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by pilom 9y ago
I love his analogy to a tightrope walker. Sure a tightrope walker can walk a rope for a very long time without falling off, but if the rope is infinitely long, he'll fall off eventually. Same with nuclear weapons. We've had 70 ish
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by pilom 9y ago
Launch insurance can absolutely be given to classified payloads. My understanding of the launch insurance business is you say "my payload is worth $(X)XXX million to me and we're launching on this type of rocket" and the insu
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by pilom 9y ago
It ends up being a question of time and cost. Even if you make no changes to the design, the construction and verification of a new copy will still take years (verification of space payloads this expensive takes FOREVER!) and likely still c
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by pilom 9y ago
I used to work on satellites and so I know how sad a day this is for some people. Think of the team that would be involved in a billion dollar NASA probe. There would be thousands of people involved from component manufacture to ground cont
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by pilom 9y ago
You're exactly correct. This is why the browsers decreased timing resolution in javascript so that you couldn't time memory accesses accurately enough to tell if the address was cached or not.
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by pilom 9y ago
I agree with you that the solar panels aren't going to run the motor, but the 660W of solar on my RV with a large battery bank and a 3000W inverter have no trouble running everything in my RV including the AC for an hour here or there
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by pilom 9y ago
Wouldn't there be an additional stepping at the transformer for level 1 and 2 chargers to go from AC distribution grid at 480V AC to 110V/220V where the level 3 superchargers can plug directly into the 480V AC mains without a tran
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by pilom 9y ago
> Incorporating stationary storage cuts down on the costs incurred by both of these inefficiencies. at the cost of 10% more power usage due to the inefficiencies of charging and discharging batteries. Might still be worth it from an elec
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by pilom 9y ago
Seems like the only reason Salt Iodization doesn't make the list of "top" charities is because it is much harder to prove benefits back to the charity level. If a charity lobbies the local supermarket to label iodized salt wh
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by pilom 9y ago
Sounds like you've been bubbled by search engines and social media. I'm in Denver but my wife is from Nashville. Nashville has bulgogi[0], has 3 different companies competing on the health care exchange this year[1] and Vanderbilt
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by pilom 9y ago
The AWS bill for my first personal website. Being able to say "I built a website on AWS" in 2009 was probably the reason I got my first job making >100k.
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by pilom 9y ago
Patio11 talks about charging more a lot: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/ https:&#
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by pilom 9y ago
I feel like the author missed the biggest problem. There is a huge dis-incentive to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange because it is inherently _deflationary_. If I know bitcoins will continue to increase in value because math, why on eart
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by pilom 9y ago
I agree. "Manual" is a little generous. Especially for solar there are some much better resources if you step up to the RV world: https://therecklesschoice.com/2016/04/29/diy-rv-solar/ or http
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by pilom 9y ago
The smallest nuclear plant in the US generates 582 MW of power with a capacity factor of 92.1%. That capacity factor means that in a year you'll get 582MW * 9258 hours per year * 92.1% = 4.9Trillion kwh/year of power. That's
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by pilom 9y ago
Not true. Hydro is a great example. The majority of hydro deaths are caused by dam failures. The most deadly dam failure in the world was the Banqiao Dam. It's failure caused 85,000 direct deaths and an estimated 150,000 deaths due to
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by pilom 9y ago
I agree with rcoveson. I see your stats and say "world-wide we ONLY have an accident every 19 years? Wow that's amazing, we can produce all of our energy without carbon and only deal with one accident in the world every 19 years!
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by pilom 9y ago
This seems amazing but you need to have your order form automatically redirect to https. This is a really big deal. I almost didn't purchase because of this just so you know. Sure I can type the extra 's' in myself but 99% of
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by pilom 9y ago
Totally agree. I work from home and walk or bike most of the time. Most of my car's miles are put on doing >200 mile trips. Plug-in hybrids for me until the charging infrastructure vastly expands.
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by pilom 9y ago
You're not calculating it right. 40,000 - 6300 for the standard deduction - 4050 for an exemption = ~29,000. First ~9000 is taxed at 10%, next ~20,000 for this person is taxed at 15%. Total income tax that could be reduced by the $7500
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by pilom 9y ago
We do this and thank God we do. Our marketing emails get down blocked all the time simply because of the scale (and our marketing team is a little over zealous) but after our transactional emails got blocked for the 3rd time we moved all ma
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by pilom 9y ago
Perfect thank you.
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by pilom 9y ago
>That's the most common way to consume cannabis. I'm very suspicious of this claim for users in Colorado without a source. Anecdotally, the vast majority of legal use I see in Colorado is edibles. They don't have the stigm
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by pilom 9y ago
Wow, thanks for that info! Our enterprise account uses CF as a CDN for medium sized (~50MB) video files and I just assumed that they were ok with everyone doing that. I guess not. I guess the answer for the OP then is, get an enterprise acc
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by pilom 9y ago
NASA does things this way but SpaceX explicitly does not. Rather than using 1 space hardened part, SpaceX usually uses 3 non-space hardened parts (processor, memory, bus, etc) that all do exactly the same calculations simultaneously and the
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by pilom 9y ago
This was us! Added CloudFlare in front of every bucket with our own "cdn.example.com" DNS name and changed every reference to s3 in code. Didn't even know S3 had problems today until I saw this on HN. (note: This outage taugh
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by pilom 9y ago
I'm bothered by the move to TouchID and now FaceID from a "the government can make you unlock your phone" standpoint. Legally, the precedent is that the government can force you to use "something you are" like your
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by pilom 9y ago
I'll be honest I'm glossing over some details about house refinancing and sales etc. About 40k of it was gains from a house. I'll give you that. About 75k of the 300k is investment gains. Income has remained pretty stable ove
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by pilom 9y ago
At this point, of the 300k, about 225k is from contributions (savings) and 75k is from gains. The bigger the account gets though, the bigger a percentage the gains will be as the account grows faster than my annual income does.
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by pilom 9y ago
Vanguard mutual funds. About an 80/20 split between VTSAX (Stocks) and VBTLX (Bonds). Nice and simple. I re-balance with monthly contributions.

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