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In the opening blog post they mentioned it to be 1 m tokens.
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Comment · 2 years ago
It is very useful to me, even though I know some webdev. For projects where you need to expose majorly python functionality on the web, and don't want to add whole other dimension and toolkits to your python code, this is brilliant.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is very dangerous point of view, which will lead to a lot of suffering.

Humanity managed to lift vast majority of itself from abject poverty, grow enough food for everyone, prevent children mortality - unimaginable 100 years ago.

And this is called modernity, which if reversed will bring back hunger and misery.

Comment · 2 years ago
Depends on FAA involvement in each launch. In case of an airline FAA controls each flight for hours. In case of a rocket launch, most trouble comes from "don't go in that area" type of commitment, plus investigations of something went wrong.

Given that each airline can keep hundreds of machines in the air at any one time, and rocket launches happen weekly at best, paying 10% of the overall fee does not look fair.

Would be happy to know what aviation specialists think.

Comment · 2 years ago
The point is general for all living things, though:

> air pollution, climate change, deforestation, food, biodiversity loss, ocean plastics, and overfishing. On most of these fronts, things are worse today than they were in the distant past. But on all of them, progress has been made recently, and we’re on a better trajectory than most people assume—even though that rarely makes the end-of-the-world headlines dominating the news.

Comment · 3 years ago
The link loads correctly for me in an incognito tab. Maybe it was something temporary when you tried? Nitter also does the job.
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Comment · 4 years ago
Suppose observer just woke up / heard plane that is passing overhead.

Very reasonable assumption, as the plane might have taken off thousands of miles away, and will land thousands of miles away in the other direction.

In this case, no point talking about takeoff sound, as it is not detectable already at these distances.

Humans can detect reasonably well which direction the sound comes from. This direction will not match the direction they observe the airplane at.

The article is describing the mismatch between plane real position and the plane position we would detect if we were just listening to it.

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Modern nuclear plants can withstand seismic activity.

Current nuclear plants just dont fail in such way as to "threaten all of Europe and Africa"

Comment · 4 years ago
Russian nuclear capabilities now allow complete destruction of any attacking state, even _after_ taking nuclear hit. One just can't invade Russia without complete and utter loss.

This was not yet the case during Cuban missile crisis BTW.

Comment · 4 years ago

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