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by hydrogen18 10y ago
Most cars with a CVT are configured from the factory to have "gears". Even though the transmission is continuously variable, it is made to quickly move between distinct ratios. This is mostly because with a true CVT acceleration i
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by hydrogen18 10y ago
You can see the smoke plume on the radar image from Melbourne airport weather radar http://imgur.com/a/FQ4qx Live link: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mlb
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by hydrogen18 10y ago
If you can copyright a single byte, I'm going to copyright the null byte. Literally every C program in the world will need licensing from me.
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by hydrogen18 10y ago
The Barbary wars were conducted because of the economic impact of taking American sailors as slaves. Free-ing the enslaved sailors was just a value-added benefit.
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by hydrogen18 10y ago
It is also illegal to bid contracts below cost when the customer is the DoD.
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Fixing what isn't broke(hydrogen18.com)
1 points by hydrogen18 11y ago|0 comments
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
While I appreciate your point A for optical wavelengths, space based radar is definitely a thing. Optical wavelengths are undoubtedly more popular however. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasat
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Don't forget about Waffle House. I'm sure there is a market for an under-the-sink reactor.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
It's more than that on the DoD things I worked on. Not only did the flat washer's presence have to be documented, you had to have a complete explanation of what standards and the supplier(s) for it. For a part like that, you can p
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
The reason why the smart home is such a failure is because even the "smarter" home is a total failure. I had a programmable thermostat in my residence. I always used it in "hold" mode and just turned it off when I left f
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Thankfully this is false. This would be incredibly dangerous and unreliable. The general design is a heating coil with an insulator that is then then jacketed in a steel or iron sheath. When the element on my neighbors electric stove failed
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
HTTP can be fast-enough, but it is also a poor choice to communication between microservices. Many people learn about REST and just assume you must use HTTP. It's an awful protocol with 2 decades of technical debt.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
That is interesting. If I find a Cavendish with seeds and I plant them, do the fruits of that plant also have seeds?
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
I agree completely that the wild bananas have seeds. But do domesticated ones even have the structures to pollinate? In any case, with modern tech. we could probably redomesticate bananas in a few years. I'm less bothered by the food i
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
When you say "limited genetic diversity" in reference to a mammal like a cow I am inclined to agree. They reproduce sexually and can gain or lose traits. But I am unsure if you can have a 'wild relative' of a banana as m
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
The owner is alive, the phone is owned by the government and always has been.
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This revision introduces a new string to indicate to Oracle employees(pidgin.im)
1 points by hydrogen18 11y ago|0 comments
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Doesn't the UK have zoning laws that prevent the city from gravitating towards the bypass?
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Why would China need North Korea to test its nuclear weapons? They have a long history of nuclear tests and are a member of the club so to speak. They never did the large tests that the Soviet Union or the US did, but I don't see why t
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Have you ever considered how woefully incompetent most militaries are? Not just at defense and war, but basically everything. Look at the Soviet Union after Nazi Germany invaded or Russia during the mid 90s. The main advantage most of the N
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
From the article: "working with International Business Machines Corp". Is this some hot new startup or has IBM actually gone back to branding themselves as such?
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
How exactly do you think buoyancy works? It's not like its anti-gravity anymore than the chair I'm sitting in is.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
The movie is good, but the book is excellent.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
I always figured the Japanese assumed the plane in the case of Hiroshima was a reconnaissance plane gathered ground photographs and checking on the weather. As you correctly noted, they didn't have many resources. I'd figure a lon
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
The guns on a bomber were never really meant for engaging aircraft. They're meant to deter fighters from ever getting near the bomber. Not many pilots are willing to sit directly in the path of machine gun fire, even if it is not very
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
You're not really doing Jobs any favors. Instead of saying Jobs was a liar, you're saying he was an ignorant liar.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
They talked about brakes, I'm assuming its a combination of some gimballing and some brake modulation. Brakes can't be terribly effective at low speeds however.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
> "Reality has even shown that many people irrationally overestimate how much they can squeeze from you" Please explain this further.
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. This is a oft forgotten point as to why private space flight is so difficult in the US. Private ventures can't compete when the rules are set up so they've been kneecap'd from the start. Ironicall
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by hydrogen18 11y ago
Most likely the captain choosing to turn it off. If you look at Coast Guard & Pilot boats they'll usually leave it on as they leave the dock and make their way out. Then it's off. Not very effective at interdiction if you&#x27

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