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The SAR stuff is crazy good and and scary- the publicly released stuff from drones sort of hit a ceiling in quality over a decade ago. And it seems to be rarely released at all now.

It was good enough then to track individuals movement and 'replay' where they had been over the last few days to figure out where they came from and associate them with other people/ vehicles/ rf signatures.

I think it's safe to assume that the quality kept quietly improving from orbit since then- it's just too good to publicly release / declassify.

Wanting veto power in execution is functionally the same as actively handicapping it, regardless of how implemented.

>If they don't like the contract terms, they can simply not sign a contract and not do business with a company.

How is that not what they're saying here by banning it in the supply chain?

How else do you prevent any dod purchases or contracts from 'having contact' with a software you don't trust?

Coastal erosion =/= sea level rise.

This is textbook expected behavior on a high energy deep water coast (eg cliffs, not mangroves)

If you're preventing the military from doing some action because you disagree with it, that makes you an adversary.

Actively handicapping a product that's otherwise capable qualifies.

Very few people are using a bag to the expected life cycle limit, and even fewer are doing it without WASHING, which is key in doing full LCA (life cycle analysis).

Washing and cleaning are surprisingly inefficient and costly (in terms of $, energy, resources, and emissions) compared to manufacturing, and many assumptions about recycling and reuse go out the window once the realistic numbers descrbing how people actually behave replace idealistic assumptions that go into a manufacturers internal emissions calculations.

As someone who loves to use cotton everything- it pretty much never makes sense to use from an LCA perspective (and that's OK).

There's also a due south launch path at play.

Maybe, but there's some very specific legal language that cpra and the state requires everyone use in referring to some of these issues, and at least part of the land SpaceX is acquiring is involved in coastal restoration lawsuits or deep water horizon settlements or both.

As an engineer working on cpra projects in the past, I've wanted to reword a variety things but was forced to use their legal language.

It's mostly a good thing as it keeps things properly defined in a political context that are meant to have specific technical meanings (like marsh, beach, rebuild vs restore).

The key to understanding all of this is that a huge set of Americans 'want' to pay more as an exclusionary benefit.

With section 8 (fed housing welfare) rules, any multifamily structure has a better than not chance of becoming slum housing in a time frame less than the average span of homeownership.

Which is both about property values and not wanting to live in/near section 8 residents.

"Planning" and zoning aren't the problem, they're the enforcement mechanism. (Since police and other public enforcement of quality of life issues has been all but neutered in the name of equity/civil-rights/whatever.)

Same reason for the seemingly inexplicable popularity of HOAs that everyone seems to hate.

High prices are one of many resultant 'enforcement' prongs.

It generally means something is out of balance, which doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. Usually not.

But if something is wrong, yea you can bet they will be burning off with big flares.

Yea while $ viability is true, it's better to think of as

1) using some potentially useful products as fuel to burning off things you don't want and

2) the buffer to keep non-steady inflows in a suitable ready condition for steady-state processing. (When real world steady-state is less than ideal.)

Number 2 is really what dominates the equation, as shutting in gas sources or even just turning off pipelines is incredibly more complicated than just an 'off' switch.

And turning back on is even more complicated. In the case of wells, once you shut in, turning back on may never result in the same level of production as before.

No- making a fake endangered species to shut down operations that don't actually harm the species (endangered or not)...

Is hardly the same as objecting to activities that distress pretty much all animals in the vicinity long term.

This is more preemptive I suspect- 'they' have been reclassifying different species trying to get a bona-fide Gulf endangered one to use against exploration and production. Especially that one whale subspecies.

This kills that on multiple fronts.

This common sense mindset would invalidate so many 'safety' laws and I'm all for it.

Studies make so many invalid assumptions (and usually don't even state them) to force the data / statistics to fit clean a/b or null testing.

But to put a dent in the status quo, we really need a greenlight to just dump however many kids in the back again, no matter the number of kids or seatbelts.

And before anyone gut reacts to this- ask yourself why doing that with schoolbuses still isn't a problem?

Most HVAC contractor counters carry packs of longer ones for insulating ductwork (though not as heavy duty as what's pictured).

Yea couldn't install gps, then realized the package manager only had maybe 10% of what most gli.net routers have because of the 'special' chip in this one.

Still a great travel router, but had to buy a BerylAX for what I wanted to do with the usb gps.

3) manufacturers placing energy star improvement quotas over safety in programming the cycles.

Deadweight or no-weight engine is a relatively negligible problem in terms of the weight-balance envelope.

Cut fuel & hydraulic lines near that engine (that affect the other engines/ apus) (or less likely structural or aerodynamic problems) is what's going to shift this from "engine failure" recoverable problem to a global nonrecoverable one.

>like it wasn't the extension of a European war...

Was always weird to me how "the French and Indian War" had Indian involvement almost over emphasized to pretend like it wasn't the extension of a European war...

While all the other American conflicts with tons of Indian involvement (both sides, esp civil war) had it downplayed.

One of my first realizations of slant put on history.

Dixie cup / glassware divide will tell you a lot about the type of party, but not always along the lines you might think.

Samsung marketplace on the phone used to have this- now it's just 'don't show this again today' button.

Directional drilling is a game changer and has become accessible in the last decade.

You're looking for advancement in carriages unaware of the 'automobile' that made 5g and ftth deployment at scale possible.

Overgrazing can be a problem, but undergrazing can be just as big of one.

Healthy pasture requires a certain rhythm/ amount of hoof traffic to stay healthy.

It's why land restoration in the (US) Midwest/West tends to do much better if it includes a reintroduced (managed) grazing component.

And why even wild pasture in Africa typically has a cycle of trample and/or natural burn as part of it's life cycle.

This may or may not apply to previously forested land, depending on what's in-situ, but grazing should be seen just as much as a positive requirement, as overgrazing is seen as a detriment/negative.

Now if your goal is reforestation instead of just healthy pasture or other sustainable ecotype, that's different .

But don't assume just because land can sustain forest, that forest is the 'natural' ecosystem. See: the US history of pasture vs forest. There's more forest now than there was pre-euro settlement.

Canceled mine after ad-free stopped working on YouTube Kids of all things (on ShieldTV). Was probably a bug, but with practically no customer service options, no real solutions besides cancel.

I was also a holdover from a paying Play Music subscriber, and this was shortly after the pita music switchover to youtube, so it was a last straw.

Still miss the keyboard on my HTC Tilt2

And we do pretty much the same with stonework now compared to the ancients.

There are a few that know how to do it by hand, but mass production has evolved.

Yea this is economics, not tech.

We also don't build carriages as well or have an army of craftsman doing it, but it's lost/regressed because there's no economic incentives.

>Fogbank

This is a more interesting example- the theory isn't that we lost the tech, but that the new tech was too good, too pure.

The incidentals of the old, 'dirty' way of manufacturing it (that we just spent billions and billions to destroy and clean up) apparently (speculation, since classified) added some unknown impurities that affected its performance.

And either it needed to be redesigned with the new manufacturing process, or go back to the old process to fit the specs of existing weapons or the weapons would need to be redesigned.

We didn't lose the tech, but other 'advances' in both tech and society (not having workers manually handle dangerous stuff) caused an overall regression, not advancement.

It's the EPA DC chlorine case all over again, of 'progress and safety' actually increasing danger and causing overall regression.

The follow up question (not quite mc) was actually what put it in a loop for me-

It kept asking 'what kind of drink?' After apparently interpreting engine noise as asking for one.

Wouldn't respond to 'none' or any other response I gave, except to repeat the q.