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by ANH 16y ago
I think he's probably on target. This was my prediction in the previous thread on the upcoming press conference: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1952449
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by ANH 16y ago
Regarding his underplaying of fuel mass, check out the rocket equation to get an idea of how hard it is to achieve the delta-v required for various maneuvers (e.g. suborbital, orbital, escape): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rock
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by ANH 16y ago
* Because they want to make sure people are listening. * The media outlets can assign people to cover it. * It's fun for the researchers.
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by ANH 16y ago
Perhaps they've sussed out something about what we should expect to see in extraterrestrial life at the molecular (e.g. DNA) level. The biggest clue is the list of participants. One of them specializes in research on non-standard biology. I
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by ANH 16y ago
I would just say, "The action scene was a bit over the top." If the person hears that and thinks I didn't like the movie, that's their mistake. Your first phrase still leaves the door open for you not liking the movie and it adds no clarify
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by ANH 16y ago
A few weeks ago I spent a few hours volunteering next to him at the Planetary Society's booth at the National Science & Engineering Fair. He's doing a great service for the Society by drawing big crowds. I must say, though, that it look
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by ANH 16y ago
Well, the Amazon Senior VP of International Retail said this was the case in his talk for the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership series. So, seems there's some dispute within the company. But I suppose I should take Werner's word f
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by ANH 16y ago
It's even more impressive when you know Amazon started AWS to take advantage of excess capacity they had during the off-season when they weren't dealing with the crush of holiday orders.
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by ANH 16y ago
I've attended climate science conferences and worked for years writing code for and with climate scientists. Down in the trenches, pretty much the only thing I saw was scientists interested in accurate results. I don't, however, claim to ha
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by ANH 16y ago
By the way, you can see the engineers working on the next bigger, badder rover here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl
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by ANH 16y ago
An alternative to the chrome command line option is the Proxy Switchy extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/caehdcpeofiiigpd...
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by ANH 16y ago
I've read some of Mandelbrot's works on finance and I would never put him in the same category as the "technicians". It's hocus pocus mumbo jumbo that I don't think he would subscribe to (e.g. Elliot Wave's "5 up, 3 down" principle).
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by ANH 16y ago
Recommended Mandlebrot read: 'Fractals and Scaling In Finance' from 1997. http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Scaling-Finance-Benoit-Mandel...
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by ANH 16y ago
The first program written in C that I saw that did anything interesting was a Mandelbrot set generator. It's what hooked me on programming, I think.
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by ANH 16y ago
His 'Fractals and Scaling In Finance' helped me wrap my brain around power laws. Perhaps if certain folks had read it when it was first published (1997), we would have had less financial turmoil these past few years.
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by ANH 16y ago
I can always count on the Fortean Times to spark my imagination. The rational mind needs regular holidays in the land of the weird.
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by ANH 16y ago
The Virginia Business One Stop ( https://apps.cao.virginia.gov/IDC/index.html ). It's not something I have to use very often, but it's on the top of my mind because I just formed an LLC. Its primary purpose is to help new companies get form
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by ANH 16y ago
Don't forget to bite the head off a bat and trash the place on your way out.
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by ANH 16y ago
The article states "Around midnight, it will be directly overhead." This depends where you are, and it will not be true for most humanoids. From Washington, DC, for instance, it will be 45 degrees up from the horizon at midnight: http://ww
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by ANH 16y ago
Some good advice I've heard: When doing this kind of market research, don't ask people if they would buy, ask them to buy. Of course, that's easier said than done in certain circumstances.
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by ANH 16y ago
Yeah, no chat. Simplicity is good here.
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by ANH 16y ago
This is alarmingly addictive. Only problem was it took me about a minute to figure out my browser window was too small to see the target shape, so I had almost no idea what was going on. Still, incredibly cool.
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NASA's "intriguing planetary system" press conference @ 1pm EDT(nasa.gov)
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by ANH 16y ago
Here's a recent Planetary Society podcast interview with the Kepler principal investigator, Bill Borucki: http://planetary.org/radio/show/00000400/ He talks about the discovery of those hundreds of candidate planets.
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Another Jupiter impact event (Aug 20).(planetary.org)
2 points by ANH 16y ago|0 comments
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by ANH 16y ago
I'm about to move to a rural area where landline internet is unavailable, so I'm watching 4G development closely. Clear offers 4G in the nearby metropolitan area (DC), but I'll still be a good 20 miles outside the footprint. I'm not looking
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by ANH 16y ago
I've never seen anything that makes me think 'Technical Analysis' of stock market indicators is anything more than a pseudoscience. It's fun and spooky, but is it any better than throwing darts?
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by ANH 16y ago
Generation R (regretful) to be followed by Generation S (silent and serious).
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by ANH 16y ago
I read this last week and promptly expunged it from my brain. Any "Ten Reasons..." list should be automatically suspect.
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by ANH 16y ago
In my neighborhood (Washington, DC area) some residents recently objected to plans to install a sidewalk along the main drag because "the drivers don't need any more distractions than they already have". We're moving in two weeks, halleluja

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