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…
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 real…
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.…
Why not take the financing for this basic income and build things like housing instead?
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…
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…
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…
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…
What is it?
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.
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.
"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…
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…
ULA has an engine reuse plan. If they can get it working it'll be much more efficient than the hoverslam approach.
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…
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 solar…
You have to work on building out the colony once you're there too, that's part of the deal. Hard, impossible work.
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…
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…
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…
The ESA has a really interesting segment on the space debris problem and possible solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_CvGJKMOs
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 to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 real…
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.…
Why not take the financing for this basic income and build things like housing instead?
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…
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…
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…
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…
What is it?
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.
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.
"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…
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…
ULA has an engine reuse plan. If they can get it working it'll be much more efficient than the hoverslam approach.
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…
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 solar…
You have to work on building out the colony once you're there too, that's part of the deal. Hard, impossible work.
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…
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…
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…
The ESA has a really interesting segment on the space debris problem and possible solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_CvGJKMOs
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 to…
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…
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…
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…