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by nkoren 12y ago
> Considering that the "peace" faction's strategy was to force an invasion and massive casualty... The notion that the alternative to the bombings was an invasion is an utterly pernicious falsehood. It is a matter of recor
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by nkoren 12y ago
I've done a lot of work with the Indian government, and yes it can be very corrupted. But from what my friends at ISRO have told me -- and I believe them -- it is a meritocracy of the highest order. Its consistently excellent performan
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by nkoren 12y ago
Clark Richert's artwork is great. But do you have a source for this Penrose lawsuit? Google is failing to turn up anything about it.
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by nkoren 12y ago
Actually, yes. I paid for Sketchup and for extra storage space on gmail / drive. I also paid for Google Apps for Business for two of my startups. My disgruntlement isn't because I'm upset that I didn't get what I paid fo
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by nkoren 12y ago
Until Hangouts provide the ability to properly control one's visibility, I Will. Not. Use. Them. Full. Stop. It's somewhat amusing to see Google finally reintroducing functionality which worked perfectly well in GChat years ago. B
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Battle of the Heavyweight Rockets(nasaspaceflight.com)
4 points by nkoren 12y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
Too busy to cut another video, yes! Progress was somewhat interrupted by a month-long road trip in America, but is still going strong.
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by nkoren 12y ago
I quit my day job to work on http://www.podaris.com/ full-time. (It's like Google Docs for transport planning). It's going great -- in closed beta now. Hoping to have a public release by the end of September, and
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China leads the world in bike-sharing(sustainablecitiescollective.com)
2 points by nkoren 12y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
A very simplistic and skewed article. As per its usual modus operandi, China is pursuing all options simultaneously. Which means that in addition to building hideous sprawling automotive-dependent suburbs, they're building the largest
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by nkoren 12y ago
This is a fun and quite intriguing resource, but I'm skeptical of the NomadCost function. No way is is Berlin only 12% cheaper than London for a nomad. It's probably 50% or more.
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by nkoren 12y ago
Yeah, I actually made that particular edit to Wikipedia about 20 minutes before seeing it cited as a _verification_ of that article, here. Funny to see one of those infamous internet self-confirmation loops get established in near-realtime.
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by nkoren 12y ago
Five seasons and a number of TV movies: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html The "P5 rating" for each episode tends to be a very reliable indicator of its quality. That said, B5 ca
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by nkoren 12y ago
Yes, they'll be making another flyback and ocean landing attempt -- this time closer to shore and hopefully with a better signal to receive uncorrupted video! (The last time, the plane they were receiving the booster's telemetry f
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by nkoren 12y ago
It is very difficult to take seriously an article that can't distinguish between "space shuttles" and "rockets".
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SpaceX launch webcast(spacex.com)
48 points by nkoren 12y ago|22 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
Very cool video for what is indeed a wonderful city. Yet it is also a very, very, very expensive city. I remember the last time I returned home from a trip to Stockholm, the relief I felt as the wheels hit the runway: "Aaaahhh... final
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by nkoren 12y ago
This kind of comment is what keeps me coming back to Hacker News. I didn't know that Lemaître had proposed that the expansion was accelerating -- actually, I didn't know much about Lemaître at all, truth be told. ( The Day Withou
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by nkoren 12y ago
I think you're correct about the motivation for the cosmological constant. By adjusting the sign of the sign of the constant, you could produce a universe which was expanding, contracting, or steady-state. When Hubble's constant g
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by nkoren 12y ago
Georges Lemaître had proposed an early version of the Big Bang theory in 1931. In 1936 it was nowhere near the scientific consensus -- that didn't happen until the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, 29 years later. But knowl
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by nkoren 12y ago
Dude, don't tell anyone! The real estate pressure is bad enough already!
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by nkoren 12y ago
I first read about this many years ago, in Olav Stapledon's brilliant Star Maker , about a man who takes a magical mystery tour through the whole of time and space: "Then the Star Maker said, "Let there be light."
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by nkoren 12y ago
That "fortress" was actually a small mission, built in 1697, which served as the capital of Spanish California for a while. It's still there; I visited many years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misi%C3
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by nkoren 12y ago
Unfortunately I have to concur about losing the music. I found it so distracting that I actually couldn't focus on what the voice was saying.
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Engineering our way out of fascism(smarimccarthy.is)
12 points by nkoren 12y ago|2 comments
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Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast(spacex.com)
339 points by nkoren 12y ago|169 comments
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by nkoren 12y ago
Tesla doesn't need to endear themselves to the workers; they use robots wherever possible. Detroit is home to powerful organisations (the unions) which are famous for their resistance to automation; that, if nothing else, is probably s
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by nkoren 12y ago
I've worked on many urban planning and transport infrastructure projects in India, since 2001, and have seen first-hand how the Congress government have sent the country into a mire in recent years (after what I regarded as a very prom
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by nkoren 12y ago
For a truly amazing look into how false confessions occur -- told from the point of view of an officer who inadvertently extracted one, and took over a decade to recognise his error -- act one of this This American Life episode is a must-li
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by nkoren 12y ago
Pick up odd jobs on elance or odesk or something like that. With zero reputation you'll have to bid on work cheaply, but there's plenty of junior-level work available; $200 in 3 days is not unachievable. Or have you already tried

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