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by nategri 9y ago
So... ahem what other idiots came here expecting a post about troubleshooting Martian habitability? ::Sulks off dejectedly::
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by nategri 9y ago
Tomorrow on HN: How not to ship a build
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by nategri 9y ago
Re: Money-in-politics: I used to consider myself a Lessig-style single issue voter, but now everything is on fire and during the next 4 years there's a good chance I'll just vote for anyone holding a bucket of water. Once things a
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by nategri 9y ago
>>money is quantifiably good 'money' is quantifiable, however 'good' is not
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by nategri 9y ago
The general relativity-based description of gravity you've provided is no more in conflict with a quantum (i.e. particle) theory of gravity than Newton's Laws are in conflict with the Schrodinger equation. They're just differ
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by nategri 9y ago
I know the author is legit because he got the order of magnitude factor between LHC energy and the highest energy cosmic ray correct. A lot of otherwise clever people forget to correct for center of mass energy.
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by nategri 9y ago
I don't think it's that ambiguous. "Megaton" isn't really used anywhere except for explosive yields, where it always means TNT. As far as the 'native unit' astrophysicists will tend to use ergs for events
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by nategri 9y ago
Same! And I have theories about it. It's either because 1.) In general Star Trek isn't really about physics, its about sociology or (in the better episodes) political science. 2.) Star Trek gets physics so wildly wrong that its no
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by nategri 9y ago
I've got a PhD in physics and I have no idea what he's talking about here. Seems like the mainboard layout had issues at higher frequencies which is easily a 100% classical electromagnetism problem. Inductance, impedance and what
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by nategri 10y ago
"Neural lace," indeed. No such thing as too many Iain M. Banks references for Mr. Musk, eh?
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True, however I would point out that elevation should have absolutely no impact on the performance of electric vehicles.
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by nategri 10y ago
This is probably the most "Hacker News" thing I've ever seen.
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Columbus Beats San Fran and Others for $40M High Tech Transportation Grant(washingtonpost.com)
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