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by dm2 13y ago
ok, so $14M + parts and labor
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by dm2 13y ago
Even if it costs hundreds of millions of dollars, big woop. How much have we spent on F-35 research, trillions? And those things don't even work in space.
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by dm2 13y ago
Say they have a CAD model with different types of steel/composites for material. If they select the wrong type of material, or the wrong weight for that material is used, or the thickness of a material is off by even a slight fraction,
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by dm2 13y ago
The other key figure is that the entire submarine weighs 2,200 tons. The sub was 3% too heavy and it will cost $14 million to fix, big woop, worse happens 1,000 times per day all around the world.
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by dm2 13y ago
Our elected representatives might have decided that bypassing the FISC courts were acceptable. Is that not a democracy?
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by dm2 13y ago
So is this the real issue? Should there be an investigation on whether or not it's acceptable to issue gag-orders so leniently?
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by dm2 13y ago
"This is not some conspiracy theory. It's happening, and no one seems to care." Maybe people are afraid. If you accuse the NSA of committing crimes that are only slightly unethical (wiretapping US citizens), then you're instantly on "the li
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by dm2 13y ago
For under $1,000 you can easily build a significant home automation system. http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2315509011
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by dm2 13y ago
I might be wrong, but I don't think those are individual planets. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but all of those represent solar systems, and that means that each one has the possibility to have at least one planet orbiting it with condit
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by dm2 13y ago
That is a nice action you've created. Are there any use cases anyone can think of for this? It would be nice if it were possible to drag between windows, but that might be asking a little much.
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by dm2 13y ago
That's true. I've never considered that before. What limits space photography? I just realized I know nothing about digital photography either...
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by dm2 13y ago
This doesn't leave you awestruck? http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0803/lh95_hst_big.jpg I remember looking at that picture a while ago and thinking that it sucks that we'll never get to visit any of those million/billion/unlimited planets
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by dm2 13y ago
I would suggest integrating this plugin (or something similar): http://codemirror.net/
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by dm2 13y ago
This search has some good links: https://www.google.com/search?q=effect+of+earthquakes+on+tun... I don't have a structural engineering background so I'm having a tough time imagining how someone could make a train-track or hardened tunnel
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by dm2 13y ago
There will be a tipping point thought. Hopefully sooner rather than later, the major auto companies are going to have to jump on board with the electric vehicle industry and fully support EVs. What year do you think the last ICE vehicle wil
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by dm2 13y ago
You might be right, but the site being displayed seems to be primarily for more introverted people, which are already likely to be shy/cautious. I've never offered facebook exclusively on a site because of the fear that a smaller percentage
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by dm2 13y ago
1st: the Facebook only login is a HUGE turnoff for many people. 2nd: Videos need HTML5 support. If the Facebook issue is that you are wanting real people, then maybe you could create a "confidence" score for people to identify their trustwo
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by dm2 13y ago
Nope, but it does influence adoption rates, which was the goal of the subsidy. If .01% of cars are electric and the chargers are not conveniently placed, then everyone will continue purchasing a ICE vehicle. If 5% of cars are electric, then
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by dm2 13y ago
University teams around the country have partially filled that void. DARPA is doing some pretty neat things as well.
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by dm2 13y ago
I don't think many rational people would be against this type of surveillance. It's all about transparency and ensuring that those who use this great power are doing so for the right reasons. Every time a wiretap is executed, there should b
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by dm2 13y ago
even worse is that there is no cached video while seeking. Even seeking to a "loaded" part of the youtube video results in the reloading the video from that point. Rewinding 10 seconds results in having to reload the video, wtf?
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by dm2 13y ago
I think they're trying to best duplicate a real universities course listings.
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by dm2 13y ago
According to this site, it's fake: http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/05/24/xbox-live-breach-cla...
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by dm2 13y ago
>> By this logic no one should ever work on really hard problems. Maybe the key is that not just anyone should work on really hard problems, if you have an advantage or enough capital then nobody is stopping you. Someone with a PhD
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by dm2 13y ago
Somebody is really trying hard to spread this negative press against Google. The issue isn't even news, it's well known that Google and many other large multi-international companies do the Double-Irish to avoid taxes. Until Congress plugs
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by dm2 13y ago
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1213:_Combin...
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by dm2 13y ago
In today's society huge corporations have shareholders which demand and actually have the right to sue if a company does something which does not maximize profits. I agree with you that it is morally wrong and the companies are severely hur
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by dm2 13y ago
Yep. It all comes down to companies promising to donate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to public representatives the next year in exchange for votes which harms the United States. It's certainly corruption and almost treason, but
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by dm2 13y ago
They (Google, Amazon, MS, Apple, and every other large multinational company) don't have a choice, their competitors are doing it and stockholders could possibly sue for not preforming standard tax avoidance methods. A company losing billio
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by dm2 13y ago
Could the weather have anything to do with it? Could also be partly the lack of tourists or type of tourists, compared to warmer areas.

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