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> for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike missions (wikipedia)

for the strike part, wouldn't it be better to use a satellite-based system, I would think it could reach any place on earth much faster given the initial velocity of being in orbit.

e.g. missiles/drones would be launched from a satellite at 8000m/s (17000 mph, 3/4 times faster than the SR-72), and they could be distributed globally. I'm just unsure about the descent phase but sounds like it would work out.


kinda hoping "testing weak passwords on your existing user's passwords" becomes standard practice at some point.


GitHub does that...it warns you with a banner.


> An intriguing new tool of democracy just had its first test in the real world of politics, and it passed with flying colors.

how can you even measure if a voting system is a success?


By asking the people voting how well they feel they are able to express their interests and how well they think the result expresses the group interest.

In this case it sounds like they’ve got a group who are used to voting together and having outcomes that don’t make it very clear exactly what the group wants, and then after implementing this the group found the results much more expressive.


Specifically, how does one measure democracy? I hadn't thought about this before, but I'm intrigued and no good answers are springing to mind.


there is a democracy index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

there is something similar for voting systems but it isn't as elegant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...


discussion on lobsters where I posted it recently: https://lobste.rs/s/m4f2ke/don_t_do_this


works fine for me™️ here is a copy: https://outline.com/jHJzzZ


the website: https://www.wepark.us

the original twitter thread (first test drive): https://twitter.com/VictorPontis/status/1121521771633500160


It’s $2.75/hr. Talk about inflation!


exactly what I was thinking, e.g. "need a working space anywhere? just use the app and rent a one of our free spaces or share one"

I could definitely see VC money going into this, maybe even an existing company doing it.

the parking spots could have temporary structures to make it more like an office, have plugs, internet, etc.

then it could expand globally and it's no issue if it's outlawed in one city/country, just go to the next city/country.


I’ll start my YC application :) But in reality, the legal issues that s3r3nity mentioned would be a big problem for residential. Maybe this could be marketed to existing commercial spaces that have an extra room they don’t use.

As somebody who works remotely, having an app that finds a place to work wold be a dream.



wouldn't that be a sign of a healthy housing market? (e.g. liquidity)

if 99%-100% of homes were occupied then it would reach saturation (hard to buy/rent homes)


That's still high for a "healthy" level of vacancy, and it's also assuming those vacancies are in areas where people want to live. In reality, most of this housing stock is in smaller towns people are leaving while available housing in Tokyo is not exactly plentiful.


Github's https://primer.style/

Google's https://material.io/design/

I guess most companies have a design system in place


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