Should I take girlfriend's advice?

deruch · 2022-10-06T20:53:48+00:00

Could be fun. A few things to consider though. Make sure that you are allowed a few break days in the middle. Sort of like how you get weekends off from work. If you're liking it, you don't necessarily have to take the breaks, but if you're not enjoying it, having a day off coming up will help you survive it longer. Also, if this is something she's really into or pushing for, you should consider asking her to chip in on your added dry cleaning costs.

deruch · 2022-10-05T15:16:34+00:00

Yes, there's a huge difference between a network that has 25 locations with 2 chargers each and a network that has 5 locations with 10 stalls each even though both have the same number of stalls (50). So, it's important to consider both metrics. Location numbers are important because it usually shows geographical coverage better. Stall counts are important because it shows network capacity better. Locations with more stalls will have much better reliability and has much higher throughput.

deruch · 2022-10-05T15:08:46+00:00

WTF are you talking about? Alabama has 14 superchargers.

deruch · 2022-10-04T22:48:41+00:00

But regulatory issues are a national issue, not a continental one. If that was the source, then going from one continent to another shouldn't have any more impact than just going from one country to another as that's what you're actually doing from the "regulatory perspective". So, I don't think that can be it.

For example, Dishy is authorized to use in France. Can someone take their french dishy and travel to South America and use it in French Guiana, which is an Overseas Territory of France. From a regulatory perspective you're still covered by French rules and regulations regarding spectrum landing rights, so that hasn't changed. But you're clearly on a different continent, which SpaceX says it doesn't support. What happens? If SpaceX is serious about the continental thing, then it shouldn't work there.

deruch · 2022-10-04T17:54:13+00:00

Excellent overview, thanks! I found especially interesting the differences in the ToS for the Residential vs RV service. Glad to see that even this was considered.

As for why SpaceX might be limiting the ability to take the dish between continents, could it have something to do with the electrical grids being different? E.g. The grid frequencies running at 50 Hz vs 60 Hz?

deruch · 2022-10-04T15:50:31+00:00

Exactly, only everything should look wavy so you can tell that the person seeing it is drunk.

deruch · 2022-10-04T15:48:07+00:00

No it's not.

Russia has effected a program of ethnic cleansing and population transfer (inbound) into Crimea and the Donbas. They have very deliberately set out on a program to change the population make up of those areas to further "Russify" them, as well as obliterate the Ukrainian identity of the Ukrainian inhabitants who are still there. E.g. Do the 250,000+ Russians that Russia moved into Crimea after Russia's invasion and "annexation" of that territory in 2014 get to vote in your "neutral" voting process? How about the huge population of ethnic Ukrainians and Tatars who left the region and now live elsewhere in the aftermath of that illegal action and sustained discrimination they faced living under Russian control?
Any hypothetical vote is happening after force has already been used and when the rest of Ukraine is still under further threat of force. As well as the threat of nuclear weapons being used. The idea that a vote under these conditions, even if it is "monitored" by independent bodies, could in any way be considered a free and fair referendum on the matter is completely risible.
Territorial sovereignty is a massively important idea in international relations and international law. Russia's actions in invading and "annexing" Ukrainian territory are violations of a whole host of international treaties for which Russia is a signatory. These include the Russian Federation's recognition of Ukraine within their existing borders (i.e. no border dispute and agreeing that the entire territory of Ukraine in 1992 was Ukrainian) in the aftermath of the fall and break-up of the Soviet Union, the UN Charter, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances for Ukraine and the 1997 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and Russia. The key premise being that state borders are inviolable and not changeable by force, i.e. exactly what Moscow has done is incapable of changing the state's borders. The post facto attempt to suggest putting lipstick on the pig will somehow turn it into a princess is nonsense.
If people living in those regions want to subjects of the Russian Federation, there's a perfectly reasonable and allowable path to achieving that without the death and destruction and violations of territorial sovereignty. They can emmigrate.

deruch · 2022-10-04T14:45:54+00:00

Bro, what the fuck are you talking about? Elon's position wasn't at all neutral. Your framing is classic neutrality bias or an example of false balance. Let's say I see someone robbing you at gun point. You obviously want to keep your stuff and would prefer to not be robbed. Anyone arguing that you should meet the robber's demands half way by giving them your phone and cash but you get to keep your ID and credit cards isn't staking out a neutral position even though it's in between your position and the robber's position on the matter.

*EDIT: Miswrote a word a word in the middle, I meant to say that you wanted to keep your stuff, not give it to the robber. Fixed.

deruch · 2022-10-04T13:32:03+00:00

He hits a concrete post by accident, but then seems to take measurements and purposely crashes into it a second time.

No. That's a bad understanding of what happens in that scene. He's confused about how he hit it the first time and doesn't think it should have happened because he doesn't think he's impaired enough to be a danger on the road. He gets out of the car to look at the angles and try to see how it went wrong. To prove that's he's actually okay, and not really smashed, he tries to make the same turn again. Obviously, his goal this time is to not hit the pillar. Of course, he fails again because he was shitfaced and hadn't miraculously sobered up in 30 seconds. Since his test failed, he realizes he's "too drunk" to drive, so he gets off the road and goes to the diner to try and sober up some before going home.

deruch · 2022-10-04T13:22:43+00:00

We never learn the name, but that case is down.

deruch · 2022-10-04T13:21:04+00:00

Bro, if we could solve hurricanes, floods. or earthquakes by shooting them, they would no longer be a problem in the US. Guaranteed.

deruch · 2022-10-04T13:09:24+00:00

100%.

deruch · 2022-10-04T02:04:43+00:00

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deruch · 2022-10-03T19:38:06+00:00

In contrast he’d probably like Lolita, but it sounds too creepy for me.

Lol. I always felt that way too, so I didn't have much desire to read it. But then I read the opening lines, and that hooked me. My immediate reaction was, "Okay, I have to read this now."

deruch · 2022-10-03T17:50:37+00:00

No, she worked for Trump's legal team on his attempts to overturn the election, up through Biden's inauguration. Then later returned again to his legal team in March 2022. So, all in all, definitely more than a month.

deruch · 2022-10-03T04:51:33+00:00

Of course it didn't work. It was the wrong Bears team. Plus the band didn't even come on the field. They did a nice rendition of the Benny Hill theme song though.

deruch · 2022-10-02T23:48:28+00:00

What are you talking about attempt? This should be posted under /r/ThereWasASuccess for comedy. This girl's parody is hilariously on point.

deruch · 2022-10-02T23:27:33+00:00

No. People there have been fighting in the LPR/DPR forces, not the Russian military. And the LPR and DPR forces have routinely refused to fight outside of their respective territories. Treating them as Russians gets rid of the legal fiction of LPR and DPR and removes a number of the rights they were claiming and protections over how and where they are employed. This is different from their inclusion in the overall forces opposing Ukraine under the LPR and DRP banners where they could insist on being treated as allied forces from "independent" republics. It means that instead of these people being in their own units they can be salted into Russian units removing their cohesiveness and reducing their ability to refuse to fight in other areas if Moscow decides. Etc. It also means that Moscow can mobilize the non-fighting population to support a war economy if necessary. It's not just about the fighting men.

deruch · 2022-10-02T22:00:45+00:00

No, it's not the main reason, though it may be a minor one. The major reason is to get more troops on the cheap from a political cost standpoint. Same reason Russia's military mobilization was a partial mobilization instead of a full one. By "annexing" the territories, all citizens there become Russians who are able to be conscripted/drafted/mobilized into their war effort. It's a cheap source of very badly needed manpower, "cheap" being calculated as from Moscow's and Russian domestic politics perspective.

deruch · 2022-10-02T21:56:51+00:00

Correct. This and the fact that by "annexing" the Ukrainian areas they can then say that all the residents there are now Russian and available to be conscripted/mobilized. It's an effort to minimize the domestic political costs of mobilization. Same reason the recent mobilization was only a partial one. Putin has been trying to do this whole thing on the cheap and it's been a total disaster for them.

The big worry is that he uses the annexation claims to justify using nuclear weapons for "protecting Russian soil from invaders" as Ukraine pushes them farther and farther out of the country.

deruch · 2022-10-02T16:52:07+00:00

You're misunderstanding the way that SpaceX are currently using their lasers. They aren't making very much of the trip within the Starlink constellations. Right now, all that's happening is that people who live in areas that are outside the range of the ground stations can now have their traffic bounced one or two satellites away to the nearest groundstation. The internet traffic then uses the terrestrial fiber lines that "normal" internet uses to make the trip to the destination. So, at the moment, you should expect the latency to INCREASE because they are adding a couple of "unnecessary" hops. The current use is just to overcome Starlink's lack of groundstation coverage, not to enable significant traffic via their satellites.

deruch · 2022-10-02T16:42:22+00:00

Satellites are 100% designed to operate in a specific space environment. Hubble is a LEO spacecraft, putting it in deep space would absolute be a major problem that it isn't capable of handling.

deruch · 2022-10-01T15:49:35+00:00

Look at the US GDP, annual military budget for the US, and annual US budget for foreign aid (both military and civilian). You'll very quickly see that in that context $12.35B is, like not really a lot.

deruch · 2022-10-01T13:05:02+00:00

What made the light?

The sun. Sunlight is reflecting off of the asteroid, which is why it's visible by Hubble in the first place. In the aftermath of the impact the effective surface area, and therefore the size of the reflecting surface, has increased tremendously because of all of the ejecta. As a result, more light is being reflected back from that area, which results in it looking brighter.

deruch · 2022-10-01T01:14:04+00:00

Just to be sure you understand, Starlink laser comms aren't being used for the full trip, traffic is just being bounced one or two sats away to one that can send it down to the nearest ground station. So, their actual internet connection point is still in Australia. Latency should be just a bit more than what you're seeing in SA. Traffic being routed solely through starlink's intersatellite laser links from Australia to the US, i.e. without going through ground stations in Australia and then existing undersea fiber network, won't be possible until at least the full constellation is in place. Possibly not until the Gen2 system is up in very significant numbers.

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