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by cmsmith 12y ago
I'm not terribly clear on this either, but who exactly will actually have a quantifiable/taxable gain by this demerger? Yahoo the company used to have some Alibaba, and now they will not. Yahoo the shareholders used to have some Y
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by cmsmith 12y ago
For a counterexample, check the history of satellite TV in countries with media access laws [1, 2]. There is a lot of political room between 'western media is illegal' and 'we have a network of informants and will put your fa
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It seems like there is an opportunity here for a mosquito net that won't work as a fishing net. Could a finer mesh be air-permeable enough but not water-permeable? Or a fabric which degrades in strength when saturated with water?
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by cmsmith 12y ago
The same way that you can push a ball just to the top of a hill. Very carefully, because if you push it too hard it will roll down the other side.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It works exactly that way. Even in cases where you wait to tell the driver where you're going, it takes her only about 20 seconds to type the destination into their Uber app for directions, not the 'couple minutes' referenced
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by cmsmith 12y ago
As I recall there was no expectation that the bombs themselves would cause any significant casualties. The intention was for them to start forest fires, which would hurt US civilian morale and require manpower to put out.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
The Apollo program is a remarkably direct and relevant example of throwing money at a problem resulting in a quicker solution. There is of course a limit, but we're well below that point now. And with our current rate of experimental l
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by cmsmith 12y ago
No, but they are designed to take a lateral load from a vehicle impacting them. In the US currently that load is about 4.5 tons at any one point. In a bridge like this where the parapet walls are an integral part of the structure, that woul
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Except that in your scenario why would anyone mine at $20 and hold when they could just buy at $10 and hold, doubling their return? With super-low transaction and storage costs, there's nothing special about the BTC I mined relative to
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This kind of isolation is very interesting to me. There is a lot of space out there, and there are probably a lot of acres that only get one human visitor every 5 years. I'd give myself a 1% chance of noticing the rifle if I walked pas
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by cmsmith 12y ago
If the LN2 is still liquid, then it is boiling. If you had a pocket of LN2 trapped inside the ice cream, it would boil and you would notice your ice cream venting. If the LN2 was still liquid and dispersed throughout the ice cream, then the
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by cmsmith 12y ago
These are the same hospitals which charge markups of tens of thousands of dollars per patient. If the Medicare number of residents was really suboptimal, then more residents should allow them to treat more patients and make more money.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
In reference to the 100W power carrying capacity: That seems to me like a lot of power to be sending through a 0.5mm wide contact pin separated from the data pin by another 0.5mm. I see elsewhere that they have upped the voltage to 20V, whi
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Often university patent agreements are flexible, but agreements like 1/3 to research team, 1/3 to university (with some set aside for the hosting department), and 1/3 to the funding agency (depending on what's allowed by
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by cmsmith 12y ago
That's the entire point of history classes, and makes a lot more sense than saying "in your first class you will learn every fact between the year 0 and 1000, in your second class between 1001 and 1500, ...". It's much m
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by cmsmith 12y ago
The roomba achieves this through rather large contact pads on the base of the charger, which scaled up to car-size would be about 50cm across. What happens when my cat walks under my car and onto a large metal plate with a few kW of power f
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by cmsmith 12y ago
In the first place it's pretty hard to ignore the moral argument. If moral arguments are out, and we accept the thesis that population is bad, then it's hard to see why purposefully letting people suffer and die from TB is any bet
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This analysis and the xkcd one linked below both neglect the concept of staging - which could get you higher. As a first order try you could replace the human on the bed of guns with a smaller bed of guns supporting a squirrel - now you&#x2
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by cmsmith 12y ago
>The Dead Sea was subject to drastic climate changes in the past. “It was once much lower than today,” Lazar said. Yet over the centuries, natural processes prevented the sea from drying up. “At some point, an equilibrium will be reached
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It seems good to note that neighborhood power co-ops would smooth out demand fluctuations, but not necessarily supply fluctuations.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Except that apple doesn't want to sell computers for C$, because all it can buy with them is ditches.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
I agree. We definitely need to get rid of this arcane base 60 unit of time and express our speeds in meters per microyear.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Interesting video, but the title is a complete fabrication - no myths were debunked.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It is sad that with all the would-be entrepreneurs flocking to Silicon Valley and looking for startup ideas, they all shy away from 'hard' problems like disrupting the current ISP model.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This attitude is exactly what they are counting on - 80% of the people being oblivious to their crimes and 20% being upset but convinced nothing can be done. There have certainly been times when populist outrage has led to change or consequ
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Having lived only in DC and SF bay area, I find HOV lanes to be much faster relative to traffic in DC. The data is less reliable, but I also observed HOV cheating to be much more common in CA, and enforcement to be stronger in DC.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This is important, but what would be interesting is whether they will pay open access fees on top of your grant, or let you pay open access fees with your grant. The first option would obviously be preferable, especially since you can easil
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by cmsmith 12y ago
The negotiation tactic isn't surprising, no. I was commenting on the fact that he was using the fact that he didn't win the concession in order to claim the moral high ground.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Musk has said that the incentives add up to 5% of the short term investments and 1% of the long term costs of actually running the factory. I could see relocating the factory from Texas to Nevada for that kind of savings, but moving it to C
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by cmsmith 12y ago
He leaves out the part about how they unsuccessfully tried to demand such a payment with the old "I'll just take my toys and leave" play. >Then Musk talked to Sandoval about two weeks later, and the deal was suddenly off.

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