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by gravitycop 18y ago
Avadhany [...] adds, "it is a completely new paradigm of damping." The article neglected to mention the similar Bose [Amar G.; MIT 1951] system, which also generates electricity: http://www.bose.com/learning/project_sound/bose_suspension
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by gravitycop 18y ago
if you believe that Facebook is worth $15 billion. Facebook is usually valued at $4 billion. http://blogsearch.google.comq=facebook+valuation+%224+billio...
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I think that would help reduce the volume and increase S/N. To address the hidden-jems problem, another idea would be to randomly serve up the second page (Page 2 of the front page), giving the hidden-gems a better chance to make it to the
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Southwest Airlines' newest competitor: Cisco telepresence(blogs.zdnet.com)
1 points by gravitycop 18y ago|0 comments
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by gravitycop 18y ago
http://www.goontarget.com tired of constantly cleaning up spills around the toilet – want your boys – big and small – to be more accurate?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Property taxation always seemed stupid and somewhat evil to me. Given a choice of income-, consumption-, or property- taxation, it seems to me that property-taxation would provide the least perverse incentive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by gravitycop 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472975
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by gravitycop 18y ago
For one thing, taxes are high in New York City, which makes everything expensive. The "maintenance fees" can include more than what might normally be considered "maintenance": salaries for doormen and superintendants, utilities, building mo
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by gravitycop 18y ago
They could add a noise generator to it. FTA: While Harley riders like to say "loud pipes save lives," the evidence for this is thin. If riders still want a rumble, North says he can always add it. (See "Teaching Cars To Sing.") http://
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Electric bikes will be silent. [...] Riding one of these is even more dangerous than usual, because car drivers [...] won't [...] hear riders. Source? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453184 Only 35 of the 4,727 motorcycle drivers k
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by gravitycop 18y ago
If technology manages to solve scarcity When has it ever failed to do so? http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource people won't have to do any chores any more. http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna5.htm "So how do I earn
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The meat, FTA: Called Mission One and designed by hotshot Yves Behar and his firm, fuseproject, the bike is both beautiful and fast. At a top speed of 150 miles per hour, it would be the fastest production electric vehicle of any type. [..
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by gravitycop 18y ago
what happened to him can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Violent confrontation is more likely to occur in a fringe area: http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/fringe.html Fringe areas are places "in between." And it is here that cr
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by gravitycop 18y ago
the result of [core criticality] is furiously boiling water. Not in a PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor If a nuclear reactor's core is not critical, that nuclear reactor is not on.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Interesting take on well known fact that people who identify heavily with something aren't very rational about being challenged on it A few others on the same topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer http://en.wikisource.o
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Reaching criticality is a normal goal for the operators of a controlled nuclear reactor (nuclear power reactor unit; research reactor; etc.). A reactor that has reached criticality is usually one that is operating normally. For example: ht
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by gravitycop 18y ago
traits like low IQ [...] can become imprinted on a person by working in a "low-status" job Could you be more explicit? Do you mean that holding a low-status job causes a reduction in IQ?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Parallels between the ants and ourselves [...] Some ants get forced into low-status jobs and are prevented from becoming upwardly mobile by other members of the colony. Is that what U.S. society is like?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Did I just see an Atheist trying to convert an agnostic to Atheism? I was barked at by numerous dogs. http://www.google.com/search?q=einstein+barked+%22numerous+d... http://kirtimukha.com/Krishnaswamy/Einstein/on_atheism.htm The bigo
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by gravitycop 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Blank lines separate paragraphs.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I do feel bad for not helping out the bookstore Why would one want to help out a bricks-and-mortar bookstore?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Wikipedia says "Yes": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot Russell's teapot, sometimes called the Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Also, would you please stop telling people what they believe? Also known as negation : http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/profile.html#tendency_t... Profile of a rapist [...] 3) Negating behavior or comments - [...] Does he try to t
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by gravitycop 18y ago
If you didn't create yourself [...] and (consequently) some other one did, how do you call it? Natural selection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
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by gravitycop 18y ago
the pay cap is only for companies that take government money. Yes, it is. Reed Hastings' proposal is, however, not just for companies that take government money. Perhaps a starting place for "tax, not shame" would be creating a top feder
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by gravitycop 18y ago
why, with a higher tax rate, is it going to take any less to get the same executive on board? The difference is that with a pay cap, no matter where an executive works, he gets paid the same. He has no incentive to compete against his pee
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by gravitycop 18y ago
That's interesting news. I had been wondering, myself, about the possibility of virtual YC-dinner attendance.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I have a strong bias toward whatever decision is made by someone who has significant skin in the game. The people with skin in the game are using telepresence, instead of flying. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470063 High-definiti
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by gravitycop 18y ago
From the article: Again, Gartner was saying the technology would take away $3.5 billion from the airline industry - this year. And that's just airline tickets. The total figure of corporate savings would also include room, board and other
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Gartner: Telepresence will replace 2.1 million airline seats annually over next 3 years(cable360.net)
3 points by gravitycop 18y ago|5 comments

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