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Global Cooling Is Here (2013)(forbes.com)
2 points by gibsonf1 9y ago|1 comments
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
A link to the next generation TMD's to handle earthquakes: tuned mass blocks, orthogonal poles, and torsional pendulums (TMDPP) : https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sv/2017/5834760/
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
I meant standard for the really big buildings under the highest stress. For lesser challenges, agreed, non-standard.
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
I don't agree with Klemencic on this - given a big enough earthquake with large enough building sway (imagine a tower being a vertical beam with the base fixed and the top swaying back and forth) the structure can fail such that the mo
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
High rises in general are designed to sway in an earthquake - that sway absorbs the horizontal forces being applied - similar to a tree. If an earthquake gets sufficiently large, say larger than any known measured earthquake to date, that
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
As an architect in San Francisco, I would definitely prefer to be in a modern high rise here over other buildings for safety purposes during an earthquake. I am highly skeptical of this article as I have in depth knowledge of seismic engin
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Mozilla creates Firefox extension to prevent Facebook from tracking you(mashable.com)
1 points by gibsonf1 9y ago|0 comments
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
I highly recommend this now free book: https://www.gilb.com/p/competitive-engineering A metric-based approach to systems engineering focused on continuous improvement and adding value.
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
Maybe take a more scientific approach at showing carbon counts? For example, what were the carbon counts 1000s/1000000s of years ago as compared to now? Was carbon ever higher in the distant past than now, for example before humans?
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by gibsonf1 9y ago
Provocative in the sense that we have far too much evidence of the destructive force of communism, most recent example Venezuela.
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Semantic Data Lake for Analytics – AllegroGraph(allegrograph.com)
3 points by gibsonf1 10y ago|0 comments
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by gibsonf1 11y ago
There's always virtualbox
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by gibsonf1 11y ago
The Marin County Civic Center is Wright's last building, although very good definitely not the most grandiose. That honor probably goes to the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo that unfortunately was demolished. For still extant buildings, the
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Ray Kurzweil: Humans will be hybrids by 2030(money.cnn.com)
12 points by gibsonf1 11y ago|10 comments
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop Gets Its First Funded Startup(thenextweb.com)
3 points by gibsonf1 12y ago|0 comments
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Scientists balk at ‘hottest year’ claims: Ignores Satellites(climatedepot.com)
4 points by gibsonf1 12y ago|5 comments
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by gibsonf1 12y ago
What is interesting about the article is that it clearly points out how destructive the Central Banks are in trying to manipulate the economy, but ends with blaming the private bankers. It is abundantly clear from economic history that Key
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How standing might be the best anti-ageing technique(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by gibsonf1 12y ago|0 comments
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by gibsonf1 12y ago
Eric Cantor proved that you can't buy an election with money. Ideas ultimately are what count in an election, and to the extent that any good ideas are removed from the public realm with this scheme, we all lose. The last thing we wa
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If Tesla Would Stop Selling Cars, We'd All Save Some Money(forbes.com)
3 points by gibsonf1 12y ago|2 comments
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Is the bizarre Sky Whale the future of air travel?(foxnews.com)
1 points by gibsonf1 13y ago|1 comments
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by gibsonf1 13y ago
You've hit on the key point: human scale. Although Rudolph was quite good at human scale in his buildings unlike so many current architects, the absolute master of human scale in architecture was Frank Lloyd Wright.
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by gibsonf1 13y ago
I worked for Rudolph in New York and can say without hesitation that he was very passionate about design and human perception of the spaces he designed.
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Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database(rare.us)
2 points by gibsonf1 13y ago|0 comments
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6 Months Of Someone's Phone Metadata(businessinsider.com)
1 points by gibsonf1 13y ago|0 comments
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by gibsonf1 13y ago
The key issue here is that Google and the other companies may have no idea this is going on. My read is that the NSA has managed to gain access to the data centers either through inside help, spy craft, hardware/router back doors, or
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New internal combustion engine could boost electric cars(foxnews.com)
1 points by gibsonf1 14y ago|0 comments
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by gibsonf1 14y ago
Interesting theory - can you explain why, then, that the most regulated economies ever, such as the former Soviet Union or former East Germany, were the most polluted? Interference in the free market causes chaos, such as our current econo
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by gibsonf1 14y ago
The main argument against it is that many people loose their jobs when the minimum is raised for those who can't provide that much value to their employers. Any interference with the free market never results in a good thing. Note that th
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Google flexes its Googleplex with planned expansion(news.cnet.com)
1 points by gibsonf1 14y ago|0 comments

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