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by olympus 11y ago
Technology-wise, no. You are only giving up small efficiency gains in power usage and perhaps calculations per clock cycle. But knowing that it's a 400 MHz chip you probably weren't expecting the power of a modern desktop. But i
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by olympus 11y ago
I want to try one of these and I'm a chronic early-adopter, but some support for a smartwatch (I feel naked without my MS Band nowadays), and 4G LTE compatibility in the USA are part of an MVP for me to try out a phone nowadays. It&#x
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by olympus 11y ago
It's absurd that research from a government (read: public) funded lab should be stuck behind a paywall. It's great that they were able to publish in a prestigious physics journal, but it should be available elsewhere.
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by olympus 11y ago
He definitely wasn't the only one doping. There have been huge scandals, but Operation Puerto ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_c... ) left a lot of people in legal trouble. Many riders
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by olympus 11y ago
Or I'll bet the accountant knows the formula by looking at the order books.
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by olympus 11y ago
Really the Wolfram language itself isn't anything spectacular. It makes more sense to mathematicians than most programmers. What really sets the Wolfram language apart is its gigantic library of functions. Want to look up stock quote
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by olympus 11y ago
Here's a similar article without the paywall I ran into at WSJ: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-92-percent-profits-enti... I noted that Apple is responsible for less than 20% of the industry in terms of units sold
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by olympus 11y ago
Personally, yes (but I'm not in the market having just moved). Montana is a beautiful place that has yet to be overran by greedy entrepreneurs seeking to raise profits by lowering their costs. I kinda wish you weren't trying to
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by olympus 11y ago
MeFi is great. It has a strong focus on quality. It's got a focus on "things that are interesting" and not on startups or technology, so you'll see some different stuff. It takes a while to mesh into the community, bu
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by olympus 11y ago
In general, I would recommend against it. You're 19, and you [probably] have no experience starting a company. Likely, the other founders haven't got much experience (or success) either, or they wouldn't be offering a piece
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by olympus 11y ago
Graphene can do anything, except leave the lab.
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by olympus 11y ago
I applaud the effort Amazon is making to expand its influence, and giving kids an Amazon allowance would lock them in because it doesn't look too easy to convert that money back to real cash. But I don't think this one will stick
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by olympus 11y ago
Doing it to yourself isn't so much the placebo effect, but rather autosuggestion. It was created by Émile Coué, who used to tell his patients to tell themselves every morning, "Every day, I am getting better" (in French of c
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by olympus 11y ago
Just tested it with my laptop. I was thinking "This is one of those games that works best with a touchscreen." Then I saw that it's available for iOS and Android and went to get it. Btw, when you search for "twenty&qu
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by olympus 11y ago
The rolling/incremental release is something that Apple does, but it's not like Apple is the only company doing it. Several Linux distros follow the same release model, and other software (not just OSes) does it too - MATLAB swit
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by olympus 11y ago
In addition to the 8020 beams already mentioned, there are also MakerBeam ( http://www.makerbeam.eu/ ) and OpenBeam ( http://www.openbeamusa.com/ ). Primarily they are used for building structures quickly and e
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by olympus 11y ago
If you don't have any industry connections, you may not be of much help. But don't feel bad, it's your job to educate your students, not get them jobs. There are a few places that can help your students find jobs, like the o
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by olympus 12y ago
100 kg is small compared to some of the behemoths floating around up there. The Milstar satellites that provided high reliability communications for the USA were 4,500 kg each. GPS satellites are over 1,500 kg and are in MEO, which is hig
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by olympus 12y ago
SpaceX lists the launch of a Falcon 9 to be $61M. But they can put 13,150 kg into LEO. Rocketlab's is much smaller, only sending 100 kg into LEO. So a Falcon 9 is ~12x more expensive, but delivers more than 125x payload to orbit. Pl
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by olympus 12y ago
I'll throw my hat in with all the other people who aren't being negative, they are speaking truth. Even if it is equipped to produce a better product, a startup is unlikely to win any government contracts for a few reasons. First
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by olympus 12y ago
If you forced both companies to use the same die size then AMD compares favorably to Intel. But on the leading edge of performance, AMD lags Intel by quite a bit (Intel was selling 14nm processors at the end of 2014, and AMD isn't pla
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by olympus 12y ago
I find it amazing that there is over $1.3MM in demand (as of this writing, there is $1.36MM pledged) for beehives/beehive accessories. Either I'm misjudging the number of people who have backyard beehives or the PR machine behind
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by olympus 12y ago
There is a common opinion in the aviation community that several of the "saves" from the recovery chute in a Cirrus shouldn't really count. In an aircraft that wasn't equipped with a parachute, (anecdotally) many of the
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by olympus 12y ago
My grandpa owned a V35 and while he didn't have a problem with controlling the airplane, he did land it with the gear retracted, which screwed up the bottom skins and the prop. I heard the "doctor killer" nickname several ti
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by olympus 12y ago
The question I was answering above was "why Saudi Arabia and not Iran? Aren't they both bad?" Regarding your other points, I'll answer them below (and I admit my attitude upfront on the first one, you just posted that yo
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by olympus 12y ago
There are political differences to be expected, but let me try to explain why the USA is willing to rub elbows with the Saudis and not with Iran. My credentials are this: I spent 6 months working on strategy in the CENTCOM AOR bitching abo
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by olympus 12y ago
I must have misread the article. I thought a positive offset was different from all the other ones. In that case, it's still a new manual version, but much less unusual.
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by olympus 12y ago
This really messes with some of the stuff I do at work with test instrumentation since we use GPS time in the field but our computers use UTC. We had a problem late in 2014 when one of our instrumentation techs was using an old instruction
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by olympus 12y ago
This is a nifty tool, but it doesn't offer statistically independent samples. For many people, they don't care, but calculating from just a single track is really a measurement of how much your track "drifts" as satelli
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by olympus 12y ago
I stand corrected then. His PR machine had me fooled. Granted, he does seem to find himself in the middle of a lot of successful businesses.

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