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by kashkhan 12y ago
> it is a country’s sovereign right to decide who to let in and who to keep out would you accept it if a country kept out black people or people who are gay?
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by kashkhan 12y ago
not today's F1 car. They don't have auto trans, auto steering or auto brakes. Yes they could and audi has been testing an unmanned race car that does round a track, but there is a little chance that an F1 engine will blow up and k
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by kashkhan 12y ago
plenty of companies do them. Ask Elon Musk.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
not in this case. They should have more than one rocket craft for testing. it's ok to fly reciprocating and jet prototypes because Scaled has experience with hundreds if not thousands of those kinds of aircraft, and it's easy to
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by kashkhan 12y ago
there's a difference between testing the engine, and testing the handling qualities. But not always. For testing the engine which in this case is throttleable and has time constants greater than hundreds of milliseconds the time lag fr
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by kashkhan 12y ago
there's no need not in this day and age to have test pilots. If they use computers, they can debug the engine in flight conditions by running maybe ten times as many test flights. Delays of months between flights are dangerous. Until y
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by kashkhan 12y ago
Employees also want predictability where the pay comes from the system and not from your direct boss. Bosses are perishable and the system is not. Anyone who choose to take a job accepts this. Real brilliance - creativity - requires you to
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by kashkhan 12y ago
If the freezing option is available, the system will tag the women who start families as not seriously committed to the job. That's the real intent. In my previous job the manager liked to say that he needed to find out who of us were
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by kashkhan 12y ago
Ag is $50B of a $1.8T economy ( <3% ). CA won't miss it much. I am suggesting we buy out ag in CA to reduce the adverse pressure on water and the environment..
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by kashkhan 12y ago
We will soon be able to make a water treatment plant small enough for a neighborhood or even a house, powered by PV panels on the roof. Then the only water needed would be the small amount needed to make up for evaporation. The real problem
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by kashkhan 12y ago
yep. there are pictures floating of the zee aero plane. http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/6r363-on... If your mission is 100miles radius electric is doable. 200kg payload, 200kg airfram
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by kashkhan 12y ago
They are coming... http://zee.aero/ http://www.jobyaviation.com/S2/ For practical reasons and redundancy more than four rotors is better.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
how do you separate jitneys from paying rideshares?
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by kashkhan 12y ago
or government. In government you can break almost any law.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
the nine interviews are there to filter you out before you hit the actual decision maker.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
I would love to have a linkedin that is owned by the users.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
do you have a portfolio? Most startups need stuff to get done quickly and fresh grads are either in need of months of training or ( a small minority) are self starters who want to make their own companies. Startups usually hire friends&#x2F
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by kashkhan 12y ago
I have dealt with MIT network admins who while not infallible are pretty darn competent. If people like this don't know or cannot fix the problem then there is a very real issue with the process by a which ipv6 is taught. It is not rea
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by kashkhan 12y ago
Are you saying that we shouldn't give money to the poor because if they had money they would be robbed? By that logic banks shouldn't have ATMs becuase people get mugged after going to ATMs. We should give money to the poor so th
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by kashkhan 12y ago
If the punishment is equal to the crime such as eye for an eye,or apply for an apple, then given the <1 probability of punishment, it is always rational to commit the crime because the expected value is profit. This is true regardless o
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by kashkhan 12y ago
30% sounds a bit extreme, especially since it is unloaded. I think they could probably do with 5% or less since the vehicle is unloaded (all the propellant is burnt out) and burns for only a few seconds for soft landing, with most of the br
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by kashkhan 12y ago
It's awful that such a medieval correction system exists in any civilization.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
Alumina is not all aluminum (Al2 O3 ) so you need to correct for that.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
with that definition of recycling even gasoline is recyclable in plants :)
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by kashkhan 12y ago
The technical risk has to be factored in. Nobody has ever done such heat exchangers and how to keep them free of ice is a secret sauce they are not sharing. Without peer review or open discussion the engine might as well not exist.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
The price is going down by 1-2 orders of magnitude. Things are looking bleak for Astrium, Digital Globe etc. The sector has long needed an adjustment. But whether space imaging is going to be worth anything for civil markets is questionable
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by kashkhan 12y ago
Planet labs is doing the same thing with hundreds of 3kg satellites. Yes having thousands of these satellites in LEO is going to make it crowded up there, especially as they break up over the years.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
the satellite design is definitely not open sourced. The camera objective size and number of satellites is not mentioned anywhere.
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by kashkhan 12y ago
do a blimp with an area measured in sq km is a mean feat. Also venus is in a worse gravitational well position than earth so even if you could make gigawatts of power there it would mostly get wasted getting up outside. And that is after yo
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by kashkhan 12y ago
venus also has a 93 times the pressure at the surface, and a temperature of 500 deg c ( that's when steel becomes red hot) in a sulphuric acid fog cloud. So unless elon musk is superman it is unlikely that a solar plant will ever be ma

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