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by fernly 13y ago
And the people in the faster ships will be your grandchildren, yup. Plot of Heinlein's "Time for the Stars", pretty much.
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by fernly 13y ago
You need to differentiate from the long-existing BionX hub motors[0] which do regen braking at user-selectable levels AND allow proper 7, 8 or 9-speed clusters, unlike the single gear your pictures show. [0] http://www.bionxinter
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by fernly 13y ago
Here's another account of how to do it, in a very authentic voice of somebody who's done it more than once: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Telescope_Making
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by fernly 13y ago
> The typical life-span of a high performance rocket turbo pump today is about 30 minutes... before it renders itself unusable ... [and] will cost between $500,000 and several million dollars... OK, I am boggled...
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by fernly 13y ago
Amen. To me that article should be littered with [citation required] -- it is just full of wild assertions with no hint of reference to research. As in "Maybe a lot of the neurons in our brains are not just capable but ... motivated to
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by fernly 13y ago
I don't understand "You can then transmit messages... in plaintext." A message composed of SERHYTVXA etc is obviously encrypted. But another question: by how much is the system weakened if the pad data is nonrandom? Because I
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by fernly 13y ago
The number of "terrorists" -- or at least persons of interest -- could be much, much smaller. The NSA would ask for most of the people the person of interest had ever emailed or phoned, and everyone they ever emailed or phoned. I
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by fernly 13y ago
Back in the early oughts I spent maybe 30 hours over a couple months exploring 2L. Ultimately I got bored and stopped returning because there was nothing to _do_ there: it was a non-game game, an un-gamified life that was a paper-thin emula
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by fernly 13y ago
So what is the "fair market value" of a mortgage? Consider that immediately on sale, the mortgage contract was bundled by the bank and sold as part of a bundle of similar mortgages, and the bundle has perhaps been split, recombine
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by fernly 13y ago
The NSA keeps encrypted data (e.g. HTTPS traffic) for five years in the event that they might be able to decrypt it later if they need to. This is extremely likely with respect to HTTPS because the keys are owned by the ISPs who can be dire
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by fernly 13y ago
This is encryption that accomplishes nearly nothing. Your email messages themselves may be encrypted but the addresses and other metadata -- who you converse with, when, and how often -- is completely open. If you exchange mail with a perso
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by fernly 13y ago
I found the "browse a listener" page confusing and hard to filter. One, the multi-column patchwork effect is visually messy and hard to parse. I don't know how to fix it but perhaps a single stack of page-width rectangles? Se
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by fernly 13y ago
As a naive potential user I am willing to take the assurance of proper crypto and forward secrecy. What needs to be addressed also is the issue of metadata. It is the broad collection and easy analysis of metadata -- NOT content -- that mak
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by fernly 13y ago
Prodigies are extremely rare but do legitimately happen: kids who on first touching a piano or other instrument, play complete tunes etc. Kieron Williamson is in a list of visual arts prodigies[0]. Nevertheless the maturity and use of sophi
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by fernly 13y ago
Would be nice to have at least a link to a detailed spec of the supported RE syntax, for a not good example, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html
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by fernly 13y ago
Myers visits the Davies/Lineweaver speculations three times, in April 2011 [0], November 2012[1], and December that year. PZ is quite scornful in all three posts, but after all, he is a biologist specializing in developmental biology -
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by fernly 13y ago
Does anyone know if Amazon streaming does the same?
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by fernly 13y ago
I suppose "daux" is meant to be pronounced "docks" but a French-speaker would say "doh!" like Homer Simpson. Trivia aside, the front page does nothing to make the purpose or advantages clear. What is "cust
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by fernly 13y ago
The paper linked from the article is behind a pay wall but the abstract[1] is very brief: "A simple power supply is used to apply a 3.0 V potential bias across a microelectrochemical cell comprising two microchannels spanned by a singl
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by fernly 13y ago
Find a local Buddhist meditation group. They'll have at least weekly "sittings", often more frequently. Just recently this searchable list of north american sanghas went up: http://buddhistinsightnetwork.org/s
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by fernly 13y ago
No mention of the somewhat confusingly named Cython [1]? It addresses the same issues in a different way. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cython
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by fernly 13y ago
I think you mean the "CPython environment"? "Cython" is something else.
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by fernly 13y ago
His point wasn't "all fibre optic" but that by tapping specific routers, e.g. one close to Facebook where FB traffic is concentrated, the NSA can filter and store nearly all FB traffic while FB has full deniability. At the re
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by fernly 13y ago
Steve Gibson presented a good case[1] that the companies are telling the truth, but that NSA nevertheless has the equivalent of full access by tapping the tier-1 or -2 router nearest to each. Fiber-optic "splitter" makes the coden
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by fernly 13y ago
All of which brings back memories of Loglan[1] which was specifically designed as a tool for testing Sapir-Whorf, although in the end and after many years of painstaking development it was never used for that. Loglan has a successor Lojban[
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by fernly 13y ago
Could you use headphones, noise-cancelling ones perhaps, and music to isolate yourself?
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by fernly 13y ago
$69 for a download link for "Home" use? I would think if you'd designed something that would help dyslexics read (a genuine problem, a solution to which would benefit tens of thousands), you'd want it widely adopted, the better to help more
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by fernly 14y ago
So to reply to my own question, a minimal standard would be the first four code blocks, plus Greek, math operators, and box drawing symbols. Anonymous Pro and Andale Mono reach this standard, Inconsolata doesn't. A higher standard would be
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by fernly 14y ago
So which of these have a good complement of Unicode points?
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by fernly 14y ago
From the subject post: "I made a rather significant change to the formula... I've replaced half of the maltodextrin carbohydrates with oat powder, which ... dramatically increases the fiber content ... I underestimated the importance of fib

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