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by dublin 6y ago
Stealth coatings have proven to not be able to survive the real world on at least three major recent aircraft: B-2, F-22, and F-117. Stealth is nice, but a plane you cannot fly in the rain without destroying it's outrageously expensiv
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Government is always inefficient, even in the rare cases where it's not utterly corrupt. As Bill Buckley famously put it, "What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing—for 50 years. Then there would
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Don't forget that after the cancellation of the earlier Space Station (the ISS came much later) the "Shuttle" had no place to shuttle things to . Even after decades, the Shuttle never came even remotely close to its cost, r
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Snake Plisskin? I heard you were dead...
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In college, two of my roommates were tussling and knocked a hole low in the wall between the kitchen bar and the hallway. As the only one with much craftsmanship ability, I took the roomie who was to pay for it down to the home center to b
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by dublin 6y ago
Have a watch at the classic "The Glass-Bottom Boat" from 1966 - it has a decent view of what they expected would be near-future automation, much of which we're just now seeing as cost-effective.
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Won't say I haven't done this to order online glasses, but the point of TFA is that the real issue is that it should be quick , easy , and cheap to get an eye scan and updated prescription. Better yet, why can't we put f
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The real ripoff in getting glasses is the predatory market control of Luxottica - They are the one company behind almost any frame brand you care to name. The last glasses you take away from me are my $48 computer glasses from Marvel Optic
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THIS^^^ Especially important if you work for someone else. (If you're an entrepreneur, work and the rest of your life are just going to meld together, so in that case, one computer is handy, but keep separate emails, and I've fou
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We generally only reverse-engineer technologies from elsewhere (no, not other countries...)
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Keeping things is NOT free, especially for physical things like tooling/fixtures/equipment. It actually costs a surprising amount of money.
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You entire comment is monstrous bigotry of the modern. The B-2 was in fact the first large, complex product ever built entirely from a CAD database - a factor in its huge cost. As a CIM Manager for a major B-2 subcontractor, I can assure
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Configuration management, especially for black projects, is the one thing you can count on from the DoD and its contractors just as surely as taxes and waste.
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I don't understand this. I worked on the B-2 back in 1987-88, and two things about that program don't add up to having to reverse engineer anything. First, the B-2 was the first large, complex product in history to be entirely de
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You're assuming the myriad petty government tyrants will give up the control over our lives that they've seized. Let me know how that works out for you - history shows that never happens without violence.
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"Hate Speech" as you call it, no matter how distasteful you may find it, is protected speech under the US Constitution, and thus (if also not a threat of violence, doxxing, or similar) is permitted on Gab. I have no problem with p
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by dublin 6y ago
So what? If you happen to see an obnoxious Nazi posting, simply mute them and move on with your life. Personally, I usually don't even do that, because it's useful to occasionally comment on their posts (which are a tiny, tiny fra
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There are a handful of Nazis on Gab, as I'm sure there are a handful of Nazis on HN. One of the nicest things about Gab is its Mute feature, which allows you to easily to never see the really obnoxious idiots again. As for myself, I h
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I have not seen Gab ban blasphemy. Andrew Torba has been pretty clear that any speech that is legal under the US Constitution (with a few exceptions for directly/personally violent threats, doxxing, etc.) is permitted on Gab. A small
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The main reason they banned "adult content" was simply that porn posters will fill any available online free forum. Reasonably enough, as a forum aimed at free speech, Gab wasn't eager to pay the hideous storage and networki
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We are under no obligation to play along with those who pretend that their mental illness is normal.
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The need for shorts largely goes away if you make stock buyers hold for at least a year before selling. Remember, the purpose of the market is as a funding mechanism for companies to pursue growth and innovation, not to allow a bunch of &qu
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Owners of Standard Oil made more from the stocks of the companies spun off than they ever would had it been allowed to continue. That's one example of a breakup that led to massive growth in jobs, competition, and an entire host of su
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Perhaps employee count is be a more useful cap than money? It should at least be a factor. Not sure we really need many (any?)companies with more than 5,000-10,000 employees. Perhaps allowing more if the company manufactures physical pro
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Sounds like the Air Force still needs the F-20 Tigershark (killed by Ft. Worthless Jim Wright to protect the F-16 from competition) to bail out the F-35 Trillion Dollar Turkey. The F-20 may have been the last time an aircraft company ev
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It is quite likely that the brain's relationships are not just 2- or 3-dimensional, but rather very highly multidimensionally interconnected. When neural nets seriously hit the scene 30-odd years ago (I read a lot of the early papers,
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Has Maria Goeppert-Mayer had a stamp? She was instrumental in discovering that electron shells fill from the outside in (this is still not taught in most classes - see her 1955 paper) She was a Nobel prize winning physicist, and until the
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NCSA Mosaic was the predecessor to Netscape and Mozilla, and I think was the first browser to offer inline images. I remember going to Interop in 1993 and everyone was blown away by the demo of Mosaic and its inline images showing O'R
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Lena (or Lenna, spelling varies) is not anime - it's a crop of a Playboy centerfold that has been a standard bitmapped reference image for decades. It's been used in literally hundreds, if not thousands of academic papers on imag
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NO! The important (and hardest) part is NONE OF THE ABOVE. It's understanding the REAL WORLD PROBLEM that the software is intended to help with! Example: A decade ago I hired a Designer who had the potential to become a decent JS&#x2

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