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Location: Michigan, USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Go/Golang, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Operators Resume: https://laverya.com/resume/ Email: laverya a…

Do those people actually _repair_ hardware, or do they swap bad hardware for good chips? Can SpaceX not just say "OK, GPU #7 on satellite #15872 is broken, don't use it" and just a…

Australia and the UK are commonly used in the US gun control debate as places where gun confiscation worked, and CA/HI are the states with the most restrictive gun control policies…

Agreed, but the difference in the use of rifles in assassination attempts between the US and UK/EU/AUS/etc can't purely be because of a lack of gun control in the US if the same ri…

Even California and Hawaii don't ban hunting rifles. Same with Australia and the UK. Can you name a single country that totally bans the ownership of all firearms and enforces it? …

Yeah except for arpanet, GPS, satellites in general, jet engines, composites, computers, and everything that came from there... What has military r&d ever done for us?

Not to mention "just fly east" will get you to land just fine from Hawaii. It might not be the land you were looking for, but it will be land - so even if the direction finding fai…

Compare that to computers, which had been around for the best part of 40 years... in 1980.

> The best national security is for it to be in the interest of the counter party to trade with you rather than attack you. Sure, but if your biggest export is your country's parti…

I had one at University of Michigan, but that was almost a decade ago now.

Third world countries unironically have bigger militaries than Canada. Certainly Iraq pre-invasion made them look like a pushover! That's not to say that invading would be painless…

Has everyone forgotten the lessons of open-source cryptography all of a sudden? Just because the systems are public does not mean that they are vulnerable, and "security through ob…

> You don't get to "put back" security for SSN data when it's already been accessed by foreign governments. "Good" news then, this is already the case! Or should very much be assum…

The tariffs on Canada have now been paused after a promise to enhance border security (which was reportedly already in the works) So who knows at this point

The official statement from the White House calls out increased fentanyl production in Canada as the reason - but doesn't say that it's the majority of imports, you're right. The t…

What I've been seeing is people saying that Canada is the source for most fentanyl coming into the US, not Mexico. (This is also the US's stated reason for tariffs on Canada)

97. Well, I guess the US is one of the countries best able to implement Autarky today, so let's give it a try! Trade makes things more efficient. Trade gives access to resources no…

Most rockets flew test flights before sticking people inside the same model, but most rockets are also single use and so each stack is fundamentally new. A future starship could pl…

Imagine you're an ISP. If your customer has slow bandwidth to some random website, they will blame the website. If they have a slow connection to YouTube, they will blame you. So Y…

General aviation stats might not be entirely applicable to commercial aviation, of course. The planes are less redundant, less well maintained, and flown by less experienced crew -…

You only need to be moving ~7.5-8km/s, but getting to orbit tends to take 9.5-10km/s of total delta-v due to needing to ascend, aerodynamic drag, and other losses.

Don't forget the Cornfield Bomber! The pilot ejected from this F-106 (a single-seat, single-engine all-weather interceptor) after passing through 15,000 feet in a flat spin - and t…

It's not even that. You can host third-party speech without Section 230, you just also gain liability from moderating that content.

> Please explain to me how lower launch costs will help weather prediction. Cheaper launch means more weather satellites covering more spectrum from more angles than otherwise. > W…