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By "to scale" they mean a scale model. This showed up more than a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251077
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This completely ignores that companies will sell, and edit, popular public domain works for a profit, if they can. It was initially a defensive copyright by the King, Jr. estate. Fox Records started selling records of the speech in 1968 [1]
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This has been discussed for at least the last decade. An electric car's carbon footprint is based on the current, and future, efficiency of electric power generation, storage, and distribution. The production and destruction is a fixed
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> Where do you draw the line on this? Wherever the elected officials want to. Generally it is a big hammer and is applied to sectors, so there is an expectation of low success rates. That is why the government is doing it, and not privat
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Agriculture is an interesting problem because the government has to ensure that, during a future crisis (both natural disaster and national defense), there is enough food production to supply the population and control prices. So, you can c
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Running a local car dealer takes a lot of capital investment to pay for inventory and trained personal. With the franchise law, the government is encouraging, and protecting, the local business's upfront investment. This creates revenu
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During the 2012 election, before Tesla showed profitability, it was lumped in with other companies that were given government loans for developing "green" technologies. Many of those companies failed and most people, who did not s
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> (clojurescript? you literally never mention in this post what language that is)? For clarity, core.async is a library that can be used in both Clojure and Clojurescript. There are internal implementation and performance differences, bu
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Those would make for good plugins when the plugin api is released.
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> I'm not convinced anything is wrong with me ... I learned how to tell when something was physically wrong from my parents and, as I grew older, a few friends. A scrape on my arm was fine, a low fever was fine, but falling out of a
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Just make sure you keep track of the number you used, or be able to find it in your statements, because some customer validation systems require parts of the CC number. I've had to stall customer service reps several times because I ha
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> I'm hesitant to get involved with the professional medical establishment The problem with not engaging a medical professional is the possibility that you have something that needs treatment. He mentions this with his statement on
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> If I heard an editor judge an author's work based on what that author posts to twitter, I'd be horrified. And yet, many potential hires are judged by their facebook posts[1,2], tweets, blog entries, and anything that can be f
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I've always been slightly enamored with the rotary drop doors that slide under the car [1]. I would never buy a car with them, but they are interesting none the less. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtkoje4-eM&t
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That definitely sounds like a culture that values the people involved in the company's past, present, and future. But, most positions I have had were with companies where the people who left were effectively dead. No one spoke their na
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> and without reading his papers I suppose http://members.shaw.ca/mike.anderton/WarpDrive.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2011001... http://forum.n
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The White–Juday warp-field interferometer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%E2%80%93Juday_warp-field_...
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After skimming the forums, I am slightly worried. They are establishing the management tree and throwing endless ideas at a wall. I hope they actually release something, because I like the concept. But, they are also starting from, almost,
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There was some criticism when this showed up on reddit[1] about the lack of a detailed protocol description and punting on the key distribution. It sounds like a good project publicized to early. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r&
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People had similar things to say about The Social Network. It was wrong about history, but it was also a good movie on its own. We will see if "Jobs", as a movie, can stand on its own.
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Musk said it himself on an earnings call: "I think I kind of shot myself by ever mentioning the hyper loop ... [I] obviously have to focus on core business and SpaceX business and that's more than enough."[0] He had to build
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> a lack of 'generalness.' General intelligence seems to be just about every technique people can think of, thrown into a giant feedback loop. Unsupervised learning supervising other supervised learning. Classifiers classifying
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> NASA is currently working on the first practical field test toward the possibility of faster than light travel. Yes. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534359 > congress recently discussed an
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> And why does he have a roll of toilet paper under his monitor? For use as facial tissues.
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> the tech industry won't be going away for a long, long time After a century of existence, auto manufacturers are still here too. The issue is how the industry has changed over time, and what their experience can teach others. Auto
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Deck prisms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_prism The main difference here is that deck prisms are flat on top, which limits the amount of light entering the prism. The water in the bottles is filled to the top, cre
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> shouldn't be possible It is restricted by the standard Bitcoin client implementation. Neither the transaction scripting language[0] nor the transaction[1] restricts it, so you would need to do it yourself or write a custom client
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Previous discussion (2012): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694
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> Hyperloop is considered an open source transportation concept. I'm glad they didn't just let the idea die on a drawing board somewhere because of a lack of time/money. Now, someone has to just develop it faster than some
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Since the statistics are drawn from a single new site, over a few weeks, i'm not sure you can generalize the findings from such a small sample. It sounds more likely that the site has not attracted enough pure designers yet.

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