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Rocket Lab's successful orbital launch of the Electron Rocket(youtube.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Rocket Lab: Vehicle confirmed orbital Stage 2 shutdown, payload deployed(youtube.com)
4 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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It's a Unix System, I Know This(reddit.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
Hyperloop is a variation on the Vactrain [1], a concept that goes back a long time. The thing that made Hyperloop different was the notion that you didn't need a hard vacuum in the tube -- the air in a Hyperloop tube will be really th
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by curtis 9y ago
After re-reading the history of the Transputer, I wonder if instead of going all in on the T9000, maybe Inmos should have been simply trying to cram multiple T800 cores onto a single chip. I guess it likely wouldn't have made much dif
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by curtis 9y ago
I learned about the Transputer from Byte Magazine, probably by reading one of Dick Pountain's articles. I thought it was interesting enough that I wrote Inmos to see if I could get some free documentation. I think I must have filled
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The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants(theatlantic.com)
96 points by curtis 9y ago|27 comments
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'Ice Tsunami': How Climate Change Hurts the Arctic's Weirdest Mammal(theatlantic.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
In hindsight, maybe that wasn't the best example...
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by curtis 9y ago
It's true that fiat currencies only work well if they are managed well. And what we're seeing in Venezuela isn't even poor management anymore. It's more like you took a stack of paper currency and intentionally set it
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by curtis 9y ago
Is anybody even using bolivars in Venezuela anymore? I've been assuming people are using dollars and euros as much as possible.
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Dakota Fire Hole (2012) [video](youtube.com)
15 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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Urban Housing Solution That Has No Good Name(theatlantic.com)
60 points by curtis 9y ago|31 comments
764.
by curtis 9y ago
I can't help but think that the California bullet train is solving the wrong problem. How much would it cost to extend BART into the Central Valley? And for that matter, extend BART all the way around San Francisco Bay? And can you
765.
by curtis 9y ago
I know jet aircraft have been tested with bio-fuel of some sort, but I don't know how they handle the gelling problem. I'm kind of assuming that the fuel tanks would need to be heated to make it work. On the flip side, if you wa
766.
by curtis 9y ago
Fueling ground transport with bio-fuels probably doesn't make long-term sense -- the economics for battery electric already look like they're better. Bio-fuels for jet aircraft may make long-term sense though, because aircraft ar
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Lithium chloride kills a honey bee parasite by a systemic mode of action(nature.com)
91 points by curtis 9y ago|29 comments
768.
Black Death 'spread by humans not rats'(bbc.com)
172 points by curtis 9y ago|50 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
The housing in California is probably most expensive in the Bay Area. On the other hand, poverty is probably disproportionately concentrated in the Central Valley, where I expect housing is very cheap compared to the Bay Area. If you just
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A New Clue to the 1545 Cocolitzli Epidemic in Mexico(theatlantic.com)
12 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Am I a bad feminist?(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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The Great Garfield Car Window Toy Craze (2016)(mentalfloss.com)
40 points by curtis 9y ago|39 comments
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‘Hypatia’ Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System(popularmechanics.com)
215 points by curtis 9y ago|67 comments
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This might be the best map of the 2016 election you ever see(vox.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond(centauri-dreams.org)
185 points by curtis 9y ago|45 comments
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Articles and Stories We Do Not Want to Read or Edit(theatlantic.com)
59 points by curtis 9y ago|14 comments
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How Birds of Paradise Produce Super-Black Feathers(theatlantic.com)
96 points by curtis 9y ago|19 comments
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Paper Scraps Recovered from Blackbeard's Cannon(gizmodo.com)
34 points by curtis 9y ago|11 comments
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Fighting Fires with Fire Grenades(99percentinvisible.org)
33 points by curtis 9y ago|8 comments
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A Hit Man Came to Kill Susan Kuhnhausen. She Survived. He Didn't(wweek.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments

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