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by vatueil 2y ago
Space.com's YouTube channel always has a mirror of the official SpaceX livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoFromSpace/streams Or if you would like additional commentary and extra camera views, there are indep
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by vatueil 2y ago
Not sure why you picked 400km? All Starlink satellites are in orbits less than 600km where debris is naturally eliminated in 5 years or less: https://www.spacex.com/updates/#sustainability > SpaceX operates its sate
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by vatueil 2y ago
AFAIK Starlink does not plan to put satellites in 1200 km orbits. All Starlink satellites are in orbits of 600 km or less, where any debris naturally decays in less than 5 years: https://www.starlink.com/updates#update10 &g
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by vatueil 2y ago
People are prone to either giving Musk too much credit or too little. Musk isn't Tony Stark, single-handedly building everything. But then again, that's not how most innovations work. Engineers who worked directly with Musk, such
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by vatueil 2y ago
It is telling, though, that the strongest argument against SpaceX seems to be whether they followed all the correct procedures rather than whether there was actually any harm. If the facts aren't on your side, then pound the law I gues
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by vatueil 2y ago
Though the area does receive many orders of magnitude more water from natural rainfall than the deluge system, so anything present in that water would have been washed away anyway.
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by vatueil 2y ago
SpaceX did make changes to prevent damage to the launch pad in the future, true. I did not mean to suggest otherwise. My point is that the "mess" the original comment complained about was not a major environmental issue, as they i
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by vatueil 2y ago
There's a user on reddit with a bunch of alts that keeps spamming the conspiracy theory that SpaceX is a front by the military and intelligence agencies to funnel money into building a missile defense shield. They like to point to an A
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by vatueil 2y ago
ESGHound has lobbed many accusations, most of which did not pan out. Some of his accusations, such as the idea that SpaceX's development was a front for their real goal to drill for fossil fuel, could be considered conspiracy theories.
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by vatueil 2y ago
I am not the previous commenter, and your description of the video is inaccurate. The point that the launch did not cause major environmental issues remains true. The fact that subsequent launches were approved demonstrates as such. I would
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by vatueil 2y ago
> give stakeholders 60 days to comment I want to point out that while giving people time to comment sounds harmless, it's actually a systemic problem that's at the root of many issues. Allowing special interest groups to dela
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by vatueil 2y ago
The video is of cars parked next to the launch pad area, taken by remotely operated cameras. No one was endangered. Also, as dramatic as it looks, it is hardly an environmental disaster. I daresay paving over the land with asphalt and concr
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by vatueil 3y ago
All the claims about how OpenAI's board desperately wanted Altman back were based on leaks from "people close to Altman" which the press uncritically lapped up. If it wasn't clear before, it should be clear in hindsight
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by vatueil 3y ago
Kiwix worked for me. IIRC there may be difficulties opening an archive that was downloaded outside of the mobile app, but archives downloaded in-app were fine. For the mobile app I used one of the smaller Wikipedia subsets, since I didn&#x2
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by vatueil 3y ago
> (allegedly) If this (very sparse and lacking in detail) article is true, is this a genuine attempt to get Altman back or just a filip to concerned investors such as Microsoft? Does OpenAI's board really want Altman back so soon af
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Microsoft warns of destructive disk wiper targeting Ukraine(arstechnica.com)
4 points by vatueil 5y ago|0 comments
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by vatueil 5y ago
I still prefer "hit button, tap TouchID, done". I also wish Apple would make it easier to switch to a different credit card for a one-off purchase. And stop forcing everyone in a Family Sharing group to use the same credit card fo
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Player of Games(arxiv.org)
364 points by vatueil 5y ago|231 comments
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by vatueil 5y ago
See also the discussion a couple months ago about a similar case in South Korea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28716665
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by vatueil 5y ago
Those other sources are mostly used for special results such as "Instant Answers". DDG's main search results mostly come from Bing, as the source for that Wikipedia statement reveals: https://help.duckduckgo.com&#x
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by vatueil 6y ago
The rationale given by /u/justin_chrome for the change appears faulty. Yes, keywords could be confusing if they're short, e.g. "r" for reddit or "w" for Wikipedia, and if users didn't expect that the
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by vatueil 6y ago
Whatever definition of "executive" floats your boat, I guess.
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by vatueil 6y ago
Most of the "FAANG" companies do already have video conferencing apps. Netflix being the notable exception, but they're only included in the group for the sake of an edgy acronym anyway.
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by vatueil 6y ago
According to the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he... > Prosecutors said the China-based executive, Xinjiang Jin, worked as Zoom’s primary liaison with Chi
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by vatueil 6y ago
> That criticism escalated in January, when Google said it would phase out the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser within two years to enhance consumer privacy. But cookies — small files a browser uses to track visits to we
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by vatueil 6y ago
Currently flagged again: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629012939/https://news.ycom...
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Privacy group's chief out amid coronavirus 'uprising'(politico.com)
3 points by vatueil 6y ago|0 comments
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by vatueil 6y ago
There's a presentation linked at the bottom which explains in brief how contact tracing will work: https://blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contac... Apple and Google should have included the cha
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by vatueil 7y ago
> And the Chrome assholes removed the password export (or at least I could not for the life of me get it to work at the time) Chrome Settings > Passwords > "Export passwords..." (under the three-dots menu). Not sure whe
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by vatueil 7y ago
There have been several confirmed cases, and more are expected as testing ramps up: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-case-coun... Not too many yet, but the writing is on the wall.

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