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by grkvlt 11y ago
This is probably more related to the cost. Someone who can throw away USD 1500 (or similar, I believe it was that ballpark) on Glass is not only an asshole, they're a rich asshole, and therefore fair game. Never underestimate the way
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by grkvlt 11y ago
No problem, it was well-written enough that I wouldn't have guessed that! But, in that case, sure, I think you're seeing selective bandwagon-jumping because medium is trendy. I will be curious to see how many people publish on med
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I would challenge your statement 'most tech and startup-related bloggers' and suggest this is just the availability heuristic in action. Basically, some high-profile bloggers have moved, and the fact that they are high-profile m
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I have access to SpringerLink as an Edinburgh University alumnus, through their contract with the university library. This means I can download a large number of their titles (not just the OpenAccess ones) apart from some restricted content
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by grkvlt 11y ago
The launch service provider has the last say on the date of the launch. The customer provides orbital parameters, and the launch just needs to make sure that insertion happens. Delaying for weather is pretty common, and as long as the paylo
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I don't think you meant to say "snide" [1] which means "derogatory in a nasty, insinuating manner" but I can't for the life of me work out what you did mean to say instead before autocorrect (or typo) took ov
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Sort of... I knew I would get downvoted, mostly because of my failure at SpaceX cheerleading ;) I actually agree that SpaceX did an awesome thing, and really do understand that its more complicated, and difficult, and challenging, and so on
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I guess it's like Hilary and Tenzing being the first to climb Everest, and then someone else (can't remember who it was) coming along and doing it without supplementary oxygen. Just because that was harder doesn't detract f
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by grkvlt 11y ago
That's pretty much it. As I understand it, the difficult bit was landing your rocket safely after launching it 100km up.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
But the F9 first stage doesn't get to orbital velocity, either, remember. The achievements are comparable, despite the fact it makes SpaceX come second. Blue Origin was first with a VTOL rocket stage, as part of a space system.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
OK, explain how the landing of the SpaceX first stage was many times more difficult? They used different mechanisms, yes (suicide burn vs. hover-capable) and the purpose of the overall system was different, but they are both VTOL rocke
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Really, 'classless'? The achievement is landing a space-capable booster vertically, after an actual mission above 100km, which can then be reused. And, Blue Origin managed that first, no two ways about it. I think it's probab
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> If you really think privacy doesn't make any sense, post your name, address, bank account numbers, social security number, and any email addresses you've used. I'd be quite happy for my country's intelligence agenci
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by grkvlt 11y ago
It requires physical access to the device, which makes a lot of this information easy to obtain, especially at the time the catalog was created.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
The USA is not a police state. This is a catalog of tools with legitimate law enforcement and espionage uses, and I would hope that most intelligence services, militaries and national law enforcement agencies would have access to these, a
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I guess Israeli officials (or any other country with conscription) will all have had military training. And, for example, Ariel Sharon was a special forces commander.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
You may not have understood that properly. Hint: he isn't the one being sexist...
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> Nazis wore skulls and didn't notice they were the baddies You mean like the Queen's Royal Lancers [1] (17th/21st Lancers in WW2) maybe? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_Lancers
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Are you an Islamic terrorist? If not, then no - you haven't been targeted. It's a pretty simple check, at least for a first-order approximation.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Nope, Disk - That 256MB was spinning platters. At the time you would kill for 256MB of RAM, I guess ;)
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by grkvlt 11y ago
The same thing that stops people driving around with GPS and cell-phone jammers. That is, nothing, apart from the threat of prosecution if caught. This seems to be a common complaint about new technologies; people claim that somehow anti-so
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by grkvlt 11y ago
It's because they've replaced Facebook as the go-to company for describing your new startup. So, instead of saying 'I'm doing Facebook for gerbils' you have 'Its like Uber for buying marmalade' and so fort
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Agreed. Benoit Mandelbrot was the same; "When I discovered Fractals, which are a thing that I discovered, including the Mandelbrot Set, which is named after me, because I discovered it..." Wth some people it means I just stop list
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by grkvlt 11y ago
FYI - "The first lecture in a series given by Dr Peter Rowlands of the University of Liverpool on the Foundations of Physical Law. Further lectures will be uploaded after they have been given."
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I think you may be a bad cat _owner_ from the sound of it. All those behaviours are signs of an unhappy animal, partiularly urinating and defecating on furniture. Do you perhaps not devote enough time to interacting with your pet? Based o
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Brilliant, now we have free random points in theorem-space. Now what?
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Since each theorem has a Gödel-number, there must be a function f(x) -> {0,1} where, when x is the number of an 'interesting' theorem, f(x) is 1, and otherwise it is 0. So, we just need to find this function (or rather, its G
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by grkvlt 11y ago
The exclamation mark is absolutely what the 'bang' refers to. Or, depending on the microcomputers you grew up with - in particular the BBC B - it can also be rendered as 'pling' or 'ping'.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
From your cite: > "earlier orders intended to monitor a particular Lavabit user’s metadata." > "the documents indicate the bureau was still trying only to capture metadata on one user." > "while the metadat
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by grkvlt 11y ago
OK, I get that one could make that inference. And, having read more about them [1] I think I picked the wrong thing to rebut, as they are probably one of the better examples of "restrictions on expression." The others, I still con

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