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bvoq··on The mission to discover if Jupiter’s moons support life
Very cool! Does anyone know why we don't use Juice tools to also observe IO and the other moons of Jupiter in more detail/orbit.

Is it fuel constraints only?

bvoq··on Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API
Honestly the amount of money hedge funds and high frequency traders make from twitter is insane. API could be profitable for huge amounts!
bvoq··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
I feel psychological safety from my bank account, but I also get paid well. If you have enough money to bridge a year, worrying about job safety is irrational.
bvoq··on Wind-pellet shear sailing to reach 5-20% light-speed for interstellar travel
Plasma magnets can be used to accelerate a spacecraft up to 2% speed of light by dynamic soaring. This next idea is to combine dynamic soaring with nuclear fusion pellets to reach up to 20% light speed. I believe it's the only engine (except for antimatter) that could feasibly be used for human interstellar travel.
bvoq··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
also globalisation is about the only thing other than morals keeping us from fighting each other.
bvoq··on Ask HN: Favorite Purchases of 2022?
+1
bvoq··on Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3
I use it daily in UI development for boiler-plate code. Though you need to be extra careful and read it twice, cus bugs sneak in quite easily. I believe it's harder to remember 100x commands than starting an implementation of gradient descent and have the AI write the rest for you.

Code-completion > Abstraction.

bvoq··on First active chemistry on an exoplanet revealed by Webb telescope
That then could be used to create a super high resolution telescope no?
bvoq··on On second thought, just throw plastic away
In Switzerland this just makes sense. Trash bags cost 2$ a piece. Recycling is free. Any violation will result in a huge fine.
bvoq··on Behind TikTok's boom: A legion of traumatized, $10-a-day content moderators
Meanwhile 4chan moderators do this for free, haha
bvoq··on Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents
Same shit happening at UK based finance firms. More than half of the employees are visa slaves.
bvoq··on New study suggests people with dark personalities weaponize victimhood (2021)
In my experience the people who need the most help are those that don't ask for it but are still looking around helpless or grumble. It's a nice social cue to pick up on and feels great to help people like this. Grumbling is a nice signal of: If you can spare a hand, I will be happy.
bvoq··on Ask HN: What's your favorite programmer niche?
Would be sick if you could post a visualization.
bvoq··on Arbitrary Lines: The way restrctive zoning costs all of us
For an outsider like myself, that seems obvious. I think a great example of this is that driving kids to school is the norm now.
bvoq··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
But i want to keep my magsafe charger for macbooks. USB-C is not good for laptops in case you accidentally run into the cable.
bvoq··on Ask HN: How to regain my mind back?
Use it or loose it
bvoq··on Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?
What’s really happening: Liz announced to remove the 45% tax bracket for people who earn more than 150K£ a year. This means that roughly 50 billion £ will be missing from the government. That money will have to be printed, decreasing the value of the pound. More pounds -> Less value.
bvoq··on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?
If the money matches the grit, then it's good in my book. If not, then not.
bvoq··on Some WFH employees now live in another country
still worth risking for a better life
bvoq··on Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?
Can recommend vsauces curiositybox. Otherwise there are some great puzzle games like the witness, stephens sausage roll, talos principle, linelight, miegakure, braid, return of the obra dinn or more story driven ones like thomas was alone, it takes two, the forgotten city.
bvoq··on Ask HN: Why don't we have 3 day weekends yet?
We do in Europe. It's the future.
bvoq··on Ask HN: How do I expand my worldview and meet smart people online?
Go to a local Hackerspace if you find one.

4chan /g and /sci will certainly challenge you, if you challenge them. 3b1b discord group is also nice. Lesswrong and starslatecodex are nice for blogging.

bvoq··on The coming tsunami of fakery
This has been happening since the Eternal September when AOL opened the flood gates for the average American to use the internet in the 1980s. Then marketers made it even more dead with the advent of the adpocalypse. And now AI continues with making it more dead, but maybe it's for the best, let's see :-)
bvoq··on Can Types Replace Validation?
To add to this, you cannot have dependent proofs 'easily' in Haskell, but you can use LiquidHaskell for proofs!
bvoq··on Spate of polio outbreaks worldwide puts scientists on alert
Yeah, I wish it was only America, but the UK have their own antivaxx propagandists. What's the motivation behind this anyways? Aren't there other topics to make money off off, like spreading flat earth information?
bvoq··on Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg
London exagerates this. I work on 6 figures and can't afford any savings. I've moved into a boat to pay less rent, can you believe! I don't know how the rest of the population does it on a fourth of my salary.
bvoq··on Inaction on Climate Change Could Cost the US Economy $14.5T by 2070
misery should stimulate the economy if anything. more suffering => more needs that can be met by entrepreneurs.
bvoq··on Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson
We are good at making things liveable. We are not good at making things sustainable.

It makes no sense to only invest in one of these ventures.

bvoq··on Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson
op means terraform in a sustainable way. i argue that we are good at making things liveable but not sustainable. i would not be surprised if the exploitation of resources will continue galactically and we should do so to carry the light of consciousness :-)
bvoq··on Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson
a mars city is still worth the investment. it is easier to build a city on mars than to solve all the problems on earth.
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