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by iwwr 14y ago
Reputation counts for little in their virtual local monopolies. Many places it's either them or 3g or satellite. Then again, the public at large doesn't care about these issues.
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by iwwr 14y ago
Comcast cares about the issue because these requests are costing it money. But if the government should compensate them (as they do for phone tapping), no further protests would occur.
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Math: Beyond Theorems and Papers(blog.felixbreuer.net)
1 points by iwwr 14y ago|0 comments
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MarsOne - Private One-Way Mission to Mars. Future Permanent Colony(youtube.com)
1 points by iwwr 14y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 14y ago
NASA is killing every project it can to not lose the James Webb. Casulties so far are a Mars rover and a Jupiter orbiter, as well as no new missions planned for the next decade. The question is, what happened to the Shuttle portion of the b
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by iwwr 14y ago
This may be a storm in a teacup. 3D printing doesn't make sense for mass manufacturing, nor in the possible future lest for at least one order of magnitude increase in speed and cost of raw materials. We're still talking of hours to build a
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by iwwr 14y ago
"Kublai Khan was ahead of his time: He recognized that what matters about money is not what it looks like, or even what it’s backed by, but whether people believe in it enough to use it." That belief is based on some form of backing eventua
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by iwwr 14y ago
So how is Apache's new OpenOffice since they got custodianship?
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by iwwr 14y ago
Does that mean that an existing bird DNA can be minimally edited to express into a more lifesize dinosaur?
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by iwwr 14y ago
I wonder if this will push the targeted governments toward strict open-source deployments, with strong (and correct) security policies. The attacks are sending a strong message not just to the immediate targets (Axis of Evil), but to every
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Ad-Skipping DVR: Existential Threat to Network TV (Lawsuit launched)(wired.com)
1 points by iwwr 14y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 14y ago
Musk says Merlin-1C has the highest thrust-to-weight ratio of any (liquid fuel) rocket today. Well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33 Merlin 1C is 96:1, while NK-33 is 133:1 Obviously
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by iwwr 14y ago
For (1) you don't need fixed supply, just lack of central bank interference. You can design bitcoin with a slowly increasing bounty each year, as long as the protocol is there, no central institution can control it. (as a matter a fact, if
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by iwwr 14y ago
It's worked so far, hasn't it? And $500 is petty cash in the grand scheme of things (what it costs to actually support a developer).
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Adam Savage Commencement Address to Class of 2012(youtube.com)
1 points by iwwr 14y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 14y ago
Not sure it's legal to set up land-based economic activities without the blessing of at least one Antarctic-Treaty member countries. Even then, it's not legal to do mining or related activities.
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's an arms race. Technologists will find new ways to hide, while the rent seekers experiment with new legislation.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The trick is using a conventional jet engine (as opposed to a (sc)ramjet), but cooled with the cryogenic rocket fuel. In effect, this is using the fuel as a heat sink, then expelling the fuel in the jet or rocket exhaust.
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The Difficulties of an Infinite Video Game World(altdevblogaday.com)
5 points by iwwr 15y ago|2 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
Diamonds are not an investment vehicle, but rather a consumer item. They carry high markups and have a limited resale market.
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by iwwr 15y ago
"A universe from nothing" by Lawrence Krauss presents the possibility of a universe without a beginning, even one containing "nothing", yet still be compatible with present cosmology. My general impression is that by "nothing" he means "ave
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by iwwr 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_IV The lifter rocket costs $50mil, so there are few targets in the world worth throwing this hardware at.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Bringing an asteroid into LEO may be too dangerous due to orbit decay. According to this calculator, a 500ton roughly spherical rock, assuming a density of 3g/m^3 so a surface area of 3600m^2 would live for 20 years at 500km altitude. http
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by iwwr 15y ago
Several near-earth asteroids can be travelled to at a delta-vee lower than going to the Moon. Remember that the Moon still has a gravity and no atmosphere, so actually landing still takes a lot of energy. An asteroid on the other hand has n
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by iwwr 15y ago
That's because the carbon mass of the tree comes entirely from the air (CO2). For 1kg of carbon mass your tree has to process 2000m^3 of air.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Consider that the same money could have paid several times over for a Mars Direct style program and permanent stay on Mars. The key to Mars (as opposed to the Moon) is being able to make your fuel from the Martian atmosphere, with an input
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by iwwr 15y ago
This is the general category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_game
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by iwwr 15y ago
Don't forget the opportunity losses. These people could have contributed to society and the economy further.
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New Kickstarter record: $2.1mil for Wasteland 2 RPG(kickstarter.com)
14 points by iwwr 15y ago|5 comments
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Hypersonic passenger jet is (almost) here(gizmag.com)
1 points by iwwr 15y ago|0 comments

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