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by jadell 11y ago
Duplicate comments thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9898502
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by jadell 11y ago
If you have the technology and resources to move a ring of that size, then you also have the technology and resources to move a planet. Ringworlds are many orders of magnitude more massive than a single planet.
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It's not necessarily one way. Think of it like a sailboat: wind blows in one direction (at a time) but you can still steer, change direction, speed up, slow down, etc. just by changing the angle of your sail and how tense or slack it i
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by jadell 11y ago
Skeptical on this implementation, but it raises an interesting question. How close are we to having wireheads/current addicts walking around with drouds attached to their heads at all times? At what point does current addiction become
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There are several possible triggers. A popular hypothesis is that in the early 1990s, the SEC began requiring the disclosure and reporting of executive compensation. The prevailing theory was that it would shine some light on the discrepanc
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by jadell 11y ago
The Illustrated Guide to Law is doing a section on this right now: misconceptions of how memory works, how it really works, and how we fill in gaps in memory without realizing it or intending to. http://lawcomic.net/guide&#x
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by jadell 12y ago
I think the author's point is not that those "wide variety of ways" don't exist, but that they are currently being broken/circumvented. The standing gentlemen's agreements to not play the game a certain way are
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by jadell 12y ago
Technically, RTP is fully inside Durham. Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill each house one of those major universities, and the region as a whole is known as "The Triangle" or "The Research Triangle."
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AT&T Plans to Offer Netflix Clone(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jadell 13y ago|0 comments
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Edward Snowden, Ars, the NSA, and me: digging through the past(penny-arcade.com)
142 points by jadell 13y ago|31 comments
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by jadell 13y ago
Of course when you take out convenient and safe space travel, it's easy to say there's nothing to strive for, technologically. Try having the same opinion while leaving space travel in the conversation, especially with FTL travel. And infin
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by jadell 13y ago
And as I assume it to be the case in most other food truck culture centers, many of the Durham trucks have used their mobile success to bootstrap a traditional brick-and-mortar shop (e.g. The Parlour, Monuts, Cocoa Cinnamon.) Allowing entre
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The Anti-Spec Movement Is Going Too Far(webadvent.org)
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by jadell 15y ago
wget http://www.kurlak.com/john/source.html