Zaak

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by Zaak 16y ago
In the book Rocheworld, they do just that. The light sail splits in two, with the outer portion curving to reflect light from the propulsion laser back onto the inner portion to slow down the ship.
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by Zaak 16y ago
So far.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Traffic analysis would let you know what kind of data is being sent, even without being able to decrypt the actual data.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Trade secrets most likely. It would be cloned eventually, but Corning would have a lock on the market while other companies did their R&D.
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by Zaak 16y ago
T-Mobile now offers a lower monthly rate without a contract. As far as I know it's the only carrier to do so.
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by Zaak 16y ago
> I still find predicting memory/time use under a lazy-evaluation regime difficult. It's not just you. Lazy evaluation makes predicting and understanding resource usage difficult.
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by Zaak 16y ago
And definitely don't start losing the arguments.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Take a look at http://www.personaltelco.net/ It may not be exactly what you're interested in, but they have set up a large amount of equipment and may have information that would be useful to you.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Office chair was the first thing I thought of when I saw them sliding sideways. I wonder how hard it would be to stay still enough to type accurately.
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by Zaak 16y ago
Nope, there are no currently viable alternatives to chemical rockets. There are possibilities such as nuclear rockets and space elevators which might be viable in the future. A space elevator mainly requires advances in ultra-strong cable m
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by Zaak 16y ago
Not to be morbid or anything, but the only painful part of suffocation is excess carbon dioxide. In a pure nitrogen atmosphere you'd be in a good mood for a couple of minutes, then lose consciousness and never wake up. I have no idea if tha
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by Zaak 16y ago
I find your comment significant: > ...even someone trying their best and generally upholding their end of the marriage bargain can be divorced against their will... "No-fault divorce" could be called "unilateral divorce" since one party
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by Zaak 16y ago
What "typed" means depends on who you're talking to. There's the definition used in CS research papers, and the definition that programmers actually use. Very few languages lack a strong notion of run-time type. C and friends are the only o
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by Zaak 16y ago
Specifically, this is the definition used in Computer Science research. Unfortunately, the communication between that community and the larger community of programmers is so poor that it was several years after I finished my CS bachelor's d
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by Zaak 17y ago
I was hoping for multitasking, but I didn't see anything like that in a cursory scan of the docs.
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by Zaak 17y ago
yes
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by Zaak 17y ago
> Rationally the effort of you, personally, going to vote only matters if it changes the outcome. As above, I disagree with you about what the real purpose of an individual's vote is. > Therefore rationally there is no point in an i
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by Zaak 17y ago
> Moreover, it may be sufficient to have a positive attitude toward voting without actually ever voting. Nice. Sort of like an election typhoid mary. > This is a question about how much influence an individual has on others in terms
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by Zaak 17y ago
> Actually there is no rational reason for you, personally, to vote. [snip] > And yes, I do vote. You believe there is no rational reason for you to vote, yet you vote anyway? So you believe that acting irrationally is a good thing
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by Zaak 17y ago
The rational reason to vote is not because your vote actually has an effect on the election's outcome. Rather, it is because if nearly no one voted, then politicians would have no incentive to take care of the needs of the people. The reaso
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by Zaak 17y ago
Some fears can be solved by educating ignorance. Other fears however, are due to untreated anxiety disorders, and need medical help.
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by Zaak 17y ago
I thought this was "Bullet Impacts at 1,000,000 feet per second". Frames per second is still cool though.
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by Zaak 17y ago
Netscape started out selling its browser. People bought it because it was significantly better than the free alternative at the time (Mosaic). Then Microsoft came out with Internet Explorer, which was good enough to challenge Navigator, and
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by Zaak 17y ago
I'm sure the aerodynamic wheel fairings are really good for fuel efficiency, but I predict they'll be a lot smaller on any production car that comes from this idea. People do like being able to drive over speed bumps after all.
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by Zaak 17y ago
The problem with not memorizing phone numbers occurs when you don't have your contacts list with you. Automatic synchronization of your list to multiple places is a partial solution.
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by Zaak 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
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by Zaak 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism The United States still suffers from the legacy of the witch hunts of the 1940s and 50s.
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by Zaak 17y ago
So LFA would be like being an albino?
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by Zaak 17y ago
Would you consider a person who cannot hear to have a disease? In other words, do you dislike the use of the word "disease" to describe that something is missing compared to the "standard human", or do you disagree that there's anything bad
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by Zaak 17y ago
> Unfortunately, scarcity is, and always will be, a reality. It's true that scarcity is a reality. It is far from certain that scarcity always will be a reality. Unless of course you define scarcity to mean that not everyone in the sola

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