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by madaxe 14y ago
Actually, in that video, you're right, that's lens flare. Still, the superheated trail suggests that something very intense happened at that moment. It could have been the meteor breaking up, but that kind of "burning air" phenomenon is a
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yeah, but it's present in other videos too, and moves in an arc, which countersuggests a lens or CCD bucket overflow artefact.
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by madaxe 14y ago
They've got them peppered through the Urals. Lots of Cold War silos in that neck of the woods, and definitely active ABMs - saw them being driven just outside of astrakhan in the dead of night last year. Also, kaz is full of Russian militar
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by madaxe 14y ago
In the various videos, there are a few noteworthy artefacts. 1) After the bright white flash, we see debris flying in the opposite direction to the meteor's path, in a parabolic trajectory - i.e. falling. 2) Your AMM system doesn't need to
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by madaxe 14y ago
If it is true, they've been lobbing nukes - their principal ABM for ICBMs/fast re-entry is the Gazelle - 10kt warhead.
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by madaxe 14y ago
There probably is a nuclear blast in that mix. They stated that anti-missile systems intercepted it - the only thing with a hope in hell of reaching and destroying/breaking a meteor is the 53T6 Gazelle, which has a 10kt warhead.
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by madaxe 14y ago
>> Can you even do that in the UK? France? Yes, totally. I live in a city of just shy of a million people in the UK, and I can see the countryside from my desk in the middle of it. It's a 15 minute walk out of town. A big advantage
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by madaxe 14y ago
Fair points, all. I suppose what I'm getting at is that as a nation, the US is morbidly dependent on the car. 160 miles for the school run and commute is utterly mad. I think we'll be adopting and using electric vehicles in Europe long befo
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by madaxe 14y ago
Exhaust systems need replacing, usually far more frequently than most people do. If you've got a rusty mess of an exhaust system, you're just blowing unburned fuel through your engine. I think 80 years of R&D is overly generous. There's
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by madaxe 14y ago
I just want to know who the hell all these people are that need to drive 600 miles a day every day, with no opportunity to stop and charge. Unless the only employment in the US is "taxi driver", I fail to see the issue...
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by madaxe 14y ago
Sotheby's, still. You'll find there are plenty of real-world auction houses who do specialist auctions and sell really esoteric stuff to a specialist audience. Also, you can always re-sell on eBay and break up the lot.
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by madaxe 14y ago
All values are artificial. Everything is worth whatever someone is prepared to pay for it. If someone buys this lot for $550k, it's worth $550k. You probably could have found a buyer willing to pay £500 for your intaglio, but it's all about
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by madaxe 14y ago
Not the same story, but very similar cases in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2074077.stm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223125/90-year-old-... (sorry for the daily fail link) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl
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by madaxe 14y ago
Because making the US look smaller is not politically astute in a jingoistic you're-with-us-or-you're-against-us patriotic state.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yes. You're accessing an information system without permission, which is an offence under Title 18 U.S.C. Section 1030. Edit: here you go: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 Paragraph a (2) (C). Congratulations, you're a felon
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yup. It's all about parsing FIX faster than the next dude.
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by madaxe 14y ago
You'd only stick algos to automatically sell at a given time if you were mad (as you'd act on a move, not a time) - and the down and half-up tick indicate straddles set around the position. This may have been a single rogue performing an in
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yeah. This. Just posted the same, didn't see yours. It's a classic straddle, going by the quick buy by the same points to the midway.
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by madaxe 14y ago
So, that initial downwards spike at -400ms that immediately kicks back up to the halfway point? Those can only possibly be pre-programmed strategies. From the big boys. 'Cos you can't stack 'em exchange side last I checked, if they're price
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by madaxe 14y ago
I'd like to see their budgetary proof that not a penny of license-payer money was used on this. What about overheads (Light, Heat, Power, Rent)? Do they partition those out? I doubt it.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Fantabulous. It's not a tool for developers, it's a tool for clients to unreasonably bash developers over the head with and to market MS's substandard browsers. Already had one email going "URGENT!!!! COMPATIBILITY ISSUES WITH IE!!!!" on a
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by madaxe 14y ago
Bingo - the engineers may have said one thing, and the project manager/board of arbitrary decisions may have said "my cousin makes batteries" or "fewer cells will mean easier part replacement". Engineering is only part of making an engineer
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by madaxe 14y ago
Also, don't forget that agriculture only arose recently, in the grand scale of things - somewhere around 20,000 years ago, and these folks had agriculture - in fact, their suffering is largely based around the fact that they're attempting a
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by madaxe 14y ago
She should just be running.
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by madaxe 14y ago
It's also very like a travel site we built a few years ago "I want a cozy family hotel in chicago for three days in march over a weekend, flying from london" Users just typed in "chicago". We nixed the natural language stuff after a few mon
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by madaxe 14y ago
Corruption.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Not to a huge degree, admittedly, but enough that more than a few of us have ended up with a more in-depth knowledge of assembly than one might expect. This has typically arisen from working with existing OSS projects which incorporate vect
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by madaxe 14y ago
I see it as true because it's a repeatable experiment. I haven't argued that my ideas are bold or radical, merely fact - and nor have I argued that this differs from common liturgy. Neophytes are indeed more creative than seasoned veterans,
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by madaxe 14y ago
Sure, but you can extrapolate it to the entire web industry, which is my domain. I've built teams for clients (we started out taking equity in startups in exchange for prototyping and team assembly), and in every instance have followed that
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by madaxe 14y ago
Productivity, enthusiasm, willingness to learn new tricks (get 'em in knowing PHP, watch 'em learn C, Java, and ASM as they go deeper into our stack), and willing to take the risk of sticking their neck out with outlandish but brilliant ide

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