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by danielvf 9y ago
In the eighties, the US had missles with a CEP of 300 feet. The increased accuracy from the fuzes is irrelevant in terms of attacking cities. It only matters for attacking nuclear hardened silos. The US arsenal has been getting less deadly
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Humanity as a whole is probably better off. A core strategy of US nuclear forces for the past sixty years has been to increase precision and to reduce warhead size. The biggest US warhead ever was in service in 1954 - a 15,000 kiloton bomb.
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by danielvf 9y ago
Once I volunteered at a large tech non-profit. Between projects, I took over an unused desk in the sysadmin team cave. After lunch one day, I heard a loud noise. I went to the cave door - it looked out over a large cubicle farm. There were
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by danielvf 9y ago
Definitions: bitchx - an IRC client: http://www.bitchx.com/ efnet - one of the oldest IRC networks, founded in 1990
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Sorry, I should have said. It's a custom command I wrote.
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by danielvf 9y ago
[Not OP] One very surprising thing about the US justice system is that most first time inmates do not reoffend. A person released from my state's prisons for the first time doesn't go back 80% of the time in the next 5-10 years (w
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by danielvf 9y ago
Five seconds. I type ‘ngp CLIENT PROJECT’ I then have the latest versions of my project template checked out (front end and backend), site served by a local web server, a new database setup, a config file written to connect to the database,
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by danielvf 9y ago
Chris, the docs are fantastic!
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"Using the official numbers, San Francisco is $10 billion in the hole ($4.2 billion of health care liabilities, plus $5.8 billion of pension liabilities)." Then later, he estimates that the actual amount is approximately twice tha
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by danielvf 9y ago
She did a lot of that time walking. That's an average speed of 3.2 mph, which is just a hair faster than a brisk walk. Not to say that she didn't do something way beyond what most people have ever done. I once hiked 55 miles over
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An open source blockchain project I’m involved with just moved from Slack to Discord. Slack is designed for trusted teams and does not handle malicious members. There are several won’t-fix issues that drove us out: 1. Anyone can set reminde
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by danielvf 9y ago
Thanks for some real numbers!
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That fifteen minutes is for flying time in air taxi service. So you get into an aircraft ready to fly. I'm guessing two minutes of liftoff/landing and transitional flight on either end, and 11 minutes/22 miles of cruise in b
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by danielvf 9y ago
Strong agreement - no sane company would operate a taxi company at the current General Aviation safety rates. They are going to have to do a whole, whole lot better. Getting safer seems like it could be possible, but it's going to be a
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The Cirrus has a whole aircraft parachute - you can see it used here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J94sGh8fQN8
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We do seem to have different value systems. I believe applying energy to make human lives better is a great thing! Electricity usage in the western world is getting greener fast. Total usage is going down, not up. This isn't going to r
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by danielvf 9y ago
I'd love a link to that Uber cost number - I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around a car costing more than $100/hr to operate. Even a New York City cab, rented to a driver from a profit making cab company and including
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by danielvf 9y ago
It is for measuring what the air is doing (speed/angle) before that air is affected by the aircraft. It is something that's almost every test aircraft has. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-
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by danielvf 9y ago
I totally agree with you - getting this to beyond current single engine aircraft safety rates is going to be the challenge. However, they've got a far better starting platform for doing this than anything else I've seen. It&#x27
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by danielvf 9y ago
So there are two ways to control a rotor craft. You can adjust the angles of individual blades, changing this angle multiple times each rotor sweep, as helicopters do. This is expensive, complex, things wear out, and a safety risk for the a
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by danielvf 9y ago
Contrary to almost every comment here so far, this is both innovative and energy efficient. Let's talk energy efficiency first. Once it's up in the air, it's has a similar profile to a normal single engine airplane. A Cirrus
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Thanks!
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The second judgement is final. No appeal.
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Also Sri Lanka had something resembling a civil war from 1983 to 2009.
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For those wondering who Matt is, he’s a fifteen plus year Googler, ex head of Safe Search and web anti-spam, now acting director of the US Digital Service.
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The best surgeon’s knives and scalpel’s are still made with humans manually doing a bit of the precision manufacturing. This is almost all older people, and companies are delighted to get young blood in.
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I believe that means competitive rowing.
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The headline was: "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication". Hard to miss.
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Facebook was threatening putative actions against the satire site domain on the basis of the "False" Snopes rating, and Facebook was reducing the reach of the satire article in question and showing warning popups before users coul
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I looked through that list, and once you filter out the non-school deaths, it seem to line up with the article. For example, Rancho Tehama Reserve, California is listed as six deaths, but that was a shooter who killed five adults at other l

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