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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Thanks for clearing it up. However, I'm still not sure on what my donations would be used for at this stage (I guess you could say a lack of transparency) but I wish you the best of luck and hope you get enough backers to make this wor
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
It's missing a Death Star, Discovery One (2001:A Space Oddesey) and, my personal favourite, the ship from Solaris (2002). All of a similar design to Valley Forge (Silent Running) which does feature. Maybe they're all too small.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
"If you have another way to donate in mind" Seems like this would be an ideal project for a kickstarter, that way at least the project could create a more informative project page and detail exactly how they hope to spend
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
You're right, but traditional fossil fuel plants still cost a lot (a comparable amount infact) to build ($2billion for 600MW[1]). Renewables just have a much lower energy output (only work when the sun shines/wind blows, and at a
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Do you mean, concentrating sunlight onto PV? or Having PV cells that are also reflective? Reflective PV cells/mirrors wouldn't work well as you're taking the energy out one way or another. The more you reflect, the less you c
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
api, this is a great point and one that is often overlooked with most renewables vs non-renewables cost arguments. However, when you compare $/kwh of the electricity it does take all of this into consideration.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Like this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLogKN80plY
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I believe it keeps GPS positioning to a minimum, relying primarily on network-derived location data. At least judging by the granularity (or lack of) the route data, which causes my commute to work to look most confusing. Secondly, and this
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Yes 10ms does matter, but building a data center in the middle of NY vs 20 miles outside is not going to create anywhere near 10ms latency, its not even going to create 1ms, on the Google network at least. Your cable provider is a far highe
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
True, but populous though Manhattan is, it hardly warrants its own data center. If latency was their prime concern they would build the data center in the middle of the population density. For North East US, a location between NY and Washin
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I'd be very surprised if it did. It's likely that the Russians would know about any Shuttle launch (I'm guessing they had a capability to track orbital objects) so it would be fairly obvious that the American's did it. A
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
It depends what market segment you're looking at. If it's the 'Electric Car' market, Telsa are pretty much the leaders in this segment apart from a handful of super-micro city cars. If you mean the 'Performance Car&
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
The incumbent car manufacturers are struggling to keep up with Tesla's first offerings, they're going be beside themselves if Tesla can pull this off.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
It's a shame you have arrived at this opinion. I couldn't work out if you'd actually tried AirBnB from the tone of your post, or just don't like the sound of the idea. I'll say, from my experience, you're missi
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Interesting, any reason for 70% exactly? Os is that just on your personal experience? I'd have thought Nigeria and East Europe would have been higher.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I'm disappointed by the hypocrisy of most of these negative HN comments. How can you be so quick to rubbish what McCandless achieved, calling him stupid and unprepared, then go straight back to reading the next "Why I sold my home
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
With all that exposed metal and black screens, it does look like something from Star Trek... a Klingon Ship. http://clancmsf.tripod.com/klingon-bridge-st5.jpg
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
It seems you've failed to understand why Chris McCandless went to Alaska in the first place. I'll give you a clue, it wasn't because of it's bustling social scene. What about Dick Proenneke [0], another notable 'Ala
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I nearly stopped reading after not meeting any of their stupid 'criteria' but glad I didn't. There does seem a general disenchantment with the future prospects of Gen Y (in the Western world) and this seems to have put into w
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
It's not about time, we all have time, rich, poor, American, non-american. It's about how you choose to fill your time that matters, or should define success. You can't fill your time with objects, no matter how expensive. Bu
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Yeh, I can imagine it was exactly like a scene from Dumpster Anal Teens
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
'Having the internet' is different to the ubiquitous internet access that kids growing up today are subject to. Twenty years ago you couldn't take out a smart phone and watch porn. You couldn't even readily download porn
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Interesting the calculator includes utilities and tax bills as costs for the buyer but not the renter. Is this common in the US, for all bills to be included? In Europe here, once you factor in the additional costs of council tax and all ut
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I'd imagine it would actually be shorter because the ambient temperature in Northern Alaska will be much cooler than that in South Florida, so the shot will cool faster. It also depends on the diameter of the shot you wish to produce.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
'Less than $600 a year' is different to 'less than $600'. If you plan to use it for 4 years (assuming team size remains constant), that's a potential saving of $2400.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Those in the UK can listen to the speech, in full, for free on iPlayer. It's not Kings original recording but it's respoken by notable civil rights personalities. Just look for I Have A Dream on iPlayer, BBC Radio 4
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
>The result was an immediate increase in the money supply, and a rapid growth in overall economic activity. Wouldn't a massive increase in money supply of the amount Smaug guarded just lead to Hyper Inflation?
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Only for 0.3 seconds. The first camera shot at normal speed show's how quick this is all happening.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
He hadn't managed to actually impersonate another user, just post on someone's wall who hadn't friended him. Personally, I wouldn't leave my keys in the flowers because a random person I didn't know posted it on my
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I might add the Ford Focus is designed by Europeans not Americans... hence why it's not a big square on wheels

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