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by alecdibble 14y ago
Just bought! I was looking for a book EXACTLY like this yesterday. I got lucky that HN pushed one into my lap.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
There is a lot of history related to Tesla and Wardenclyffe (the place they are trying to buy). After reading the history of Tesla, I believe that it is a historical site worth immortalizing and memorializing. The wikipedia article on Warde
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by alecdibble 14y ago
I assumed driving meant moving on land with a (most likely) combustion-powered platform that was connected to the land with wheels. No wheels and no ground contact sounds like hovering to me.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
Thanks! That is quite the discount.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
Or maybe he is fascinated by Tesla's life and is willing to use his own publicity powers to help a related cause? But no, that doesn't make any sense.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
I have read quite a few biographies on Tesla. Unless every single one of them are wrong (they all had citations), the inaccuracies of that Forbes article are not even funny. Do they always post articles that haven't been fact-checked? Edit:
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by alecdibble 14y ago
I didn't know flying and driving were synonyms these days.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
That's really interesting. The industry is in a different place compared to when I was familiar with it.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
It's street legal [1] and supposedly fits into your average sized garage[2]. You can't really drive a Cessna down your local neighborhood. 1: http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/March10_2012%2... 2: http://www.terrafugia.com/i
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by alecdibble 14y ago
It's kind of hard to drive helicopters down the highway.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
It's expensive to manufacture silicon at semiconductor quality, even when talking about polycrystalline wafers. (Monocrystalline wafers, used for "chips", is even more expensive and prone to defect." People are increasing production of poly
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by alecdibble 14y ago
The takeaway from this article is that they came up for a technique to use cheaper materials instead of silicon. This is significant because silicon is very expensive and every increasing demand is also increasing the prices of it at a very
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by alecdibble 14y ago
I completely agree. In college, my first set of Linear Algebra courses were taught by the Math department and were completely algebra based. Later on, taking the engineering LA courses where they stressed the geometry of all the operations
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by alecdibble 14y ago
tl;dr: Anytime you find yourself making an assumption, stop. Educate yourself on that assumption and then move on. I had a very similar problem when it came to learning. I am very fast at picking things up, so I often skim and assume certai
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by alecdibble 14y ago
The difficulty is in the details. Normalizing would have to account for a variety of different variables such as location, average age/customer base, average revenue per customer, etc. Furthermore, you would need all of that data many diffe
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by alecdibble 14y ago
> Step one is to realize that being homophobic doesn't make you "terrible people". Three hundred years ago pretty much everyone was racist, sexist, and homophobic, but were in general as decent people as we are today; they just had some
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by alecdibble 14y ago
Rotten Tomatoes aggregates reviews from several different sources to determine a final score. Amazon mainly just employs user reviews.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
I'm sorry to hear about that. I can completely empathize with how it must have felt to dread going to work everyday. Unfortunately, as this thread has shown, some people don't understand and rather rationalize.
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by alecdibble 14y ago
First, I said the gender roles could easily be switched. In fact, I personally know several males that have been in this situation of unwanted advances from females. So your "disrespectful" assessment shows me that either you did not read
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by alecdibble 14y ago
The issue here is making both genders feel comfortable in the workplace. You should NEVER hit on someone at work. By doing that, you could be instantly ruining a large portion of their day. Not just one day but every day. By introducing tha
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by alecdibble 14y ago
Thanks!
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by alecdibble 14y ago
I have always wondered why so many facets of "institutional health" are promoted as the status quo even with much contradictory evidence or lack of "common sense". A couple of things that come to mind: salt saturated fats sugars I know many
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by alecdibble 15y ago
The section on the feud between Anonymous and Los Zetas was fascinating. It's very interesting that Anonymous has that kind of leverage against such seemingly powerful people.
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by alecdibble 15y ago
Subject: Linear Algebra Recommendation: Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang Reason: Strang presents the subject so clearly and intuitively that you feel like an expert on the subject after reading each chapter. It is by the fa