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I wouldn't be concerned about this, personally, for the precise reason that it is a fusion device - not fission! Fusion is incredibly difficult just to start, let alone keep burnin…

Quite intentionally, too. One of their parties is looking jealously at the cashflow that a US-style system might provide them. At the cost of everyone else, sure, but what's that t…

I mean, they are being systematically under-funded by one of the UK parties such that it will fail, so they can then point at it saying "I told you so", and so then get to adopt a …

Haha, yep. At least they're honest about screwing you.

Depends if you're using it with ORMs or not. It's equally as useful with data in memory. Definitely slower for some things though (yes, it's always slower in one sense... But its a…

Yes, it does. Also a C# programmer. I really like Rust. About as easy to use to transform, filter, group etc, but considerably faster.

Oh, it is, it just makes them a lot easier to use. The compiler does method restructuring magic behind the scenes to build the necessary state machines. Everything gets a lot easie…

Yup. Even carbon composites don't really work out (minimal payload) until the rocket is very large (see: ITS)

Running a vacuum-optimised engine in atmosphere means the exhaust is overexpanded, which causes severe flow seperation and chaotic flow. Even small amounts of overexpansion are har…

It just got covered in soot from the ablative protection (okay, probably some Al2O3 too, from the subsequently burning grid fin) on the grid fins burning off. GTO/GEO missions come…

True enough, but it's going an awful lot faster since it's aimed for orbital trajectory to inject the 2nd stage. So, it has tremendous horizontal velocity. Shepard, by comparison, …

Ya. I imagine they'll simply swap out the Merlin engines for scaled-down Raptor engines once those are fully ready.

Because its historic. Latter ones will not "suffer" this fate.

No doubt it was hefty, because of first-mover advantage - SpaceX badly needed an entity willing to take the _perceived_ risk, and SES was not only willing but eager to do it. I bet…

It's simply not possible to test that. This much is obvious if you've thought deeply about the nature of rocket testing. You MUST fly to _really_ test.

Nope, it works. I've even run C# ARM native code on my Raspberry Pi (Windows IoT)

* reducing family harms like breaking them up through imprisonment over paraphernalia, or harms to health (including death, obv.)

Suboxone and buprenorphine are the same thing. Yes, I know the manufacturer claims they're different, and the naloxone in Suboxone performs a function, but it really doesn't other …

I've met plenty of addicts, and they're perfectly fine people when they haven't been pushed to the brink by restricting their access. People can end up pretty nasty this way, the s…

They most certainly can - but the majority of the harms actually result from our treatment of the issue, not the issue itself. I think we simply have to accept that people are goin…

New Zealand, where I live, also has a harm reduction program. Needles are cheap and easily available. It's been a huge success. MASSIVE drops in HIV/AIDS, Hep C, etc, as well as re…

Presumably because it packs to a higher density and is purer, and since sentencing is done by weight irrespective of how much active drug it actually contains, it winds up being es…

No, because it's completely true. Repeated use of either tobacco or alcohol cause definite harm - cancer for tobacco (note, not nicotine...), brain and liver damage for alcohol. He…

Exactly. In fact, you'll seem to meet only extroverts, because half of them are introverts pretending to be extroverts, because society tells them they're otherwise worthless (to v…

Those same drivers are, unfortunately, also likely to be those least amenable to actually using it. Some people I know have expressed disgust toward the idea of autonomous driving;…