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by mehwoot 13y ago
Security checks is not the main cost of time there. The hyperloop is suggested to end up in Sylmar, which according to google, is about a 30 minute drive from Union Station in the center of Los Angeles, where the HSR will stop at. I don&#
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Alon Levy thinks that anybody that is not a 'transportation engineer' should stick to minding their own business. His agenda is shining through pretty strong here... I did not claim Levy is a transportation engineer You at lea
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> Once the huge, lumbering aircraft carriers are sitting on the sea floor, they will be replaced by heavily armored battleships. In a major war, the only sea launched aircraft will be VTOLs. Huh... there isn't a single battleship in
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but zerocoin is essentially a formal, decentralised tumbling service, right? It runs parallel to bitcoin and people on bitcoin can choose to use it or not. Under my scenario, if you used zerocoin, and anybody
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It's trivial to make a wallet program that would report the new addresses as it makes them, one for each new transaction. That's really not a big limitation.
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This particular implementation wouldn't actually work. Anyone can send BTC to any address, so it would be easy to poison the well. You could easily have software that would automatically turn over to the government any coins sent fro
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by mehwoot 13y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204187 . It's pretty straightforward for the Government to come up with a scheme to defeat tumbling services. Just make it mandatory to only accept payments fr
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Whilst way you say may technically be true, the government could just declare this: Each person must publicly declare the bitcoin addresses that they hold. Any legitimate business accepting payment in bitcoins can only receive bitcoins fro
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Well the issue, apart from getting the land to build, is probably that the public benefits a great deal more than a company can profit off. There are always going to be intangible benefits from huge infrastructure projects like this that a
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I always thought the publisher was the person who organised actually making and distributing the media (book in this case). I don't think they have to pay for it to be made.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Just because marketing lets people know about a product's advantages doesn't mean every improvement can be labelled as marketing. And it certainly doesn't make a product whose only improvement is marketing something worthy of
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by mehwoot 13y ago
This assumes you already have bitcoins. Like, your job pays you in Bitcoins or something. Oh, that isn't the case? Well expect to pay a transaction fee on buying bitcoins (about 5.65% where I live last time I checked). Once everyone
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I hadn't heard about that before, but I googled it and this interesting link came up. http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s... TL;DR The small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Whenever I see an article with a headline like this, I always wonder... was it actually faster than anyone ever predicted? Was there really not at least one crazy guy in the 70's who said "Man, Greenland's ice sheets are g
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It is definitely not allowed on Kickstarter. Whether that is in the T&C I'm not sure, but I know people have warned about it.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I think he means since he donated $20 just for nothing, if he was buying a device, adding another $50 on top isn't a huge deal.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Yes but crowd funding is generally raising a bit less than $32 million. Impossible to tell whether this project will follow others.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
In the last 5 hours when I looked (roughly 4pm - 9pm in the eastern U.S.), they had raised $59,000. That's about $290,000 a day they are currently running at. They are going to need a very big push at the end if they stay at that rat
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Mozart began composing at the age of five. By the time he was 8 he had written around 16 pieces that survive to today, including a Symphony.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Does Warran Buffet need more money? Yet he's still trying to make himself richer. "I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. I
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I don't think this is a very good example of what they are claiming is happening. The book sold roughly 1,000 copies in a month or two and received amazing, near universal great reviews. There is every chance that should she have con
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Ohhhhhh I see. This makes a lot more sense. I saw Multiple "July" and increasing numbers and thought it was days.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Wow I didn't realise how little traffic they got previously. They must have had like... 5,000 regular users? Hopefully a lot of the new traffic sticks around.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Woah, I didn't know when one thing preceded another that it is certain that thing caused the other. Thanks for opening my eyes.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
So the upgrade took a few hours to complete and it didn't happen instantly in defiance to the laws of physics. What law of physics necessitates that such an upgrade takes 6 hours?
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...can be blamed on Marxism and Leninism. Well yeah, you can blame it. Doesn't make it true. Of course a country can't magically be divorced from what happened 20 years ago, but the point behind my sarcasm was it is exceptiona
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by mehwoot 13y ago
...lead to some of the worst regimes in history, and we can't forget that. Yeah, because without his ideas, Russia would have turned into a well functioning capitalist democracy. The past 20 years have been pure bliss now that the b
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by mehwoot 13y ago
This kind of proves my point. While a stabbing attack is a crime, and a violent one, I would scarcely call it terrorism. There are 208 deaths on that list for 2002 from 33 separate suicide bombings. Do you think that is fabricated? Do y
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I originally used this page http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/victim... and was counting by hand, but it took too long. I didn't count a few that were vague ("stabbing attack" w
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by mehwoot 13y ago
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terrisraelsum.html In 2002, 451 people were killed and ~2,300 injured in 134 separate terrorist attacks in Israel. From a population of about 7.7 million people. If that were

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