LastYearsPumpkin @ LastYearsPumpkin @feddit.ch

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Yup, that's why the Antarctic Event Horizon telescope needed to wait 6 months to send its data back...

There is a reason that StarLink is better than the previous options.

As much as this is true, this is also a solution that's doesn't have a lot of alternatives for very isolated areas. You can technically run undersea cables to everywhere, but it's actually faster and easier to have LEO satellites serve places like Antarctica. Some smaller island nations, the middle of Africa, etc.

There are problems with every solution, but this was always an inevitable solution for worldwide communication.

She was performing sexual acts in front of stranger's children, at a theater. I don't care what country you live in, that's not appropriate behavior.

Are you really comparing McDonald's to homemade anything? People don't buy McDonald's because it's better than homemade, they buy McDonald's because it's fast and easier than homemade.

But... you're wrong though. They are issues.

PCs slowly drift out of support for games. Over the years, some, but not all, of AAA games just don't work on your computer. Consoles have static generations where things either work or they don't. This is the pro and the con of the PC.

You simply do not have that problem with a PS4, it works for PS4 games. If you want a game that is only released for the PS5, then you buy a PS5.

Yeah, I want all of them to succeed. They're all innovating in their own ways. Cheaper access to space hopefully means cheaper access to space based resources and eventually manufacturing in space.

Maybe we can get all the dirty industry off planet someday.

There will always be a market for consoles. If you buy a game, know for a fact that it works. If you have a PC, it can start to be obsolete, or your graphics card might not be supported, or your OS might not be patched, or....

There will also always be a market for PCs, because you can do things cheaper, and/or better than consoles.

Really hoping Rocket Lab eventually catches up with, and passes SpaceX. Could use some more competition in reusable launchers. Who knows if Blue Origin ever gets more than a carnival ride off the ground.

Stoke Space might also be a dark horse coming for the reusable market. They've got a long way to go, but it's a very unique and interesting design they've got.

I feel like my python coding is being attacked here.

For B vitamins, you'll probably just pee out any excess, so likely you're just making really expensive pee unless you have a vitamin deficiency.

For the D,E,K,A vitamins, they can actually be problematic if consumed in too high of quantity over a long period of time, due to the fact that they are fat soluble and can build up and cause organ damage.

Of course, that's only if you're consuming far in excess of the necessary vitamins for a long period of time. Otherwise just like water soluble vitamins, your body just ditches anything over a useful amount.

Some vitamins that are hard to get otherwise are fortified into common staple foods, especially in developing countries, but with a healthy, balanced, modern diet, you're probably getting what you need from your food. Unless you have a vitamin absorbing issue, other medical issue, or a lack of food variety.

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Of course it is, but if the goal is fixing the planet, you can't just say "carbon tax" and be done with it, because there's many other things that are screwing up the planet, and a carbon tax itself just raises the cost of polluting, so if the rest of the manufacturing chain is cheap enough due to everything else having no protection, than a carbon tax isn't a solution at all.

Free trade with a country that has limited environmental protections just off-shores the environmental impact to another part of the world, which invariably screws up the entire planet. Any sort of unfettered free trade must have very strong societal and environmental guarantees.

Would need a few more stipulations than just a carbon tax.

Labor rights would be important too. One country that uses slave labor to build stuff, and dumps toxic waste into the ocean, but just tacks on a few $ in carbon tax for their big carbon belching systems still wouldn't be good for anyone.

Probably would be ok with a general human and nature rights treaty, where there is free trade as long as the overall impact of the economy in all aspects is at least neutral.

What does consent mean when you're talking to people who you have control over their careers?

Sure, he may have asked, but if someone felt like saying no means they don't get to continue working?

It's an old trope that everyone was somehow so smart and wise right up until my generation, then everyone suddenly got stupid and mean.

Socrates complained that the youth in his day were spoiled by having books to rely on so they didn't have to memorize things anymore.

Every generation has the same attitude, and humanity somehow keeps on keeping on. Sure we are finding new and different ways to be stupid, but we're also finding new and different ways to be amazing.

One of Tim Curry's finest performances

That's like saying one of the Beatles best songs. He is outstanding in everything, so all of his performances are one of his best.

LOL, back before p2p there were direct download web pages in the prehistory of the web. I was pirating music in 1996 (maybe earlier?)

deeznuts had a basic search page and hyperlinks to a direct download of most popular music, and on a 56kbps modem it would only take about 45 minutes per song.

Oh, so we do nothing? Yeah, let's just wait it out until someone magically invents some perfect solution that we can implement all at once.

Or... we chip away at the issue until it gets solved. Lots and lots of small fixes that add up... just like how lots and lots of small problems caused the issue in the first place.

REALLY depends on the episode/writer.

Some episodes are written like that (Will Riker/Thomas Riker)

Some episodes you keep your consciousness throughout the "beaming" process, so you're technically you the whole way through (Broccoli in Realm of Fear)

It's fiction and some writers treated it as a suicide machine, and some wrote it as a movement machine. Even the technical details shifted from episode to episode.

So glad I'm not the only one who noticed. Curious if I just became hyper aware of his methods, or if he changed his video style.

The whole light second long cord switching on a light with a delay was super scummy. Milked that "controversy" for months.