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by alex_duf 8y ago
If it was an isolated attack, the damage is probably nil, but if combined with a rogue certificate authority you can do some pretty in-depth spying.
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by alex_duf 8y ago
The price might need to be flat for each satellite (depending on the orbit) + a price per kg as cubesats are becoming more and more prevalent. It won't cost the same to fetch something in low earth orbit than in geosynchronous orbit.
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by alex_duf 8y ago
And irresponsible of the USA to send needles to space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
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by alex_duf 8y ago
It's a symptom of the way our industry works. Pick a metric and over optimise it. Say you pick the "time to like a post" metric, then as an employee you're incentivised to put the most click-baitee article at the top. No
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by alex_duf 8y ago
Deleted the app last year, then last September asked for all my data, then closed my account. Long gone was the interesting content in my feed, I only had indoctrinated contacts posting either poor quality content or misinformation. I think
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by alex_duf 8y ago
>I never understood why colonizing Mars is needed. Personally I see quite a few positive things behind colonising Mars. I think it's not about having a "backup", it's not about resources (or in a really long time) it&
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by alex_duf 8y ago
Now this identified I'm sure Mozilla will fix the issue quickly
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by alex_duf 8y ago
I don't know what "non-experimental license" means as I don't know the industry very well, but wouldn't the Pipstrel Alpha Electro be what you're talking about? or are you talking about larger planes? https:&#
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by alex_duf 8y ago
At a personal level, switch energy provider, change your diet, cycle / use public transport and drive electric if you must drive (it's more complex than that depending on if you have a car or not). If you have the chance to own yo
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by alex_duf 8y ago
To license a new taxi in London it has to be electric. We're seeing quite a few nowadays. There's still a huge backlog of diesel cabs but at least it's slightly improving. New double deckers are hybrid, and all new single dec
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by alex_duf 8y ago
Of course it makes sense for China. Assuming Bloomberg is right, China still is pretty much a manufacturing monopoly, the production isn't going to move any time soon.
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by alex_duf 8y ago
The pictures in the original article shows 6 pins
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by alex_duf 8y ago
I wonder how we'd feel as a species if our star was one of these instead of being the Sun. We'd see this amazing group of stars and planets, going away from us knowing the more we wait for space travel to less likely our species w
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by alex_duf 8y ago
That's assuming there's an infinite supply of jobs. When you're in financial difficulty - say your 0 hour contract doesn't bring enough money to pay the bills - you'll take whatever terms and conditions Uber is givi
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by alex_duf 8y ago
I'd love humanity to be visiting another solar system by now, but even starting a few decades ago we'd probably would have had to violate a few important laws of physics in order to reach another star. Space is big
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Trace Nasa Space technolocy back to you(homeandcity.nasa.gov)
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by alex_duf 8y ago
I don't think there's any need for a breakthrough in order to have world wide massively adopted electric cars. The only bottleneck right now is battery production, not even demand. The technology is here, the demand is here, the s
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by alex_duf 8y ago
Edit: I'm wrong, see responses bellow for correction Original message: I seem to remember (if I'm wrong please correct me) that the Magnus effect works regardless of the direction of the wind, whereas the sky sail needs the wind t
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by alex_duf 8y ago
We (users) can make it easy and cheap to extract data out of us, or make it harder and more expensive. I know which option I want
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by alex_duf 8y ago
there's a big caveat: the pacific ocean
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by alex_duf 8y ago
We had Internet, Mobile phones and GPS becoming widely adopted in the same decade, I don't see why that wouldn't be possible. That being said I don't think they will land and be adopted widely at the same time. I would see el
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by alex_duf 8y ago
So far, noise level seems to be a repeating argument in favour of electric planes, so I suspect it's still much less noisy
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by alex_duf 8y ago
PHEV vehicules are great, except you get the complexity of both engines, for the price of both. Electric cars have an order of magnitude less moving parts, barely any maintenance to do on them (no need to change the brakes, no oil, no filte
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by alex_duf 8y ago
The renault zoe has a range of 200 real miles, if only car dealers knew how to sell them...
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by alex_duf 8y ago
In the states it's quite common to number the floors of a building by avoiding the number 13. I think this is pure madness. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15... All of that because of a fantasy book where people had supper and they happen to be 13 at
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by alex_duf 8y ago
Or tax everyone else's produce to make it artificially more expensive until the one with lower CO2 footprint is cheaper Same for packaging
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by alex_duf 8y ago
of _a_ moon, Saturn's moon Enceladus
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by alex_duf 8y ago
I think it boils down to the fact that not that many innovations are coming from the distribution itself. It used to be true, especially when it came to recognizing hardware or simplifying install, but nowadays most hardware is recognized a
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by alex_duf 8y ago
I think the point is _some_ devs want the latest shiny thing in prod. So no one says "we are going to take twice as long" but "we need to use X" when maybe we don't. I also use micro services on a daily basis, which
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by alex_duf 8y ago
That's absolutely possible on osm, in fact new roads are often on OSM before they reach Google maps

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