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by cmsmith 12y ago
The image here of all the states falling over themselves to impress the popular kid seems straight out middle school, and I don't see much for the supporters of Tesla or the state to be proud of. The fact is that if all of these states
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>who had constructed a perceptual model in which the sky was contiguous with the horizon, so that the moon was placed, as it were, in front of the sky, occluding it. I have been looking at this sentence for a few minutes, and still have
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Note: BT = British Telecom, a UK internet provider
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Making it fun to imagine the invention of the telescope on those planets. It would be like the Hubble deep field image, but MUCH more unexpected. On the other hand, who knows how much science and telescope-making would have been set back wi
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Based on these specs: https://store.spark.io/ this appears to be a complete upgrade * from the Spark Core, correct? So waiting 5 months will get you a better product at half the price? * it appears to be missing the option
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Please don't neglect to notice that this is not actually an article so much as a list of companies with cloud storage products, and that it doesn't even bother discussing the critical part of the title (that the race to zero is sc
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by cmsmith 12y ago
For those who are still interested after reading the article the information is taken from the author's book [1], which I just finished and thoroughly enjoyed/was terrified by. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Command-Con
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by cmsmith 12y ago
A couple things stuck out to me about the numbers: 700 satellites weighing 250 pounds and costing $1M each. 1. Is this being considered because it is the best way to make use of the excess capacity on paid Falcon launches? If you have, say,
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It sounds less nuts than imagining the guy with a cool t-shirt design to know anything about running a mail-order distribution business (i.e. Kickstarter).
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by cmsmith 12y ago
I'm not sure why this article is focusing on things like whether the reactor can fit on a truck, where you get deuterium, and how many coal power plants it can replace - instead of the actual question which is how they managed to produ
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by cmsmith 12y ago
[learn about this] Middle School Dropout [and how he] codes [a] chat program that foils [the ability of the] NSA [to] spy [on communication]
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Eh something like 1-10 pounds (5-50 newtons) max.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This is invariably the top comment in any thread here about 3D printing. And yes, if you're not in the habit of making things (whether for fun or professionally) without a 3D printer, then you probably won't find much use for one.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
It's not only not a major plus, it's a minus. Traditional taxi companies are forced by regulators to provide less profitable accessible transport in exchange for being given a monopoly on taxi services. Part of the way that Uber i
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by cmsmith 12y ago
As expected, you can see 5 green dots at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC. Is there anywhere else that we can do better at tying dots to individuals?
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Yes, it is a good thing for Nevada in that it is better for them than if the plant was built in California. But, it is a bad thing for the country that businesses of a certain size are able to extract this type of concessions from states. S
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Please be sure to read this article before commenting. It is NOT about Uber ordering fake Lyft rides to keep Lyft drivers off the street, as was alleged by Lyft last month. It is about: 1. Uber using the Lyft service to get in touch with Ly
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Note that Washington, DC seems to have received 17 military cargo planes despite not having an airport (also shows up on nytimes.com piece). Is it possible that this is a mistake?
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by cmsmith 12y ago
I'm a structural engineer (PhD sounds awkward to say but seems relevant here) doing research on buildings and earthquakes/fires. I have always been competent/interested in programming style hacking, but resistant to moving aw
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by cmsmith 12y ago
In my experience with cars with valet keys: The valet key cannot unlock the glove box, and there is a switch in the glove box to disable the drivers seat trunk switch.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
>Projects from charter, magnet, and KIPP schools, and projects from Teach for America teachers tend to be more successful regardless of gender, and happen to have more male teachers, so we filtered them out of the data to eliminate that
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by cmsmith 12y ago
See [1] for what a developer can do when exposed to this exact problem. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI#t=558
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This is a good point, and illustrates (1) the magnitude of what we are stealing from future generations and (2) that it would be economically disastrous to try to make that difference up overnight via a 200% carbon tax. However, there is no
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by cmsmith 12y ago
More likely, and perhaps even more fun, would be a moon that was almost in geosynchronous orbit. What would be the effect on civilization and the biosphere if instead of 1 meter tides with a 12 hr period we had 100 meter tides with a 100
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by cmsmith 12y ago
Certain species of cicadas have evolved a life cycle which is a prime number of years long (I know of 13 and 17 years). This prevents predators from synchronizing their life cycle to that of the cicadas.
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What is interesting to me is that 36 pixels is also about the size of the best image we have of Pluto, a [formerly known as] planet in our own solar system.
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20% of humanity lives in the US and Western Europe alone.
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Missing from this press release, though not from the journal paper, is the unstable effect of ocean currents on water temperatures. The fact that the oceans have a straight shot around Antarctica at the moment generates a huge ocean current
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Also: People switching car insurance providers saved money. Those who would have spent more money probably chose not to switch.
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by cmsmith 12y ago
This analysis ignores the fact that it might be beneficial to buy tickets more than 14 days before your trip (an idea which always seemed like common sense to me). The idea that fares rise monotonically for the last two weeks doesn't m

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