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Article says "SpaceX collisions up 200 percent", but it is actually "conjunction risk mitigation manoeuvres[sic]" that are up 200 percent. These are active maneuvers to avoid colli…

I was interested in when computers started showing up. I flipped through some years quickly. I see a terminal on page 158 in 1984 ('84:158). What looks like an 8-bit computer at '8…

To be clear, PBS is showing the 30-episode show that was made in China. It's different from the Netflix series that just came out. I plan to watch both.

The whitepaper actually says that 28% of Japan is over 65. Maybe 75% is a misunderstanding of the "Old-age dependency ratios 1950-2050 in the 19 countries of study" chart. That sho…

"Overall, do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States?" http…

I think that’s the most likely successful outcome. 1) human mind can be simulated 2) human consciousness is totally dependent on physical connections of brain neurons 3) something …

95.2 is the "maxi" file. 49.48 is the "nopic" file. 13.39 is the "mini". From https://www.kiwix.org/en/documentation/ File size is always an issue when downloading such big content…

Excel only stores 15 significant digits. Once you get to the 16th digit you'll just get a zero. Example: 6,190,283,353,629,370 + 1 will still be 6,190,283,353,629,370. 6,190,283,35…

The Hill site is wrong. The ACLU Pat Toomey is Patrick C. Toomey. Picture of him here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/ The Senator is Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. M…

Unexpected Seinfeld

Somehow I think Elon giving himself a multi-billion dollar salary to cover a jump in Tesla stock would upset a lot of people.

I did some googling and it does look like some companies will let you exercise early but not let you take possession until vested. https://carta.com/blog/exercising-stock-options/#…

Good catch. I missed that they were NSOs.

I'm not sure if we were able to purchase before vesting. I'm assuming if you left the company the money for any unvested shares would be refunded?

True, but you also have to wait for your options to vest. I did make the mistake of waiting too long. With a 5-year vesting schedule it's possible to still get a stiff tax for the …

Dirt cheap options can be very expensive. The AMT tax can kill you.

The article is 4 years old. I'm not saying it was a smart move, but at the time he would have had to pay taxes that he might not have been able to afford. I know people that left S…

A lot of people here are assuming COUNTRY1 is an adversary. I'm going to guess India. It's plausible to think that India would love to be able to build nuclear submarines with equi…

He split the data into 50 packets. He was asking for $100k per packet, or $5mil. They nabbed him after the first packet.

I was just kidding of course, but the idea of defined acronyms is interesting. Hover over an acronym and see the expanded text.

Laura, congratulations. Does it support acronyms? :) Anyone interested should sign up for the changelog emails. It's only 1-2 emails a month and shows how much progress Laura and h…

It probably doesn't make a lot of sense for a greenfield project, but for established projects it might make sense to stay with the current technology stack. At my last job we had …

Don't tell Kickstarter. :)

The NEMA 'L' receptacles (L5, L6, ...) are locking. When you connect the two ends together you rotate them slightly so they won't disconnect due to vibration, etc.

It just means that because this is a federal requirement that needs to be implemented by the states, we're going to see 50 different implementations. Some will work better than oth…