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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?

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…

> Stop trying to make Go complicate. You mean enterprise-y.

Those _awesome_ pages are getting ridiculously specific

> 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. I…

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.

Can you imagine what internet distraction would do to the release schedule of GRR Martin? Hmmm

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?

I got it: "don't be evil"

> 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…

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 speculat…

By Dr Chad Broman in Journal of Astrological Economy. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or didn't get the joke

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 …

> 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 …

Stillsuits obviously, so you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day

It's The Economist, they're their own platform to support whatever content they want. Banning them from HN will hardly have any impact. It's not like banning a single individual.

> The botulism bacteria is capable of voting, I tried my best Google Fu and couldn't find any references to this. Do you have any? Sounds fascinating.

> Amazon has also changed the lives of basically everyone in the developed world, which definitely cannot be said of How so? This is way too generous to Amazon. Buying things onlin…

Is it when you're writing for example mission critical embedded software?

The "red background with five yellow stars" is the chinese flag. It's a common graphic pattern when you want to convey the idea of a person of geopolitical interest. Like putting B…

> That's anecdotal. I know many people that use bitcoin every day. Which country?

> Ruby considered harmful I mean...

Not a native English speaker so... what does it mean "cooking up" EEG electrodes?

Irrelevant in context. Priesthoods in the examples above are just structures to preserve and transmit the knowledge of their respective missions to future generations. However corr…

> what organization could stay incorruptible for 10^9 years? Create a religion around the project, like the technicians priesthood in Asimov's Foundation or like in some proposals …