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by gpsx 11y ago
You are correct in your geometry, but you forgot one thing. The earth receives a smaller portion of light for stars that further away, but the number of stars at that radius goes up by the exact same amount. So from any shell the amount of
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by gpsx 11y ago
Without much research on my part as to accuracy, Google said Uber has 167,000 employees. So in a $200M payout she gets her $60,000,000 and Uber employees average $838.
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by gpsx 11y ago
And when it is all over I can see each driver getting a check for $2.37 and Liss-Riordon getting a check for $60,000,000.00. (OK, this maybe a slight exaggeration, but only a slight one.)
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by gpsx 11y ago
Life is too short for us individually. But I think it is interesting that life is probably just the right amount of time for us as a species, that is if evolution has successfully selected our proper genetic lifespan. If individuals live lo
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by gpsx 11y ago
That is true the left did not accuse Bush or purposely trying to destroy the country. But they did accuse that of Cheney and some others.
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by gpsx 11y ago
I think you are right. But maybe it can be made such that some segment of both sides of the population could buy into what it says. After all, contrary to the popular saying, there are not just two types of people.
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by gpsx 11y ago
Having grown up in West Virginia and now living Silicon Valley, I see extremes from both sides. And they both _really_ think the other side is dumb. And that the president (Obama or Bush) is purposely trying to destroy the country. It is li
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by gpsx 11y ago
There is a lot of talk here about income inequality being a fairness problem, but not as much about it being an economic problem. But if people don't have money they can't buy anything. If those poor people had more money they wou
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by gpsx 11y ago
This article assumes there is no filter used, and it makes a lot more sense to use a filter. Years back when I was doing this, we could set the filter constants to over smooth the line and cut corners or to undersmooth it for more zig zag a
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by gpsx 11y ago
Just to throw an idea out, surely not original...Http has a payment/advertising system added to the headers. Users decide if they will make a micropayment, view advertising or do a subscription to view a page/site if the site requ
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by gpsx 11y ago
We may disagree on whether to get people either money or money and something to do with their time as soon as we as a society no longer need it from them. On the other hand, I am firmly in agreement with you on wanting to see the the libera
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by gpsx 11y ago
I also would have no problem figuring out what to do with my time. I would pretty much do the same thing I do today, both at work and for my hobbies. My hobbies of the last several years have ranged from triathlons, auto racing, ballroom da
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by gpsx 11y ago
I think basic income solves one of two important problems. The problem it doesn't solve is what people will do with their time. I'd like to see a requirement that everyone work. The exact definition of work would have to be determ
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by gpsx 11y ago
I haven't thought about motorcycles or rotating bodies in a while so I am afraid to say this, but I think there is a missing force in that diagram. As the motorcycle sweeps through the turn, the angular momentum of the tires is changin
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by gpsx 12y ago
The point is that there are multiple universes, according to the quantum mechanics interpretation I subscribe to. So all of your options are true: 0, 1 and many. My position, which is admittedly no better than a guess, is that most universe
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by gpsx 12y ago
That is a good point. I agree with you. And people do have suggestions as to how life can be more probable than naively expected. But this answers the question why there is life at all as opposed to why we don't see more of it. My bias
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by gpsx 12y ago
This article does a good job of covering a lot of different ideas on this paradox. I have a problem with the idea of "big numbers" in it though, like where it implies 500 billion billion is nearly infinite, or that one-in-a-billio
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by gpsx 12y ago
Some people call it the many-worlds interpretation. I just call it quantum mechanics. An important part of this view is that the scientist running an experiment is not an external observer but he is subject to the same rules of physics. Jus
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by gpsx 12y ago
The tip would be going over 5000 mph relative to earth, not including the speed because of the snap. I don't know if it would float gently, but it probably would burn up once it hit the atmosphere.
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by gpsx 12y ago
So what happens if the cable snaps? I assume this would happen at the height of a geostationary orbit where tension is the highest. And this is an ungodly tension so I assume it would be pretty violent. On top of that the cable will not fal
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by gpsx 12y ago
I think this is a great interface. This is cast as a discovery system for public devices but I think it is equally well suited for remote control of private devices. The writeup indicates the beacons run in broadcast mode. I think it would