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Everything is more meaningful, do you mean? In developed countries, agriculture is highly automated, and if you want a hobby garden in your leisure time, you can choose how much au…

> Because most 'AI ethicists' are overeducated well off urbanite upper-middle class landed gentry-adjacents Every time I come back to HN after a break, I am quickly reminded of why…

What a great idea! Can you point at a concrete explanation of how it is affordable with astronomy's budget?

TLEs come with a variety of precision. The gold standard right now is for the satellite owner to have GPS on the satellite and publish it.

To comment on this a little more, it would be way out of our budget to abandon our telescopes on earth and do it all from space.

The fun part of that was that astronomers were whining about light pollution all along, and being ignored. And here we are.

> are missing the longer view. I love all the condescending comments like this one.

How dare that guy have a clear opinion that he's willing to back up with reasons! Way better than Dijkstra being pithy about everything.

Well, yes, in that you would be arrested.

Remember the Wirecard collapse, where there was a fake bank account in the Phillipines that allegedly had $2.1 billion USD in it? This is the crypto equivalent.

> Production of Gas is incidental to oil drilling For some wells, yes. For others, no.

The German government has already taken action several times during this crisis.

Don't blame astronomers! We think it's cold when it's actually cold, not only after the solstice.

20 years of "progress" and hey, C++20 is gaining the likely attribute.

> In finance Isn't low-latency trading only a subset of finance?

I'm a guilty party for reusing a connector because it already existed -- we wanted to make a HyperTransport slot standard (HTX), so we used 2 PCIe standard connectors. We placed th…

Most Fortran compilers are also C compilers, and the Fortran standard library is usually implemented in C. So interop with C is easy.

Wow, that was used for a long time. The Greek one was 700 years.

A Chinese post-doc came to join my group 1 year into the pandemic. He took an antibody test, which should have shown antibodies due to his 2 doses of Sinovax. Nada. The first thing…

Woah. I have my luggage in my apartment. I never realized what that meant until now.

In comparison, a commonly-used portage in Greece was only 8km long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diolkos Much less work, but of course much less benefit.

Good timing: just got an invite to attend VAST's breakfast discussion at the SC (supercomputing) conference. HN: two net downvotes for asking a question.

I think you missed the recent delivery of new roll-up solar panels to the ISS. Also I don't think the CanadaArm can roam to the Russian segment, but there's a new European arm that…

> What they're doing with the second boost, they're not telling anyone. This is a direct-to-GEO launch, and some of the payloads are public.

That was the basis of "Social Darwinism", which turned out to be a terrible fit to reality.