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by ddeck 13y ago
>I doubt there is enough daily people traffic to warrant it otherwise? Sydney<->Melbourne is the third busiest air route in the world with 8 million passengers in 2012[1]. I'm sure there's more than enough "potenti
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by ddeck 13y ago
I hope that's a joke. As one reply here mentions, the financial press typically avoid pissing off the rich, but I would not include Bloomberg in that list. Bloomberg have been battling the government in the courts for years over FOIA r
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by ddeck 13y ago
>Religious people who believe in an after-life probably wouldn't Perhaps not the very devoted, but for the rest, I'm sure they would. Just as they will avail themselves of healthcare services if they get cancer, wear seat bel
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How Elon Musk Can Build the Hyperloop for a Tenth the Cost of High-Speed Rail(motherboard.vice.com)
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by ddeck 13y ago
>Hell, personal financial advisers generally take 1%, right? that'd be north of $177K right there. And surely a startup founder does more work than a personal financial adviser. An underground coal miner works "harder" t
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by ddeck 13y ago
It's always been related, but it's not the only factor. Packaging, assembly and test are the other primary components of manufacturing cost. You are correct though, that price (as opposed to cost) is going to include amortized R&a
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by ddeck 13y ago
Nice timing. Linode just forced rebooted the physical machine my instance was running due to an "issue" with their virtualization software about sixty minutes ago. I presume this means I can pay extra to have their staff bring my
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by ddeck 13y ago
NASA just funded a Texas company to investigate feasibility of 3D printing food for space missions: http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home/feature_3d_f...
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by ddeck 13y ago
Absolutely. Further highlighted by the link at the end of the story to a page on Tatsuo Horiuchi, who creates his artwork with.....Excel! http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel...
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by ddeck 13y ago
> I have a hard time seeing who would be harmed if software patents were categorically invalid. Let's add business methods and existing genetic sequences (thankfully that one has been partially corrected) to the list. At the very
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by ddeck 13y ago
>Investment is now running into sharply diminishing returns This can be seen quite clearly in the rising ICOR [1] numbers. The stimulus lead investment since the crisis has been substantially less productive, at least in the short term
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by ddeck 13y ago
Sure, but the conclusion drawn was that it indicated "no probe-building civilizations"
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by ddeck 13y ago
Ah, you beat me to the edit. Indeed, 100k
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by ddeck 13y ago
>the fact that we have not detected or seen any evidence of alien probes in the solar system suggests there have been no probe-building civilizations in the Milky Way in the last few million years How does that compute exactly? There a
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by ddeck 13y ago
Most of them. Evolution and Creationism present two diametrically opposed explanations for how the current state of life on the Earth came to be. To suggest that they can happily coexist is disingenuous. Certainly it's possible for rel
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by ddeck 13y ago
> I guess I don’t “believe” that the world was created in a few days, but what do I know? Seems as plausible (to me) as theoretical astrophysics Seriously?
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by ddeck 13y ago
>It's estimated the the 28-square-mile island (slightly larger than Manhattan) is capable of supporting as many as 400 hunter-gatherers Assuming this is accurate, I'm amazed that so much land is required to support a single i
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by ddeck 13y ago
Funny you should mention glass. Doerr's firm is backing it too through the Glass Collective. Doerr has been equally bullish about Google Glass. Still, Glass is fast developing a stigma, and it’s not even on the market yet: It’s been c
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by ddeck 13y ago
All this speculation reminds me of the hype surrounding the Segway launch. I recall it being being touted as a game-changer, a revolution in transportation that would change the way cities were built... [The Segway] will be to the car what
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by ddeck 13y ago
>The "five-figure and higher" line (repeated four times!) is pretty funny. I'm not sure of any other market where price estimates span multiple orders of magnitude. It is just a transparent way to get you to name a figure
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by ddeck 13y ago
From the image, there doesn't appear to be any vacuum. The tunnel is filled with air, which blows around the loop like a circular wind tunnel. I don't know anything about fluid mechanics, but wouldn't there be some serious fr
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by ddeck 13y ago
No, these guys: https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/CorporationsCanada/fdrlCrpDt...
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by ddeck 13y ago
The patent referred to: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
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by ddeck 13y ago
> I remember the Chrome timer code of years ago was careful to only adjust the interval when needed. From reading other bugs it looks like today's behavior is an accidental regression and will likely be fixed (until the next time it
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by ddeck 13y ago
> Citation needed. No idea regarding relative amounts/toxicity etc., but I presume they are referring to these issues: http://news.yahoo.com/solar-industry-grapples-hazardous-wast...
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by ddeck 13y ago
I guess the key difference is the sense of massive person power one gets from those older projects. Rivets and the like bear the unmistakable mark of human assembly. That said, I still find modern day mega engineering projects similarly imp
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by ddeck 13y ago
Humans seem to know how to run naturally. Run down the hallway in your house with no shoes on and your technique is likely very good. Strap on a pair of nice, thick, impact absorbing running shows and your technique often goes out the windo
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by ddeck 13y ago
I recall that the research I've seen on this in the past showed reduced bone density etc. only in serious endurance runners (e.g. multiple marathons, ultra-marathon) and indicated improvements in your "average" runner. Bone d
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by ddeck 13y ago
I would suggest that the author's description of the developer(s) as "incompetent" is somewhat more reasonable than your (implied) description of him/her as a "complete and utter jerk". Perhaps the author shoul
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by ddeck 13y ago
Some anecdotal support: I use a US VPN provider when outside the US to access geo-restricted sites. I've had the account for two years with monthly auto-payment via Visa and never had an issue. The fraud detection team at my bank calle

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