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> It is absolutely disgusting to suggest that, after we gutted NASA in order to make opportunities for private enterprise, we should just stop sending stuff to space altogether. I do not think tha…

What owncloud plugin, I mean. I have not been able to locate 2FA in the OC config, and my searching for plugins has had mixed results.

> I use two-factor with owncloud, What are you using for the two-factor?

I do not think what you are suggesting is a bad idea. But a counterargument would be that having many organizations doing the same thing might make it more expensive overall, by increasing the cost of…

> That entire paragraph is subjective. Some people do want WiFi (I certainly wish my printer had it, because my workflow options right now are a pain). Some people do want it to tweet or otherwise …

> If you go on the far end of the spectrum from electronics to schoolbooks, you find that there are only two customers for history: California and Texas. Purportedly, Texas also has a significant i…

It is still a registered trademark, but "Kleenex" has been genericized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleenex#Kleenex_Trademark I do not know if that is due to their no…

> If he was a doctor in AIDS ward, and got infected with HIV while caring for other sick patients, wouldn't he be considered a hero? Why is contraction of the virus implied as a necessary cond…

Are city-imposed gas taxes common? Generally, I think of there being state and national gas taxes, but not (usually) city taxes.

Is this issue really a tragedy of the commons though? What resource is being depleted?

I am not sure there is an institutional or global solution. But I am also not convinced it is an institutional or global problem. There are certainly individual solutions—accepting a different standar…

> The only solution to competition is centrally enforced precommitment. First, the government should actually enforce the eight-hour workday. Then it should reduce the workday, for all employers at…

Anecdotally, I heard of an astronomer in a similar situation, who attempted to prove the radar gun used to "catch" him speeding was incapable of measuring the speed accurately enough (presen…

Only 100 km down, the gravitational acceleration would not be reduced by very much. Assuming the Earth is spherical and has uniform density, the probe would only be below ~3% of the mass and would be …

> it's so flat. If you took the Earth and shrunk it to the size of a billiard ball, it would be smoother than a billiard ball.

I think we are mostly agreeing with each other. I was not saying energy and momentum conservation are no longer important. Rather, I was merely noting one should use caution when trying to intuit how …

I cannot speak to the theory. But, if one starts out with the classical "bounce" intution, one then arrives at the escape velocity issue you and the OP are noting. I was trying to point out …

The "bounce" is not a classical one, so the conceptual idea of a ball bouncing or similar intuition could be very misleading.

> In that case, it's plausible that it doesn't take on additional mass and thus never reaches a maximum stress point, thus doesn't explode. In the current understanding of jets from …