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by alex_stoddard 13y ago
In situ return journey propellant production has been a key element of Robert Zubrin's "Mars Direct" proposal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
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by alex_stoddard 13y ago
Obviously I am being deliberately minimal in my description - which I have to be given that I am indeed telling the truth. Do you really find it more credible that I am lying than that the massive release of diplomatic cables has had at lea
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by alex_stoddard 13y ago
I can provide one example from direct personal experience. A citizen of a country with a repressive regime was revealed by release of the diplomatic cables to have provided information to the US State Department on the persecution of church
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by alex_stoddard 13y ago
In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1993 sf novel "Red Mars" a member of the first Mars colonization mission also works for news agencies back on Earth and wears "camera glasses". I forget the exact arc of the subplot but as
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What is impact? (Of scientific research)(blog.f1000.com)
1 points by alex_stoddard 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_stoddard 14y ago
A new journal http://f1000research.com/ has a really interesting new take on this: post-publication, transparent peer-review.
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by alex_stoddard 14y ago
Earliest known version of the saying is Latin "Noli equi dentes inspicere donati" from Saint Jerome around 400 CE/AD. Most European languages are going to have a version. I agree the modern English is peculiar, it likely derives from Middl
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Logic Programming is overrated, at least for logic puzzles(programming-puzzler.blogspot.com)
1 points by alex_stoddard 14y ago|0 comments
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by alex_stoddard 14y ago
On the contrary, this is a excellent example of the benefits of open publishing. A very dubious paper is hyped in the press and the actually published work is available to all to be read and critiqued as thoroughly as it deserves. This, in
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by alex_stoddard 14y ago
Can you suggest any good references for alternatives to SQL or a more general discussion of path independent data access? My background is such that practically "relational" and "uses SQL" are wholly conflated. I would be very interested to
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PeerJ a life-time author subscription model for academic publishing(peerj.com)
2 points by alex_stoddard 14y ago|0 comments
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Digital Humanities, a century of shipping visualized(sappingattention.blogspot.com)
2 points by alex_stoddard 15y ago|0 comments
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by alex_stoddard 15y ago
Is it helpful to make a distinction between managing and funding? I am unconvinced that most people hold that "advertising is socially neutral or good" but rather are left with the question "how else will it be paid for?" I deliberately phr
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by alex_stoddard 15y ago
But what right is being recognized? I think there is a distinction to be made between the internet as material infrastructure and the internet as a medium of civil discourse. The former is only relevant in as much as totalitarian control of
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by alex_stoddard 15y ago
"... big cities are, if anything, even bigger and denser than they were when Clarke made this prediction." Big cities are definitely bigger and denser, see the BBC special report on urbanisation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world
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by alex_stoddard 15y ago
Clojure is, in its own terms, an identity not a value(see http://clojure.org/state ). At the risk of torturing a joke beyond breaking point maybe it should be "State of @Clojure".
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
That wikipedia article seems to be citing somewhat conflicting references. Further down it says "The capacity factor for power towers was estimated to be 72.9%" [35] ( http://www.nrel.gov/solar/parabolic_trough.html ). A heliostat based des
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/instruments.html
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
Also appears to be available online: http://www.bookshelf.jp/texi/onlisp/onlisp_15.html#SEC99
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
Again I could be mistaken and would really appreciate correction from someone who knows better by I am much more cynical about the SS trust fund. As far as I can tell the really scary thing is that that "trust fund" has been largely "invest
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
And yet that majesty and serenity only really exist when we can see it and access it. As others have said it would be bad to turn it into a theme park but simple exploration demands some "invasive" measures.
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
It looks like there is some confusion over whether the correct term is etherialization or ephemeralization. The wikipedia article on ephemeralization is somewhat more complete and what is linked from the page on Fuller. http://en.wikipedia
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
I am not so sure, at least for properly tangible patents. There are considerable risks and costs to developing a technology from a demonstration in a university department to something marketable. If companies especially of small to medium
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
I played rugby all through school in Scotland. Starting at eight years old they had us spend months on tackling drills, and a lot of it was how not to hurt yourself in making a tackle. I wince just about every time I see an American footbal
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
A very poor analogy. You never deliberately initiate a collision in a car. Also being surrounded by a car body gives you a false sense of invulnerability.
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
Maybe for an independent investor. But how can a t-bill be an investment for the government itself? I am naively assuming that what backs the value of a t-bill is the US government's ability to accrue future tax revenue to pay it back. What
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
I am trying to find out a bit more about the methodology he used. Best I can find so far is page giving a bit of description about Bill Rankin mapping Chicago which Eric says inspired him to do other cities: http://www.radicalcartography.n
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
I am genuinely interested in references for available arable land in Africa vs China & India.
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
I would argue the presumption that college is critical to developing higher critical thinking is a damning indictment of pre-college schooling.
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by alex_stoddard 16y ago
You seem to have missed the point of the question "After all, how do you know that sales wouldn't be down 14% without the ads?". The commercial is not the only thing affecting sales. If there is some other factor driving sales down strongly

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