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Comment · 3 years ago
Everything is more meaningful, do you mean? In developed countries, agriculture is highly automated, and if you want a hobby garden in your leisure time, you can choose how much automation you want.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Because most 'AI ethicists' are overeducated well off urbanite upper-middle class landed gentry-adjacents

Every time I come back to HN after a break, I am quickly reminded of why I left.

Comment · 4 years ago
What a great idea! Can you point at a concrete explanation of how it is affordable with astronomy's budget?
Comment · 4 years ago
TLEs come with a variety of precision. The gold standard right now is for the satellite owner to have GPS on the satellite and publish it.
Comment · 4 years ago
To comment on this a little more, it would be way out of our budget to abandon our telescopes on earth and do it all from space.
Comment · 4 years ago
The fun part of that was that astronomers were whining about light pollution all along, and being ignored. And here we are.
Comment · 4 years ago
> are missing the longer view.

I love all the condescending comments like this one.

Comment · 4 years ago
How dare that guy have a clear opinion that he's willing to back up with reasons!

Way better than Dijkstra being pithy about everything.

Comment · 4 years ago
Well, yes, in that you would be arrested.
Comment · 4 years ago
Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it?

This is the crypto equivalent.

Comment · 4 years ago
> Production of Gas is incidental to oil drilling

For some wells, yes. For others, no.

Comment · 4 years ago
The German government has already taken action several times during this crisis.
Comment · 4 years ago
Don't blame astronomers! We think it's cold when it's actually cold, not only after the solstice.
Comment · 4 years ago
20 years of "progress" and hey, C++20 is gaining the likely attribute.
Comment · 4 years ago
> In finance

Isn't low-latency trading only a subset of finance?

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