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The Strawberry Tree: Student-designed free solar mobile charging station(ideation-nation.com)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Granted the thermodynamics lesson is all well and good. The more interesting point is in the making of ice cubes (or spheres). Apart from pitching some product, it's the water. Sufficiently purified water (ie reverse osmosis) produc
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by ballard 13y ago
Interesting. Does this seem like an opportunity to measure reputation from influence, results and funding utilization? Is any site (lexis, etc) already trying this?
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by ballard 13y ago
20 m€ on rigor: Institute the "ten {wo,}man rule" http://impruvism.com/world-war-z/ And more readily, easily reproducible experiments. And regular joke / high-quality fake papers.
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by ballard 13y ago
Neat. I was fortunate to attend an over-achiever public hs with half a dozen perfect SATs and full rides to Ha'var-d. The prevailing view was "legally-mandated prison, CWOT." The best thing was finding ways to take classes
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by ballard 13y ago
Noice. =) Expounding would kickass, both kinds. ; D
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by ballard 13y ago
It's funny you mention that.... I implore 'cperciva to consider a glacier-level service. It is hard to compete with backblaze, but capping network bwdth is proly one way to skin that cat.
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. Literate programming + clear not clever + less is more (doc and code must all serve a purpose.)
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by ballard 13y ago
Great claims require greater proof. Is it possible to get some more 1st-hand details and interviews to support these claims?
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by ballard 13y ago
This makes sense, since vying for cross-platform tends to result in awkward experiences like the windows Treo. Using MVC, it's more straightforward what components are specialized per OS and which ones are common. Not only that, having
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by ballard 13y ago
Tarsnap is the only sensible backup provider given the recent history of warantless secret searches in America. SpiderOak is also a contender for file sharing. Both use end-to-end encryption knowable only to the end-user.
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. That's been the standard practice for the past 10 years, to avoid having to request media from an offsite vendor. Used to use VSS on SANs. (Tested backups are the first three rules of IT.)
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by ballard 13y ago
LTC GPU mining makes more sense. Right about when BTC ASICs started to appear, there was a thread in bitcointalk that LTC GPU mining made about 30% more than BTC at the time, so commercial miners were switching over.
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by ballard 13y ago
The other point of clients is not that they're inherently good or bad, but that handling them determines the dynamic of the relationship. If a consultant appears eager and willing to do something for nothing, they can't blame the
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by ballard 13y ago
This just in: Dogfooding is for dogs. Drink your own champagne. It follows its own advice. Good job.
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by ballard 13y ago
I like this article. The takeaways are the takeaways, including how fast one can learn and adapt. The especially salient point is that book learning and planning are all well and good, the reality of trying something in the real world is a
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by ballard 13y ago
I've lived in Shepherd's Bush and to the south by train. The commute from the 'burbs is grueling, but the cost differential is hard to ignore. (Hotels in London are naked extortion.) The palpable sentiment is the average pe
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by ballard 13y ago
Branson writes on http://virg.in/on : "We are fortunate enough to live on Necker, the most beautiful place in the world, because it is our home where we can live life to the full. I have not left Britain for tax reason
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Local physical infraxture attacks on Arkansas power grid(thv11.com)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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Richard Branson helps build non-profits from Necker Islan(virg.in)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Suppose to ensure anonymity, let's call a hypothetical anonymous, encrypted mixnet overlay service : Cone of Silence. CoS has two types of N nodes: relays R and clients C (Csrc wants to send packets to Cdst). Every nodes, N, talks to e
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by ballard 13y ago
It's an interesting footnote to history that the southern US had endemic malaria prior to 1949. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication_P...
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by ballard 13y ago
Why waste so many batteries? Ultralife last a lot longer ($4.50 bulk price / 8 years) per cost than alkaline ($1.50 bulk price / 1 year) and are less work.
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by ballard 13y ago
Would the severity of a default effect the value of currency very inelastically because any weakness signals a tip of an iceberg?
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by ballard 13y ago
Oh god, LTCM. Beware of investors that have no demonstrable controls against automated/HFT pouring of more of my money into a black hole trying to "win" back their losses. The Trillion Dollar Bet is also a good, high-level d
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by ballard 13y ago
It sounds absolutely ridiculous to pay someone else to do what the police are getting paid to ostensibly do. It also further divides a community between protected and unprotected. Perhaps someone that knows more about OPD could chime in: 0
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by ballard 13y ago
EDIT: None of these links or google search work on mobile. UPDATE: This works: http://t.co/XaCuSEJbOK
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by ballard 13y ago
IIRC from a recent HN discussion, ITER has attained Q of 0.65 and NIF is nowhere close to that.
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by ballard 13y ago
Are you really so poorly mannered as to chime in and start throwing nasty names around? That genius you replied to takes one point to make a political statement, not contribute anything to the conversation and then slips into to the gutter
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by ballard 13y ago
Would fusion only weapons be covered under any existing non-proliferation or test ban treaties?

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