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"You can decline to consent, but you'll miss your flight because we'll detain you for an hour". It's so clear that no one can meaningfully "consent" in a situation where one person…

ACAB. These cops, like literal generations of cops before them, work in a system that financially and socially rewards and reinforces this behavior. We need to stop thinking about …

This is a ridiculous reduction. It's clear that the numbers matter here, and that one family's decisions are nothing compared to the harm this CEO can create or prevent.

I absolutely adore Becky Chambers (and Murderbot, incidentally), but I also love low stakes sci-fi. I want more stories about people just... living unremarkable lives in remarkable…

All gaming is not consumeristic. That's like saying all art is consumeristic, or all music is. Play this game: http://passage.toolness.org/ It's 5 minutes long. Read the creator's …

I think it's pretty reasonable to assume "better working conditions", given the near infinite stories of Amazon abusing workers in fulfillment centers.

A band, on a metric, indicates a minimum and maximum safe value. For instance, if you alarmed when your latency is below 50ms or above 150ms, that'd be your band. Being out of band…

Why? What about it spoke to you? Was it the messed up human anatomy? The letters and numbers being misformed? The lack of faces? The weird choice of unnecessary detail and bizarre …

> Do you have any advice on how to paint a figurine? One or two "Army Painter" brushes will do you fine. Thin paints a little as you work, the paints in the bottles are a little th…

The giant, terrible , AI generated header image isn't doing anything to support the page. IMO, either hire an artist for a sketch or remove the image. Seeing people standing around…

The reverse is also true though -- hearing from folks that we need to measure nothing because "trust me". Both lead to poor outcomes, ime. A good engineering team has measurements …

"A bad thing" is a highly variable judgement based on local rules, mores, and culture. And not every bad thing results in arrest. If I swear loudly, once, some people might think t…

Do you have any credible sources? "Do your own research" is a pretty thin rebuttal to "here's a source by a well regarded NGO". And if you are saying Amnesty International is feedi…

When I think about a country who just incarcerates everyone I think: * Do I want to support authoritarianism? * Will I be arrested if I do a bad thing? Also, I was surprised to see…

> they’ve got pretty serious potential for letting tech companies get paid for a seasoned voice actor’s unique delivery, tone, inflection, etc rather than the voice actor themselve…

People are allowed to recognize the realistic negative outcomes of technology, especially on a forum that frequently discusses the tradeoffs of modern, cutting edge technologies.

> Imagine creating a podcast where Mark Zuckerberg interviews Elon Musk – using their actual voices? I'm imagining it. It sucks to imagine. I'm imagining it being used to scam peop…

I haven't seen anywhere suggesting a $1-2m launch cost is a reasonable target. Sure, maybe $10m is achievable, but $1m is so far off it's not useful as a cost estimate.

> One possible use of Starship is to compete with long-haul aircraft routes. The per pax price here would be astronomical. Starship launches are in the tens of millions of dollars …

Let's take the pessimistic estimates of Falcon 9 Heavy, which are about $3000/kg to LEO. (The optimistic estimates put it closer to $1500.) You are suggesting that pessimistically,…

Some asteroids are water rich, some asteroids are mineral rich. Many mineral rich asteroids appear to be 'hydrated', meaning that among the rocks they contain ice. Solar power will…

You don't need to go to the asteroid belt to get to meaningful asteroids, and in fact many fantastic candidate asteroids come much, much closer than Mars.

Thank you. I was timed out, but I was going to say there's 0% chance of Starship taking 100 people. Do you have any concept of how much water, oxygen, C02 scrubbing, food, shieldin…

I think you are being taken for a ride, but hey, if SpaceX does this in the next 15 years come find me.

I think that's a reasonable attitude to a point, but like, it doesn't scale infinitely. Build it and it will come to 50-100x today's launch capacity? And Mars is still a laughable …