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How Fentanyl Ingredients From China End Up in the U.S.(theatlantic.com)
65 points by Thorondor 7y ago|23 comments
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by Thorondor 7y ago
Part of the reason is Paul Graham's essay about his experience using Lisp at a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet 12 light years away(arxiv.org)
4 points by Thorondor 7y ago|0 comments
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It Is Your Responsibility to Follow Up(guzey.com)
3 points by Thorondor 7y ago|1 comments
65.
Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites(meta.stackoverflow.com)
384 points by Thorondor 7y ago|49 comments
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by Thorondor 7y ago
At industrial scales, you can buy electricity much cheaper than $0.1/kWh if you locate your facility in the right place. For example, hydroelectric power near a large dam can cost as little as $0.02 to $0.05/kWh.
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Tasmanian devils 'adapting to coexist with cancer'(bbc.com)
2 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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by Thorondor 8y ago
Sussman's Wikipedia contribution history is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BC1278
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Live Updates on New Horizons’ Flyby of Ultima Thule(sciencenews.org)
2 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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by Thorondor 8y ago
You're ignoring Alpha Centauri A and B, which are much larger. Also, even without the Alpha Centauri system, very distant orbits (more than 2-3 ly or so) would be destabilized by the galactic tide, i.e. the gravitational gradient of t
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Osiris-REX Finds Hints of Past Liquid Water on Asteroid Bennu(skyandtelescope.com)
2 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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by Thorondor 8y ago
In general, the dielectric strength of a gas varies with the gap length, so for small gaps it's not strictly correct to say that air has a dielectric strength of 3 kV/mm or any other single value. [0] But at this scale, the gap i
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U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further(wsj.com)
209 points by Thorondor 8y ago|266 comments
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Italy's 'anti-Netflix' law to protect film industry(afp.com)
2 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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Infinite-dimensional symmetry opens possibility of new physics and new particles(eurekalert.org)
4 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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Apollo 7: Rise of the Phoenix(drewexmachina.com)
1 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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by Thorondor 8y ago
I think the BBC report that I submitted earlier this morning [0] did a better job of discussing the environmentalists' case. In particular, it linked to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs's civil complaint [1] which is probably the b
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Hawaii top court approves controversial Thirty Meter Telescope(bbc.com)
2 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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Rpitx: RF Transmitter for Raspberry Pi(github.com)
45 points by Thorondor 8y ago|2 comments
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by Thorondor 8y ago
There was an Ask HN about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18323236
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The Kalman Filter for Bayesians(lesswrong.com)
5 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy(motherboard.vice.com)
221 points by Thorondor 8y ago|118 comments
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Meet the Endoterrestrials(theatlantic.com)
70 points by Thorondor 8y ago|26 comments
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Meet the Endoterrestrials(theatlantic.com)
1 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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Evidence for a large exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b – Science Advances(advances.sciencemag.org)
2 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs(abopen.com)
177 points by Thorondor 8y ago|89 comments
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by Thorondor 8y ago
Most mainstream physicists believe that the polywell design cannot work due to bremsstrahlung and electron cusp losses, as described by Rider. [0] Bussard and some of his followers have argued against some assumptions made in the Rider pap
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Cryovolcanism on the Earth: Origin of a Crater in the Yamal Peninsula (Russia)(nature.com)
1 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments
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NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars(jpl.nasa.gov)
3 points by Thorondor 8y ago|1 comments
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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Carbon 'Building Blocks of Life'(news.nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by Thorondor 8y ago|0 comments

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