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by gonvaled 14y ago
A well raised person can probably offset his net direct impact. The point made by Stallman is that this person has no possibility to asses (much less offset) his descendants impact (children, children's children, ...) To make sure you are
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by gonvaled 14y ago
And DU would be ...? EDIT: I think you meant Tungsten, also known as Wolfram (symbol W): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten Gold: 19.30 g/cm3 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold ) Wolfram: 19.25 g/cm3 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun
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by gonvaled 14y ago
I have always wondered about this: are you able, with simple methods and no melting, to guarantee that a gold bar is a gold bar, with a 99,99% certainty? By producing a gold-coated bar: - density could be faked by putting something else in
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Sure, you are perfectly right. The reason why I point it out is that, even though I was familiar with the story, reading that gave me the impression that Adria was the first to be fired. I had to re-check the facts to make sure I was not mi
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by gonvaled 14y ago
So it is confusing at best. It is glossing over the main reason why people were upset - which is why Adria was fired: she was a developer-relations person, and developers were upset with her, which prevented her to perform her job.
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Mmmm. Nonononono! This is the relevant part: "Yet only last week a woman of color, Adria Richards, was publicly fired from her job at technology company SendGrid, following a massive online campaign of rape and death threats, racial slurs,
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by gonvaled 14y ago
"Shortly thereafter, one of the men was fired by his employer, who hinted at multiple contributing factors beyond the jokes" Isn't this completely wrong? Wasn't the engineer fired long before Adria was fired? Wasn't the vitriol towards Ad
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by gonvaled 14y ago
And sorry, I was referring to air balloons (as "flying machines"), not to party balloons. Those are indeed very simple, as you mention.
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Floating buildings? Floating roads? Crazy things ...
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by gonvaled 14y ago
I was assuming the material is rigid (which is wrong). So my idea (continuing the suggestion of parent) was to put / remove air from the surrounding volume to the mylar balloon (which means, in the aerogel) to modify the density of the syst
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Great idea! How to control buoyancy? I guess you need some ballast to keep the whole system close to air density, and a pump to put / remove air, for fine tuning depending on conditions (temperature, ...) and what you want to do (go up / do
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Yes, but a 30% cut gives them all incentive in the world to further destroy the open marketplace (html). I do not have evidence that it is happening - but this must be an Apple goal. Simply because of how they are profiting from this arra
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Well, this is hair-splitting, but I'll bite. A company can be considered (by me) a "good-guy" if: 1 - they do not want to steal from me (by using legal tactics to shut down competitors) 2 - they are not making my life difficult (by actively
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Sure, but those are not design-related patents, or natural-gesture patents, or for that matter designs based on principles being part of human society for centuries ("slide to unlock" anyone?) "Nokia finally claims multi-million dollar vict
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Sure there is no good-guy and bad-guy here. But there is a better guy, and a worse guy, and that largely depends on what you value most. For me, the tactics of Apple using legal methods to try to squash competition are a huge red flag, beca
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Makes a very good point. And it is exactly the same reason why torture is illegal: a sufficiently scary threat will make anybody confess of anything. The plea system is institutionalized torture.
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by gonvaled 14y ago
This is a matter of opinion, but here is my take: Microsoft has single-handedly delayed the progress of the Internet for over a decade. We have a very confusing environment, which we are painfully leaving behind, simply because they tried t
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Putting long-accumulated carbon back into the atmosphere does not look green to me (unless reaching the very-high levels of CO2 that were present several hundreds of millions of years ago can be defined as 'green') Biomass is green because
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by gonvaled 14y ago
But it seems to me that Beanstalk and Celery accomplish the same thing. Am I mistaken?
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by gonvaled 14y ago
Can somebody compare celery to beanstalk?
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by gonvaled 15y ago
Your "experimentation phase" did not ended by magic. It ended, among other, thanks to regulation: http://boingboing.net/2009/02/15/european-commission.html Without that interference in the invisible hand of the market, your cellar would b
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by gonvaled 15y ago
Sure, experimenting is a great way to reach an optimum solution to a given problem. Now please, go to your cellar and tell me for what kind of experiment are those 40+ different chargers that you have for all your devices, which most of the
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by gonvaled 15y ago
Which is a clear display of one of the major flaws of capitalism: duplicity just for the sake of having a competitive advantage. It just makes me sad to think about how much effort, materials, knowledge and time has humankind wasted in work
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by gonvaled 15y ago
"In conclusion, Google+ and “Search, plus Your World” isn’t about making the web or search better. It’s making directed advertising better." Indirectly, Google et al must make search better, because otherwise we (the "product" being sold)
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by gonvaled 16y ago
Could it be possible to get some info on how you built that site? Frameworks, technologies, tools, ... I am new to this, and trying to learn a bit.
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by gonvaled 17y ago
If you ever come to Düsseldorf, drop an e-mail. gonvaled at gonvaled dot com.