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by flashman 7y ago
This page is a subset of NASA's broader ebooks collection: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html
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by flashman 7y ago
People are using bitcoin to pay for cash, and vice versa. Besides drugs, that's its primary purpose.
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by flashman 7y ago
it's useful for less than an hour after submission in one city on earth
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by flashman 7y ago
You absolutely can (or could) see the Kīlauea's glow from Mauna Kea, especially if there were clouds for it to refract through, as you can see from the first photo in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10&#
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by flashman 7y ago
maybe it's stadium seating for a species that doesn't mind a few gamma rays
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by flashman 7y ago
this seems like a conversation to have on wallstreetbets rather than HN
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by flashman 7y ago
That's why I chose the term "intellectual property": it's a useful term for the issues around "creating a thing that's somewhat like another thing," even if it's not a super helpful legal term. I woul
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by flashman 7y ago
Great concept! Just one small issue: to "post hog" is internet slang for publishing pictures of one's penis. I am not kidding.
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by flashman 7y ago
I wonder how the photogrammetry aspect will intersect with intellectual property laws. The example used - scanning in a Santa Monica bar so that you can do reshoots without revisiting the location - would be an obvious example that might ra
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by flashman 7y ago
Zoom is integrated into our Outlook calendars (and pretty well, I might add), so I assumed the Share Screen function looked at my calendar, saw which room I was scheduled to be in, and shared my desktop to the corresponding screen. I suppos
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by flashman 7y ago
Ask them to unlock their phone and hand it over. Reassure them they can watch everything you do with it and that you won't use it to impersonate them, and if they want you to stop, the safe word is "I have something to hide."
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by flashman 7y ago
Depends if it's in Australia after a Northern Queensland cyclone.
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by flashman 7y ago
If a publisher decides to stop offering audio through RSS because it's easier to monetize it through Spotify's streaming ads insertion, where does that leave you?
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by flashman 7y ago
Here's the view I subscribe to: "Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cogn
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by flashman 7y ago
One of the issues around amateur radio operators is their age. I have a friend who, at 55, was the youngest member of his local ham radio club. It's just not a hobby many people pick up any more.
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by flashman 7y ago
still heaps of proxy culture wars to fight while straining NPOV to the limit!
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by flashman 7y ago
Kind of similar to the reason you'd wet a suction cup before using it: the water helps plug any small air gaps. But in this version, a fan spins the water and air inside the cup, with the heavier water being forced to the edge, and any
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by flashman 7y ago
To know if the universe is expanding, we need to know the following: how far away things are, and whether they're moving away from us. In an accelerating universe, there's evidence that things were moving away from us slower in th
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by flashman 7y ago
Ring can do more to protect people who re-use credentials that have been in a data breach. Like Google's better password protection in Chrome,[0] sometimes the stakes are high enough that the responsible thing to do is be proactive on
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by flashman 7y ago
Original article: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922
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by flashman 7y ago
A third party could do this if they wished. Savepagenow is one of several wrappers that can save an arbitrary URL's contents to the Internet Archive: https://github.com/pastpages/savepagenow Hook it up to RSS and
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by flashman 7y ago
So SpaceX creates the problem and sells the solution - brilliant business strategy :P
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by flashman 7y ago
Is this an okay simplification? • I want to send my password (44) to Google but don't want them to know it's 44. So I multiply it by 37 (Kc) and send 1628. • I also tell Google that the password is between 40 and 50. (Equivalent t
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by flashman 7y ago
please do a follow-up on the affiliate revenue from this article
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by flashman 7y ago
> Steam is not allowed to escape from the liner into any sewer laterals. In fact, sewer laterals are plugged by the liner and have to be reinstated (cut out) by a robot afterwards. Is there resin on the side of the liner that's plug
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by flashman 7y ago
I'm sure that some enterprising astronomer will release an open source way to remove satellite trails using orbital elements (if you know where your telescope is pointing and the current time, you can figure out which pixels contain sa
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by flashman 7y ago
maybe we could shift them some money from Adam Neumann's bank account
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by flashman 7y ago
Craw-thumper used to describe pious Roman Catholics, so it's interesting how it's been repurposed
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What to do if the Space Shuttle payload bay doors won't shut properly(waynehale.wordpress.com)
36 points by flashman 7y ago|1 comments
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Twitter Emoji Race(observablehq.com)
3 points by flashman 7y ago|0 comments

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