f
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Oh definitely - I can't say that I've had stellar experiences with Yelp in the past for restaurants, barbers, etc, from the consumer side, and I hear it is much worse as a business. I was just very surprised that in this niche Go
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by jaycroft 4y ago
That's very possible - reviews by obscurity or something. Although I really feel like 10 years ago the roles of Google and Yelp were very much reversed here. Changing times changing strategies I suppose.
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Replying to myself to add: for any other household service I probably wouldn't have even noticed. But, being in a vulnerable position, having sketchy locksmith services really freaked me out. You want my address and credit card info
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Oh wow, see my other comment in another thread. I had a ridiculously bad experience trying to get a key fob made last week - all the numbers would lead me around in circles, then I'd get "spam caller" numbers calling me tell
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by jaycroft 4y ago
So this is why when I called a locksmith last week, they took down my info and then 30 minutes later got a call from no less than 5 other locksmiths who were "on their way to my house". Nobody's phone number matched, nobody
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by jaycroft 4y ago
The parent says that the technique often works on chatGPT, but says nothing about the effectiveness when applied to HN commenters :)
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Furthermore we know that the wallet spent coins in 2017, three years after Hal's death. Someone other than Hal had (has?) access to the private key for that address.
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by jaycroft 4y ago
No, that particular message could be created by anyone (including people who are not Paul le Roux), who has the key to the 1Q2 address, at any time, past or present. All we have to go on right now is that someone knows the private key that
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Even if Coinbase created ethereum and gas went directly to their wallet, would that be any different than Chase collecting a fee when I send a wire using their mobile app? Does Apple collect 30% of bank fees that are the results of actions
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Current SSL cert is valid through 23:59 on Monday, December 12. If there's a big binary even to bet on causing quick failure, this would seem to be it - just inside the testing window. Now... if twitter can't report the outage b
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by jaycroft 4y ago
But it doesn't have to happen at the exact same time? Limit orders exist, no?
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by jaycroft 4y ago
A little more nuanced take: the transfer agent maintains a list of shareholders at the company's behest, the DTCC is one step further down the chain, operating as a clearinghouse between brokers and banks. The list of shareholders i
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by jaycroft 4y ago
Just this month, the barely competent Republicans have managed to: Allow unlimited contributions of money to candidates after being elected Severely limit ability to sue government employees for outside-of-duty infringements on civil libert
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by jaycroft 5y ago
Is HIV commonly spread through contact at restaurants? What sorts of restaurants are you going to ?!?!
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by jaycroft 5y ago
I was wondering the same thing - here's an article I found that describes both approaches. Not being in the cryptography space myself I can't comment on how accurate it is, but passes my engineering smell test. https:/&#x2F
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by jaycroft 5y ago
My mistake on the 5500 - we have a consultant / tax preparer that files the actual form for us, so it does look like the actual filing is electronic. What I was incorrectly remembering, it turns out, was that the authorization form
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by jaycroft 5y ago
As an HR administrator for a small business, this absolutely grinds my gears. According to every accountant and consultant I've ever talked to, the "wet signature" rule is enshrined in federal law (although I have yet to be
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by jaycroft 5y ago
Does the port charge container owners for storing empties? Ramp up the storage fee, and voila... empty containers go back on empty boats that would otherwise make the return trip with no load. Container owners will find that shipping them
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by jaycroft 5y ago
And FINRA is made up of brokers and banks but overseen by the SEC. The EPA doesn't directly monitor every factory. The NTSB sets general testing guidelines and standards and seems to have greatly increased auto and aviation safety, b
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by jaycroft 5y ago
Not only the US, but if you've ever claimed residence in California, they might decide to tax you for foreign income as well (if you accidentally leave any part of your life there behind when you move on, for example, leave a car regis
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by jaycroft 5y ago
And I'll bet even the governor has access to this decryption software - he's got it installed on his phone, even! He must be hacking on the go.
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by jaycroft 5y ago
Counterpoint that might get some attention: "The Governor is in possession of software on his personal computer that allows him to decrypt the personal details of thousands of constituents who may have voted for or against him." T

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