johno215

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Ask HN: Google Docs vs Dropbox vs Evernote for notes
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A Case Against SpaceX(quantumg.blogspot.com)
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by johno215 15y ago
Good (but long) video of why NASA's goal should be colonization. http://vimeo.com/24260744
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by johno215 15y ago
This. The Watson show was a not a completely fair match-up since Watson had a much better average buzzer time than his human opponents. If this was not the case, I would speculate a really good human opponent could beat Watson at least some
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by johno215 15y ago
I like seeing an in-depth review. These days it feels like all the major sites rush out the reviews right before launch day with less than a day of actually testing being done. The reviews often sound like just a re-hash of the press releas
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by johno215 15y ago
Hmm, Although I don't put this below the food industry to do, it is peculiar that the sources listed are all other blogs. Looking through the blog links I found a NYT article sourced but it said nothing about chemically processed orange pro
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by johno215 15y ago
This has become a common pattern with exo-planet reporting. Often they are reported to be "earth like" or "habitable" when they only have potential for liquid water. Also, some of these planets that are reported may not actually exits. See
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by johno215 15y ago
It is sad how the comments here are much better than at Ars. [I wish Ars would implement threading and a silent karma system]
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by johno215 15y ago
Modern (post gold standard) currencies have no intrinsic value either. Their only value is that people think they have value.
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by johno215 15y ago
Don't agree with article. Parameters that can be tuned are not mathematical abominations. In a mathematical model there is often a single value for a parameter that can be shown to be optimal. In the complexity of the real world, tuning is
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by johno215 15y ago
From what I understand, the instruments may have shown that airspeed was increasing when it was not. So the pilots tried to pitch up to reduce excessive airspeed but this in reality just caused them to go deeper into the stall. There was a