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Oh interesting, so all the content is out there but each user gets to decide how what they see is moderated?

Deplatforming people doesn't boost their message though. You don't get the Streisand effect when its 1000 trolls instead of one famous person. Also the free market of ideas just ha…

I mean yeah, it's a scary time to be a queer person. Lots of our rights and protections are under attack now in ways they weren't 5 years ago. I hadn't heard that kiwi farms was ba…

There's a lot of consideration of if we could, and previous little of if we should. Unmoderated sites inevitably become breading grounds for harassment and worse, especially as mor…

The point isn't that its one or the other, the point is that spending on social programs is much cheaper than national security programs and makes a more meaningful difference in m…

They don't want to fly it with the rover nearby. It needs to get to a safe distance before they can fly it.

That sounds terrifying for the divers

I think its reasonable to write off development costs, given that it was the first of its kind. This is why we have government funded research: to create technologies that would be…

Not quite, it's causing someone to commit a crime they wouldn't ordinarily commit, so it all depends how pushy they were about it. If you could argue they coerced the contractors i…

How does the jurisdiction work on this? Presumably not all regions of all countries involved in ICANN have this power.

Oh the story behind that is a wild ride from start to finish. Babson's sister drowned when they were children, and he decided the real reason that happened is anti-gravity technolo…

It's not ridiculous to say the urbanest area should try to set an example for other urban areas

Sorry, are you implying that a life might not be worth $50 to save because they might be a burden on society?

On the other hand I had a professor who wrote a book just to teach this particular course, and sold it for $5. It was a great text and a great course.

I've heard Garmin pilot stacks up reasonably well

Makes sense. Didn't NASA give them finding to develop the crew dragon though? Is that factored into the launch cost figures we see?

I thought the going rate for falcon 9 reusable launches was $60 million a flight. With 7 astronauts shouldn't that work out to $8.5 million per astronaut? That's not accounting for…

Sure, but companies have a heck of a lot more bargaining power than individuals. I don't think "this didn't cause large numbers of employees to quit" means that this was okay.

Sorry, I may have worded that confusingly. The important number is 10,000 MSL. If you don't go above that you don't need ADS-B (as long as you stay out of the other airspace mentio…

Oh whoops, I misread as "airplane"

Even after 2020 ADS-B out won't be required in much of the airspace in the US. Only within 30 nautical miles of a class B airport, within the lateral limits of a class C airport, w…

Eh, not really. It's an impressive piece of technology, but in the end it failed to realize the goal of low cost access to space through reusability. It made so many sacrifices to …

Not to mention that far more than a lifetime has been collectively invested in it. Given its budget of $400M, and assuming an engineer costs roughly $1,000/day, we have about 1000 …

Or at least price the unsustainable goods to reflect the harm they're doing to the environment, and use that extra money to help fix it.

I don't think autopilot is included to improve their current product, but rather to give them a head start on full autonomy. I think the reason they've rolled it out is so they can…