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Maybestringon China appears to be accelerating development of a super-heavy lift rocket

>This is when the government had a vision and the nation had a collective aspiration.

The moon program was always controversial and it came close to cancelation several times.

Maybestringon Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

So you order the $30 mod chip that will definitely exist.

Maybestringon Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency

How risk is propogated through correspondent banking relationships is (I think) not common knowledge.

Maybestringon Poor mental health at work 'widespread'

This is basically the left take.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mental-health-psychiatry-clas...

'The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as problems of individual "mental health."'

Maybestringon Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency

>There is just one domestic commercial bank in the country and it is at risk of losing its only correspondent banking relationship with another bank in the US.

Is that a statement of fact, or a threat the IMF is making?

Maybestringon Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

You can see the key behavior by fixing one end of a belt, and moving the free end.

You should find that there is a way to apply and remove double twists in the belt without twisting the free end.

Maybestringon High-tech digital assistants channel an old form of literacy

It's actually not even bad if people don't know how to read and write. It's great for tech stocks, and everyone will dictate beautiful letters with their phones.

Maybestringon Unsupervised machine translation

This method works because both languages corpuses talk about the same things. Life, death, love, war... they happen to people speaking all languages.

To translate whale song, you need data that corresponds to what the whales are singing about.

Maybestringon Unsupervised machine translation

Are you confusing unsupervised with model-free? Unsupervised/supervised doesn't say anything about the priors baked in to the model.

Maybestringon Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers

And the ships. Drop an anchor and demand ransom to cut it free.

Maybestringon Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All

The difference between current demand, and the increased demand that would exist at a lower price.

I just mean, there are lots of people that would move to SF if they could afford it. This mass of potential immigrants will counter an attempt to just build your way out.

Unless you mean a real substantive change to the city e.g. building 30,000 apartments/year.

Maybestringon Magic Leap One now available for $2295

These all seem a guaranteed flop at the consumer level.

Limited FOV is going to kill it for almost everyone. I think they would sell more at double the price, if they doubled the FOV.

Maybestringon Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All

>The solution to the housing problem is to build more houses.

There's way too much latent demand for housing in booming cities to just build your way out. Without rent control, there will be people not benefiting from the boom that are just bled dry by rising costs.

Maybestringon Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

See the cold war era for a quick rundown of US interference with socialist governments.

I'm saying... when the US instigates and funds a civil war in country X, you can't then say X's government lost power because of their economic policies.

Maybestringon Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

>Thus capitalism is freedom.

Capitalism is absolutely compatible with slavery. If you eat seafood, you almost certainly have eaten food harvested by a slave.

Not to mention the numerous historical examples.

Maybestringon Venezuelans Skeptical of Maduro's Latest Measures to Salvage Economy

This would be a better argument if a major world power hadn't actively undermined all attempts at socialism.

Maybestringon HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook

Facebook shareholders aren't facing summary execution. There is no reduction of due process here.

Maybestringon HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook

They should. Allowing large commercial entities to facilitilate discrimination and only going after individual landlords would be an extremely inefficient use of limited resources.

Maybestringon Napoleon Was the Best General Ever

Perhaps most importantly, Napoleon was at the helm of the first citizen-army with a modern sense of nationalism.

It was the only military in Europe that appointed and promoted officers based on merit.

Maybestringon Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots

Malice is beside the point here is the it? The concern isn't an evil contractor, so much as an incompetent one.

Car manufacturers are sued for incompetent use of their products.

Maybestringon Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars

Silicon Valley billionaires are spending $400B/yr on space travel? Where is all this money going?

Maybestringon “An almond doesn’t lactate:” FDA to crack down on use of the word “milk”

The sarcastic point is, cow milk is not a replacement for human milk or infant formula either.

Maybestringon The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics

>it's just that multiplication and division lose most of their useful properties.

Specifically they lose the property of not having zero divisors.

There exists sedonions a,b != 0 such that ab = 0

Maybestringon “An almond doesn’t lactate:” FDA to crack down on use of the word “milk”

Right, the almond milk doesn't have the hormones to help a baby cow grow big and strong.

You absolutely should not raise a calf on almond milk.

Maybestringon Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'

Of course, the liberal revolution in France took the same step.

They had trials, but it really just came down to, 'The king is guilty of having been king.' The royal family is an existential threat to the new government.

Maybestringon Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B

I'm not sure why you think a mob of fat people won't be able to over power people. A fat man can torch a mansion as well as a skinny man.

Maybestringon How the rich get richer – money in the world economy [video]

A redistributive property tax.

Maybestringon Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is the Size of the Mexico's Entire Economy

The distance from LA to New York is bigger than 2000mph!

Maybestringon Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified

Mercedes was entering an allowable disclosed higher emission mode with an unallowable, undisclosed, entry condition.

In EPA terminology, a defeat device.

Maybestringon Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified

>We can have separate race tracks for that.

We do have racetracks, and people want to drive regular cars fast on those racetracks.