He didn't believe in science like, for instance, classical mechanics, so was unable to calculate that he would only reach 600 meters. He believed his rocket would take him to space.
I fully expect that he will claim that he has proven that the earth is flat, because he would not have been able to see earth's curvature from only 600 meters, unless he wanted to.
A human being might have got their foot off the accelerator in the time given them - a really great driver might have got his foot to the brake pedal before impact. This is a nightmare scenario for any driver. Oh, and there are vehicles ahead, so it would be illegal to be running high beams.
But I agree - detecting things like this is the job of the LIDAR and/or RADAR systems. Why it didn't is really interesting to me - yes, that's the serious problem here.
Yes. I half expect them to do that at some stage. But a fitted out barge is a much simpler thing to start out with.
You know, they are currently working on a new droneship, quixotically named "A Shortfall of Gravitas". It will probably be just another Marmac 300 series barge with thrusters, but we'll have to see. This is SpaceX, who put spider arms on a ship a few months ago; they could do anything.
SpaceX are scheduled to launch a rocket on Tuesday, 05:33 UTC. Weather should be fine for the launch by then, but the sea states off shore are another matter.
They were going to recover the first stage on a floating platform, but the ships that would have taken it out should have left are still in port, with only 43 hours left to go - they'd take 42 hours flat out to even get there.
The reason for this seems smple - 14 foot seas. Even a 100 meter long platform isn't going to stay still enough in that. So it seems that this rocket will be expended instead.
They have no banking arrangements - at least, none that anyone knows about - so no one can be paying them all these dollars. They have been using them to buy various cryptocurencies, and, as these have all dropped in price recently, they can't have enough assets to cover all the Tether they have issue.
This is Intel's problem to fix, and Intel has to fix it. The rest of the world has to call them out on any and all attempts by them to not fix it. Linus comments are therefore an integral part of the solution.
That's a good idea - quite often the best way to understand it is to use the thought experiment that the original person used. So just like Newton's Canon is the best way to get a grasp of orbits, Einstien's train is a great handle to get to grips with Relativity.
Instant run off is reasonable, and has the benefit of being easily doable with people and papers, and so is more auditable. Yes, this is a benefit of the IRO method.
But it does lead to some unreasonable decisions when a poll produces 3 close frontrunners, where the voters who voted for candidate #3 essentially decide the vote by their lower preferences. If you are going to put a computer in charge, then there are better ways, ways that find the Condorcet winner - the winner who, based on everyone's preferences, would have won a one-on-one election against any other candidate. (The methods vary when there is no Condorcet winner, when the preferences are circular - a situation that you might think rare, but there are times where the extreme left and right find they have more in common with each other than with the more boring center.)
These methods, however, are complex, and require a computer to work out - although that computer result can often be confirmed in a hand count.
The rules are still in effect until some time after the changed rules are published, and they haven't yet done that - despite voting them into effect, they are still editing them. Don't know how that works.
And for how this will effect us - take a look at the very important promises that have been recently removed from the ISPs websites. It is a clear promise to make the life of any current provider of a service on the internet hard, and anyone creating a new service, impossible.
The main strength of a solar panel is the hardened glass on the top, and the frame around it. The backing is generally a single sheet of either thin enameled steel or opaque white plastic. Replacing the opaque sheet with a translucent one wouldn't change the strength at all.
And yes, the framework to support it would be expensive, but building a strong, translucent road surface is more so expensive, and less effective.
Building them into the pavement surface is such an expensive and ineffective idea, that it would be better to build a structure over the road, and put standard panels on that. You can even make panels translucent - the cells are thin enough that some light gets through them, so you just need to use a transparent rear panel - so the roadway is adequately lit even under the panels.
No they don't - but people regularly feel that they do. Atmospherics are part of it, and the other is that people use mobile reference points for that movement. Often the person is moving, and as they are interpreting something millions of kilometers away as being a few hundred meters away, they see it as moving at high speed. Relative motions between the planet and clouds is also misinterpreted as motion of the mysterious light.
Of course, unlike the case I replied to, I cannot be sure what your apparently spiraling items were. But long experience has taught me that the answer lies in the vagueries of the human eye and brain, not the heavens
This has all the hallmarks of a standard sighting of a couple of planets. Planets are much brighter than people expect them, and 'bright, silvery-white, almost glowing' sounds about right. Two of them appear close together (a conjunction, in astronomical terms) rarely enough for people to be surprised by them. By the way, your eyes can't determine distances, at all, above a few hundred meters away - from there you are guessing based on things like brightness.
Planets are often seen as 'getting closer' and 'zooming further away' because they change in brightness as light cloud moves across them. 'Fading' and 'drifting west' sounds about right, as the planets would be setting.
While you are correct that the Lenin generated electricity which powered motors, the SS Savannah used steam from the reactor to power a turbine that directly drove the propeller shaft.
But the new thing is that stored electricity is driving this ship, not electricity generated on-site, as is done on diesel-electric locomotives. And almost all ships use electrically driven bow thrusters, and driving ships using electric azimuth pods is also common where careful controlability is required.
The blockchain will increases in size faster if blocks are larger, yes. We'd probably have blocks averaging about 3MB if the limit wasn't there, which would mean the blocksize would grow three times faster. (There is something called SegWit now active on the legacy chain that allows the effective blocksize to approach 2MB, but few people are using it, so the limit is still 1MB)
Most exchanges are supporting the fork. You can buy Bitcoin Cash in most of the places you buy Bitcoin Core.
Those same exchanges display current exchange rates between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash, and between both and the various currencies and other cryptocurrencies that they trade in.
In the early days of bitcoin, blocks were cheap and easy to mine, and they saw that someone could cause problems for the network by mining huge blocks of junk transactions, just to cause problems. So they put a limit on the size that a block could be. Once mining became too expensive and hard for it to be done just to cause problems, this limit would be increased or just removed.
The problem is, they didn't write the increasing of this limit into the code when they created it. Later on, some people, for reasons that are intensely debated and possibly malicious, decided that this block limit should not be increased, and fees should be allowed to skyrocket. These people also gained control of the main bitcoin client software, bitcoin core, and most of the communities communication forums, like the bitcoin subreddit and several major forums. Then, with various tactics, they have prevented the increase of the blocksize.
So everyone who wants to send a transaction has to compete for space in the 1MB blocks, which are created approximately every 10 minutes. And the only way they can compete is to put a higher fee on their transaction than the next guy.
There is a dead simple answer to this problem - just allow bigger blocks. The network can take it. Their continued refusal to even consider this lead to the creation of 'Bitcoin Cash', which firstly bumped the blocksize to 8MB, and then resumed the development of the protocol to better support arbitrarily large blocks, as them become necessary.
If Steam wants to allow people to purchase things using cryptocurrency, the Bitcoin Cash fork is ready and able to support them.
Net Neutrality was not introduced in 2015. It was the rule of the internet from the very start. But some big corporations decided that the rules didn't apply to them, so started ignoring the rules, and one of them took the FCC to court to establish that the way the FCC was regulating the internet wasn't legitimate.
The court decided in the corporation's favor, saying that the FCC should instead do it another way. That is what the FCC did in 2015, correctly identifying the internet as a communications service, and carefully restoring the same light touch regulation they had before.
So anyone who wants to overturn the way the internet has been since the very beginning had better establish a serious problem that needs to be fixed by doing so.
Elon's core business is inspiring people to dream of a more exciting future, and trying to bring that future about. Building the Model 3 is one part of this, as is designing electric trucks and hypercars, pushing battery tech forward, working on forgotten areas of solar tech such as the aesthetics of the product, and building and designing even more epic reusable rockets. Oh, and seeing if anything can be done about the inefficiencies of tunnel building for solving transport problems.
Doesn't it occur to them that if there is a backdoor in a iPhones for U.S. law enforcement, then that same backdoor will need to be provided to Russia and China, and will end up in the hands of Iran, Lybia and North Korea within weeks, and organized crime gangs within months?
Fingerprints can't unlock phones if they haven't been unocked for a time - I think a week or so. They could have unlocked his phone with his fingerprint at the start. But they didn't do that in time, which is what Apple would have told them they needed to do if they had asked - could it be that they wanted to fight over encryption more than they wanted to know about the massacre? - so now the phone is permanently locked.
That's all there is to it. The rector is very hot, you take hydrogen from your tank, run it through the reactor where it boils and heats up to however hot you can run your reactor (much hotter than hydrogen and oxygen burns), and let it flow through a nozzle. You'll need a pump to push the hydrogen into the reactor, but that will just be a turbopump running off some of the hot gas. You can then use the turbopump exhaust to keep the pressure up in your propellant tank.
The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis is the scary climate change idea, that we will heat up the planet until methane trapped in arctic soils and clathrates will start to be released, and, as methane is a really bad greenhouse gas, results in more warming, triggering the release of more methane, and forming a fast, tight positive feedback loop.
This methane ice (clathrates, a trapping of methane in a crystalline structure of water) is only stable at pressure. So, if pulled to the surface - not difficult, because it is lighter than water is - it breaks down and releases the methane.
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He didn't believe in science like, for instance, classical mechanics, so was unable to calculate that he would only reach 600 meters. He believed his rocket would take him to space.
I fully expect that he will claim that he has proven that the earth is flat, because he would not have been able to see earth's curvature from only 600 meters, unless he wanted to.
A human being might have got their foot off the accelerator in the time given them - a really great driver might have got his foot to the brake pedal before impact. This is a nightmare scenario for any driver. Oh, and there are vehicles ahead, so it would be illegal to be running high beams. But I agree - detecting things like this is the job of the LIDAR and/or RADAR systems. Why it didn't is really interesting to me - yes, that's the serious problem here.
Yes. I half expect them to do that at some stage. But a fitted out barge is a much simpler thing to start out with.
You know, they are currently working on a new droneship, quixotically named "A Shortfall of Gravitas". It will probably be just another Marmac 300 series barge with thrusters, but we'll have to see. This is SpaceX, who put spider arms on a ship a few months ago; they could do anything.
SpaceX are scheduled to launch a rocket on Tuesday, 05:33 UTC. Weather should be fine for the launch by then, but the sea states off shore are another matter.
They were going to recover the first stage on a floating platform, but the ships that would have taken it out should have left are still in port, with only 43 hours left to go - they'd take 42 hours flat out to even get there.
The reason for this seems smple - 14 foot seas. Even a 100 meter long platform isn't going to stay still enough in that. So it seems that this rocket will be expended instead.
And that is far in excess of a mobile phone will provide - making this a useless study that tells us nothing at all.
They have no banking arrangements - at least, none that anyone knows about - so no one can be paying them all these dollars. They have been using them to buy various cryptocurencies, and, as these have all dropped in price recently, they can't have enough assets to cover all the Tether they have issue.
This is Intel's problem to fix, and Intel has to fix it. The rest of the world has to call them out on any and all attempts by them to not fix it. Linus comments are therefore an integral part of the solution.
That's a good idea - quite often the best way to understand it is to use the thought experiment that the original person used. So just like Newton's Canon is the best way to get a grasp of orbits, Einstien's train is a great handle to get to grips with Relativity.
Instant run off is reasonable, and has the benefit of being easily doable with people and papers, and so is more auditable. Yes, this is a benefit of the IRO method.
But it does lead to some unreasonable decisions when a poll produces 3 close frontrunners, where the voters who voted for candidate #3 essentially decide the vote by their lower preferences. If you are going to put a computer in charge, then there are better ways, ways that find the Condorcet winner - the winner who, based on everyone's preferences, would have won a one-on-one election against any other candidate. (The methods vary when there is no Condorcet winner, when the preferences are circular - a situation that you might think rare, but there are times where the extreme left and right find they have more in common with each other than with the more boring center.)
These methods, however, are complex, and require a computer to work out - although that computer result can often be confirmed in a hand count.
The rules are still in effect until some time after the changed rules are published, and they haven't yet done that - despite voting them into effect, they are still editing them. Don't know how that works.
And for how this will effect us - take a look at the very important promises that have been recently removed from the ISPs websites. It is a clear promise to make the life of any current provider of a service on the internet hard, and anyone creating a new service, impossible.
The main strength of a solar panel is the hardened glass on the top, and the frame around it. The backing is generally a single sheet of either thin enameled steel or opaque white plastic. Replacing the opaque sheet with a translucent one wouldn't change the strength at all.
And yes, the framework to support it would be expensive, but building a strong, translucent road surface is more so expensive, and less effective.
Building them into the pavement surface is such an expensive and ineffective idea, that it would be better to build a structure over the road, and put standard panels on that. You can even make panels translucent - the cells are thin enough that some light gets through them, so you just need to use a transparent rear panel - so the roadway is adequately lit even under the panels.
No they don't - but people regularly feel that they do. Atmospherics are part of it, and the other is that people use mobile reference points for that movement. Often the person is moving, and as they are interpreting something millions of kilometers away as being a few hundred meters away, they see it as moving at high speed. Relative motions between the planet and clouds is also misinterpreted as motion of the mysterious light.
Of course, unlike the case I replied to, I cannot be sure what your apparently spiraling items were. But long experience has taught me that the answer lies in the vagueries of the human eye and brain, not the heavens
This has all the hallmarks of a standard sighting of a couple of planets. Planets are much brighter than people expect them, and 'bright, silvery-white, almost glowing' sounds about right. Two of them appear close together (a conjunction, in astronomical terms) rarely enough for people to be surprised by them. By the way, your eyes can't determine distances, at all, above a few hundred meters away - from there you are guessing based on things like brightness.
Planets are often seen as 'getting closer' and 'zooming further away' because they change in brightness as light cloud moves across them. 'Fading' and 'drifting west' sounds about right, as the planets would be setting.
While you are correct that the Lenin generated electricity which powered motors, the SS Savannah used steam from the reactor to power a turbine that directly drove the propeller shaft.
But the new thing is that stored electricity is driving this ship, not electricity generated on-site, as is done on diesel-electric locomotives. And almost all ships use electrically driven bow thrusters, and driving ships using electric azimuth pods is also common where careful controlability is required.
The blockchain will increases in size faster if blocks are larger, yes. We'd probably have blocks averaging about 3MB if the limit wasn't there, which would mean the blocksize would grow three times faster. (There is something called SegWit now active on the legacy chain that allows the effective blocksize to approach 2MB, but few people are using it, so the limit is still 1MB)
Most exchanges are supporting the fork. You can buy Bitcoin Cash in most of the places you buy Bitcoin Core.
Those same exchanges display current exchange rates between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash, and between both and the various currencies and other cryptocurrencies that they trade in.
In the early days of bitcoin, blocks were cheap and easy to mine, and they saw that someone could cause problems for the network by mining huge blocks of junk transactions, just to cause problems. So they put a limit on the size that a block could be. Once mining became too expensive and hard for it to be done just to cause problems, this limit would be increased or just removed.
The problem is, they didn't write the increasing of this limit into the code when they created it. Later on, some people, for reasons that are intensely debated and possibly malicious, decided that this block limit should not be increased, and fees should be allowed to skyrocket. These people also gained control of the main bitcoin client software, bitcoin core, and most of the communities communication forums, like the bitcoin subreddit and several major forums. Then, with various tactics, they have prevented the increase of the blocksize.
So everyone who wants to send a transaction has to compete for space in the 1MB blocks, which are created approximately every 10 minutes. And the only way they can compete is to put a higher fee on their transaction than the next guy.
There is a dead simple answer to this problem - just allow bigger blocks. The network can take it. Their continued refusal to even consider this lead to the creation of 'Bitcoin Cash', which firstly bumped the blocksize to 8MB, and then resumed the development of the protocol to better support arbitrarily large blocks, as them become necessary.
If Steam wants to allow people to purchase things using cryptocurrency, the Bitcoin Cash fork is ready and able to support them.
Net Neutrality was not introduced in 2015. It was the rule of the internet from the very start. But some big corporations decided that the rules didn't apply to them, so started ignoring the rules, and one of them took the FCC to court to establish that the way the FCC was regulating the internet wasn't legitimate.
The court decided in the corporation's favor, saying that the FCC should instead do it another way. That is what the FCC did in 2015, correctly identifying the internet as a communications service, and carefully restoring the same light touch regulation they had before.
So anyone who wants to overturn the way the internet has been since the very beginning had better establish a serious problem that needs to be fixed by doing so.
Elon's core business is inspiring people to dream of a more exciting future, and trying to bring that future about. Building the Model 3 is one part of this, as is designing electric trucks and hypercars, pushing battery tech forward, working on forgotten areas of solar tech such as the aesthetics of the product, and building and designing even more epic reusable rockets. Oh, and seeing if anything can be done about the inefficiencies of tunnel building for solving transport problems.
The floating ice can't counter-act anything, because floating ice melts to become exactly the same volume of water as it displaced - no more, no less.
Doesn't it occur to them that if there is a backdoor in a iPhones for U.S. law enforcement, then that same backdoor will need to be provided to Russia and China, and will end up in the hands of Iran, Lybia and North Korea within weeks, and organized crime gangs within months?
Fingerprints can't unlock phones if they haven't been unocked for a time - I think a week or so. They could have unlocked his phone with his fingerprint at the start. But they didn't do that in time, which is what Apple would have told them they needed to do if they had asked - could it be that they wanted to fight over encryption more than they wanted to know about the massacre? - so now the phone is permanently locked.
That's all there is to it. The rector is very hot, you take hydrogen from your tank, run it through the reactor where it boils and heats up to however hot you can run your reactor (much hotter than hydrogen and oxygen burns), and let it flow through a nozzle. You'll need a pump to push the hydrogen into the reactor, but that will just be a turbopump running off some of the hot gas. You can then use the turbopump exhaust to keep the pressure up in your propellant tank.
The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis is the scary climate change idea, that we will heat up the planet until methane trapped in arctic soils and clathrates will start to be released, and, as methane is a really bad greenhouse gas, results in more warming, triggering the release of more methane, and forming a fast, tight positive feedback loop.
It's a really scary prospect.
This methane ice (clathrates, a trapping of methane in a crystalline structure of water) is only stable at pressure. So, if pulled to the surface - not difficult, because it is lighter than water is - it breaks down and releases the methane.