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by oroup 11y ago
The hydrogen in the Space Shuttle Main Engine creates embrittlement in the alloys of the engine. [1][2] The launch sequence also involved running the engines at 104.5% of rated capacity. [3] Before Block II of the engines, the turbopumps ne
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by oroup 11y ago
The "already" reaction to a preferred stock price that's 2x the common stock price is misplaced. Preferred stock is always higher priced than common and that is not an unusual ratio for a late stage company.
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by oroup 11y ago
This is very cool technology. The challenge it highlights is that there is no opportunity to have lighting or grips or special effects "out of frame" because the entire visible space is "in-frame". All those shots that o
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by oroup 11y ago
> a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Indeed. I'd suggest that your understanding of what they do might be a little underdeveloped. (And perhaps your company is particularly dysfunctional.)
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by oroup 11y ago
Agreed
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by oroup 11y ago
The problem is we don't even know what it means to deal with waste for 10,000 years. If the Romans had used nuclear power, we'd still be guarding their waste. And they likely would have put it somewhere really out of the way - lik
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Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare(forbes.com)
223 points by oroup 11y ago|116 comments
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by oroup 11y ago
Shave your head. It's a small thing and won't solve the underlying issues but its totally in your control and it projects confidence. If you're going to lose your hair then why not on your terms?
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by oroup 11y ago
The Concord Naval Weapons Station where they plan to test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Naval_Weapons_Station On Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/uOCwX
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by oroup 11y ago
From the article: > Homejoy was able to raise funding, but not enough to grow > the company as big as its founders and backers had hoped. > “We declined those investments because it wasn’t enough, and > we wanted to stay true t
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by oroup 11y ago
Willing buyer, willing seller.
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by oroup 12y ago
If you get there, I'll be interested to see your org get to 20+ people and if you can keep all your rules. No more than 2 mandatory meetings a year seems tough to me. The limits on flex time seem tough as well, especially for leaders.
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by oroup 12y ago
I'm a huge fan of Musk, but this was an intemperate thing to say. Inevitably at some point someone is going to get killed by one of his autonomous cars and at the wrongful death suit the plaintiffs lawyer will bring up video of him cal
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by oroup 12y ago
The snatching of the computer before you have a chance to lock it issue seems like something that could be solved with software. I'm imagining a "swatd" service that listens for loud noises (gunfire, flashbangs, shouting, etc
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by oroup 12y ago
The interesting question is if you obtained insurance this way (almost certainly fraud IMO) and got in a big expensive wreck, would the insurance company really be on the hook to pay your costs? (And would they figure it out?) Not a bet I&#
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by oroup 12y ago
SpaceX does not file patents. [1] The assumption is that the protection offered by the patent is outweighed by the downside of giving your competitor a roadmap of how you did it. My guess is that just knowing it can be done will be a huge p
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by oroup 12y ago
Especially as a board member of Facebook.
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by oroup 12y ago
When I was at Microsoft there was a phenomenon known as "schedule chicken" whereby each team in an interdependent group would report up "no problem totally on schedule" despite being way off in the hopes that some other
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by oroup 12y ago
Wild ass guess here: keep funds at all the major banks and do intra-bank transfers which are instant. We've considered something similar. You need enough cash to keep a pool at every bank large enough to cover transfers and you need a
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by oroup 13y ago
Even Andreessen is unlikely to be structured such that spending millions of dollars at a time on things that don't make returns is a sensible thing to do. You have to understand the way capital inside venture funds is usually allocated
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by oroup 13y ago
Idle question - what % of gold (or USD for that matter) do you think is owned through theft? I suppose we quickly get into the murky question of trying to define "theft" but even by the strictest definition I wouldn't be surp
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by oroup 13y ago
Google Voice silently drops all MMS. So any multi-recipient text or any text with an attached pic will just not get to you and the sender will think you just didn't reply. I ported my Google Voice number out to my cell phone which is a
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by oroup 13y ago
I'd go further. I think there needs to be a class action suit brought by customers who purchased a security solution and got snake oil. I'm sure the RSA license limits liability but I think there's a case to be made that this
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by oroup 13y ago
This works the way secrets work in real life. You may want to keep something secret, but if your friend is indescreet, the secret is out. You can't force someone else to keep a secret on your behalf.
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by oroup 13y ago
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the responding agency would want to have control of the scene. Worse than crazy flooding would be crazy flooding combined w a plane crash. The light aircraft that the article mentions likely woul
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by oroup 13y ago
Of course the path from Verilog to working hardware involves a number of steps along the way. You don't really know that your hardware design has made it into silicon intact and that nothing else has been added. [1] [1] https:/&#
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by oroup 13y ago
"First rule of government spending: why buy one when you can have two for twice the price?"
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by oroup 13y ago
I think OP skips over a whole class of attacks: * References to his "Pole dancer girlfriend" will be used to suggest poor moral character. [1] [2] * It will be suggested that he's gay. [3] (Interesting contrast to the previou
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by oroup 13y ago
I wonder if there's some economic equivalent to the second law of thermodynamics. If entropy is always increasing, perhaps the environmental costs of a system can never be non-positive. Entropy can only increase. I haven't fully thought it
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Wearing a Badge, and a Video Camera(nytimes.com)
2 points by oroup 14y ago|0 comments

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