maverick_iceman

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maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Funding is not the only issue. Their planning was also a disaster. The Space Shuttle wasted so much money with very little return. If NASA continued with Project Orion and NERVA a Mars colony would have been well established by now.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

You can look up Project Daedalus's report online. They considered all these issues in great detail and came up with an affirmative answer.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

You are assuming that this mass will be launched using today's chemically powered rockets. But using nuclear propelled rockets will bring down the launch costs by orders of magnitude.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Scientists understand gravity very well, pick up any book on general relativity.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

General relativity gives a very solid and accurate understanding of gravity.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

One sentence in your comment is accurate. I'll let you figure out which one.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Crackpot alert!

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Jet planes can also be used to destroy skyscrapers. People don't seem to get really nervous about them.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Lots of good reasons to establish a space colony, fleeing the earth is not one of them. By this sort of argument you actually discredit the idea of space exploration.

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Are you a space activist of some sort?

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

Politics, specifically the PTBT[1]. Otherwise Project Orion[2] would be a reality now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

maverick_iceman··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

I'm wondering since these planets are so close to the parent star and to each other would it induce any gravitational instabilities?

maverick_iceman··on Filing Taxes After Exercising Start Up Options

It is ridiculous to charge taxes based on fictitious paper valuations. I think taxes should be imposed only when shares are sold resulting in cash.

maverick_iceman··on From lunch to acquisition: How Atlassian bought Trello

Most corporate puff pieces are content free.

maverick_iceman··on Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay

I often take Pool and have seen most drivers giving 5 stars to co-passengers even though they didn't tip. In SF nobody tips anyway.

maverick_iceman··on Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

maverick_iceman··on Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

>because adequate performance is usually trivial to implement with hash tables/arrays/linked lists

Are you sure about that? What if your code has to work for billion plus people correctly 99.999% time who are on all different kind of connections?

maverick_iceman··on Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

It seems to be working fine for them.

maverick_iceman··on The Bull Case for Snapchat

Exactly same things were said about Facebook. Larry and Sergey laughed it off circa 2007 as pointless diversion.

maverick_iceman··on The Bull Case for Snapchat

I don't think P2P sales can justify a $25B valuation.

maverick_iceman··on Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia

Also consider that people are less likely to use voice search if they are around others. So that might explain why you haven't seen friends/colleagues do it.

maverick_iceman··on Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia

I use voice search all the time, even in a desktop. It's much faster than typing.

maverick_iceman··on Theranos might be on life support

I think given her family's connections she's far more likely to end up in politics.

maverick_iceman··on Theranos might be on life support

Exactly how was she punished? Are you talking about her ban from running a blood testing lab? I don't consider that a punishment, more like a rap in the knuckles. Consider that real people were hurt by her/Theranos's actions, people who were misdiagnosed and as a result given wrong medications.

maverick_iceman··on Beepi Winding Down After Burning Through $150M

Use this bookmarklet someone posted in HN a few days ago:

javascript:window.location="https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(window.l...;

maverick_iceman··on Magic Leap: When Reality Hits the Fan

Secretive doesn't imply good, e.g. Theranos.

maverick_iceman··on Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

Thank you for the response. I understand why authors might find this beneficial but do you think it can outweigh the advantage of being free?

maverick_iceman··on Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

>In November, they launched an online content marketplace, where professors can create course materials and sell it around the world.

Professors already post a lot of study materials for free on their websites. However, that hasn't replaced traditional textbooks. Why this should be any different? Also given all that free course materials why would someone pay for additional materials?

maverick_iceman··on Google’s not-so-secret new OS

Of course, that's the natural progression.

maverick_iceman··on Human Gene Editing Receives Science Panel’s Support

Scott Aaranson once said that he would consider it criminal if he had the option of making sure that his child was as smart as Turing and he deprived her of it. I totally agree.

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