Because it would be much harder to edit a video that was a single file with multiple segments, compared to just stop when you need a break, and start again in a new file. It’s real easy to join files together. A bit harder to break them up.

Yes, but here they are talking about something a bit larger than the evaporating black holes. But still smaller than black holes caused by the death of a star. So something more massive than a large asteroid, but smaller than the mass of the sun. That’s a pretty large range.

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The whole reason they have to let the Dragon capsule offgas when it lands is because it uses hypergolic fuel for the maneuvering thrusters, and most hypergolics are highly toxic. Even a tiny leak or residue could be harmful or fatal to humans. Starship is currently planned to use only methane and cold nitrogen gas, so…

As long as they can resist “go fever,” can get good telemetry, and have automated tests that are sufficient, it could one day become more like an airliner. But that’s still years down the road before they have enough flight experience to make that possible.

Do you expect anyone to start self reporting? It’s not something that the government can monitor directly, there’s no central bank that can report who did a transaction, or even which jurisdiction it belongs to.

Or else they wanted a knob, but didn’t want it to be off somewhere by itself, away from the other related functions that are on the screen. And it would be too expensive to put a hole in the screen for the knob.

Lets put it another way. If Bezos wants a tax write-off, he just writes a check to a charity of HIS choosing. He doesn’t need you to help him.

It appears you misunderstand what Amazon Smile is. You don’t use it to make your own direct donation. You use it for all the stuff you normally buy on Amazon, no matter if that’s a lot or just a little. If you want to use Smile for just the “necessary shit” that’s just fine. In any case, a small portion (0.5%) of your…

So instead, you use plain Amazon, where the portion they might have donated to a charity instead goes direct to Bezo’s pocket? Smile doesn’t cost you any extra, and you at least get to choose who it goes to.

Nothing that fits a motorcycle is going to protect you as well as a 6-ft long crumple zone and a strong passenger cage with airbags. The point of this kind of device is not perfect protection, (nothing can) but to change a borderline event into some better outcome. I do share your concern about the bag being shredded…

Hitting a tree would involve many of the same forces as hitting the inside of your car. Injury is usually related to how many G’s are experienced by parts of your body. If the tree causes your knee to decelerate at 50 G’s over the space of half an inch, adding an airbag could reduce that impact to 15G’s over the space…

Did they control for fire risk? My guess is most poor neighborhoods are further from wildlands where most of the fire risk comes from. What kind of neighborhood is usually right up against the foothills, with it’s better view of nature and less dense housing?

Sounds like you also need at least Hero 8 to use the new remote, while the Smart Remote works with all of the WiFi Heros back to the Hero 4. That will be a downside for those who add a new Hero while keeping some of the older ones.

She might be thinking of the 12,000 Starlink sats that are already approved by the FCC. But SpaceX has definite plans to go way beyond that as they can prove viability and scale the capacity.

The cyber privacy issue is not exclusive to one party or another. For instance Feinstein (D-CA) proposed bills just a few years ago that break most types of encryption. And maybe the lame duck session will let just enough extra people vote their conscious this time instead of their funding.

My 18-month old still mostly babbles and says a few words, but she did learn a new word when the Christmas lights went up: “Wwoooowww”

Even the annual flu vaccine has an allergy warning because it’s made in part using chicken eggs, and you’re supposed to hang around for 5-10 minutes after you get it just in case. (Especially if you don’t normally get the flu shot.)

Some of those roadblocks are funding. Companies normally wouldn’t want to spend money creating millions of doses before they know it’s effective and have approval.

Most phones, even when the sensor is working perfectly, will still ask for the PIN once in a while, and disable biometrics, if it detects unfamiliar movement, or sits too long. (I don’t know the exact parameters that triggers it, but it’s several times a week for me.)