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by curtis 9y ago
The author thinks that the physics of Musk's original hyperloop proposal aren't going to work out, at least with today's technology -- in particular he focuses on the difficulty of building a suitable axial compressor without
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The limits of Hyperloop(mappingignorance.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
> But in Puerto Rico, most people have about 10 to 15 percent Native American DNA. In one sense the original native american population of the Caribbean is gone, but in another sense they're not.
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Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?(motherjones.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
There is an alternative problem where there is no strong ownership in place, but code that should be changed doesn't get fixed or updated because nobody owns it. To get back to the point that I was trying to emphasize, a big problem
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by curtis 9y ago
In the software development field (and I'm sure other fields as well), we have this notion of "ownership" that means something more specific than lay people would expect. If someone "owns" a subsystem, they are not
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Wind Telephone: A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones(atlasobscura.com)
26 points by curtis 9y ago|14 comments
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Body parts “fall asleep” in English. What about in other languages?(ask.metafilter.com)
32 points by curtis 9y ago|28 comments
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Crayola's New Pen Writes on Any Surface Using Melted Crayons as Ink(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Doge pronunciation: How do you pronounce the name of the shibe doge meme(slate.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
This sounds like the federal government concluded that Damore's firing did not violate federal employment law. I think (but I'm no expert) that the issue of whether Damore's firing violated California employment law is s
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by curtis 9y ago
Cars aren't going away in Seattle. The bus is a good alternative, and maybe often a superior alternative to driving if you live near a bus line that also stops near where you are going. If your bus trip involves a transfer, it is a
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Diaolous – the multi-storey watchtowers of Hoiping(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
If you're looking for more reading on the Lead-Crime Hypothesis, Drum's "An Updated Lead-Crime Roundup for 2018" ( https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le... ) has a lot
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by curtis 9y ago
Separating out the confounding factors is definitely a big problem, but lots of effort has gone into just that. Drum has been following the Lead-Crime Hypothesis science since at least 2012. This blog post: https://www.motherjo
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by curtis 9y ago
This particular submission is a post from Kevin Drum's blog. He was a fairly well known blogger before he started blogging for Mother Jones, and his general political outlook hasn't really changed before or since. So regardless
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by curtis 9y ago
I think calling it blog spam is a little bit unfair. The Gizmodo article is about 1/4 the size of the paper, but nevertheless reads like the writer actually read the original paper and tried to fairly summarize it.
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Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at 8,000-Year-Old Burial Site in Sweden(gizmodo.com)
94 points by curtis 9y ago|51 comments
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Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia(smithsonianmag.com)
38 points by curtis 9y ago|4 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I feel like things went the wrong way with "Black Lives Matter". We were just on the crux of a "Police Accountability Matters" movement and then things went a different direction.
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by curtis 9y ago
> (Tuple unpacking is the clean way, but that has only recently been added.) Oh, I agree with you there, but that doesn't change the fact that ref/out parameters were a much, much better than the way Java forced you to do it.
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by curtis 9y ago
Java most definitely was not good enough in the 1990s. It's true that C# 1.0 was very close to a Java clone it still added a couple of very nice improvements such as value types and ref and out parameters making it much easier and cle
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A Basic Cohort Test of the Lead-Crime Hypothesis(motherjones.com)
49 points by curtis 9y ago|45 comments
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Rocket Lab Reveals Secret Engine and “Kick Stage” for the Electron Rocket(popularmechanics.com)
59 points by curtis 9y ago|13 comments
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Snakes Could Be Spreading Flowers by Pooping Mice(gizmodo.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Is Great. An Asshole Filter Would Make It Even Better(motherjones.com)
18 points by curtis 9y ago|23 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
Falcon Heavy may be the most massive current launch vehicle, but I think the Delta IV Heavy still beats it by volume. Like many people, I'd been waiting for the Falcon Heavy launch for years. But I was just thinking that the launch i
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Launch of Worlds Largest Rocket Delta IV Heavy with NROL-37 (2016)(youtube.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|2 comments
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The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet(gizmodo.com)
522 points by curtis 9y ago|255 comments
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Facebook's Coworker Dating Rule(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments

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