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by nkoren 2y ago
Would sure be nice to have some numbers on expected thrust, weight, and ISP, in order to have some kind of context in which to understand this!
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by nkoren 2y ago
Yeah, sadly, I think it's worth having "ulterior motives" on the list. One of the first time I got interested in reading medical studies was when I saw a bunch of headlines announcing that a randomized controlled trial had pr
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by nkoren 2y ago
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it were organic, spurred on to some extent by recent news in Canada. Many years ago I worked on a project in Amritsar, which had me regularly engaged with the Golden Temple (the most sacred place in
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A Mathematician in a School of Art(mathvalues.org)
127 points by nkoren 2y ago|26 comments
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by nkoren 2y ago
Next year, China says it will be testing a concept very similar to what you've described, with its Long March 10A rocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27TvGDpPLNw It will be interesting to see how these two approach
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by nkoren 2y ago
Only for Moon & Mars landings. The plan is to use the catch tower, Same as the booster, when landing on Earth.
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by nkoren 2y ago
> some degree of plausibility for a would-be cryptanalyst But that's a very ahistorical theory, isn't it? The manuscript was written hundreds of years before cryptanalysts were invented. For its author to anticipate that would
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by nkoren 2y ago
"Seats" is a bit generous. They'd be strapped to the cargo palettes behind the seats, without flight suits. Definitely sub-optimal.
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by nkoren 2y ago
Same, from the UK.
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by nkoren 2y ago
A friend of mine had two kittens -- siblings, who were very close to each other. One of them was hit by a car and killed. I had adored this kitten, so in memory of her I did a chalk drawing portrait of the kitten, and brought it over to my
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by nkoren 2y ago
Ariane 6 is a worthy competitor to the Falcon 9 -- if it hadn't become partially reusable. If it had reached the market 15 years ago, it could have been relevant. Ariane Next could be a worthy competitor to the Falcon 9R, if they manag
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by nkoren 2y ago
> do you really think that advanced civilizations like the Chinese or Japanese don't have the exact same concept as "terroir"? No, they do not. But they do have other concepts which in turn cannot be translated into Euro
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by nkoren 2y ago
Nah, you need some way to consider the quality of your text. No way around that. Let's say I publish a page -- nothing fancy to it, no dark patterns at all -- just the word "architecture". For anybody searching for the term
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by nkoren 3y ago
I mean, we're not biologically adapted for the open ocean or winters above the arctic circle either. If all you're living in is your skin, then a Siberian winter will kill you in under 15 minutes. It takes a crazy amount of techno
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by nkoren 3y ago
The requisite XKCD: https://xkcd.com/893/
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by nkoren 3y ago
Yeah, might be. The use of the single-quote "3500'" is a pretty standard way of indicating feet, and I've never seen meters denoted that way. At the same time, I can easily imagine getting confused by the scale: there&#x
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by nkoren 3y ago
Actually the Panamint range tops out at just over 11,000 feet, at Telescope Peak. One cloudless July day I was walking to its summit, wearing flip-flops, a t-shirt, and shorts, when a tiny fluff of a cloud suddenly appeared. An hour later I
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by nkoren 3y ago
Portugal decriminalised all drugs. It got a lot nicer, and certainly is now far less squalid than the US. So that theory is out.
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by nkoren 3y ago
This wouldn't be the first time that they've lost a major mission due to a similarly simple root cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)
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by nkoren 3y ago
You literally didn't read the first paragraph of the linked article, did you?
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by nkoren 4y ago
Huh, wow, really cool! For the most part it's excellent (in English), however I notice that quotation marks (both single and double) are handled strangely. The leading quotation mark is pronounced as a short A, and the trailing as a lo
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by nkoren 4y ago
You may be in luck with Uranus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_Orbiter_and_Probe
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by nkoren 4y ago
I believe you're looking at the wrong stock? It's $5.93 right now. - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IONQ?p=IONQ&.tsrc=fin-srch - https://www.google.com/finance/quote/IONQ:NYSE
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by nkoren 4y ago
Nope, it's at $5.9, giving them a market cap of $1.175 billion.
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by nkoren 4y ago
Yep. Look to Radiolaria for inspiration.
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by nkoren 4y ago
(Caveat: I'm not truly an expert on Roman concrete, although I love it -- the Pantheon being my favourite building in the whole if human history.) My understanding is that the use of Roman concrete was very highly centralised in and ar
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by nkoren 5y ago
Neither I nor my largest competitor are on the list, which is fair enough. However a now-defunct domain which my competitor previously used for their hiring portal is on the list. Weird!
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by nkoren 5y ago
With what OS? My T14s running Windows 10 is unable to survive commanded sleep, much less just putting the lid down.
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by nkoren 5y ago
I can't find any online searchable text of his great polemic, "Towards a New Architecture" -- but basically if you read that it's pretty clear: he hated people. Individual humans are fine and should have their needs effi
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by nkoren 5y ago
Pure nostalgia! I was seven when my father got me one. Apparently I declared in a dramatic voice that "We have now entered... THE COMPUTER AGE!!!". Honestly, the things one could do with that machine were intoxicating.

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