Aelinsaar

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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Ahhhh, those both make a lot of sense. This could be a nice feature on higher-end cars that try to use smaller engines, with more turbos, for the sake of fuel and emissions then?
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Where is the editor when you need them?
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Chasing markets, while antibiotic resistance grows for one.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
There are presumably still limits that this addresses, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd like to learn.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I see, that's a misunderstanding on me then.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
That's a challenge, but the thing is a turbo deals with blazing hot exhaust gasses just out of the manifold. A prop is still a marvel of engineering, but it doesn't need to be made of boron carbide to not melt. A better comparison
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
The drawback is that higher compression ratios require higher octane fuels. Nissan claims to have solved this by some kind of intelligent feedback system that allows them to control compression ratios on the fly. Presumably the compromise t
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Another case in point for why "Texas" is Norwegian slang for "Crazy".
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Signal v. Noise is also priceless.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Good news, this should help to decrease the physical size of some of the larger lines, maybe lower the cost to lay high speed fiber.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Maybe after a few months, this is the PR course they've decided to take? If so... yikes.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
You should see huge sectors of the pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries, you'd weep.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
I didn't take it as a personal insult, just the pointless, flippant, content-free diversion it was. A personal insult is something I'd ignore.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Four companies are not "Almost the entire 'industrial complex" sorry. There is also a difference I think, between cash on hand, and total contribution to GDP, local economies, politics, etc. That's not to downplay phones
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Most critical section, originally by Douglas MacArthur: "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nu
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Yeah, yet incredibly easy to predict. "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an inc
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
You missed my point. If a "genuine" character of a diamond is its ability to display wealth, then a synthetic diamond is "fake" by that measure, or "ersatz" or whatever you prefer. The point is that actually ex
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Irish court orders alleged Silk Road admin to be extradited to US(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Aelinsaar 10y ago|1 comments
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
And not always even that; artists have been fooled by forgeries of their own works before.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Exactly, and the machine isn't telling a story, it's just running the numbers; something humans are very good at identifying given a bit of time. I'm not sure how cutting the scale way down, and adding some more human touches
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
The value of a diamond is in its ability to display the wealth of the wearer. If a diamond no longer indicates status, it is "fake". That's the truth they're all beating around the bush of. It's pathetic, but there
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
"You will never lose betting on human stupidity." Natural diamond gemstones are valuable, mostly, because of human stupidity. Chances are, that will continue for the simple reason that it's persisted for so long already.
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Green Pool Mystery Continues in Rio, with Closure and New Fart Smell(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Aelinsaar 10y ago|0 comments
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Fair enough, but I think that niche knows who it is.
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
> But intellectuals are supposed to be above that. They're supposed to be objective, or at least able to honestly see their bias. And they're failing at that. Really, no, absolutely not. The bias is assumed, that's why do
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
If someone tells you that it's terrible, or the second coming, they're probably wrong. It's "OK", but not at $60. That is the one statement I feel very confident about making; wait until it's heavily on sale, a
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
If someone wrote a book that was as shallow as this game, it would be a $.99 affair on Amazon. No characters, no story to speak of, no meaningful interaction or progression, and I found that after a handful of planets, it was really clear h
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Interesting, but without any real suggestion of why being statistically rarer than the average somehow makes people blind to broader realities. It's just slipped in there, around the middle that intellectuals, "...tend to be both
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by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Maybe, but even then you have the Gabrielle Giffords, Malala Yousefzais, not to mention Phinneas Gages of the world.
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Democratic, GOP Leaders Got a Secret Briefing on DNC Hack Last Year(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Aelinsaar 10y ago|0 comments

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