You're right, they're separate processes, but they're not independent. Now that the revenue side of things has been slashed, chime in the folks who suddenly are very concerned about the deficit arguing that there's no way to keep nasa funding at previous levels

Yes and no -- you're correct that the appropriations process for discretionary spending is separate, but it's coupled together because the revenue half of the equation got slashed. I predict suddenly folks will be screaming loudly about deficit spending in the face of all the steps of the appropriations process now

The only problem with this is you have to go stand in the sunlight to charge it.

These types of draconian laws will ruin the internet if they are ratified.

Itâ(TM)s easy to switch the search default in Firefox to whatever you want. I use duckduckgo, personally.

Reddit used to have principles that aligned with the open source model. Now they are removing mods that protested their API pricing. They have changed and that is how they are killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Everyone was cheering for them to succeed. Not anymore. The good will people had towards reddit is gone. They killed it.

It's going to cost $20mil a year to run Apollo with the current API pricing. It's not sustainable. Reddit is killing themselves like Digg did.

You do realize that 1968 was a long time ago??

Maybe if RCS actually existed, then people would move to it?

Once proof of stake goes through, doesn't it make the problem worse? Now instead of getting money from both minting coins and doing transactions, people running the blockchain rigs will only get transaction money. I would think that this means either a) transaction costs increase or b) it becomes unprofitable for many miners to run their rigs, leading to more consolidation of giant operations with preposterously cheap electricity.

Who is clamoring for that, and are blockchains + POW the optimal way to do that? I'd argue the frameworks of Certificate Transparency could probably get you most of the way there

I know someone who had covid-19 and then got better and then caught it again a week later. The antibodies don't do shit.

When we get our army of AI soldiers, we'll remember who our friends were. (and weren't)

- Love Canada

As long as it's not BAD FUCKING ROCKET, we'll be ok. =)

Some people think SpaceX's BFR may get costs to LEO down to $10/kg.

If my math works out, that gets your 100,000 tons of material in LEO for $900 million (transport costs only). Using BFR's estimated 165 tons/launch to LEO, that's about 600 trips.