I won that bet.
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I won that bet.
Which usually leads to their being shut down.
It’s nice to see an org choose a side, but then we lose that org and we’re back to square one.
I did not know that. Thanks.
They have had a plan for it, from the very beginning. Big-budget space projects like ISS don’t get anywhere without a wrap-up plan. ISS is in LEO, and its mass contraindicates moving it into a graveyard orbit. Conventionally, stuff in LEO gets de-orbited; same thing happened with Skylab in '79.
Longer - fifteen, closer to twenty years. It took this long for there to be one or two companies that they could be sure wouldn’t just cut and run (especially given how cutthroat the aerospace industry is).
Conventionally Point Nemo is the target.
SpaceX’s track record for orbital insertion definitely had something to do with that. When last I knew, N-G didn’t have its own launch facilities (that might’ve changed in the last few years but I doubt it).
Also, they have to follow Swiss law if they want to stay in business.
Hardware in cars, like hardware in computers drifts in configuration over manufacturing time. Some cars from a manufacturer might have some granularity of tracking that earlier units off the line didn’t. Toyota does this with their Camry hybrids, for example.
I’ve had this happen before on some weird systems. Unplugging and replugging the keyboard woke the keyboard back up.
Trying to kill the Internet Archive would set just the precedent publishers want to kill community libraries.
I’d be surprised if the big publishers didn’t try setting up their own pay-for-access libraries in a few years.
If it won’t do more harm than good, nobody would try to do it.
I don’t know about “good” but it works once in a while.
I’ve been saying, Microsoft hired Poettering to thank him for fucking up Linux so much with systemd.
I was going to mention Bookstack also.
That would be far too helpful.
Don’t bet the farm on it.