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Given that price tag, what would be the political backlash against NASA if the JWST fails? Would that be enough to cancel other projects for good?

The JWST won't be "in orbit". The L2 Lagrange point technically orbits the sun and is far out of reach even for starship. There's currently no way to service the thing if something goes wrong.

> Stop trying to make Go complicate.

You mean enterprise-y.

Those _awesome_ pages are getting ridiculously specific

> go ./... magic custom (that means this and all recursive subdirectories).

There. I did just learn it without following a tutorial or somethin. It's so simple, easy to remember. It's even faster to write that -R or -r.

The speed of light puts a hard constraint in the simultaneity of data availability in a network. You can't have data replicated faster than c no matter how fast is your hardware.

Can you imagine what internet distraction would do to the release schedule of GRR Martin? Hmmm

If I understand correctly, what that image is saying it doesn't matter what type of car you use still they're all space inefficient?

I got it: "don't be evil"

> I can't help but suspect that a lot of the genome is a part of the boot sequence that helps you go from one cell up to all the differentiated organs and tissues and systems.

Boot sequence. Amazing. I've always been interested in how the DNA transcription looks like a Turing machine with the RNAP being the head and the one DNA strand being the tape. Is there any research in that kind of computational analogy or is it just a coincidence?

If I want hard sci-fi I can read Lorentzian Wormholes from Matt Visser or something like that. You can't explore such crazy ideas from TBP without going off the rails with speculation.

> - Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters

Yeah, I agree with you, but I don't know yet if this is a cultural thing with Chinese literature that can't be translated to English or simply that Liu can't write good characters.

By Dr Chad Broman in Journal of Astrological Economy. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or didn't get the joke

I'm sorry but is this a template response? This kind of situation is a bureaucratic mess spanning an awful lot of jurisdictions. What "your representative" can possibly do to help abandoned crewmen on a ship in a forgotten port in whatever place in the world when the ships operator is a chain of shell companies to the point that's virtually impossible to pinpoint a single entity to blame. It has to be a better way.

> EV passenger cars are feasible for the average person today.

Where? California? The world's bigger than the US and Europe and massive EV adoption in the developing world isn't a thing. EV are still a expensive luxury in most countries.

Stillsuits obviously, so you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day

It's The Economist, they're their own platform to support whatever content they want. Banning them from HN will hardly have any impact. It's not like banning a single individual.

> The botulism bacteria is capable of voting,

I tried my best Google Fu and couldn't find any references to this. Do you have any? Sounds fascinating.

> Amazon has also changed the lives of basically everyone in the developed world, which definitely cannot be said of

How so? This is way too generous to Amazon. Buying things online faster is not a life changing feat. Neither are home assistants like Echo or Alexa. Maybe I'm missing something.

Is it when you're writing for example mission critical embedded software?

The "red background with five yellow stars" is the chinese flag. It's a common graphic pattern when you want to convey the idea of a person of geopolitical interest. Like putting Biden in front of the American flag o Macron in fron of the french one. Isn't specific to china nor represent any anti-china meaning.

> That's anecdotal. I know many people that use bitcoin every day.

Which country?

> Ruby considered harmful

I mean...

Not a native English speaker so... what does it mean "cooking up" EEG electrodes?

Irrelevant in context. Priesthoods in the examples above are just structures to preserve and transmit the knowledge of their respective missions to future generations. However corrupted are real religions it can't be denied that they've been running under the same traditions and knowledge corpus for millennia, and that's the point.

> what organization could stay incorruptible for 10^9 years?

Create a religion around the project, like the technicians priesthood in Asimov's Foundation or like in some proposals for long term protection of radioactive waste sites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warn...

Wins? I love rust but this is so weird. What does "win a survey" mean in the real world?

For reference Pluto is just 39.5 AU from the Sun and the Oort cloud starts at 2000 AU.

> Investors are professional bullshit detectors.

Are they though? It's hard to believe that after Theranos, Nikola, Solar roadways, crypto scams, WeWork, Juicero, etc.

Wrong. Is a blog about Apple M1

The shift to Vue3 and a new paradigm (composition API) left the community in a state of confusion of where/how/when to migrate. The old paradigm is still supported but more like a legacy layer than the way to go. It reminds me of the python 2-3 schism.