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by hguant 10y ago
Quick math and google says no: 9,000 MPH = 0.00001342 C Threshold for relativistic effects is .01 C according to this paper: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Relativ/rellim.ht... EDIT: Rereading that pap
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by hguant 10y ago
No, because the gentrification move would be to buy up those $50,000 dollar houses, renovate them/replace with a condo block and drive out the local residents. Gentrification comes from developers, whereas what he's describing com
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by hguant 10y ago
Very. This is the first thing that pops up when you google 'carbon composite': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fiber_reinforced_polyme... I had a vision of a massive porous mass of carbon (a la water fil
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by hguant 10y ago
> There is no "glorious" PC hardware anymore Just built a PC at home for gaming and Windows tinkering, and I have to say - it feels pretty glorious. Also, and I feel like a shill for having said this so many times, the new Raze
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by hguant 10y ago
> That is ONE reactor gone wrong. That is ONE reactor that was of a design many years out of date at the time of the failure, a failure where the people at the controls turned off the safety controls, then turned off the back up safety c
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by hguant 10y ago
Yeah I don't think you could get macOS running on this, but Linux has good drivers out there for most of the bits (maybe minus the chroma keyboard).
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by hguant 10y ago
> My point is that I would be quite happy to buy a $3000 machine if it were stelar quality, and I could rely on it for the next five years. Well if that's what you're into... http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-syst
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by hguant 10y ago
There are three legal entities governing housing in and around the D.C. Metropolitan area - the District, Maryland, and Virginia. The laws and geography have worked such that Virginia is currently experiencing the benefits (from an economic
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by hguant 10y ago
Honestly, the two things that kept me motivated to keep writing (actually writing, not just "oh hey this is cool") code when I was learning were games and my girlfriend. Games - We were learning how to play Pathfinder, so I wrote
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by hguant 10y ago
> US power projection would be tested and probably ultimately fail due to unbelievable expense I think you're wrong here. The US has been investing in power projection for 80 some odd years now, and is leaps and bounds ahead of any
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by hguant 10y ago
The problem isn't an "aging based weapon" - it's the repercussions of what happens population that doesn't have a natural death rate. This introduces resource scarcity the likes of which we've never seen.
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by hguant 10y ago
It will be very interesting to see what entities are labeled as national security assets as the DoD begins to view 'cyber' a core battleground. What's the programming equivalent to a national strategic resource? How do you wr
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by hguant 10y ago
For me, it wasn't the tones or sounds that made Mandarin tricky - once you get used to letting your mouth/tongue make shapes/be places you've trained it not to be the vowle/consonants aren't that bad, and fi yo
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by hguant 10y ago
This is a bad question/statement for two reasons. First, your purpose from first blush is to stifle the discussion, not enhance it. Second, and more disturbingly, you make the implicit arguement that if you're not a minority livin
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by hguant 10y ago
Reading this reminded me of another great author who had an episode of weird racial views - Stephan King, in The Stand (which is absolutely one of my favourite books), had a chapter where he's detailing the horrors of society breaking
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by hguant 10y ago
> [1]: Karma crystals are the in game currency. You can buy them in blocks of prime numbers for whole numbers of actual currency. This made me actively cringe.
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by hguant 10y ago
IIRC there was a throw away line about him not being a virgin - "slept with women and a few men" or something along those lines. I'll look it up when I'm not at work.
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by hguant 10y ago
Farnham's Freehold was the book that made me lose a lot of respect for Heinlein. I started reading him as a 13-14 year old - books like "Have Space Suit, Will Travel", "Farmer in the Sky", and "Starman Jones&qu
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by hguant 10y ago
Literally just started looking into Rust for use in production yesterday. I've been playing with it in two different editor. SublimeText + Rust Enhanced has been really really awesome. In line error messages, fairly decent autocompleti
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by hguant 10y ago
Pulled it from their website. Should have said 'claims up to' like I did with the Surface Book.
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by hguant 10y ago
> If you want a laptop with 16 GB of RAM, HiDPI screen, a discrete GPU and 10 hours of battery life, then there really aren't very many choices. Off the top of my head: Dell XPS 15 has up to 17 hours of battery life, a 4k screen (th
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by hguant 10y ago
> while Trump blamed immigration and open borders He also blamed the tax code, claiming many times to have taken advantage of it, and boasting of paying insanely low taxes on his businesses. This was seen as horrible by a lot of the left
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by hguant 10y ago
Given that Mar's atmosphere masses about 25 terratonnes compared to Earth's 5148 terratonnes, and Mar's atmospheric pressure is about 1% that of Earth's sea level, you'd need to do high altitude testing at about 30
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by hguant 10y ago
This was a really interesting and educational post. Thanks for taking the time to lay it all out. Yes, you are right that I glossed over a lot of the details of what happened in 1953. I thought this was appropriate given the context of the
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by hguant 10y ago
Iran was THE ally of the United States until the Revolution. We didn't trust the Israelis, who made it very clear they were in it for themselves, the Saudis in the 60's and 70's were not very amenable to US interests - Iran w
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by hguant 10y ago
Right, but the core principle underlying all that is that human happiness is a good in and of itself, and a virtuous and stable society is good only in that it allows for the greatest potential growth of human happiness.
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by hguant 10y ago
Having a theory of mind is another one of those big ones. The problem is differentiating true awareness of the concepts of 'self' and 'other' from rote instinct - is a leopard stalking a gazelle aware of the gazelle as a
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by hguant 10y ago
That's a very nice sentiment, but aside from the obvious (dolphins, a few whales, some primates, and elephants) do you have any sort of proof or justification for this statement? "Many many" is a very strong claim.
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by hguant 10y ago
It's actually a really old idea. Sadly, not one that gets a lot of press, as it's not very sexy to talk about dead Greeks (except to reject them). https://orwell1627.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/aristo
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by hguant 10y ago
We talked about this telegram in one of my classes in college - American Nuclear Politics. The professor, who had been in the Foreign Service for 20-odd years before moving to academia, had a (somewhat) joking theory that Kennan's Long

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