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2131.
by maaku 15y ago
What numbers are you using? Falcon Heavy could launch 140 000kg in 3 launches, costing 240-375$MM (estimated).
2132.
by maaku 15y ago
Really? Have you been living under a rock? EVERYONE is complaining about privatizing spaceflight. Congressmen, 24-hour news hosts, op-ed writers... there is (sadly) a concerted effort out there to kill this privatization effort.
2133.
by maaku 15y ago
ITAR... it is a ridiculous, crazy law that has killed the US satellite industry. Hopefully it will be repealed soon.
2134.
by maaku 15y ago
A whole heck of a lot more. Have you ever tried mailing an envelope via UPS? We're talking orders of magnitude difference in price. USPS could double their first-class rates, and they'd still be undercutting the competition.
2135.
by maaku 15y ago
This is not a canonicalization attack, although it is similar. The attacks described used semantically different strings that just happened to look like what the user was expecting.
2136.
by maaku 15y ago
Yes, the rounds usually have an end date written into the term sheets.
2137.
by maaku 15y ago
In California, family leave is paid for by the state, not your company.
2138.
by maaku 15y ago
Paternity leave is much, much shorter.
2139.
by maaku 15y ago
That was my first concern. Cocaine is one of the oldest anesthetics, and still used in some limited circumstances. But there are a lot of derivative drugs, e.g novocaine that nearly ever dentist uses, which are basically cocaine without the
2140.
by maaku 15y ago
When I created a SF project some years ago, it required approval from some mysterious and unknown administrator. That process took a week, and during that time I didn't have access to the resources I needed (version control, mailing list, i
2141.
by maaku 15y ago
Interesting that this is at the bottom; people who downvoted this probably don't know their NASA history... (EDIT: for context, most of trouble NASA has gotten itself into stem from commitments made for political reasons to appease the Nixo
2142.
by maaku 15y ago
The space shuttle is (was?) a test vehicle. Do you know how many test pilots die each year? Actually I don't know either, but I know it's a lot higher than the number of astronauts. Before anyone jumps on me, I'm absolutely not saying tho
2143.
by maaku 15y ago
Nothing funny about it. The analogy is good. Garrett Reisman, astronaut, joins SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20110304 The time of NASA-monopoly (DARPA) is fading, and the time of commercial space (Xerox PARC/Bell Labs) is j
2144.
by maaku 15y ago
I am probably the only American here that would only buy in EUR. I travel internationally quite a bit so I have a bank account and debit card (through First Republic) that gives me end-to-end conversion with no fees (no bank fees, no exch
2145.
by maaku 15y ago
Already working on that ;) I have a working prototype of a "bitcoin" client that replaces the hash generating function with completing a workunit of a BOINC project (the various @home stuff). It required some modification to the bitcoin pro
2146.
by maaku 15y ago
The hope is that miners will still make money off of transaction fees (a "tip" to the miner which verifies the transaction). Each new block assigns 50 BTC to the miner that found it, plus the accumulated fees of all transactions included in
2147.
by maaku 15y ago
False choice. Why roll your own when either porting bindings to bcrypt or porting the bcrypt implementation to your language is easier and safer?
2148.
by maaku 15y ago
No. If you were to repeat an experiment a million times, the standard deviation should (quickly) limit to zero. That does not mean that the value compued is correct, however. Due to how round-off is specified, the estimated error will incre
2149.
by maaku 15y ago
Normally I'm with you, but this redesign reduces functionality and decreases legibility. That's an f'ing terrible improvement.
2150.
by maaku 15y ago
So maintain a blacklist of elastic IPs. If it's too big for you, make it a community effort. Those are bad reasons to close your site to all of AWS. As nupark2 mentioned, there are legitimate users routing traffic through EC2, even some b
2151.
by maaku 15y ago
Why? Name me one good reason. Name me one.
2152.
by maaku 15y ago
I know some is lost during the explosion, but I thought the mass stayed roughly the same and just the volume significantly decreased. The first part answers the second. A lot is lost in the explosion.
2153.
by maaku 15y ago
Can't help you with Rails, but in case you or anyone else didn't know the Django-Extensions app adds the Flask (Werkzeug) debugger to Django projects with the run_plus command.
2154.
by maaku 15y ago
Primarily just those which result in dopamine production are addictive. Psychedelic drugs do not, and are generally not addictive.
2155.
by maaku 15y ago
Doesn't it make more sense for them to tell both sides and not take a stance? They're journalists--it's not their business to take sides if there is true cause for controversy.
2156.
by maaku 15y ago
Computer science journals are pretty unique in that they let authors get away with that. In any other industry the papers are owned by the publisher, not the author, and putting a link to your own paper on your own website is a copyright vi
2157.
by maaku 15y ago
That may apply where you work, but it is not universal. I work at NASA and almost all the papers we generate are (regrettably) published behind paywalls. And the consequences are far worse than having to fork over a few (thousands of) dol