JanSolo

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by JanSolo 7y ago
Propfans are great in theory; extra efficiency! More power! Less weight! However in practice, things are not so rosy. The biggest downsides to propfans are Noise and Safety. Propfans are LOUD! Much louder than the current generation of turb
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by JanSolo 7y ago
I don't think so. For all his flaws he's still just a human and worthy of respect. Many people may disagree with his ideas and his methods but he's had a successful life which is worth remembering after death.
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by JanSolo 7y ago
A decade of “delayed and unpredictable funding” for the U.S. military’s budget has seen America lose its primacy in the Western Pacific, giving the edge to an increasingly sophisticated China, a Sydney-based think tank warned. So you&#x27
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by JanSolo 7y ago
Is there a risk that the Chinese are going to inflame the exact kind of revolt they're seeking to avoid? Isn't it just human nature to rebel against something that aims to subdue your culture?
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by JanSolo 7y ago
Where's the rudder? How do they propose to control yaw without a rudder? Perhaps those long winglet-feathers can be modulated for yaw control?
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Us vs. Them: The Neurology of Hate(youtube.com)
1 points by JanSolo 7y ago|0 comments
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Agreed; I imagine they use neural networks to detect and classify objects which are then saved into a scene-graph for use in pathing. I expect what happened was that they trained their NNs for improved detection in one area but unknowingly
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by JanSolo 8y ago
I agree with you; guns are great when you're fighting enemies armed only with sharp sticks... The first time the US has to deal with Anti-Ship cruise-missiles might be a bad day for them.
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by JanSolo 8y ago
If the US got into a hot war with China, we are all screwed. Recall that the US succeeded in WW1 and WW2 by out-producing their opponents. They simply built more guns and tanks and munitions than everyone else. US munitions were lower quali
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by JanSolo 8y ago
I wonder why the US is so determined to have a large carrier fleet? With the advent of anti-ship cruise missiles, carriers have lost the decisive edge that they had during WW2. It seems like few nations are willing to bear the development a
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Try to imagine the list of countries that you LEAST want to have nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia has got to be up there along with North Korea, Iran and Syria. Who ever is trying to share this nuclear tech is taking a huge risk with everyon
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Nope. No computers with signal processing capability yet. There was usually just a wave guide (or voice tube) leading to a man listening with his ears, or later models had a microphone. The waveguide was rotatable so that sound direction co
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by JanSolo 8y ago
New Glenn is not really a BFR-class design. It falls somewhere between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Interesting, yes; however in tech, products, partnerships, experience or any other quantifiable measure, Blue Origin is far, far behind SpaceX. SpaceX has launched many Orbital missions. Blue Origin has launched none. SpaceX has two functio
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by JanSolo 8y ago
I like nearly all the things on that list. As someone else mentioned, most airlines already do most of these things; I'm not completely sure that a change in the law was necessary. However, US airlines have a pretty terrible reputation
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Listen to the recording of ATC personnel talking to the rogue pilot. He's just a normal guy with a few screws loose. I think they correctly assessed this man to be non-threatening to ground targets. Now, if the guy was non-responsive
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Teslas stated goal is improving the adoption of sustainable energy; selling cars is only a part of it. Perhaps they feel that a little espionage is worth it to get 500000 electric cars a year onto Chinese roads?
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Apparently Tesla is the first foreign-owned auto manufacturer that has been allowed to open a facility without giving a 51% stake to a Chinese owner. I think it's only electric vehicles which are eligible for this new scheme. There&#x2
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Concorde was a fantastic technological achievement; It's beautiful and revolutionary. My heart really wants it to be successful. However, my head tells me that no amount of tweaking or tuning will change the fundamental problem with Co
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by JanSolo 8y ago
Teslas days are numbered because there's competition coming? That seems a bit of a stretch doesn't it? This article seems to have some kind of agenda; perhaps it's written by someone who's shorted Tesla stock?
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by JanSolo 10y ago
Glad to see that CyberChef supports Numberwang. There are many nefarious uses that such a complicated numerical system could be put to. I'm happy that our intelligence agencies are on top of this.
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by JanSolo 10y ago
Crew capsule and booster both went up, seperated, came down and landed nominally. In fact, they made it look easy; everything worked as they predicted and there were no suprises. A couple of points of interest: 1. The Crew Capsule pitched a
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by JanSolo 10y ago
Too little, too late. If a foreign buyer can afford a $2m house, they can afford the $300k of extra tax. Also, many of the properties bought by immigrants are actually owned by syndicates who are based in Canada and therefore do not have to
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by JanSolo 10y ago
The article mentions that the managers are allowed to block withdrawals under 'exceptional circumstances' to protect those with a longer term investment outlook.
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Does anyone have a mirror to this that's not behind the WSJ paywall? Thanks.
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by JanSolo 11y ago
I LOVED the Orangey-Brown colour scheme so much that I went straight to the BMW website to see if it was really an option that you can buy. Sadly, it's not. /sadface
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by JanSolo 11y ago
Isn't is a breach of trust for a protector-against-malware to also be a producer-of-malware? I'd certainly reconsider my Kaspersky license if I had one.
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Tesla might be creating their own Uber-clone(techcrunch.com)
1 points by JanSolo 11y ago|0 comments
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by JanSolo 11y ago
The Inmarsat position data was very controversial when it was first announced. This was because the flight path, the last radio contact and last radar signal were all recorded over the South China Sea; a completely different ocean to where
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by JanSolo 11y ago
I'm sure the PM is overjoyed that this story kicked up again right now. Anything that distracts the press from his embezzlement scandal is likely very welcome.

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