I stop reading when the first paragraph contains a profanity.

same

Thank you for that precision "without continued propulsion", because when talking about rockets, physics teachers always talk about escape velocity, as if it was an absolutely necessary condition to escape earth's gravity.

But can't you escape gravity slower, just by going higher and higher at lower speed? Like a plane? (ie not vertically, but at an angle)

If you don't accelerate, my understanding is that you will slow down. In other words, it takes more and more energy to escape orbit. Eventually, if you don't accelerate, your speed drops to zero and you "fall back down". Escape velocity is about how much energy you put into your motion, not the velocity as such.

No, the absolute minimum speed IS required. Anything below that and you’re just making your orbit elliptical.

That seems wrong. If you have a way to maintain enough propulsion for long enough you can escape the gravity well at any arbitrarily low speed. You "just" need to maintain that speed long enough for the escape velocity from the gravity well to go below it as it diminishes with distance from the mass.

Oh yeah, 1.01 Gs of endless propulsion will work. I was just arguing in the context of existing technology.

As someone working in clinical studies,

I can tell you the questions are biased from the start. That study has to be redone entirely.

would you have a tutorial on that?

Sorry, I don't. Giving the agent high level context has worked well for me.

Post author must be fun at parties

Amaze!

Putting it in my bookmarks

it's not raging against AI, it's raging against AI to create consistent code

to me, it's OK to use AI to check grammar and help you for some creative stuff, like writing a text

When you copy and paste whole sentences provided to you by the AI, you're not just getting help—you're compensating for fundamental writing failures.

You are absolutely right.

Very relevant info I was not aware of

So should we (people outside US) sanction these companies, so that they put the same pressure on US government to stop forcing them from applying sanctions?

If you want to, sure. Kind of a side point, but that's not really what sanctions are for. It's more of an economic blockade, which stymies the growth of the country. Even if there is no regime change, it makes the country less of a threat over time.

I'd choose more carefully which fight you want to pick at the moment, tbh. There's a very long list of unreasonable behaviors to complain about.

Like these EU fines?

    * May 22, 2023, Meta €1.2 billion.
    * July 22, 2024, Uber €290 million.
    * April 23, 2025, Apple €500 million.
    * September 4, 2025, Google €2.95 billion.