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by hristov 13y ago
I believe ekranoplans will come back. The biggest issue the Soviets faced with their ekranoplans should be addressable with modern technology. That issue is stability. The problem is when you have waves under the wings they create different
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by hristov 13y ago
Sorry, but I do not believe this will be cheaper than conventional rail. This is essentially a vacuum tunnel. Ok it is not a perfect vacuum but it is still supposed to keep 1/1000th of the earth's pressure.* Keeping such a vacuum
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by hristov 13y ago
I do not get this part. These are not advantages of tube v railway track, because a railway track can also be built above ground and can also be build from prefabbed sections. In fact I would think that building a railway track would be muc
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by hristov 13y ago
But there will be leaks. He himself said there would be leaks and he would use commercial pumps to continuously keep the vacuum.
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by hristov 13y ago
The financial press rarely acts to piss off rich people. This article was probably written with the billionaire's consent. I don't know why, but I would not be surprised if they planning to take the company public.
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by hristov 13y ago
That explanation may work for pets, but it does not work for wild animals in human environments. In these cases, the wild animal population simply rises to meet the food supply.
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by hristov 13y ago
I think this probably has to do with the sugar in our diets. Animals that live in human environments tend to eat refuse from our food, and our food has been getting more and more packed with sugar lately. The explanation about animals havin
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by hristov 13y ago
What I mean is that I am using Porsche as an example only as it pertains to its history of an independent company. I wanted to provide an example of an independent company that is limited to making expensive cars -- i.e., something similar
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by hristov 13y ago
Fact of the matter is any company is mostly judged based on the market they have chosen to compete in. Tesla make $70K+ cars and they should be judged based on that market. Porsche (before they were purchased by VW) used to make rather expe
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by hristov 13y ago
If they open source it they can still control things and follow their vision for their own main branch. But they can accept patches that have improvements for things that (i) are needed and (ii) do not necessarily go against their vision. T
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by hristov 13y ago
They are not shying away. I listen to Google earnings reports, and they are as gung ho about Android as ever. I did not reply to the grand parent, because I did not want to go off on a tangent.
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by hristov 13y ago
This is pretty remarkable but it is to be expected. The world is large and diverse, and if there is going to be an OS that satisfies the mobile computing needs of the entire world, it is going to have to run on many different devices. Apple
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by hristov 13y ago
To be fair to Wright, the open plan was probably a design requirement. I very much doubt he had a choice in that.
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by hristov 13y ago
You have to be careful with powerline, because plugging a new device into your power system may completely kill your network. When engineers design home appliances they do not assume that your power wires are used to transmit data, so their
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by hristov 13y ago
I remember an old Vladimir Nabokov quote that is very apropos to this. I do not remember the quote exactly and i do not have the book with me, so I cannot look it up, but it went something like this: "The play was in perfect harmony wi
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by hristov 13y ago
This article shows how the fructose industry is defending itself. Mostly by confusing the issue. The thing about fructose is that it is not by itself poisonous. The problem only comes about for refined fructose, such as that found in cane s
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by hristov 13y ago
Did you read the article? Cane sugar is sucrose. The sucrose molecule gets broken up into a fructose and glucose molecule by the gut. Thus, cane sugar is for all intents and purposes 50% fructose. This is very similar to HFCS, which is 55%
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by hristov 13y ago
The problem with refined fructose is that it contributes to you eating more because the liver cannot process it properly and does not send the "i am full" signals to the brain. Thus, it is in fact the reason why people have higher
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by hristov 13y ago
Glucose is not really an issue. Fructose is the problem. Unfortunately almost all sugar used as a food and drink additive today includes significant amounts of fructose. Glucose is not that sweet by itself so it is rarely used as sweetener
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by hristov 13y ago
You can take your sugar in the form of whole (not juiced) fresh fruit. Your body will be able to handle it then.
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by hristov 13y ago
Your second paragraph is off topic and obviously wrong. I will not go into why it is wrong because it is off topic, but I cannot let patently false throw away statements stay unchallenged. Some poor soul may actually believe you. Regarding
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by hristov 13y ago
It is not a tribute. It is obviously a sarcastic joke cued by the coinciding version numbers. I am not sure how good Microsoft was at systems programming at the time, but I guarantee you Linus has very little regard for Microsoft's sys
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by hristov 13y ago
He did not act properly. He should have informed the prosecutor of his concerns before starting to leak. Of course this may be more the fault of his lawyer that acted really inappropriately. It seems the lawyer had an axe to grind against t
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by hristov 13y ago
I don't think this is quite correct. The article says "The defense did receive the source file from the cellphone and used its own experts to extract data." So it is very possible, even likely that the defense obtained the sa
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Microsoft reports hackings linked to report by Google researcher(finance.yahoo.com)
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by hristov 13y ago
The little dirty secret of the tech industry is that if you put yourself in the right time at the right place and get the strategic advantage you can make so much money that a lot of mistakes can be hidden. Warren Buffet says that when the
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by hristov 13y ago
It is really annoying that drugs proponents ignore the obvious negative effects of drugs. Pretending that LSD is harmless is utter utter bulshit. There are so many cases of serious mental problems including permanent insanity caused by psyc
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by hristov 13y ago
Correct. Also it seems that the whole island is covered by a marsh. The island's location is technically a river but it is very close to the ocean and ocean levels have risen quite a bit in the past 50 years. So one can expect that the
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by hristov 13y ago
Nope it is inaccurate. There never was a consensus about exactly how much the earth would warm up in the future. Scientists always had different models showing different projections. The consensus was that (1) the earth is warming (2) if no
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by hristov 13y ago
You know very little about Russia. I suggest you discuss the article at hand.

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