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by ANH 13y ago
Maybe you're overinterpreting the parent commenter, who makes a valid point. I read it as: This reminds us of our (increasing?) dependence on systems operated by opaque and fragile entities that, on top of it all, may have goals at odd
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by ANH 13y ago
I'm all for an Ubuntu phone, almost to the point of shelling out, but I'm not sure I'd get a commensurate benefit from this phone. I would probably go for it if it weren't for remote desktop apps like iTeleport. Pull out
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by ANH 13y ago
Ignoring the images, the physical descriptions in this seem badly wrong. For instance, can any WiFi modulation scheme be described as, "The crests of waves is [sic] translated to a 1 by a computer, and the troughs equal a 0."?
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by ANH 13y ago
I've been a fan of his since the '90s. I once had the opportunity while visiting a relative in Boston to ask Sheldon in person at the shop where he worked (Harris Cyclery) if he could help me find a rather obscure part for my old
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by ANH 13y ago
I have a hard time believing the US authorities want anyone to detain Snowden besides US authorities. He is, presumably, sitting on a big pile of classified but as-yet-unreleased information. Pure speculation (what fun!): perhaps Hong Kon
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by ANH 13y ago
A depressing historical fact: The FISA Court that for the past decade has been warped into a protective shield for these sorts of operations was established in 1978 to prevent this from happening again. See: Project SHAMROCK, http://en.w
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by ANH 13y ago
According to the timeline in the presentation, Apple was the last to cave. It happened after Steve Jobs' died.
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by ANH 13y ago
Interesting to note that Apple held out until after Steve Jobs' death.
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by ANH 13y ago
It's worth pointing out that they still have terabytes of data on the ground that hasn't been sifted through, so even if the spacecraft's mission isn't resurrected, we can still expect to hear about new Kepler discoveries over the next year
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by ANH 14y ago
The difference here is that it appears we are meant to believe a character in the movie wrote the code. I may be wrong since it's hard to tell from a promo what is happening, except for LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS.
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by ANH 14y ago
I think you're being unfair. I don't know how large the crew is for those events, but I'd venture to say all would call themselves "outreach people". I take your point that a lot of what airs is not very good, but to throw all outreach effo
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by ANH 14y ago
Have you ever watched a rocket launch on NASA TV? For me, it doesn't get much more thrilling than that. And I've seen some in person.
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by ANH 14y ago
Radweb is not the employer in question, according to his Twitter feed. He no longer works there.
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games(feministfrequency.com)
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by ANH 14y ago
They're about to hit a volume discount from Panasonic, according to the earnings call. There are a number of other efficiencies they've identified. On the call Elon recounts some anecdotes about parts suppliers not being prepared in 2012 fo
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by ANH 14y ago
I'm criticizing the journalist for writing drivel. I am perfectly willing to believe Elon is a jackass in his personal life. But does any of this have a bearing on the matter at hand?
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by ANH 14y ago
My god, that journalist should write for soap operas. Based on my firsthand experience with journalists, I would not be at all surprised to learn that what you quoted was something reported second hand, was said ironically, taken out of con
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by ANH 14y ago
I believe that from a bang-for-the-buck perspective, Near-Earth Object monitoring is one of the better values. In the scheme of national budgets, it is CHEEEEEP to deploy a ground-based observatory capable of detecting threatening objects.
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by ANH 14y ago
This site has an image of a hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul: http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place Here's the lake: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=lake+chebarkul&hl=en&... ~40 miles due west of Chelyabin
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by ANH 14y ago
Precisely. How many Model S owners are going to call Tesla for regular recharging advice vs. taking 20 seconds to pull up a smart phone app that shows them nearby charging stations?
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by ANH 14y ago
My summary: 1) We need more EV infrastructure, a point that seems to be getting lost and that I think should have been the thesis of the original article. 2) Broder was irresponsible for not taking seriously enough what the car was telling
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by ANH 14y ago
On several occasions I've had to judiciously use A/C in hot weather in my petrol powered car, so that sort of power/thermal management seems to be a "real negative" of cars in general.
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by ANH 14y ago
If it truly were an expedient, I would be able to understand a little better, but based on observations of my neighbors' leaf blowing routines, it is no faster than I am when I'm raking the yard. Even the professional landscapers that swarm
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by ANH 14y ago
I'm in suburbia now, and the noise is nearly constant, year-round. I grew up on a farm, have lived in the hearts of major cities, the middle of an isolated mesa -- basically covered the spectrum of sound environments. Nowhere has the noise
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by ANH 14y ago
Oh lord, yes. My particular nemesis: leaf blowers. My office is in a residential neighborhood. The sound of a gas powered leaf blower is at just the right frequency to penetrate the double-pane windows, my noise-isolating earbuds, and it so
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by ANH 14y ago
Did you not read the original blog post? It evoked in me a very strong sense of empathy for the victim. In case it's not clear to you who the victim is in this case, recommend you find that post and read it. Imagine having these things said
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by ANH 14y ago
I've never had a case on my iPhones (3G, 3GS), dropped them numerous times on concrete, and the only thing that put one out of commission was dropping the 3G in a toilet. Replaced it with a 3GS in 2009 and it still functions perfectly. Admi
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by ANH 14y ago
Pretty sure sandGorgon was talking about future phones: > Please let me dock my 2013 mobile phone with 4 GB RAM and 4 Kepler-PhysX cores... Are there any phones currently with Kepler cores in them? A quick search didn't yield any.
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by ANH 14y ago
> It's interesting to see people who think their phone somehow equals the abilities of a console or PC. I don't know of anyone who thinks that, and I don't read the above post that way. It's almost a pointless discussion, though, becaus
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by ANH 14y ago
I think your definition of "gamer" is different from mine. We don't all play the AAA titles. I write 3D code for mobile devices, and I'm continually astonished by what these things are capable of, i.e. your comment about poker and Farmville

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