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by iwwr 15y ago
How so?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Can you be more explicit?
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by iwwr 15y ago
If the bailout loans didn't come then, then Greece would have had to negotiate a debt restructuring then rather than now, gaining 1-2 years at least. As for austerity, there is the healthy streamlining and downsizing of public expenses and
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by iwwr 15y ago
Exactly, the IMF, the EC or other governmental bodies will still be paid in full. In effect, the bailout loans increased the private sector haircut by both delaying and also adding extra super-senior debt on top of the existing one.
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The definitive Thorium guide. Energy we will never run out of(youtube.com)
7 points by iwwr 15y ago|2 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
"The information-theoretic argument demonstrate that a model cannot exactly match the reality unless it's as complex as the reality." What if reality is self-similar at certain scales? You could generate something that resembles the whole f
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by iwwr 15y ago
Eastern China is also densely populated.
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by iwwr 15y ago
And if we exploit available nuclear fusion and fission, we could generate more waste heat than the total energy available from the Sun. At this point we'd have no other place to dump heat but outer space itself. Of course, by this time it w
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by iwwr 15y ago
A better question should be: "What are the limits of energy production on Earth?". We are far from reaching this limit.
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EU politician wants built-in surveillance in every operating system(techdirt.com)
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by iwwr 15y ago
What do you call a rogue trader who makes you $2bn? A managing director.
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's above more than 99% of the atmosphere, very nearly space. The pressure is around the same you'd find on Mars (on the ground), incidentally.
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's not an artificial boundary. It's the approximate maximum altitude at which winged vehicles have to move faster than the orbital velocity (at that altitude) in order to attain lift (where lift is depending on the pressure at that altitu
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by iwwr 15y ago
Can this be used to repair bent car body panels?
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by iwwr 15y ago
The 1% are hardly representative of the true 'ruling elite'. This group is probably around a few hundred people, no more than a few thousand. Wall Street is also not the center of power, but rather Washington DC and the Federal Reserve.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Sexual reproduction allows more than gene shuffling, it permits traits from multiple lineages to come together in a single individual. Adaptations only need to be developed in one individual of the gene pool for the descendants of that popu
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by iwwr 15y ago
Kidneys like marine mammals have could help us. Relevant: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-can-sea...
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by iwwr 15y ago
It should be a relatively simple problem of mechanics and optics. How big would the spy camera have to be to capture that level of detail? Assuming say, a budget of $500mil to 1bn per satellite.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Biological weapons appear to trump any other sort of manmade or natural disaster, short of a killer asteroid.
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by iwwr 15y ago
How much is that (the price of the 40meg HDD) as a percentage of your income now? Is it the same as a similar specialist back then?
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by iwwr 15y ago
How would you model concave terrain or terrain with "holes" (like erosion arches or caves)?
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by iwwr 15y ago
30KV, but low amps, using the same power as a speaker of similar size. It's actually a pretty good speaker, as it contains no moving parts. The disadvantage is not being very good for indoor spaces, since electric arcs generate ozone.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Here's a bigger brother of that speaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeWtBAE5LY
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Eric S. Raymond - Reconsidering sexual expression(esr.ibiblio.org)
4 points by iwwr 15y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
For reference, Earth's interior gravitational acceleration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EarthGravityPREM.jpg As you see, gravity gets stronger up to a maximum in the outer core, because the core is much more dense. But the issue her
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is this $600bn out of pocket for the German state, or some leveraged fund, or perhaps a smaller contribution to a bigger fund?
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by iwwr 15y ago
For you amateur rocketeers, I recommend trying Kerbal Space Program, a nice little rocket assembly and flying game: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/ an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvVjysJKB4
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by iwwr 15y ago
I thought it was impossible (or highly impractical, mass-wise) to build a single-stage orbital rocket. Are there additional boosters this rocket is using?
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by iwwr 15y ago
It takes 90%+ enriched uranium to produce weapons and 1-5% for an electricity reactor. Apparently, 20% is to produce medical isotopes (U235 being a good neutron source (1) ) or for some specialized naval reactors. It's not yet sure if the I
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Why Silverlight was rigged to fail and my time leading it(riagenic.com)
81 points by iwwr 15y ago|29 comments

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