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by fxj 16y ago
how come that so many HN readers are so pro-nuclear? would that change if the fall-out from japan would hit the U.S. like the chernobyl fall-out hit germany in the 80s?
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by fxj 16y ago
why is this upmodded? it seems to me that here at HN many people have a very cargo cult knowledge of physics and radioactivity in special. hey guys, here is the message: radioactivity damages cells and finally kill you. stop the wishful thi
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by fxj 16y ago
here are some real data (sorry, in german): http://www.grs.de/informationen-zur-lage-den-japanischen-ker... there was a peak at 1.2 mSv/h when the meltdown occured. All in all the values are in the range of 0.4-1 mSv/h. At least a factor
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by fxj 16y ago
the ship personnel got the dose! http://abcnews.go.com/International/uss-carrier-ronald-reaga... "The maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship's force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than th
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by fxj 16y ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthq... : "The helicopters sounded the alert around 60 miles from the coast and the ship’s sensors also sounded when it was 100 miles north east of the plant."
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by fxj 16y ago
do the math: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/japan.us.nav... says the USS Ronald Reagan has been 100 miles away when "airborne radioactivity" was detected, and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthq.
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by fxj 16y ago
ummm half life means factor 2 in activity reduction. to obtain a factor 1000 in activity reduction you would have to wait 10 times as long. 300 years?
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by fxj 16y ago
FTA: "Some radiation was released when the pressure vessel was vented. All radioactive isotopes from the activated steam have gone (decayed). A very small amount of Cesium was released, as well as Iodine. If you were sitting on top of the p
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by fxj 16y ago
25 years after chernobyl, we still find contaminated material in germany. e.g. mushrooms and wild boar. so i would be VERY carful with such a bold statement as in the linked article. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/langfristige-folgen-vo
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by fxj 16y ago
cheap plastic and it looks like opening a tin can. i bet the whole thing dissolves after a year of usage. why didnt they build the ipad more in the way like the microsoft courier? this would be something that i would buy right away. it remi
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by fxj 16y ago
Why can't anybody write a decent javascript ide in HTML5 that uses all the goodies of multitouch and visual programming so that we can program on the ipad in a 2010s style. Something like yahoo pipes together with decent syntax completion a
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by fxj 16y ago
the smart cover might be a insanely clever idea, but it is also insanely ugly and looks cheap.
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by fxj 16y ago
would it be bad, if italian people would by milk, cars, etc from their own (italian) producers?
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by fxj 16y ago
Exactly! this means that german workers cannot get an increase of their salaries but some multi-national banks and cooperations earn billions. At the moment the european economy is more neo-con that the american ever was.
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by fxj 16y ago
http://www.manager-magazin.de/politik/deutschland/0,2828,736... Jeder Zweite will zurück zur D-Mark Every second german wants the D-mark back Date: 27.12.2010
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by fxj 16y ago
people in germany are very pissed about the "rettungsschirm" which guarantees in principle the bail-out of all the other euro countries (PIIGS, portugal, italy, ireland, greece, spain) because it is german money that is given to the other c
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by fxj 16y ago
hm tried it on mac snow leopard and all i get is an empty white frame. :(( i have kde3 installed on the mac. might that cause some problems?
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by fxj 16y ago
hopefully the R community is avoiding the same mistake that python did with python3000. my 2 ct to the future of R: a compiler from R code to LISP would more than fill the gap.
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by fxj 16y ago
archos101 $300, 10 inch screen, 1024x600, android 2.2, usb host and client. of course, not a us company ;-)
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by fxj 16y ago
IP = Imaginary Property
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by fxj 16y ago
and he edited the video so that the fluid flow looks smooth when the water reaches to upper most brigde. look closely at 0:43 there is something strange happening to the fluid flow. but alas great work!!
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by fxj 16y ago
how can i get one in germany?
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by fxj 16y ago
information is not all equal. recording from /dev/random is not valuable information even though it fills up disk space. the value of information depends very much on the context.
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by fxj 16y ago
The equation 4=x^x^x^x^x^x^x... is not solvable. Read the wikipedia article. x^x^x^x^x... either converges to a value smaller than 4 or does not converge at all.
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by fxj 16y ago
maybe you meant 4=x^x^x^x^x^x... cannot be solved because there exists no x that solves the equation y=x^x^x^x^x... for a maximum value of y which is a positive real solution of the equation y = x^y. Thus, x = y^(1/y). The limit defining th
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by fxj 16y ago
it was big news in europe and got a lot of coverage. also because 10000 german (among french, belgium, british, etc) tourists were in tunesia at that time and had to be brought back with specially chartered flights. almost everyone of my fr
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by fxj 16y ago
12 tones is not the only possibility. there is also a 19 tone scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_equal_temperament there are also some mp3 files using 19 tone scale: e.g. http://www.harrington.lunarpages.com/mp3/Jeff-Harrington_Pre..
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by fxj 16y ago
slightly different alorithm: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/div7-11-13.shtml
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Because every country is the best at something (Visualisation)(informationisbeautiful.net)
4 points by fxj 16y ago|2 comments
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by fxj 16y ago
Yes you are totally right. Furthermore: In relativity there is no "right now" moment. Two simultaneous events in one reference frame can be one after the other in another reference frame. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_si

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