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by black6 7y ago
That's where the MMORPG is supposed to pick up.
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by black6 7y ago
Airspace is much less crowded, much more controlled, and military drones don’t need microsecond response—their missions are largely ISR with the occasional extrajudicial bombing with a lag-time > a few seconds anyway.
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by black6 7y ago
> Thewes said the rollout of 5G technology, vital for electrification, was lagging. Why is a cellular network standard needed for electrification?
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by black6 7y ago
> As a result, even a manual is not enough: all the arbitrary gestures that control tablets, phones, and computers have to be memorized. Everything has to be memorized. If they’re documented at all. I only discovered the difference in
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Rationale for an “Astroelectricity” Program(thespacereview.com)
3 points by black6 7y ago|0 comments
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by black6 8y ago
And congressionaldish.com
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by black6 8y ago
The new plastic appears to be a vitrimer, which is a class of thermoset, so not well suited as a replacement for the types of polymer plastics that tend to junk up the environment (thermosets, because of their durability, tend to have very
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by black6 8y ago
Using a phone wile driving is one of my pet peeves, but this doesn't seem like an effective approach. If a problem person is already distracted (not a false-positive), will they even pay attention to the flashing sign? Just last night
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Computational Irreducibility in Economics (2012)(strangerousthoughts.wordpress.com)
1 points by black6 8y ago|0 comments
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by black6 8y ago
It looks like the the rider/pilot is expected to ride hunched over the ducted fan (?) intakes. I suppose it offers a lower center of gravity and is safer than the open rotors of the "flying motorbikes" the Dubai police were t
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by black6 8y ago
> In particular, I find independent podcasts like Sam Harris or Dan Carlin to be FANTASTIC, and that content is free for all to download in multiple ways. So, I'm not worried in the slightest. This. Dan Carlin is fantastic and I enj
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by black6 8y ago
Native advertising... After Craig Newmark effectively killed newspapers’s No. 1 source of revenue, they had to turn to other means of generating ad sales.
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by black6 8y ago
And melt it! http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1004040/melt_a_frickn_beer_bot...
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by black6 8y ago
You need two piles of money to start a business (and let’s look generally outside the box of a tech startup): 1: the money needed for initial purchase of equipment, licensing, real estate, etc. 2: three-years worth of operating expenses. I
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by black6 8y ago
This story brings to mind the propublica article submitted to HN a week ago on the USS Fitzgerald[0]. At what point does a ship’s captain refuse to put to sea because his vessel is unseaworthy? Does it happen frequently and these are just e
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by black6 8y ago
There is so much good CC music out there, I don't feel the need to pay for a music service. Amongst Soundcloud, the Free Music Archive, Bandcamp, and Jamendo there are lifetimes of new music available for enjoyment out in the Creativ
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by black6 8y ago
He wasn't a denialist. In the afterword he explicitly said he believed in a warming climate, and that the climate would warm by 0.8-ish degrees (somewhat tongue-in-cheek, referencing all the confidence that is espoused by the researc
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by black6 8y ago
I’d like to add that passenger buses are rollover-rated, as well. The “residential” area of a typical RV is balsa wood and paper* and a lot less safe. * I kid, but they’re not much stronger than that.
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by black6 8y ago
The Congressional Dish podcast[0] by Jen Briney is a fantastic resource, for those of us who don't want to watch committee hearings or read the scrawlings of Congress. She mixes in a bit of opinion, but she presents the facts and, sinc
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by black6 8y ago
Check out The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford, specifically the second volume The Pentagon of Power , which gets into the idea of the modern "megamachine"
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First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth(nature.com)
1 points by black6 8y ago|0 comments
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by black6 8y ago
It’s not just a story they smell, its $40B in advertising the traditional media is losing to Facebook in addition to people using FB as a news source — once the domain print, radio, and TV.
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by black6 8y ago
I bought one for my father years ago after reading about it on a blog usually devoted to firearms[0]. My father used to remark on how he always took a more satisfying dump when he had to squat out in the woods while hunting. I do enjoy usin
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by black6 8y ago
Why is it always FUD associated with climate change? Are there no good eventualities? Longer growing seasons and more arable land come to mind as possibilities. Is it because you cannot get funding for your research/nonprofit/NG
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by black6 8y ago
> Profit margins on US made trucks have been much larger than autos for a long time(mostly due to this tax) I think it may have more to do with selling fuel efficient compact cars and sedans at a loss in order to sell enough to offset th
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by black6 8y ago
When we sit children down to do low-grade, menial clerical tasks for eight hours a day with minimal breaks, what do we expect?
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by black6 8y ago
As my bunk mate in prison yelled out one night out of the blue: “This fucking sucks! There ain’t one good goddamned thing about this place!”
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by black6 8y ago
The war was extended for a sound byte. The elite Powers that Be let these young men continue to kill each other for a cute quote for the history books: “And on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the guns fell sil
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by black6 8y ago
I recommend The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins. The definitive guide to humanure composting, and the best reference for general composting I've read.
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by black6 8y ago
When I was a brewer, we retrofitted our chiller from R22 to R410A (had to change compressor oil to POE, but was otherwise a seamless transition). The techs from the shop we contracted to do the changeover let all that R22 bleed off into the

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