Nothing about SpaceX except marketing hype has to do with Mars, can we just stop it with the Mars talk? It belittles what SpaceX actually is about, which is amazing in its own right. Launch demand, cheaper LEO/GEO/GTO, and a willingness to push the industry out of the 60’s is almost unbelievable, as is the journey they’ve taken to get this far. Throwing Mars into the mix makes it all sounds like bullshit, because anyone who actually understands the challenges of Mars beyond the big rocket portion rolls their eyes and sighs.
I’d also add that competing with the likes of Comcast and Verizon could be very profitable in the long term. I don’t think we need to assume it doesn’t serve its own obvious purpose of being th first big step in getting that sweet ISP money.
Edit api: It makes sense for a lot of things that a demand actually exists for, like heavy loads, launching a number of different contracts in one reusable rocket to save on overhead, defense contracts, and more. Those will actually make them money, and are all technically feasible today.
Jeremy Clarkson really really doesn’t represent the world of “car enthusiasts” or journalists in general. He’s an entertainer, part of a latter day Three Stooges and tarring an entire branch of journalism with his brush is like saying that because Sean Hannity is a fuckwit, so was Walter Cronkite.
I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit.
...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the weird ones disproportionately considering their prevalence and general demeanor.
GR was amazing, but it wasn’t well known and accepted until the first measurements confirmed it. Quantum Computing is still very much up in the air, but it’s also weird to bring it up in this context, because QM is one of the most tested theories of all time. QED In particular is tested to the most decimal places of any prediction, ever. It’s also weird to act as though GR and QM started out in a vacuum, instead of what they really were, which was based on centuries of math, theory, and experiment.
Edit: Unrelated, but I see you’re a fellow Greg Egan fan, good to meet you! Planck Dive has to be one of my all time favorites.
Please just stop. Even your attempt at mitigation through edit is wrong, and it would have been trivial for you to correct your misapprehension. There are an estimated 10 million Catholics in California compared to between 27-58 million in France. Besides, the value of the place as a cultural institution visited by 13m+ a year just to see it isn’t something you should dismiss along with its centuries of cultural significance just because it offends your religious sensibilities.
It’s also a miserable stance to take while the place is still literally on fire.
I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.
Adding to Tomalpha’s list (I especially endorse The News Quiz, and the new host Miles Jupp is hysterical)
I’d add Victoria Coren-Mitchell’s run of ‘Heresy’,
‘Cabin Pressure’ (John Finnemore is a genius, and Cumberbatch does a great comedic turn),
‘It’s Not What You Know’ (more Miles Jupp excellence),
‘The Unbelievable Truth’ (Many seasons of comedic brilliance hosted by David Mitchell),
and to a somewhat lesser extent ‘The Rest Is History’ hosted by Frank Skinner, ‘Fags, Mags and Bags’ (helps to actually have spent some real time in the UK to appreciate), and for long car journeys ‘Just A Minute’ can be fun.
Thanks so much to everyone who responded! I’m going to try (over time) all of your suggestions, including DIY. This is a great community and I appreciate your help.
It’s not that I didn’t hear you, it’s that I don’t believe you. Your own behavior and manner of presenting yourself raises manynred flags that are only confirmed by the activities you admitted to.
Basically he was nailed for wire fraud and his defense was... exotic. Upon conviction he sought a writ of certiorari so that the SCOTUS would hear his case on some pretty weird grounds.
At a glance it seems like a situation in which someone thought they found a technicality to enact what amounted to fraud, and are pissed that the law doesn’t work like a compiler. Their response is another “I found a bug in the code” move and again, the law isn’t working like a compiler.
I don’t think making over five thousand accounts and returning tens of thousands of ink cartridges was really behavior that anyone could have thought was honest. It does seems like the government responded pretty harshly, but the system is rough. As to guilt, he would appear to be guilty, and his argument is that despite committing fraud, no one was actually hurt. That might even be true, but also not how breaking the law works.
I wonder how the people who thought the concern over what seemed likely to be a permanent “vacation” will spin this? Some were downright conspiratorial, selling the usual “shady forces putting out hit pieces” and “most shorted stock” limes.
Just once I’d like the conversation around Tesla to boil down to something other than tribalism.
Tesla has done some amazing things, and they show some really worrying signs. Too often though the conversation seems to be a kind of hyper-negative view posed against what increasingly feels like a Tesla/Musk cult. Nothing useful can come out of that, and it borrows the worst parts of something like the Blockchain discussion.
It’s been axiomatic for a while that if you care about privacy and security, a generally paranoid outlook is helpful where telecommunications are concerned. Just assume that unless it’s e2e encrypted and you trust the recipient to be as paranoid, that someone else is reading your communications. Assume that if it has a microphone and an internet connection someone else could use it to listen in. Assume 5-Eyes partners archive absolutely everything and may someday have a smart enough system to really use the data. Assume FB and Google and your ISP are spying on you and building profiles of you.
I’m not sure what else to say, but aside from people who have a stake in Google, or take skepticism to illogical extremes, this news can’t be surprising.
Japan is also a unique case in that they have a 99% conviction rate in criminal cases. The best research I’ve seem explains this in terms of extremes of prosecutorial discretion: only sure-win cases are taken to court. If you end up in a Japanese prison, you really really fucked up, broke the law, and provided the government with an open and-shut case.
As a result the “low crime rate” and “high conviction rate” are both somewhat artificial. A lot of crimes go unreported, or at the very least unprosecuted. Japan does have a relatively low crime rate, but the criminal element can often get away, especially if the victim is homeless, another criminal, or in some other way an outsider.
Welcome to Hacker News. There are a lot of people here would probably consider a portable personal pod made of one-way glass a hugely desireable item.