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by jvm_ 7y ago
So, if I go to California with my NY cell phone and dial 911... I get the emergency services of the tower I connected to? Was always curious who I'd get when I'm not near home.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
I've heard the theory that the music you like/hear/is new to you at 14 is the music that you stick with for life.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
So we play it communally on a big Bluetooth speaker.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
I guess the edge is more of the sweet spot where geosynchronous exists, too close or too far are both non-GEO.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Earth orbit is like a funnel. If you're in geo-synchronous orbit, you're at the top edge (Earth is down by the hole). It's easier to jump off the edge of the funnel (and fall into the Sun's funnel) than it is to climb al
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by jvm_ 7y ago
My wife read and recorded the whole Harry Potter series for our eldest, now the second gets to either hear Mom read live, or listen to a recorded chapter everynight before bed. I've heard you should always read to your kids regardless
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Where they finally landed, Addis Ababa is at 7,726, Mexico City is 7,350.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Sounds like the rule where if the headline ends in a question mark, the answer to the question is No.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Thanks, just played Xonix for the first time in a while. The other dos boxes I've found were too fast to actually play. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Xonix_1984
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Or when you want to buy a used one and want to check the value.
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by jvm_ 7y ago
If you turn on a blowtorch in space, does it need some sort of kylo-ren double-action torch to keep it in place? I guess it won't move if it's anchored to something, but that something will still move as the force is unbalanced?
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Stolen from another HN comment about using AI on medical records. "Finasteride is a compound that is used in two drugs. Proscar is used for prostate enlargement. It is old, out-of-patent, and has cheap generics. Propecia is used for ha
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by jvm_ 7y ago
Just strap a bunch of rockets and point them to the horizon... until you realize that the earths crust isn't that deep and your rockets just end up ripping a scab of earth off and flying off into space. I guess that would be one way to
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by jvm_ 7y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20805994/ups-self-driving... There's a video out there of the UPS truck driving 90 minutes end-to-end without interruption by the driver or engineer who are along
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by jvm_ 8y ago
Every sentence could have been a tweet. It felt like I was reading a children's book. The sentences were very short.
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by jvm_ 8y ago
Or read Charlotte's Web.
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by jvm_ 8y ago
All the buskers at the festival I went to last year did this already, some sort of wrist-mounted change the music device...
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by jvm_ 9y ago
But every day is a sunny day in space? Or does the ground vs. clouds make a difference.
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by jvm_ 9y ago
There was a reddit post today showing the picture of the naked humans and the quasar map to earth... the caption was - maybe the reason aliens haven't contacted us is that we sent unsolicited nudes and directions to our house.
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by jvm_ 9y ago
Would it be sensitive enough to pickout differences in wear patterns on the backs of playing cards? We play Rook daily at lunch, and there's a kitty, and we always want to know what the cards were. If you took a picture of the backs an