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Comment Yes (Score 1) 80

AI can give many a 0 day work week, is that good enough for you? A 0 day work week and also 0 pay for it. I think that's fair.

As to 'resentment', what does that have to do with having fewer resources than you actually earned? If you earn something and people take it away we have a proper name for it - theft.

Comment Re:now do putin (Score 1) 161

Easy. UN is a bunch of terrorist sympathizers and anti semites, including ruzzia, and here is what they are all about:

https://unwatch.org/2025-unga-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Israe...

https://unwatch.org/un-condemn...

https://unwatch.org/2023-unga-...

https://unwatch.org/2022-2023-...

UN is an organization whose entire existence is a bad joke, aimed at blaming one single country of Israel more every year than all other countries combined. All this while Assad murders hundreds of thousands, North Korea enslaves millions, ruzzia starts wars to murder hundreds of thousands, whatever the hell happens in Africa all the time, whatever China is doing, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan... nothing matters. The only thing that matters there is to attack Israel.

Comment Truck drivers will still be required (Score 2) 109

"truck driving jobs will be like vacation"

Not for a long time. Driving in a straight line down a highway and turning corners is the easy (for certain definitions of easy) part. The hard part comes when it gets to the yard and the driver needs to chat to the foreman about which docking ramp to park it at or whether to wait for N minutes or go to park over there for now or sorry we can't accept your load yet or there is a complete jumble of trucks with no obvious route though unless you ask someone.

Good luck getting a computer to manage that and its these situations the tech bros ignore.

Comment Re: This is a parody, right? (Score 1) 234

In terms of metric, we are in agreement.

As far as Venezuela goes, do you really think it's a good thing for a country to unilaterally decide to bomb another country and cause regime change? I strongly dislike the Chavez/Maduro regime, but I dislike unilaterally invading another country even more.

It's really hard to see a difference between what Trump just did and what Putin did in Ukraine (except the USA is much more competent).

But seriously, do you think it's good for a country to unilaterally decide to kidnap the president of another country?

Comment Re:now do putin (Score 1) 161

There is no accepted legal principle that would allow the US to prosecute the head of a foreign country for acts in that country.

Under US law, he will be treated as any other person (unless somehow he can claim diplomatic immunity or something).

The really wild thing was the extradition, which wasn't done by treaty, and in violation of the UN charter.

Comment Re: ballistic decay (Score 4, Informative) 35

A contradiction in terms, since something ballistic is implied to be acted on only by gravity and will not decay.

There is something called the "ballistic coefficient" (bstar in TLE speak) that, while also a contradiction in terms, refers to the drag coefficient multipled by the area-to-mass ratio of the object in orbit.

The decay of an object in the lower reaches of low earth orbit is dictated by the product of atmospheric density with the ballistic coefficient. A dense brick will last longer than a large sail of the same mass in the same orbit.

"Ballistic decay" is the above simplification simplified further by the well-known phb method.

Comment Re: Other consequences (Score 1) 35

If they're lower, they're *less* intrusive to optical telescopes. Lower altitude means they're sunlit over your head while it's dark enough for astronomy for a *shorter* time.

In the extreme case, a geostationary satellite is almost always sunlit all night long from anywhere on the planet.

The Moon is sunlit almost all the time except during a rare event called a lunar eclipse.

The higher the orbit, the larger the fraction of it that's outside the earth's shadow.

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