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8 points by grondilu 9y ago|3 comments
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by grondilu 9y ago
The most ambitious one imho is qbitcoin[1]. It's based on quantum teleportation and quantum digital signatures. That gives it quite a low Technology Readiness Level[2], but hey, we see articles about actual implementation of quantum
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by grondilu 9y ago
lol, good point.
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This reminds me of something I have been wondering lately : what is the ideal size for a country? I mean, most borders nowadays are remnants of a very different world where kings were continuously fighting to maximize their territory, or a
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> How could anybody hate me when they didn’t even know me? That's an easy question to answer. People are not islands. They conform to stereotypes, culture, so at least to some degree one can group people into common patterns of be
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There is a rich legal background surrounding mergers and acquisitions in financial markets, not to mention the antitrust laws. The French government can even write new laws if need be. France is only theoretically capitalistic, in practice
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Well, now that I think about it, Arcelor was bought in 2006, despite public hostility. But really, Carrefour is a big name in France. If Amazon buys it and the government either does nothing or fails to prevent it, the French left-wing wil
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm French, and I can tell you Carrefour is a very famous brand in France. So to me there is no way Amazon will buy it, I just don't see this being accepted by public opinion, and thus by the French government.
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That's young. What happened?
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They should really not put windows on this. At least not in the first models. Sure, passengers would love to see outside, but really it makes the design much more complicated for little benefit. It can be stressful not to have any idea
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It will certainly be buoyant, provided it can dump its propellant in time. You also want your rocket to land in an uninhabited area, in case something goes terribly bad. Sea makes much sense in this regard.
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> It's a neat idea, but I don't see this funding the Mars colony ambitions, at least not in the short term. I think you misunderstood him. Musk doesn't plan on founding a mars colony. He plans on giving a solid business
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> can anyone think of scenarios where somebody has to be somewhere in an hour? Have you ever taken any long-haul flight? I guess some people don't mind, but I find it excruciating. Few people have to be somewhere in an hour. But
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This plan sounds much more sensible than most of what I've heard from Musk before. Especially the intercontinental transport part. That is a real business use-case, potentially very lucrative. I also suspect that could get quite a fe
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> the heat shield ablates for Mars trips but not Earth trips (not sure why). I suppose the reentry speed on mars is much higher, since it happens at the end of an interplanetary trip.
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> Thats why they show the spaceport out at sea, I suspect putting the spaceport at sea is mainly a security issue. Failing to reach the landing pad is certainly less catastrophic on water than on the ground.
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CO2 extraction for methane production is planned on mars, where the relative ratio of CO2 in the atmosphere is much higher. On Earth, CO2 is only 0.04%, which makes it quite difficult to extract.
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Zubrin once joked that if you send a heavy smoker to mars without any cigarette, you actually reduce his risk of dying of cancer.
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Literally not his business.
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> 5. Fully automated flight; perhaps no pilot. Almost certainly no pilot.
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Of course it depends on what you eat. If you eat protein-rich food like eggs, I guess you can eat them raw and get what you need in short time. The calculus I was mentioning was based on assumptions regarding the kind of aliments you'
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> We had big brains before we discovered fire. Homo Erectus had a much smaller brain than us. And the cooking theory seems fairly well accepted these days. Someone once made the calculus that if you had to grow and sustain your brain wi
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by grondilu 9y ago
Are suggesting that trial and error, heuristics, empiricism and so on, are the basis of scientific method? You probably do, considering your mention of animals and brains. I'm not expert in epistemology, but I very much suspect it&#x2
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That made me think of the famous "What have the romans ever done for us?" scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
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I think the point of markup languages is not so much about convenience for writing (assuming that's what you're talking about) rather than readability in pure text form. HTML is readable in pure text but it does not look that grea
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> Err, isn't use of morphological classification to define species of animals super outdated? It's still the best you have in most cases, notably in the fossil record. I'm no expert but I believe that the concept of specie
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Today on HN I've learnt about KaTeX, a math typesetting system for the web[1]. As I looked into it, I was intrigued by the names of the two authors, which suggested they are females. That looked odd to me, as I thought typically thi
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> I never got the "official story" of them being dumb cave men who could barely have a coherent thought. Where did you get that "official" story, though?
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> by the artificial lines we've drawn in the sand. You make it sound like the distinction was completely arbitrary or something. There are anatomical differences that justified the separation into different species, from a classica
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Once you accept the idea of DRM, I don't see what's wrong about standardizing it.

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