peterwoo

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by peterwoo 10y ago
You should care about "theoretical" future death because, via the inexorable passage of time, the future becomes the present. At which time you have "actual" death happening all around you. Let's try and stop catast
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by peterwoo 10y ago
I wrote a much less complete/polished program like this using WebGL this year: https://wioux.github.io/tracking-station/ I was playing a lot of Kerbal Space Program and wanted to use those UI concepts to explore r
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by peterwoo 10y ago
New Horizons was launched directly into a solar escape trajectory. It's going slower than Earth but that is no indication of how advanced the technology is. The whole goal was to get a close encounter with Pluto-Charon. What's the
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by peterwoo 10y ago
Why not take the financing for this basic income and build things like housing instead?
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by peterwoo 10y ago
If you have better schools the district's property values go up which increases the tax base. Families can and do move across districts to access better schools, so there is competition in that sense. Same with many city services. Fire
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by peterwoo 10y ago
Can you elaborate? I do say that we should develop the asteroid defense capability, to eliminate those smaller more frequent impacts and others. My terminology was not standard or precise and I apologize for that. I mean by "small&quot
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by peterwoo 10y ago
The odds of a medium sized impact in the next few thousand years are very small. Still, an advanced asteroid defense capability should be prepared, since even the small-ish bolides that we expect to hit with greater frequency should be elim
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by peterwoo 10y ago
It's a strange idea that progress was arrested by anti-war, civil rights, feminist, and environmental activist movements, while epitomized by men walking on the moon. The counter-cultural movement of the 60s was not anti-science it was
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by peterwoo 10y ago
What is it?
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by peterwoo 10y ago
A flat rate could cover software fees and advertising. Dispute resolution should maybe be insured for each and every ride, but at nothing close to the ~20% cut currently taken.
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by peterwoo 10y ago
It's not about whether the achievement is groundbreaking in a technological sense, but whether this is a reasonable, defensible, sane, or even merely legal, program.
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by peterwoo 10y ago
"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have
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by peterwoo 10y ago
Theft is when I take property which I have no right to take possession of. It doesn't matter if guns or force are involved, or fraud, or sneakiness, etc. If taxation is theft, then it is theft even if it's unenforced and involve
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by peterwoo 10y ago
ULA has an engine reuse plan. If they can get it working it'll be much more efficient than the hoverslam approach.
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by peterwoo 10y ago
I'm just saying we shouldn't abandon or postpone progress on Earth to start an impossible colonization project on Mars. Any opinion you or I have about how long Earth will remain viable is irrelevant. There's nothing else. Ma
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by peterwoo 10y ago
I don't think we should put any resources into colonization activities right now. In case it's unclear, I'm agreeing with you and responding to blacksmith_tb's suggestion that "it would be better to colonize the sol
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by peterwoo 10y ago
You have to work on building out the colony once you're there too, that's part of the deal. Hard, impossible work.
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by peterwoo 10y ago
Humans killing ourselves / extinction events are incredibly unlikely over the time frame that SpaceX will exist for. They're also easier to survive or avoid than it would be to colonize Mars. Except maybe surviving a gamma ray bur
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by peterwoo 10y ago
Conservationists (or anyone else who objects) will have it easy. Interplanetary missions are sensitive to timing. All you have to do is disrupt the launch schedule for a few weeks, then boom, it's another few years before they can even
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by peterwoo 10y ago
If all this is true then why even go to the trouble of supporting opt out? The support for opt out acknowledges (implicitly) that the choice to upload data is rightfully the user's own prerogative. Then paradoxically enables the featur
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by peterwoo 11y ago
The ESA has a really interesting segment on the space debris problem and possible solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_CvGJKMOs
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by peterwoo 11y ago
Everyone understands that in the vast majority of times we use man/woman, he/she, or him/her, the intention is not to specifically draw attention to a person's reproductive organs. It doesn't take special schooling
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by peterwoo 11y ago
Yup. For one they aren't delinquent on rent. But also the rules literally are different, there are city and state ordinances governing this trailer park. Residents are entitled to the appraised value of their homes, the city had to app
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by peterwoo 11y ago
Residents are being offered between $12,000 and $30,000 for the appraised value of their homes and they don't want to move. I don't think $20,000 in cash would change their minds since the question for these families is pretty exi
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by peterwoo 11y ago
Talking about growth here is a red herring. The density in that trailer park is probably higher than any residential neighborhood in Palo Alto, and they're replacing ~400 residents with 184 luxury apartments. There will be some increas
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by peterwoo 11y ago
This idea is absurd. First of all a high rise in this neighborhood is terrible city planning and would never work. This is the place we're talking about https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4142855,-122.129379,3a,75y,2.
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by peterwoo 11y ago
You guys use the word "seriously" here in an entirely different sense than these statements intend. These aren't statements made to the board, they're PR statements made to outsiders after huge breaches of customer/
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by peterwoo 11y ago
More quotes from the Judge on this issue: >“Silk Road created [users] who hadn’t tried drugs before,” Forrest said, adding that Silk Road “expands the market” and places demand on drug-producing (and violent) areas in Afghanistan and Mex
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by peterwoo 12y ago
Charge money for it?
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by peterwoo 12y ago
It's clear to me, even as a lay person, that Levinson's statement does not refer to any statutory text. Or any legal procedure, etc. On what grounds was he objecting? "A party does not go far enough by raising a non-specific

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