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by pge 13y ago
Rompelberg was towed up to speed by the vehicle (physically attached) and then unhooked and maintained the speed. That is different than pedaling the bike up to speed yourself.
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by pge 13y ago
PG's essay on thinking about how you invest your time (and how much easier time is to misinvest than money) is relevant here. http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html I found when I had kids, I became a much bette
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by pge 13y ago
Interesting point - it may be that rowing is comparable to biking in power, but the ease of building a cycling drivetrain generally wins out for projects like this, because the parts are readily available in any bike store (the cockpit of t
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by pge 13y ago
for sustained power output of any duration, pedaling a fixed gear crank is about as good as it gets for getting power out of a human body. See Bicycling Science by David Wilson, MIT Press, for some interesting quantitative analysis. As an e
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by pge 13y ago
thanks for the link - I saw the big spools in the video and was trying to figure out what was going on. I presume that means that flight time is limited by cord length (rather than having a circulating loop like a bike chain)?
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by pge 13y ago
One of the other issues is lack of adequate high school preparation. One of the factors I saw in college (15 years ago) as a Physics major was that a lot of students that wanted to study physics (or other sciences) just didnt have adequate
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by pge 13y ago
I'm reminded of Henry Newbolt's wonderful poem: To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor while you strike him down, The foe that comes fearless eyes. To hold the life of battle good, And dear the
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by pge 13y ago
Dont forget northern light. It was a great search engine targeted at researchers and academics that grouped results in folders of topic areas. They made the unfortunate business decision to transition to a paid service right as google was b
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by pge 13y ago
another reminder of false security of certificates, because no one pays attention to them. Here's a security blog, so I will speculate that many of its readers are security conscious users, yet most probably went to the site anyway des
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by pge 13y ago
Its not the only one. Highways near oak ridge, Tennessee are also dual signed in metric and english units. I think it has something to do with the natiomal lab, but I dont know the history.
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by pge 13y ago
As someone who also has first hand experience with a severe lightning strike (that left one dead and 11 hospitalized) and on a separate occasion saw a lot of people with hair sticking straight up (we ran to our cars before lightning struck
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by pge 13y ago
This is a great demo - it's often done at kids' science museums as well, if they have an instructional area. Particularly with kids' tiny lungs, they can only fill a fraction of the bag, then when they do it this way, they fill a bag bigger
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How a bicycle is made video (1945)(vimeo.com)
2 points by pge 13y ago|0 comments
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by pge 14y ago
I'm constantly entertained by the number of people that endorse me either for (1) skills I wouldnt claim to have or (2) skills that I may have but they would not be in a position to judge.
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by pge 14y ago
I appreciate where you are coming from, but I think it is wrong to dismiss the chemistry component. Having had close family members diagnosed with depression (and having lost a friend to suicide), I found myself amazed at the degree to whic
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by pge 14y ago
true - I didnt mean to hold him as an example of overwhelming the prosecution with his resources (just as an example of the type of white collar crime I was referring to). He is, however, an instructive example in a different way - $1B of t
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by pge 14y ago
Interestingly, when I talk to DOJ or SEC prosecutors, I have heard the opposite. They are concerned because the whitecollar defendants (e.g. Bernie Madoff) they try to prosecute have access to much larger legal teams than the feds who are o
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by pge 14y ago
One factor that does not seem to have been explored is financing costs. As I understand the situation in the US, residential solar is often financed by banks, and capital for this type is expensive right now, leading to high costs. Anyone i
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by pge 14y ago
for vim fans, another option is mutt or alpine with vim as your editor. Both work with gmail.
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by pge 14y ago
I'm guessing they would prefer to be referenced as a "Counterterrorism Agency" rather than a "Terrorism Agency"...
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Nassim Taleb: Antifragility (applicable to startups)(edge.org)
4 points by pge 14y ago|0 comments
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Manufacturing Returning to US(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pge 14y ago|0 comments
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by pge 14y ago
One of the core principles of the US system is that no one knows how a specific individual voted. This system (if I understand you correctly) requires the voter to confirm his vote to another human, which breaks the anonymity.
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by pge 14y ago
Given your thesis here, why do you think electric cars such as the chevy volt and nissan leaf have had such disappointing sales numbers? I was hoping that those two cars would be the beginning of a mainstream adoption of electric cars, but
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The curse of too much venture money(m.theatlantic.com)
1 points by pge 14y ago|0 comments
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by pge 14y ago
that's fair - Calc can do everything you need, so the objection is more clearly stated as it not being compatible with excel. You can't share files with excel users (like you can with Word and AbiWord or Writer).
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by pge 14y ago
(1)compatibility at a formula and function level for some of the excel functions (eg. matrix functions). (2) VB macros
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by pge 14y ago
With all the talk about linux desktops recently, I think one of reasons for lack of adoption is right here. In the business world, excel reigns supreme, and there isn't a viable linux equivalent. Give me excel for linux and I could be rid o
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by pge 14y ago
This is great advice 0 I'm an introvert that has had to learn to go to networking events - in addition to what the OP describes, one thing I have learned is that a good way to make small talk with someone is to show a genuine interest in so
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Can America compete?(harvardmagazine.com)
23 points by pge 14y ago|12 comments

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