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Launch loop(en.wikipedia.org)
116 points by jpatokal 8y ago|49 comments
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It focuses squarely on GPS and proposed American solutions to make GPS (only) more resilient, while ignoring the other three operational backups the world does have!
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Apparently Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou don't count, because the backups for this backbone of the global economy have to be American? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Um, we have settled the Gobi Desert and there's plenty of ways to make it pay, most notably this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyu_Tolgoi_mine
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The biggest problem is that they go through all sorts of hoops to add unreported Tesla fatalities to the data, then compare those against unadjusted other fatalities and report that there are "more than Triple" apples (adjusted)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In a sense it did: I'd wager that being able to play an instrument or sing well is rarer these days than it was before the gramophone. That said, I'll still take Spotify and access to all the music in the world over random neighbo
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by jpatokal 8y ago
My favorite trio of endorsements is "flexibility", "lubrication" and "potatoes".
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you want to live in Singapore, you need to have a job offer. Every major IT company (and many minors) has an Asian/SE Asian HQ there and they're constantly hiring. Winging it on your own is considerably more complicated, but f
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Postal addresses are really complicated and this page makes them look far simpler and more consistent than they really are. I used to deal with these all the time when working with geocoding at Google Maps, and I ended up braindumping a
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The title implies they're looking for drug users , but the article talks more about drug manufacturing ? The city mentioned, Zhongshan, is infamous for meth labs. http://www.thatsmags.com/guangzhou/post/195
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by jpatokal 8y ago
As a former Helsinkian, I'm rather surprised to see the label "future of urban travel" applied to a city that has banned all forms of Uber-style ride-sharing due to pressure from the taxi lobby.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The same is true in much of SE Asia, because in hot and humid places, showers are much more useful than bathtubs. This is also reflected in bathing habits: broadly speaking, hot countries shower off the sweat in the evening, while cold ones
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by jpatokal 8y ago
A number of Nordic cities do this on purpose to keep pedestrian streets free of snow and ice.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you really need just calls, dumbphones are still a thing, and I see plenty for sale here in provincial China (/me waves from Xining). The article's point is that cheap smartphones aren't working well for their intended
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It actually doesn't matter if they renounce their Chinese citizenship or not, the Chinese government has demonstrated that they consider anybody born in China to still be Chinese: https://www.theguardian.com/world/
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Wait, what? What's wrong with surrogacy if everybody involved consents?
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How to attract people to work on very old and outdated technologies?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
4 points by jpatokal 8y ago|2 comments
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Shortly after moving to the US in the late eighties, my mom signed up for a cooking class. The first dish they taught was... savoury Jell-O salad. She never went back.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
How does this differ from Google's own Filestore? https://cloud.google.com/filestore/
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Assuming you're writing this from the US, your county and state authorities already have a lot of power even though they don't control immigration.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Tether's point is to be a fast way to get in and out of unstable cryptocurrencies. If you convert BTC to cold hard USD, you have to talk to a bank at some point and that's slow and imposes KYC requirements. Converting BTC to USD
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you have even a casual interest in China (say, read the international section of any major newspaper), you'll almost certainly run into them. Random samples from the New York Times: " China is home to the longest continuous ci
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The technique is public, but actually finding dumpable fares is left as an exercise to the reader.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In "turnabout is fair play", there's a neat technique called "fuel dumping" that makes use of this by finding fares that, for various complicated reasons, don't have the surcharges added, occasionally allowin
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You're missing two large factors: * Tokyo is in a very active earthquake zone. Building earthquake-proof supertalls is even more expensive than usual, and not practical in the large portions of the city built on reclaimed land. * Suns
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> Could a global icon of extinction still be alive? Betteridge's Law applies: no.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Stumbled into this here and figured it was interesting: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/117400/what-is-th... Specs: https://www.ribaproductselector.com/Docs/4/08634/extern
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Flowslide: Revolving door for keeping two crossing streams of traffic separate(youtube.com)
1 points by jpatokal 8y ago|1 comments
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FWIW, while Japanese doesn't distinguish L and R, "fire" is transliterated as ファイア faia while "file" is ファイル fairu . So the difference is reasonably clear.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
How would you feel about all states in the US instituting their own immigration controls? Would there be a negative effect on the US economy if moving from New Jersey to New York required lengthy visa applications and waits for green cards

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