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by whaaaaat 2y ago
"You can decline to consent, but you'll miss your flight because we'll detain you for an hour". It's so clear that no one can meaningfully "consent" in a situation where one person has the power to deeply
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
ACAB. These cops, like literal generations of cops before them, work in a system that financially and socially rewards and reinforces this behavior. We need to stop thinking about cops as the good guys by default, and really start examining
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
This is a ridiculous reduction. It's clear that the numbers matter here, and that one family's decisions are nothing compared to the harm this CEO can create or prevent.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I absolutely adore Becky Chambers (and Murderbot, incidentally), but I also love low stakes sci-fi. I want more stories about people just... living unremarkable lives in remarkable places. Like, I don't need to read about Batman, but
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
All gaming is not consumeristic. That's like saying all art is consumeristic, or all music is. Play this game: http://passage.toolness.org/ It's 5 minutes long. Read the creator's discussion on it: https:&#x
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume "better working conditions", given the near infinite stories of Amazon abusing workers in fulfillment centers.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
A band, on a metric, indicates a minimum and maximum safe value. For instance, if you alarmed when your latency is below 50ms or above 150ms, that'd be your band. Being out of band is being out of that 'safe' window. It'
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Why? What about it spoke to you? Was it the messed up human anatomy? The letters and numbers being misformed? The lack of faces? The weird choice of unnecessary detail and bizarre scale?
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
> Do you have any advice on how to paint a figurine? One or two "Army Painter" brushes will do you fine. Thin paints a little as you work, the paints in the bottles are a little thick. Paint a base coat layer, wash a darker co
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
The giant, terrible , AI generated header image isn't doing anything to support the page. IMO, either hire an artist for a sketch or remove the image. Seeing people standing around a classroom... hospital?... as amputees and weird sha
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
The reverse is also true though -- hearing from folks that we need to measure nothing because "trust me". Both lead to poor outcomes, ime. A good engineering team has measurements in place that are reasonable approximations, whe
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
"A bad thing" is a highly variable judgement based on local rules, mores, and culture. And not every bad thing results in arrest. If I swear loudly, once, some people might think that's bad, but it's not going to get me
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Do you have any credible sources? "Do your own research" is a pretty thin rebuttal to "here's a source by a well regarded NGO". And if you are saying Amnesty International is feeding propaganda through the mainstrea
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
When I think about a country who just incarcerates everyone I think: * Do I want to support authoritarianism? * Will I be arrested if I do a bad thing? Also, I was surprised to see the prison incarceration rates, but yeah, El Salvador is ab
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
> they’ve got pretty serious potential for letting tech companies get paid for a seasoned voice actor’s unique delivery, tone, inflection, etc rather than the voice actor themselves. I think you mean "steal the labor of an actor&quo
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
People are allowed to recognize the realistic negative outcomes of technology, especially on a forum that frequently discusses the tradeoffs of modern, cutting edge technologies.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
> Imagine creating a podcast where Mark Zuckerberg interviews Elon Musk – using their actual voices? I'm imagining it. It sucks to imagine. I'm imagining it being used to scam people. I'm imagining it to leech off of per
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I haven't seen anywhere suggesting a $1-2m launch cost is a reasonable target. Sure, maybe $10m is achievable, but $1m is so far off it's not useful as a cost estimate.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
> One possible use of Starship is to compete with long-haul aircraft routes. The per pax price here would be astronomical. Starship launches are in the tens of millions of dollars per launch, and human rated spacecraft vehicles cost eve
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Let's take the pessimistic estimates of Falcon 9 Heavy, which are about $3000/kg to LEO. (The optimistic estimates put it closer to $1500.) You are suggesting that pessimistically, Starship is aiming at $30-60/kg to LEO. (Or,
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Some asteroids are water rich, some asteroids are mineral rich. Many mineral rich asteroids appear to be 'hydrated', meaning that among the rocks they contain ice. Solar power will be more effective on an asteroid in NEO than on t
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
You don't need to go to the asteroid belt to get to meaningful asteroids, and in fact many fantastic candidate asteroids come much, much closer than Mars.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Thank you. I was timed out, but I was going to say there's 0% chance of Starship taking 100 people. Do you have any concept of how much water, oxygen, C02 scrubbing, food, shielding, medicine, and infrastructure you need to support 10
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I think you are being taken for a ride, but hey, if SpaceX does this in the next 15 years come find me.
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I think that's a reasonable attitude to a point, but like, it doesn't scale infinitely. Build it and it will come to 50-100x today's launch capacity? And Mars is still a laughable pipedream. Doing 100s of launches will cost S
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I've never understood this, because the economics of hourly launches just don't make sense. There's not nearly enough demand, even assuming they drive prices down and induce demand. Today, there are about ~1,100 metric tons o
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
That was primarily said for the second stage. The primary stage I didn't hear them call out as often (if at all?)
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
I think it's fair to deny his brilliance, totally independence of his politics. Don't confuse money with brilliance, and don't confuse "I can pay for the best minds" with "I am among the best minds".
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
Tesla was just found to be the most dangerous car brand, at literally double the national average of fatalities per billion miles. (National average 2.8, Tesla 5.6 fatalities per billion miles.) The model Y has above 10 fatalities per bil
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by whaaaaat 2y ago
You post: > No-one in that conversation denied the existence of anyone. Then go on to deny the existence of trans folks. I ain't going to reply to all your hateful nonsense. Yours is the opinion that crosses over from "I don&#x

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