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The booster is definitely looking good, just like the Falcon 9 booster is very reliable. The big question for me is the upper stage, and whether they will be able to reuse anywhere near as often as they claim. It is so much more complex than the Falcon upper stages, which aren't reusable very quickly. It seems they have a lot to learn about upper stage reusability.

The article talks about the normal blackout window of 40 minutes on the far side. I'm confused about how they will get real time footage from that side. Is there a lunar relay satellite that wasn't mentioned?


Can I use Google Voice as the VOIP provider? I read that article and couldn't tell if Voice is used in addition to another VOIP service, like Ooma.

My kids are grown up, but my mom is worried about her AT&T service switching to VOIP. She didn't understand my description of Ooma, which I've been using for many years, but now I'm thinking that I should just bring over all the needed hardware and just call it a landline.

Landlines work when there is no power, which depending on where you live can happen more or less often but an important feature for an elderly family member especially if they live alone.

For my situation, telling my mom her voip phone was a landline would be problematic.

I do need some solution though, AT&T technicians tell me copper thieves are disrupting her service regularly.


Landlines only work when there is no power if: - you use an old school landline phone (not cordless) - your landline is actually copper going to the house (I've seen fiber to house + conversion to twisted pair by a box with a battery) - upstream infrastructure either still has (possibly battery) power

If the isp doesn’t go down with the power outage you could probably get a big enough ups to keep the router and voip phone going for at least a couple of hours. Those things don’t use much power

I just setup a VOIP line at home and have it plugged into my UPS (along with my cable modem + network devices) to provide call service in the event of a power outage.

In a big black out live we had in Spain the infrastructure all goes down. I was the only with data because i had star link and batteries in the house. Not that I could call anyone in Spain though.

How can we possibly find an example, if the names of the betters aren't public? There are public bets on activities from the IS government that can easily be used by people that control the outcome.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwz8051y0lo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn93292do


Why would we want insiders to profit on a public decision like war? If some general has money on Iran's leader being taken out by March 1, he might not be acting in the best interest of the country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwz8051y0lo


The idea is that prediction markets show the “odds” of an event occurring (that’s why it’s percentages after all).

So if a war with Iran is going to happen, and so a general bets that it will, the odds will jump and go very high.

Now at least theoretically, people in the Middle East can see the high odds, and travel elsewhere.

After seeing how many people got trapped in the UAE, I might check these prediction markets in the future for similar things.


It only work if you have a "good" passport and you can pack your income source and move it (i.e. easier for a web page designer than a goat farmer).


Sure, but some people would get out, right?

Surely you aren’t saying that because prediction markets can’t save every single life, that it’s somehow useless to save a few.

Another example, if odds jump on a missile strike on a particular city, you might have the chance to move out of the way.


For me that feels like the difference between insider trading and market manipulation.


Also Motorola, make this phone available in the US: https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_edge_50_neo-13224.php

It's the smallest phone available with a real telephoto lens. I think it was only available in India, but I got one on eBay because it has those two features (not huge with telephoto) I was looking for. I moved to it from a Pixel 6a because I refuse to go any bigger in physical size.


Is this website intended to break HN on Android? I've never had a website lock up the HN app like this. I couldn't back out, and I was stuck in a loop when the app restarted on the same page.


Im sure whatever’s happening isn’t intended but I did experience jankyness when trying to use the back button on Safari on iOS. It wouldn’t let me go back.


App?


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

I've been using it so long, I forgot that it is not official.


There are a few HN readers out there, but none of them are official as far as I know.


And also ignorant about how those two eyes have binocular vision, adjustable positions, and can look in multiple mirrors for full spatial awareness.


There are good arguments but this isn’t one. Many humans (like me!) drive fine without binocular vision. And the cars have many cameras all around, with wide angle lenses that are watching everything all the time, when a human can only focus in one direction at a time.


I thought only the front view has binocular vision on the cars. The others are single, with no depth perception. How does it know how close objects are outside this forward cone?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378671275/figure/fi...


I’m guessing the fields of view overlap for any 2 adjacent cameras, so you can get parallax measurements from any angle.


So your eye does not have an adjustable position and you cannot use mirrors?


Both are easily compensated for by having many cameras.


Binocular vision is not only relevant for driving (well, maybe for the steering wheel, but that's not the point).


It gives us depth perception. And moving the eyes and/or head gives the depth perception over a wide field of view.


What I mean is that binocular vision just give us depth perception for a meter or so - about around where our hands can touch.

Moving the head/body goes a little further, but that was not my point.


Is this true? I'm looking at a tree outside and I get parallax when I close one eye and then the other. I thought the parallax is the basis for depth perception.


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