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by nkoren 10y ago
I was also born 40 years ago. People were routinely walking on the moon before we were born. Nobody has done so since. 50 years ago, NASA's baseline plan called for a permanent settlement on the moon by 1978, and a permanent settlement
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by nkoren 10y ago
The Empire State building was completed in 1931. It had 103 floors, took 13 months from start to finish, and cost $637M (adjusted for inflation). 83 years later, in the same city, the Freedom Tower was completed. It had one more floor, but
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by nkoren 10y ago
Allegedly it creates a plasma shield which has a radar-shielding effect, in addition to reducing drag (and maybe actually moving the air). But yeah, you'd think that the RF signature would be unmistakable...
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by nkoren 10y ago
There have been theories for over a decade that the B2 includes a technology like this: http://starburstfound.org/electrograviticsblog/?p=21 (Edit: Here's the farthest-back link I can find, allegedly from 1993(!):
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by nkoren 10y ago
Sounds like the problem is that your sample size is too small. What happens if you expand the timeframe out to a month? Or a year? That should give you books that are cited repeatedly , not just the books which have recently been mentione
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by nkoren 10y ago
I suppose it will be when weather satellites can tell us when a hurricane is inbound, and when navigation satellites can tell us our location at any time, and when communications satellites can provide us with near-instantaneous bandwidth f
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by nkoren 10y ago
Maybe much easier... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fire-in-the-mind/2013/02/2... ...or maybe not.
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by nkoren 10y ago
These are the right questions to be asking! Yes, there has been some talk -- but not remotely enough. At present, the vast majority of work in the vehicle-automation space is being done by, well, vehicle people. The assumption is that drive
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by nkoren 10y ago
Ubiquitous comment, as a person within the industry: there's a big difference between cars that have a hands-free driving mode, and cars that do not have a driver. The latter will be an absolute game-changer; the former can yield some
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Blue Origin Software Engineers AMA(reddit.com)
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by nkoren 10y ago
Petting a whale from a boat is an amazing experience -- I did this 23 years ago in Ojo de Liebre. The mother Gray Whales would push their calves up to the boats so that they could receive some petting on the nose. There was no material rewa
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by nkoren 10y ago
Seems to be non-deterministic. Sometimes I get 'Hey Buys', sometimes I get 'Hey Guys', and sometimes I get: WEHXLHT I PROMITE IS IYYTWOSLP MORE FEUNITTLEMARVEYIFE. IN T FIVE NO WAKE AGRIEF CHOLD FOSITAY SAHT COSF NO
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What UK Startups Make of the Shock Brexit Vote(techcrunch.com)
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Panama papers and pirates: how data leaks can make the world a better place(pri.org)
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by nkoren 10y ago
You are correct!
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by nkoren 10y ago
Thanks, I didn't consume enough coffee today.
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by nkoren 10y ago
With regards to re-entry: the rocket was going much slower than orbital velocity, and the re-entry was therefore much more moderate. Some ballpark math: The 1st stage was travelling at 8,300 kph at MECO, and almost of that velocity would h
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by nkoren 10y ago
Ugh, yeah, that's a terrible source. Apologies for the bad Google-fu. I have heard this claim from decidedly less-terrible sources, but the hour is too late in my current timezone to pursue this thread. So until then I will need to rel
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by nkoren 10y ago
Oh shit. Withdrawn!
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by nkoren 10y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I unreservedly withdraw my citation!
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by nkoren 10y ago
> So my question is, how well documented was the Japanese back-channel surrender offer? Is it documented that it was made to legitimate decision-makers through those back channels? [Edit: I linked to a terrible source. I apologise.]
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by nkoren 10y ago
That's a straw man. There were many alternatives apart from an invasion, such as a submarine blockade (as the navy was proposing), or simply accepting the conditional surrender which Japan had been offering through back-channels for we
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by nkoren 10y ago
This counterfactual loses much of its appeal when you learn that Japan was beaten and had been trying, through back channels, to conditionally surrender for months prior to the bombing. Their sole condition was guaranteed safety for the Emp
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by nkoren 10y ago
Last night I watched 19 engineers use my application to work collaboratively, in real-time, on a single canvas, to design a transport network for a city. That kind of functionality has never existed before, anywhere, and is a damned sight m
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by nkoren 10y ago
The web no longer consists of just static web pages and form data. I build complex web applications, which are stateful in many ways that don't involve forms (and involve things like websocket connections, etc). There's no way tha
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by nkoren 10y ago
Absolutely worth highlighting, yes.
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by nkoren 10y ago
The first assisted-suicide advocate I ever met left an impression I will never forget. He had the most romantic life story. He was an Indian from Gujarat who had moved to America in the 1960s to become a hippy. Then one day he found a flier
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by nkoren 10y ago
May I make a human advancement suggestion which has very little to do with technology? Teach about cognitive bias. Tech it at a fundamental level -- like, starting in 1st grade, with annual refreshers thereafter. Give cognitive bias an eq
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by nkoren 10y ago
It's simple: a lot of the actual needed "work" in impoverished communities is informal. These communities are quite good at self-organising -- but barter can only get you so far. What cash grants give you is better liquidity
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by nkoren 10y ago
I upvoted your comment not because I agree with it, but because yours is an important voice to be participating in the discussion, and I'm glad you're here. And actually, I do agree with everything you say about how NGO money di

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