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by nilstycho 10y ago
The tube design is not final. They included a variety of features to allow some flexibility in designing pods. The radius is smaller than a full-scale hyperloop. Depressurization is not catastropic, as it would be for an oil tanker, so ther
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by nilstycho 10y ago
Nitpick: homogeneous, not homogenous. This error is so common that some dictionaries have deemed it acceptable, but homogeneous is preferred. I still fight the good fight.
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by nilstycho 10y ago
I second EconTalk. High quality, accessible, and interesting. I didn't think Freakonomics was great, but some people love it, and as long as it gets people to enjoy economics, I'm happy. My first foray into an economic way of th
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by nilstycho 10y ago
See also: “Why you shouldn’t let ‘donation matching’ affect your giving” at GiveWell. ( http://blog.givewell.org/2011/12/15/why-you-shouldnt-let-don... )
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by nilstycho 10y ago
The Murray Gell–Mann Amnesia Effect, which was actually coined by Michael Crichton.
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by nilstycho 10y ago
The weirdest case at my tenure as a neighborhood computer tech was a personal notebook computer that would not boot up at the customer's apartment. Of course we assumed user error, but further investigation revealed that if the compute
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by nilstycho 10y ago
Just the other week I was talking to the director of Poverty, Inc, Mark R. Weber, about UCTs. He's skeptical of cash transfers, for most of the same reasons that he's skeptical of goods transfers.
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by nilstycho 10y ago
The plural of Yaris would likely be Yares if it were Latin and Yarides if it were Greek. The initial “y” makes it sound more Greek to my ear, so if we’re going to have fun with the plural form, I’d suggest Yarides .
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by nilstycho 11y ago
“The light beamer must focus a spot smaller than the sail onto the sail, as it orbits 60,000km above the Earth’s surface. This alignment must be produced when the target star system (Alpha Centauri) has the correct configuration with respec
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by nilstycho 11y ago
“Images of the target planet could be transmitted by a 1Watt laser onboard the nanocraft, in a ‘burst mode’ which uses the energy storage unit to rapidly draw power for the power-intensive laser communications mode. Upon approach to the tar
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by nilstycho 11y ago
I was skeptical of this quote, because for some reason Dan Baum sat on it for twenty years instead of publishing it in his book on the subject. Huffington Post , however, asked him about that: Baum explained to The Huffington Post why he d
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by nilstycho 11y ago
I scheduled mine over the holidays, and it worked out very nicely. Additionally, it meant I was around my family for any necessary support during recovery. All in all, it was very smooth.
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by nilstycho 11y ago
He's working on it: http://terrapower.com/
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by nilstycho 11y ago
It might be this: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan