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by hugh3 15y ago
Right. In that case I really can't see much use for this tunnel.
572.
by hugh3 15y ago
Alaksa is really really big. Rail lines aren't really all that wide. Compute the fraction of Alaska and Siberia's land from which you'd be able to see or hear the trains going past and it's... quite small.
573.
by hugh3 15y ago
Oops, I stand corrected. No mid-oceanic ridge there.
574.
by hugh3 15y ago
Earthquake resistance, yes. But building a tunnel right across the middle of a spreading mid-oceanic ridge? Nobody has ever done that before and it seems problematic.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Does anyone have a good handle on freight costs? If I wanted to send a container of stuff from (say) China to the US, would it be cheaper to send it in a ship, or go round the long way through a Bering Strait tunnel (assuming such a thing a
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is also a very smart long-term strategic move to run a pipeline from Canada to Eurasia and Africa This is what I don't get. Isn't there plenty of oil in Eurasia? And plenty of demand for oil in the Americas? Do the Russians really
577.
by hugh3 15y ago
I sit around hoping that they'll sell my email to recruiters. Y'know, for a job I actually want. I've only had one recruiter approach me in several years on linkedin (and even he didn't have anything more interesting to sell me than DE Sh
578.
by hugh3 15y ago
I don't even know who John Gruber is.
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by hugh3 15y ago
No, I think I remember this video, though it would have been very late 80s, and I remember it as being from Apple. Of course it was just a video done with special effects, no part of the device was real . It was a big flat computer built i
580.
by hugh3 15y ago
Wow, if those numbers are true then it sure falls into the "uncomfortable truths" category: ''' * Asian Americans outscored every Asian country, and lost out only to the city of Shanghai, China’s financial capital. * White Americans student
581.
by hugh3 15y ago
That black people and white people are stupid? I'm really not sure what forbidden truth you're supposed to be getting at here.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Some footage could be considered "enabling". For instance if I wanted to patent "Slingshot-launched rideable rocket as a means for catching roadrunners" there'd probably be prior art.
583.
by hugh3 15y ago
If tablet computers were cheap enough to be effectively free, might this not be a good and effective way for a senior manager to get his work done? Instead of "Hey Captain, I need you to read this document and sign off on it, please see the
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by hugh3 15y ago
Only because the show didn't go into sufficient detail about how the replicator worked.
585.
by hugh3 15y ago
Interestingly, we'll never have any evidence either way. If I upload myself into a computer and destroy my old body then the new "me" inside the computer will no doubt say "Oh yes, my experience was fully continuous", because it will have
586.
by hugh3 15y ago
Heh, I didn't mean to say that there's no incentive to have more than two children, I should have said that the balance of incentives has changed. As the youngest of three, I'm well aware of what a great idea it is to have more than two c
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by hugh3 15y ago
Interestingly I think that anti-government paranoia in the US is largely itself fed by all those movies in which some corrupt US government agency turns out to be the villain. As a fun exercise, count the number of movies and TV shows in wh
588.
by hugh3 15y ago
On the the contrary. Military discipline developed from the necessity of training reliable soldiers who don't question critical orders. Independent thinking is an admirable trait, but knowing your soldiers wont leak information is crucial.
589.
by hugh3 15y ago
These sorts of articles always smack of cargo cultism. First we say "Holy crap, country X is doing better than the US in standardized test Y !". Then we pick out all the ways in which country X is different from the US. Then we throw o
590.
by hugh3 15y ago
I'm not sure that's bad, but this article seems to neglect to mention that nothing comes for free. This isn't just "doing it smarter", it's also investing a massive chunk of money. Doesn't the article say: "Yet Finland spends about 30 per
591.
by hugh3 15y ago
I've been saying for some time that if I were, say, Jimmy Wales or the Wikimedia Foundation I'd be criticising Wikileaks pretty hard for not, y'know, actually being a wiki.
592.
by hugh3 15y ago
No! Bad spammer! Go away! I'm confused as to why spammers think this kind of thing is worth their time.
593.
by hugh3 15y ago
I think you're unlikely to find enough people interested in voting on your own personal purchasing decisions to make a statistically valid sample.
594.
by hugh3 15y ago
Guilt by association?
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by hugh3 15y ago
In which case surely he'd keep it in Europe? Or is this Venezuela's gold rather than Chavez's personal gold? In any case, I'm sure that Chavez, like most dictators, has a crapload of money carefully squirreled away in foreign countries. Att
596.
by hugh3 15y ago
While we're talking about fantasy technology anyway, creating atoms of an element is a very different problem to rearranging existing atoms into food.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I imagine this is a very large portion of NSA operations. There's no need for "cyber command" to really be part of the military. There's no need to put hackers through boot camp, or make 'em wear uniforms, or salute... it would bring down t
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by hugh3 15y ago
Y'know, I'm usually a believer in the genetic component of human behaviour, but I don't think there's much genetics involved here. Fertility rates have been dropping all over the civilized world. Reasons: 1. Women are pursuing education and
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by hugh3 15y ago
toiled-math I'm not familiar with that expression. Talking about certain countries going extinct is, of course, a bit facetious, but the actual trend whereby inhabitants of rich countries are breeding way below replacement rate while inha
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by hugh3 15y ago
At the point where hacking isn't really considered an act of war. Obviously neither side actually does consider it an act of war, or else they wouldn't dare. If "hacking is considered an act of war" were ever a bluff, then it has been tho

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