How the fuck was "public drug use" not already illegal?
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And C++/CLI uses ^ for "managed pointers" (pointer to .net objects) and % for "managed references" which means there are all-together 4 ways to declare various types of pointers which is super-fun.
Also "pointer to integer" is written as "^integer" which is better than "int".
Syntax also doesn't allow confusing stuff like like "int a, b;".
Elon needs to talk less about peace with Russia and more about deploying weapon systems. He can make enough money from it to retire on Mars.
Worth mentioning that N-1 was severely limited by the state of electronics technology in late 60s Soviet Union. The first 3 launches of the N-1 rocket didn't even have a digital flight computer, they relied on an [analogue system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)#Engine_control_sys...).
The Space Falcon Heavy uses 27 engines and it has a perfect reliability record over five launches. Having many engines on a rocket is a solved problem and it even brings some advantages - you can still reach orbit if you lose one or two of them.
It wouldn't be possible to get equivalent explanations from native speakers unless you pay them to teach.
Solar panel manufacturing faces no objections.
Tesla doesn't have this overhang and is also growing very fast.
The function does not exist, it's entirely made up.
What's weirder is that when I told it that the answer was wrong it provided a different solution that was correct.
Gravity and radiation are well understood and we can definitely build machinery that can tolerate them well for many years.
> we have never entirely isolated a group of humans from the biosphere for even a year, never mind indefinitely. The times it was tried, it failed.
Why doesn't the ISS count? It gets resupplied every few months but a Mars base would be resupplied every two years so systems only have to scale to last 10x as long.
This idea that "life support" is the most difficult aspect is unfounded. The most difficult problem is transportation and reducing the cost of transportation means that you can attempt to solve every other problem by simply throwing more mass at it.
NASA does much of its work through contractors anyway and there are several companies working on independent space stations. I'm confident that the "life support is too hard" argument will be proven false in a few years.
A similar argument is made that "cryogenic fuel transfer has never been demonstrated at scale therefore Starship can't work". But nobody has even seriously attempted this! And the reason is that without reusable rockets every refueling mission is unbelievably expensive and the business case never closed.
It's probably true that Starship would only be capable to support 10 colonists all the way to Mars and that's still pretty damn good. This number will grow if you have a separate life support system on the surface and don't have to rely on the ship but the first missions will indeed have a very small crew.
It's true that the FBI didn't force companies to kill the story but the story was still killed as a result of FBI actions. Are you OK with the FBI misleading the public? Or are you going to argue that they are incompetent and genuinely believed that it was a Russian operation?
There is no proof that Joe Biden himself acted improperly but Hunter Biden did receive large consulting fees for performing no work - he spent his time on cocaine and hookers instead. This strongly indicates that he was hired for political connections.
I've been using perplexity.ai recently and often times the results are more helpful than google and it tends to spew less opaque bullshit than chatgpt.
This went so far that major web platforms blocked all forms of disagreement and the public dismissed it as a conspiracy theory. It was highly effective.
I hate Trump's guts but it's important to acknowledge the enormous amount of effort that went into covering up the behavior of Biden's son.
The government should be prohibited from making such requests.
It's also apparent that regarding the Hunter Biden story the FBI outright lied in order to make web platforms censor the story.
What these revelations show is that a lot of so-called moderation was done at the explicit direction of government employees. How do you defend this? "it's not censorship if the private company willingly complies with government requests"? A refusal by twitter would have had quite high costs for the company.
The cooperation between private companies and government censors is so deep that this is barely distinguishable from direct censorship.
Reducing CO2 by switching from coal to gas was never a durable solution (there's only a percent reduction) and now it's dead. The only way forward for Europe is much more wind and solar, now also as a security imperative.
Elon was wrong in that tweet. It would be much better to show zero tolerance to doxxing.
It doesn't matter if the data is already available from public sources - publishing aggregated personal information from public records is dangerous and should be banned.
The goal is to reduce emissions so it would be great even if we can just stop burning coal in the summer.
Another cool feature would be to provide sources for the information: which web pages contributed most to a specific statement. Then a human can follow up manually.
The availability of "perfect substitutes" for meat wouldn't affect my food choices at all and this is likely true for a lot of people.
The vast majority are complex compounds of smaller radicals.
They are nothing like emoji.
While there big problems with the SLS program such a small delay on the pad is not one of them.