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   San Francisco scale model finally home after 77-year absence(datebook.sfchronicle.com)

   2 points by iaw 8y ago|0 comments
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   by iaw 8y ago

   > But what are they going to do? Some sort of civil suit is not that big of a deal if you have your assets appropriately sheltered. I think this statement minimizes the severity of being sued. The stress of a civil suit that threatens yo
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   by iaw 8y ago

   What economic harm have they caused?
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   by iaw 8y ago

   Missing since October 31st, this is horrible.
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   by iaw 8y ago

   To illustrate just how common it is, the first deck hold most card magicians learn is called the "Mechanic's Grip" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanic%27s_grip
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   by iaw 8y ago

   There's an excellent video where he goes through these [0], worth a watch if you have the time. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc
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   by iaw 8y ago

   While other replies have addressed your misunderstanding about the existence of fusion based weapons it is also worth highlighting that the radioactive waste by-products from fusion power generation are far more manageable than by-products
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   by iaw 8y ago

   Fusion already 'works.' The sun is a giant ball of fusion and fission. On earth we have already achieved net energy positive fusion at the JET experiment reactor. Tokamak's have been in testing for decades with live fusion. H
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   by iaw 8y ago

   > It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange bleaches his hair. I mean... I feel like we've reach full self-parody at this point.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    I binged Hells kitchen a while back, the episodes aired in the UK were remarkably more pleasant to watch due to a lack of background music. This clip[0] demonstrates the difference between the two nicely. [0] https://www.youtube
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Hypothesizing how this could be done... The simplest method may be to plant a web page that has high ranking for the sources name that phones home details about all requests the the site. If the site normally only receives standard webcraw
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    by iaw 8y ago

    The effect of the room demo was pretty remarkable.
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    Free State Bottleneck(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by iaw 8y ago|0 comments
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    by iaw 8y ago

    I think ~100 years ago they really got into vertical construction but other than that (and possibly central plumbing) your point stands..
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    by iaw 8y ago

    > Scott Beaumont, Google’s leader in China and a key architect of the Dragonfly project, “did not feel that the security, privacy, and legal teams should be able to question his product decisions,” If I was more eloquent I'd draw so
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    by iaw 8y ago

    > they also have to be given it How many startups needed to but were unable to raise capital in successive rounds? If the failure rate of successive raise attempts is low then I'd suspect that the driving factor would be the desire
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    by iaw 8y ago

    > Top startups who “graduate” (a success metric) from raising another round of funding from pre-seed to series a burn more than the benchmarked average. Startups that spend more money need to raise more money, I don't know what I&
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Best collection of his work I could find. http://www.msri.org/web/msri/public/tadashis-toys I'm a bit dumbfounded by his level of intelligence.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Serious question: Any idea what the licensing for such an endeavor would look like? My guess would be Stack Exchange 'owns' the content but I don't have time atm to read their ToS.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Hopefully I can justify the reasoning behind this with the following: A circle is defined as the set of all points in a 2-dimensional space equidistant to a given center point (the distance being the circle's radius). A sphere is defin
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    Porsche Readying Electric Taycan for 2019 Reveal(autocar.co.uk)

    3 points by iaw 8y ago|0 comments
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Lookup up the 'z pinch' or more generally 'pinch machines' I suspect that or a similar methodology is in use.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    I find the naming of this paradox a bit amusing given that it has everything to do with the particular anecdote used to illustrate it and not the phenomenon itself.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    I would be surprised if that was enforceable, it sounds more like an effort to ensure they're proactive about their trademark.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Just did a quick google search, the article was written in 2014 so the annual GDP of Iceland leading up to that period were: $13.3B in 2010 $14.7B in 2011 $14.3B in 2012 $15.6B in 2013 $17.3B in 2014 So presuming the article was written pri
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Parent comment is likely referring to some findings from Operation Epsilon in the Farm Hall transcripts. Googling those terms will get you the underlying details. I for one tend to agree with the conclusion that Heisenberg could have init
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    by iaw 8y ago

    This quick video[1] is where I heard it, it has some other fun facts about the development of liberty island. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZ1f4ACZBQ
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Fun fact: the base of the Statue of Liberty is a star fort named "Fort Wood" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Island#Fort_Wood
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    by iaw 8y ago

    According the wikipedia page Hillard's noise generator was ran on a 220 kilowatt diesel motor.
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    by iaw 8y ago

    Thank you for raising this. I think the reason this particular drug didn't make economic sense was touched on in the article but not highlighted: the drug approval process is designed for drugs, not new technology. The price of a new g