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by lavezza 3mo ago
Article says "SpaceX collisions up 200 percent", but it is actually "conjunction risk mitigation manoeuvres[sic]" that are up 200 percent. These are active maneuvers to avoid collisions.
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by lavezza 1y ago
I was interested in when computers started showing up. I flipped through some years quickly. I see a terminal on page 158 in 1984 ('84:158). What looks like an 8-bit computer at '85:103 and a Mac at '86:190. Anyone see someth
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by lavezza 2y ago
To be clear, PBS is showing the 30-episode show that was made in China. It's different from the Netflix series that just came out. I plan to watch both.
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by lavezza 3y ago
The whitepaper actually says that 28% of Japan is over 65. Maybe 75% is a misunderstanding of the "Old-age dependency ratios 1950-2050 in the 19 countries of study" chart. That shows that in 2050 Japan will have 74.32 people over
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by lavezza 3y ago
"Overall, do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States?" https://world-nuclear-news.org/Article
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by lavezza 4y ago
I think that’s the most likely successful outcome. 1) human mind can be simulated 2) human consciousness is totally dependent on physical connections of brain neurons 3) something like nanobots are able to determine the frozen brain connect
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by lavezza 4y ago
95.2 is the "maxi" file. 49.48 is the "nopic" file. 13.39 is the "mini". From https://www.kiwix.org/en/documentation/ File size is always an issue when downloading such big content, s
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by lavezza 4y ago
Excel only stores 15 significant digits. Once you get to the 16th digit you'll just get a zero. Example: 6,190,283,353,629,370 + 1 will still be 6,190,283,353,629,370. 6,190,283,353,629,370 + 10 will be 6,190,283,353,629,380
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by lavezza 4y ago
The Hill site is wrong. The ACLU Pat Toomey is Patrick C. Toomey. Picture of him here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/ The Senator is Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. Maybe the Hill automates scanning
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by lavezza 5y ago
Unexpected Seinfeld
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by lavezza 5y ago
Somehow I think Elon giving himself a multi-billion dollar salary to cover a jump in Tesla stock would upset a lot of people.
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by lavezza 5y ago
I did some googling and it does look like some companies will let you exercise early but not let you take possession until vested. https://carta.com/blog/exercising-stock-options/#what-is-ear...
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by lavezza 5y ago
Good catch. I missed that they were NSOs.
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by lavezza 5y ago
I'm not sure if we were able to purchase before vesting. I'm assuming if you left the company the money for any unvested shares would be refunded?
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by lavezza 5y ago
True, but you also have to wait for your options to vest. I did make the mistake of waiting too long. With a 5-year vesting schedule it's possible to still get a stiff tax for the last few years. This is one area where I think the comp
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by lavezza 5y ago
Dirt cheap options can be very expensive. The AMT tax can kill you.
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by lavezza 5y ago
The article is 4 years old. I'm not saying it was a smart move, but at the time he would have had to pay taxes that he might not have been able to afford. I know people that left SpaceX options on the table because they couldn't a
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by lavezza 5y ago
A lot of people here are assuming COUNTRY1 is an adversary. I'm going to guess India. It's plausible to think that India would love to be able to build nuclear submarines with equivalent technology to the Virginia-class. It isn&#x
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by lavezza 5y ago
He split the data into 50 packets. He was asking for $100k per packet, or $5mil. They nabbed him after the first packet.
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by lavezza 5y ago
I was just kidding of course, but the idea of defined acronyms is interesting. Hover over an acronym and see the expanded text.
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by lavezza 5y ago
Laura, congratulations. Does it support acronyms? :) Anyone interested should sign up for the changelog emails. It's only 1-2 emails a month and shows how much progress Laura and her team are making.
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by lavezza 5y ago
It probably doesn't make a lot of sense for a greenfield project, but for established projects it might make sense to stay with the current technology stack. At my last job we had a team of 10+ domain experts that were expert level at
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by lavezza 6y ago
Don't tell Kickstarter. :)
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by lavezza 6y ago
The NEMA 'L' receptacles (L5, L6, ...) are locking. When you connect the two ends together you rotate them slightly so they won't disconnect due to vibration, etc.
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by lavezza 6y ago
It just means that because this is a federal requirement that needs to be implemented by the states, we're going to see 50 different implementations. Some will work better than others.
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by lavezza 6y ago
First, I think you mean FDR, not Teddy. Second, you have to be very specific in your definition of "reelected" to not include Truman ('48) or Johnson ('64).
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by lavezza 6y ago
The "important" software is the Flight Software that runs on Falcon and Dragon. That is written in C++.
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by lavezza 6y ago
As others have pointed out, those official MS VMs are for evaluation only. You are not legally allowed to use them for development. Of course, you could pay MS for a license and do your Windows development in a VM on Linux (or Mac), so that
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by lavezza 7y ago
Companies used to take their profits and either invest in R&D/Capital if they were trying to grow, or give dividends if they were mature. But once C-level compensation became focused on stock options, top management have an incenti
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by lavezza 7y ago
You might be looking at the price that includes the breakout board. https://dlidirect.com/products/atomic-pi?variant=21555036979... The device by itself is showing $35.88 https://dlidirect.com/products&

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