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by kirrent 9y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Nerdwriter1. I loved his Shane Black and Lord of the Rings leitmotif videos but some of the more conceptual stuff can be pretty hard to take. A good example would be his Bon I
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by kirrent 9y ago
I listened to an interview that discussed ITER's blanket in detail recently and while it seems like a very impressive bit of materials science, they seemed to have no doubt it'd work. Plus, won't nearly all neutrons be incide
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by kirrent 9y ago
Perhaps you could link me to an example where that happened? Probably the most famous cases of Monsanto suing farmers were Bowman v. Monsanto and Monsanto v. Schmeiser. In both cases the infringement was entirely purposeful. Schmesier'
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by kirrent 9y ago
Good to hear. Just the top few will do.
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by kirrent 9y ago
I'm always interested in people's perceptions of Monsanto considering that to me they seem like an entirely pedestrian and boring GM crops company with a couple of cool products. Perhaps you could explain why you dislike them and
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by kirrent 9y ago
Hey, if you've got hundreds of studies why don't you start? Give us your favourites.
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by kirrent 9y ago
On the other hand, if you search "organic food worse for environment" you get results which explain why organic farming is less sustainable. Your search results are dependent on your query so if you search "vaccination schedu
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by kirrent 9y ago
My Australian bedroom is often that hot, if not hotter during the summer months. I have a fan. You get used to it.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Sure, I understood that. My interest was that given the knowledge that the Byzantines and Ottomans were enemies and then the Ottomans conquered the entire region, what would be the relevance of an Ottoman tradition to assassination of a Byz
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by kirrent 9y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand the history, but how is an Ottoman tradition relevant to the Byzantines?
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by kirrent 9y ago
The HN community is interesting in that respect and it's not only with some medical issues. As an example, any article on pesticides and modern food production will be full of comments decrying them and claiming health/taste benef
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by kirrent 9y ago
That's a pretty fundamental question, but probably QMA?
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by kirrent 9y ago
I'm interested by your experience because I've always wondered if using one of these services to learn how to cook doesn't really reflect how most people actually cook in their home which is not to really have strict recipes
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by kirrent 9y ago
The Stanford Student Space Initiative's valbal is an interesting project where they add a lightweight set of ballast and a valve to a weather balloon so it can maintain an altitude. They're limited by power, the amount of ballast,
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by kirrent 9y ago
After reading the article the chips they chose shook the world because of their silicon, not good tool support like AVR studio and Arduino, which was what made the Atmegas so popular. The 328 in particular is otherwise a boring and low powe
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by kirrent 9y ago
For number 2, there could be any number of solutions to fix those degrees of freedom. Intuitively, a maximum margin separator for determining the division wouldn't seem to be a terrible idea.
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by kirrent 9y ago
I think single transferable vote is a much better way of addressing that criticism. We have it where I live and it has tended to produce fairly boring yet representative elections.
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by kirrent 9y ago
It wasn't only basic spaceflight. It was basic physics in general. Like when the two protagonists are somehow hanging off the ISS and Clooney has to let go because Bullock can't pull him in. It's a huge important moment plot
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by kirrent 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018221
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by kirrent 9y ago
Interestingly, this launch wasn't within the original capabilities of the falcon 9 and was originally scheduled for a falcon heavy launch. The lengthening of the rocket, using densified propellants, and more changes meant that they cou
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by kirrent 9y ago
Wikipedia seems to imply that the plan for Red Dragon is a direct atmospheric entry. It makes sense, they don't have a second stage that would last long enough to get there. They don't have the delta-V to get the second stage into
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by kirrent 9y ago
Dragon is barely capable of landing on the moon if you remove the heat shield and replace it with more fuel and fit additional fuel storage in the capsule. Its powered descents on Mars would only be possible because of atmospheric drag.
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by kirrent 9y ago
That sounds like what virtually live is promising: http://virtuallylive.com/
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by kirrent 9y ago
> What if the "no-cloning theorem"[0] wasn't actually right? So, quantum mechanics isn't linear in nature any more? And it gets to transmit information superluminally? It's probably more likely that we're al
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by kirrent 9y ago
Only if you're looking to play the CHSH game with Bob.
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by kirrent 9y ago
This isn't a very useful comparison. For one, according to their FCC application SpaceX is planning on launching satellites with a mass of less than 400kg. For comparison, SES-10, a communications satellite SpaceX launched recently, ha
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by kirrent 9y ago
Conventional lithography also requires an understanding of quantum effects at the scales it's being used at. Not to mention modelling light/mask layer interactions.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Beamer works just fine on shareLaTeX. I've never had a problem.
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by kirrent 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The Chinese are actively researching in the area of ultra high voltage DC transmission so that power can be distributed long distances from remote renewable resources. Even if the problem were as si
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by kirrent 9y ago
Literally in the linked Wikipedia article: "Although cast-iron cookware is known to transmit iron to food during cooking, the cost to obtain it is prohibitive for most of the individuals living in poverty in rural Cambodia, who earn le

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