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Comment · 4 years ago
Given that price tag, what would be the political backlash against NASA if the JWST fails? Would that be enough to cancel other projects for good?
Comment · 5 years ago
The JWST won't be "in orbit". The L2 Lagrange point technically orbits the sun and is far out of reach even for starship. There's currently no way to service the thing if something goes wrong.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Stop trying to make Go complicate.

You mean enterprise-y.

Comment · 5 years ago
Those _awesome_ pages are getting ridiculously specific
Comment · 5 years ago
> go ./... magic custom (that means this and all recursive subdirectories).

There. I did just learn it without following a tutorial or somethin. It's so simple, easy to remember. It's even faster to write that -R or -r.

Comment · 5 years ago
The speed of light puts a hard constraint in the simultaneity of data availability in a network. You can't have data replicated faster than c no matter how fast is your hardware.
Comment · 5 years ago
Can you imagine what internet distraction would do to the release schedule of GRR Martin? Hmmm
Comment · 5 years ago
If I understand correctly, what that image is saying it doesn't matter what type of car you use still they're all space inefficient?
Comment · 5 years ago
I got it: "don't be evil"
Comment · 5 years ago
> I can't help but suspect that a lot of the genome is a part of the boot sequence that helps you go from one cell up to all the differentiated organs and tissues and systems.

Boot sequence. Amazing. I've always been interested in how the DNA transcription looks like a Turing machine with the RNAP being the head and the one DNA strand being the tape. Is there any research in that kind of computational analogy or is it just a coincidence?

Comment · 5 years ago
If I want hard sci-fi I can read Lorentzian Wormholes from Matt Visser or something like that. You can't explore such crazy ideas from TBP without going off the rails with speculation.

> - Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters

Yeah, I agree with you, but I don't know yet if this is a cultural thing with Chinese literature that can't be translated to English or simply that Liu can't write good characters.

Comment · 5 years ago
By Dr Chad Broman in Journal of Astrological Economy. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or didn't get the joke
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm sorry but is this a template response? This kind of situation is a bureaucratic mess spanning an awful lot of jurisdictions. What "your representative" can possibly do to help abandoned crewmen on a ship in a forgotten port in whatever place in the world when the ships operator is a chain of shell companies to the point that's virtually impossible to pinpoint a single entity to blame. It has to be a better way.
Comment · 5 years ago
> EV passenger cars are feasible for the average person today.

Where? California? The world's bigger than the US and Europe and massive EV adoption in the developing world isn't a thing. EV are still a expensive luxury in most countries.

Comment · 5 years ago
Stillsuits obviously, so you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day

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