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by angstrom 9y ago
Yes, this is what I was referring to. Though there's probably another percentage that makes most rocket fuel also insufficient for anything more than LEO.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Having played several hundred hours of KSP I can confirm you shouldn't underestimate momentum. It's amazing that it's even possible. I think the number I've heard is if the earth's gravity was something like 10% str
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by angstrom 9y ago
Right, you might call these people manipulative, but on a level where they can camouflage their behavior. Bill Cosby for instance could possibly be considered one. His also seems more methodical. What's worse: 60 possible rapes spannin
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by angstrom 9y ago
High functioning sociopaths. A person can be an asshole and not know it. A sociopath knows they're not acting within acceptable social norms and hides it. These investors are sociopaths. An asshole will make a comment and not deny it.
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by angstrom 9y ago
I like that you mentioned the cost to replace. This is something heavily ignored right now for the fossil fuels. The cost to find and develop new wells is so prohibitive due to either the risk or the technical challenges that securing finan
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by angstrom 9y ago
That's just a formality. The implementation is trivial and left to the reader of any good DARPA project as an exercise.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Yeah, they missed including a pie chart and a gantt chart for good measure.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Not sure if sarcastic or sincere. You can damn near predict what will be the future tech 10 years down the line based on what DARPA is doing to make killing more efficient.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Right, noone is acknowledging SolarCity's pre-existing relationships with homebuilders. http://www.solarcity.com/commercial/homebuilders
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by angstrom 9y ago
This gave me cold chills about all too many academic projects which led me to question my understanding. Much older and wiser I realize it was the horrid projects that were largely to blame for imposing such horrid implementations as '
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by angstrom 9y ago
As far as I'm concerned these gravity assisted landings are technologically superior voodoo magic. The combination of materials, software and physics to accomplish the improbable.
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by angstrom 9y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if it's similar to the coatings placed on the launch pad stabilizers. The paint is meant to char because it acts similar to a ceramic preventing damage to the underlying metal. There's a good youtube vid
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by angstrom 9y ago
I'm still not convinced it's not an act. The guy would have to be unusually dense to govern with ignorance of both a priori and a posteriori knowledge. The greenhouse effect was discovered over 100 years ago, not placed on a napki
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by angstrom 9y ago
Thought that was cargo cult. Going through the steps of what was successful in a given situation without understanding the logic behind those steps at the time they were applied or perhaps the reason they worked in the first place assuming
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by angstrom 9y ago
I've looked at people's commit history at work and been astonished to see maybe 12 or so commits in the last year. They are maybe 4th or 5th year tenure with the company, but I guarantee pulling more than 200K. Think about that...
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by angstrom 10y ago
I would lean towards both being correct depending on how they looked at the data. If you did purely education level, degree field and years of experience related to position then I would expect minimal deviation. However, you can go further
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by angstrom 10y ago
There's also a fitting debate about blindly follow GS.
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by angstrom 10y ago
Some people get off on tomb-stoning large amounts of data. Let him have his moment. Tweets are equivalent to taking a dandelion that's seeded and blowing it into the wind.
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by angstrom 10y ago
Right, except in the hard tech areas. I suspect it will becomes a bigger differentiation when setting the standard. Focusing on chrome would be a waste of immediate effort. It makes more sense to work on the commonalities of the energy infr
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by angstrom 10y ago
I don't know there's any laws, but if there were I'd think Oregon and New Jersey would require it since they already do that for pumping gasoline.
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by angstrom 10y ago
Drive-thu pickup exists, but it's not widespread. Where I grew up in Ohio there's a chain that has had grocery loading since at least the 80s. You drive up, give them a number and they put the groceries in your trunk.
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by angstrom 10y ago
Right, most people have seen this trick performed with a broom handle or maybe even done it themselves. This is the same trick done from edge of space to sea level with a much smaller margin for error and a gravity well. To me it's fuc
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by angstrom 10y ago
And someone in AWS gets the 2AM pager wake up call. Kindle. Fire. I'll see myself out.
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by angstrom 10y ago
Marketing is like makeup. This is why "putting lipstick on a pig" won't make the bacon better, but it might make you think the pig needs a wig and push-up bra to match the competition.
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by angstrom 10y ago
This is my view exactly. The NSA/CIA/Pentagon are not new to the game. This is what it looks like when it's done to everyday people, the kind of thing Snowden was concerned about: http://www.nytimes.com/2016&#
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by angstrom 10y ago
The spoken word has so many nuances. Cadence, inflexion, tone, and then the facial performances are never captured by pure text to speech. You'd almost have to be able to set boundaries for seriousness, playfulness, innuendo, indiffere
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by angstrom 10y ago
More interesting are the shopping patterns like purchase frequency, the time periods between them, the kinds of flavors you like and other products you've not considered. Less insidious. More along streamlining your purchase process an
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by angstrom 10y ago
No, the interstates are a bigger joke. You'll see nothing, but make great time. What I've seen as someone originally from Ohio that's lived in NYC and Seattle the last 10 years is much of the culture is diluted because people
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by angstrom 10y ago
I've driven across the US three times. American culture is largely gone, coopted by cookie cutter homes, strip malls and wal-marts. It's a beautiful country though.
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by angstrom 10y ago
Right, I don't think that's dishonest. These were vehicles essentially already paid for by Tesla in previous quarters. The fact that they could still sell them is a good sign.

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