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Falcon Heavy? New Glenn? NASA chief says he’s not a “big fan”(arstechnica.com)
3 points by Ankaios 10y ago|1 comments
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Hedge Fund and Cybersecurity Firm Team Up to Short-Sell Device Maker(nytimes.com)
1 points by Ankaios 10y ago|0 comments
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Medals per capita(medalspercapita.com)
1 points by Ankaios 10y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 10y ago
tan θ = opposite / adjacent = (horizontal displacement of top) / height
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by Ankaios 10y ago
Someone should do the math, perhaps in the right country it is cheaper to use mass indentured labor than electronics. We prefer to call them "grad students." They also tend to be good at making cheap electronics.
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As Democrats Gather, a Russian Subplot Raises Intrigue(nytimes.com)
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by Ankaios 10y ago
The ideals of the French Revolution eventually became the underpinnings of both the US Constitution and the European and UN Declarations of Human Rights. Just a small timeline correction: the Constitution was actually ratified a
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Bus1(bus1.org)
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by Ankaios 10y ago
That has been common in physics for a long time, too. For hot new topics, the conversations are often happening through preprints rather than peer-reviewed articles. (The papers are usually eventually published in peer-reviewed journals, th
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by Ankaios 10y ago
That, plus it seems like in the last couple of years many people got more careful about estimating the values of privately-held companies. A $100 million investment for 10% of a company in its latest round doesn't indicate that it&#x27
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by Ankaios 10y ago
If you look closely in that article, you'll see the price that review board assumed for the SLS was $500 million. That's a number that SLS people like to throw around, but it is far, far less than many outsiders expect it will cos
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by Ankaios 10y ago
Note that the text that came out of the subcommittee ( http://appropriations.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bills-114hr-sc... ) mandates that NASA use the Space Launch System (SLS) to launch the missions. SLS is a stunningly ov
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by Ankaios 10y ago
The Logitech Trackman Marble FX trackball. I still use it every day, but I won't be able to replace it when it breaks.
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by Ankaios 10y ago
Anybody have any clever ideas about how to short Theranos?
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Special Breakthrough Prize in Physics awarded for gravitational wave detection(breakthroughprize.org)
2 points by Ankaios 10y ago|0 comments
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by Ankaios 10y ago
ULA was formed at the end of 2006. The United States had no rocket reliability problem at that time. (Not counting rockets in development, of course.) The Enhanced Expendable Launch Vehicles (Altas V and Delta IV) had good track records w
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by Ankaios 10y ago
That isn't a SpaceX concept—it was proposed by some NASA people.
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Transition Fever(spacenews.com)
2 points by Ankaios 10y ago|0 comments
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San Francisco Residential Rent Statistics(valgro.com)
2 points by Ankaios 10y ago|0 comments
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New Gorilla Survey Supports Fears of Extinction Within Decade(nytimes.com)
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by Ankaios 10y ago
This specifies NASA's job: http://history.nasa.gov/spaceact.html (That's actually the original 1958 version. It's been amended occasionally since, but that will give you the gist.) There are specific things I
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by Ankaios 10y ago
No. Your claim was that the government should let Milner et al. "take the front of the stage." Their work is fantastic, but it is focused on some narrow but important topics. There is a vast amount of other progress continually be
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by Ankaios 10y ago
As far as I've heard so far, they aren't planning to develop a low-boom design any time soon. Their first planes will be conventional from that perspective. (That's confirmed by a post by their founder, Blake Scholl, in that
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by Ankaios 10y ago
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was formed from a pre-existing agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), that did amazing work advancing the field, and that work never stopped within
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by Ankaios 10y ago
The quiet supersonic transport is potentially commercially viable, but without a demonstration that the technique actually works in flight, the size and risk of the investment necessary to try it have seemed to be too large for the private
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by Ankaios 10y ago
Sooo many people on HN despise ads (rant after rant about using adblockers) yet hate paywalled articles. They aren't necessarily the same people.
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San Francisco Home Prices Fell for the First Time in Four Years in March(redfin.com)
164 points by Ankaios 11y ago|229 comments
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by Ankaios 11y ago
Anybody know which retirement funds and other institutional investors are most exposed to Theranos through VC and other investment?
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by Ankaios 11y ago
3He fusion is easy—you can do it in a garage with some hacked-together equipment. However, 3He fusion with net power output is exceptionally hard, even with complete disregard to cost. Much harder than deuterium-tritium fusion. We don&#
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by Ankaios 11y ago
Do you seriously think these guys haven't heard of Project Orion or wouldn't use Orion's approach if they thought it was best? In case you didn't notice, Freeman Dyson is involved with Starshot. Freeman Dyson co-led Pr

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