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by olympus 9y ago
I'm cool with it being considered inflammatory to oversensitive Californians. Their reaction is exactly why people in the other 49 states don't like California. You can't remotely criticize CA at all, it's a wonderful
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by olympus 9y ago
Yes, I believe that statement. There are two things that being located in SV gets you: 1. Ability to hire elite programmers that are a few percent better than those in NYC. You'll pay for that quality though. Plus the cannon fodder
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by olympus 9y ago
It also demonstrated that the established incumbent party can lose if they ignore the will of the people. They could have easily found another Republican (even another judge) that wasn't accused of numerous sexual misconducts. They c
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by olympus 9y ago
Swamps have a lot of standing water which creates a lot of mosquitoes that carry diseases. Draining a swamp reclaims land and prevents kids from dying.
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by olympus 9y ago
He was appointed at the direction of Republicans to occupy one of the Republican seats on the Commision.
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by olympus 9y ago
Having a good memory is the singularly best way to combat the money corrupting politics. The people just proved with the Alabama special election that they can change the establishment if they feel strongly enough about it. Sadly I think th
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by olympus 9y ago
But what if A said this: There are obviously genetic differences between races. That's how AncestryDNA can tell where you came from. So if there are obviously genetic differences, why can't I talk about the pros/cons of bei
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by olympus 9y ago
Maybe he doesn't want to give the specific example that he's thinking of because he doesn't want to be ostracized by people that automatically assume that he's now a Trump lover. That was the entire point of his post.
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by olympus 9y ago
This is a pretty good point. People complain about Californian culture being too sensitive but choose to stay there. If your startup can't survive unless it's right next to Silicon Valley then it probably deserves to die anyway.
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by olympus 9y ago
Just for fun, I added every possible option to the configurator (including VESA mount and software). Nearly $14k. Since my work (statistics) is compute heavy but data transfer only happens once, I'll be sticking with EC2 at <$5 per
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by olympus 9y ago
I misread the above post as prices for 2/4TB SSDs instead of 1/2 TB SSDs. My bad. The real difference between Apple and DIY is $300. On their configuration page, Apple's prices are +$800 to go to the 2TB SSD, and +$2800 to
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by olympus 9y ago
It's not cheaper. $2000 is the price difference to go from the 2TB upgrade to the 4TB from Apple. $1100 is the price difference to go from 2TB to 4TB if you paid retail. Apple is getting all of the profit that a retailer would, plus
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by olympus 9y ago
You're right about the history and every country will have their own strengths and weaknesses, but there's a difference between Russia being one step ahead of several countries and China being several steps behind several countr
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by olympus 9y ago
You're right, I misread the table. I thought they were claiming that aircraft in the same row had similar capabilities. I can't seem to edit my original comment since it's been too long.
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by olympus 9y ago
They turned all the pictures we have of the prototypes into a 3D model and ran radar simulations on it. They concluded that China has developed an actual stealth plane and not just one that looks pretty. As opposed to the "stealth&quo
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by olympus 9y ago
The stance you're taking is one that is dangerous. China has a billion people and a lot of really smart ones. a) The J-20 does fly, but it isn't fully operational. But functioning prototypes do exist and have fired missiles. If
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by olympus 9y ago
Interrupting the signal isn't how multistatic radar works. You actually get two signals, the first is the transmission that traveled in a straight line to get there, the second is the one that bounced off the plane and took a little l
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by olympus 9y ago
> Not sure where this idea comes from. Air combat cannot be commanded. Or you mean something else. Obviously nobody commands the entire fight since the enemy also gets a say in what happens. What I meant is that Chinese pilots are traine
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by olympus 9y ago
Stealth works in two ways: absorption and scattering. Absorption works by soaking up some of the RF energy, but is limited. Effectively absorbing the RF is limited by physics, since you can't put a 20 cm thick coating on a plane and
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by olympus 9y ago
Some comments about the article and Chinese fighter development- some of these points mentioned in the article but glossed over, some are implied but not mentioned, and some completely absent: 1. Stealth for fighters isn't about keepin
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by olympus 9y ago
Hmm. "Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency." I wish this sentence wasn't in the abstract, because it's the first thing the "science journalists" are going to
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by olympus 9y ago
Basically yes. I didn't read the paper, but the abstract says that our current recommendations were designed to get us past a threshold of 50 (nmol/L, but the units aren't that important). But they claim that we should be ai
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by olympus 9y ago
Definitely unique. I've never lived in DC but visited a few times for work and was flabbergasted when I heard about slug lines (I still am). It's a bad driving situation when you'll voluntarily get into a stranger's ca
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by olympus 9y ago
I don't think people are being unreasonable by being unhappy with a $40 toll. The way the article words it, solo drivers all of a sudden saw a $40 toll where they previously had no permission to drive at all. What actually happened wa
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by olympus 9y ago
There's really no such thing as an indefensible missile, just like there's no such thing as an impenetrable computer network. Difficult to defend against, those exist. Missiles with an extremely low probability that we can physi
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by olympus 9y ago
It's only "about" 10 hZ, on that order of magnitude. Indvidually you can have faster components and even though the process is pipelined, the last guidance correction that matters takes the sum total of all component times i
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by olympus 9y ago
This doesn't work well for ballistic missiles. A few ounces of shrapnel doesn't knock the missile very far from it's trajectory. You'd have to get lucky to break the fuse, and even then you'd have a big hunk of ex
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by olympus 9y ago
Missiles go extremely fast. Like stupid fast. Most ABM systems today use hit-to-kill, which means that you actually have to make contact with the missile to kill it. Physically hitting something that small and fast from a long distance
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by olympus 9y ago
Saudi Arabia buying weapons from Israel? That could start a war between KSA and every other Arab country.
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by olympus 9y ago
The point really isn't to make sure the valves work (the environment might have broken them after a few decades in space), the point is to make sure the code you're uploading doesn't brick the computer. It's nice to hav

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