hedgie13

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by hedgie13 13y ago
Late 90s was horrible and difficult time. Russia is not by any means warm, cozy and polished place now, but it changed enormously since 90s.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
> Are Americans so ignorant to justify the publication of such an article? Yes. They will also uncritically read everything what is written there.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
OK, you win the Internet! Mr. Kalashnikov might have liked it too.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
Dangerous or not dangerous, 10 years of life spent in prison is a lot. Let's see what happens next.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
I wonder were on the spectrum of eugenics this foundation belongs: http://www.jewishgeneticdiseases.org/
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by hedgie13 13y ago
Photographer brushes, textile mills, etc -- source of alpha radiation to get rid of static electricity.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
> It was used on Alexander Litvinenko because the Russians wanted to show that they were able and willing to take the life of former agents that attacked their interests. Or maybe not. It is very well known that Russian security services
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by hedgie13 13y ago
Granted, the source is not known for reliability, but than everyone laughed their asses of when discussing fake stone used by British in Moscow spy scandal. Until British admitted something like 5 years later ( http://www.theguar
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by hedgie13 13y ago
Well, turns out there is Federal Helium reserve: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/energy/helium/federal_heliu...
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by hedgie13 13y ago
I think I'd prefer MiG-29 ride: http://www.skyandspacetravel.com/included_sky.html Not as high, but much cheaper, sky is already pretty black and you get a chance to control the damn thing.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
I am so tired of people suggesting that balloons "go to space". Yes, Felix Baumgartner set a new record and his jump was a great accomplishment. But it was not a "space jump".
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by hedgie13 13y ago
With future technology, perpetuum mobile may become possible. Or maybe not. Electric cars still may be a good idea in a long run. Even if they can not generate their own energy.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
This sentence is a good sign that the author has no idea what he is talking about. Solar constant is 1360 W/m². You can collect 1.3 kW (about 2 horsepowers) from 1 square meter if sun is directly overhead and conversion efficiency is 1
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by hedgie13 13y ago
> "that the conspiracy will turn against itself in self-defense, clamping down on its own information flows in ways that will then impede its own cognitive function. You destroy the conspiracy, in other words, by making it so parano
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by hedgie13 13y ago
I will refer to my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173274 It is probably a bad law, but it certainly not criminalizing people for what they are doing with their genitalia in private. He was probably thinking
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by hedgie13 13y ago
The last time I checked USSR stopped existing about 20 years ago. Also: > is currently criminalising a whole class of people based on what they chose to do with their genitalia in private. I do not think you know what you are talking ab
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by hedgie13 13y ago
I think homosexuality is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia and Iran. No one is trying to exclude teams from these countries from Olympics. Also: > Milan, Venice and Turin had severed their “twin” relationships with Russian cities in ou
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by hedgie13 13y ago
In 1993, 10 years before US.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
They clarified: the law does not prohibit being gay, the law just introduces fines for promoting homosexuality as a norm for children under 16. It is probably a bad law, but it is not saying what everyone protesting it thinks it is saying
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by hedgie13 13y ago
No, this is not true. It is probably a bad law, but "anything that publicly references gays" is not a crime. The law only establishes a fine (not prison term) for promoting homosexuality as a norm for children under 16. Personally
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by hedgie13 13y ago
I am wearing paper bag for the rest of the day. Not enough caffeine in the morning.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
Yes, but the weather was clear. No need for ILS in such weather.
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by hedgie13 13y ago
True, they are less busy, but it does not mean GPS is not used for instrument approaches (as parent implied). I fly airplane without IFR GPS (IFR student), but ATC is trying to assign us GPS approach all the time (when coming into airport w
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by hedgie13 13y ago
There is more airports in US that have GPS only approaches than airports that have ILS approaches. For example: http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1308/05879R25.PDF 500 ft altitude with GPS only (without vertical guidan