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nesyt··on SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site
Radio telescopes often are much larger than JWST and/or are interferometric arrays, which in either case remain impractical to deploy to orbit.
nesyt··on Grid World
State and Main run parallel to each other (in SLC at least). The zero point for north/south in SLC is S Temple, not State.
nesyt··on Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?
When I developed a clenching habit, I resolved it by training myself to put my tongue in the correct position in my mouth. It is pretty simple: with your lips closed but your teeth not touching, place the tip of your tongue right where your gums and your two top front teeth meet. That's it. At first it takes effort but once the habit and muscle memory develops it'll happen naturally. This eliminated my bruxism because now my jaw has a healthy resting state.
nesyt··on Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips
Gödel, Escher, Bach - the book by Hofstadter.
nesyt··on Oil is selling for less than $10 across key North American hubs
The thought of humanity destroying the environment to get the oil and then, in a fit of panic and at great expense, pumping it back into the ground, caused me to erupt in laughter.
nesyt··on Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why
Thanks for the straw man. American WW2 mobilization didn't kill ten million people - that's not an intrinsic attribute of a country focusing on something.

Think also new deal / public works projects like the Hoover Dam (many died working on the Dam but not because it was a government mobilization project). Just the government spending a bunch of money on environmentally focused projects could happen and could be good.

nesyt··on Make your website a black hole to big tech
This is just an advertisement for the company. It doesn't really say anything substantive. "Google bad, we better!"
nesyt··on Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to America’s Streets
That's true but they can take (nearly) straight paths to their destination without stopping and idling, and are smaller and lighter.
nesyt··on Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
This is true of most (perhaps all) big tech (perhaps all) companies.
nesyt··on The Secret Facebook War for Mormon Hearts and Minds
They're both offshoots of Smith's movement.
nesyt··on How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating
That's not true. You can do conditional premoves on the analysis board.
nesyt··on How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
Parent meant that Sony marketed the PS2 with undelivered promises.
nesyt··on John McCain’s campaign trail: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ (2000)
I liked it. It made me happy and sad.
nesyt··on Many Animals Can Count
Dumb joke notwithstanding, the fourth farmer remains in the field? How's that 'fooling the baboons'? Or is the whole comment supposed to be nonsense?
nesyt··on Learn to sell
I'm not the target market and I don't have any idea how to use your tool. The UI reminds me of old grayscale Mac OS. Salespeople are (usually, I'm stereotyping) 'dressed to impress'. Maybe you should put a tie on your project.
nesyt··on Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?
Are you against this? Flexible working hours that can bend to accommodate very malleable human lives seems better than rigid adherence to traditional schedules for the sake of it.
nesyt··on The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016)
One of my favorite papers is a pretty short but famous one: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~kleinsch/Gettier.pdf

nesyt··on Myths About Choosing a College Major
Different universities work differently in the US. Some have categories of majors, like UW [0], where some are free to declare but others have requirements/prerequisites.

[0]: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/academic-planning/maj...

nesyt··on Budweiser's ex-marketing chief: Weed is the new craft beer
It'd sell just like butter coffee sells.
nesyt··on Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?
Why bother simulating human thought? It's not the only road to Rome.
nesyt··on Ray Dillinger: If I'd Known What We Were Starting
It's divisible to the 'satoshi'[0], but could be changed in the future.

[0]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-sa...

nesyt··on HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 
>This makes it slightly more expensive than you think.

365.25 / 30 * $10 == $121.75

vs. $120.00 if it was per month. Slightly indeed.

nesyt··on Why I don't believe in Uber's Success
I'm not sure where the parent is drawing that claim from but I imagine they could continue to exist with government subsidies.
nesyt··on “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
24/7/365 is dead. Long live 24/7/52!
nesyt··on Virgin Galactic Executive Summary of Submission on SpaceShipTwo Accident
Maybe space tourism increases public interest in interstellar travel?
nesyt··on Zero
I think parent meant the many different ways to be non-zero.
nesyt··on Firefox 33
Is that a built-in feature or do you use an extension?
nesyt··on I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
The bomb lab discussed elsewhere in this comment thread.
nesyt··on Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings
I've never read that, what is the resulting equilibrium?
nesyt··on BillForward (YC S14) Wants to Change the Way You’re Charged for Subscriptions
I'd like to see more of these surreal mundane-but-apparently-life-changing headlines:

PolyView Wants to Change the Way You Change the Channel on Your TV

LeftFootRightSock Wants to Change the Way You Tie Your Shoelaces

CordSucker Wants to Change the Way You Gather Your Vacuum's Power Cord

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