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by larkeith 8y ago
This... isn't really relevant for space. The amount of emptiness so massively outweighs the quantity of matter and energy it would be literally impossible to utilize a nontrivial portion of the volume available. The only case in which
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by larkeith 8y ago
A Stirling engine supplied by sodium heat pipes [1][2], even! It's a fascinating design of closed-cycle engineering, with minimal moving parts. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRUSTY [2] https://en.
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by larkeith 8y ago
That would be less of a problem if most US elections weren't duopolies as well.
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by larkeith 8y ago
The only relevant points are those that make up the coastlines - there is no need to test paths that start and/or end in the middle of sea or land.
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by larkeith 8y ago
"A global map with resolution of 1.85 kilometers has over 230 billion great circles. Each of these consists of 21,600 individual points, making a total of over five trillion points to consider." What? Is there something I'm m
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by larkeith 8y ago
You would have to keep turning slightly South to maintain a bearing parallel to the lines of latitude - the only one that's "straight" (it curves downward, but not North or South) is the Equator.
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by larkeith 8y ago
For future reference, you can rate limit bandwidth with dev tools in Chrome (and probably Firefox), which makes it a lot easier to dodge redirects in situations like this.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Is this available on any websites that don't require Javascript to view? (Seriously folks, there's no reason a static site like this should need JS enabled to read, except for tracking purposes.)
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by larkeith 8y ago
A velocity is the total of acceleration over time (as was referred to). A mass (the spacecraft) moving at a velocity has a given amount of energy, and in this context may be used interchangeably.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I would imagine spaceflight would be much cheaper, more reusable, and widespread in general - space elevators would be much easier to construct, as would fully reusable SSTOs; even if the gravity remains too strong or material sciences too
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by larkeith 8y ago
Your "example" seems to predicate on a world without gravity. The reason escape velocity is reduced based on the distance from the surface is that you have already provided enough energy to overcome the vertical difference - you c
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by larkeith 8y ago
Escape velocity is the total amount of acceleration necessary to escape a gravity well, aka the minimum amount of energy.
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by larkeith 8y ago
As the update covers, they were rehired shortly after being terminated.
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by larkeith 8y ago
> passively convert thermal energy to a powerful enough EM field This is much easier said than done. If such a conversion were simple, we would not use turbines in nuclear or geothermal plants. You might be interested in looking into the
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by larkeith 8y ago
Socrates was executed in 399 BCE, before Aristotle was born (384 BCE). Plato's Academy [1] would probably count though, as might Athens as a whole. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy
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by larkeith 8y ago
Would that count as "false or fraudulent pretenses"? It seems like the fact that it's a commercial serves as an indicator that the consumer displayed is a constructed example, rather than an actual person.
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by larkeith 8y ago
While I agree that, on the whole, Overwatch's model (cosmetic only, non-tradeable) is less negative than those in which there is a secondary market, I'm still not a fan of including unregulated gambling-like mechanics in games wit
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by larkeith 8y ago
Frequently, viewing the "contents" of a box (the potential rewards) displays each item in a row, with no indicator of a difference in drop chance except the background colour, despite some items being twenty or so times more likel
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by larkeith 8y ago
I've never had a kinder egg, but are they generally purchased for the surprise or the chocolate? Generally speaking, there's no specific guaranteed reward from loot boxes, let alone one that outweighs the randomly chosen loot. Als
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by larkeith 8y ago
Skimming the article, it mentions they banned Overwatch, which has only cosmetic rewards from lootboxes ("skins" which change what your in-game character looks like slightly), so it would seem they're banning even non-progres
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by larkeith 8y ago
Was about to go searching for this, thank you for the link!
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by larkeith 8y ago
Could Microsoft not have pursued a cease-and-desist, rather than penalties of $299 (original prosecution) and jail time, if this had truly been their intent?
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by larkeith 8y ago
I'm not sure how this leads to being "in two minds over this" - the fact that this is an expected or accepted result for someone dabbling in the world of proprietary software, to me, shows that there is something fundamental
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Stratolaunch planning first aircraft flight this summer(spacenews.com)
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by larkeith 8y ago
That's less than one API hit per 17 English pages viewed - the overwhelming majority of the time, users do not use this feature at all, based on these numbers. This response is pure sophistry.
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by larkeith 9y ago
I'm glad to see that update - while describing the addition of a provision as a "reorganization" seems... deceptive, to say the least, it's still better than no notification whatsoever.
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by larkeith 9y ago
@chrisv_au's response [1] also merits concern: > Maybe @eventbrite should explain why they sent no official communications about changes to their t&c's - either to add this section, or to remove it. [1] https://t
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by larkeith 9y ago
Oh, huh. I might have to look into paying for that then.
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by larkeith 9y ago
As user Zak noted elsewhere in this thread [1], "> In terms of legitimate reasons, there may be discretionary expenses relating to insurance that can be cut for clubs, but not for sports. This could be a legitimate reason to cut a r
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by larkeith 9y ago
Does paying for these products disable tracking and provide strong privacy controls?

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