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by rory096 13y ago
Seems to me to be a partnership for the streaming of the Solar Impulse guys' flight, not Google (substantially) financing it. Their website doesn't seem to mention Google: http://www.solarimpulse.com
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by rory096 13y ago
In fairness, gpvos bested me by a good 4 minutes!
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Petition to pardon Edward Snowden reaches 100,000 signatures(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
283 points by rory096 13y ago|117 comments
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by rory096 13y ago
Given that works of the US government are automatically in the public domain, it's not surprising that its publications had useful source material for very general summaries, for the English Wikipedia anyway. But article introductions are a
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by rory096 14y ago
I disagree with this. Closer to Democrats than what? Republicans view their party as an amalgamation of a number of distinct ideologies. To say that any given one is "closer to Democrats" means nothing except in respect to your own vantage
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by rory096 14y ago
The border also roughly follows the path of I-81.
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by rory096 14y ago
Interesting. My initial thoughts were around a business built on that (better solving the problem I'm trying to address), but just an API could be huge. Looking around the internet, I've found a couple related things: Google Wallet creates
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by rory096 14y ago
Aside: Are you aware of any APIs for the creation of one-time credit/debit cards?
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by rory096 14y ago
More than just large, it's gaseous and thus unrelatable. People see grainy images of some dark object breaking up over Jupiter, but they can't wrap their head around what that is- what does an impact on a gaseous planet even look like? Mars
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by rory096 14y ago
Yes. This is why runway numbers (which are the heading with the last digit removed) are known to change from time to time. Aviation charts also display the variation between magnetic and true north. (See the purple dashed lines with 14/15°
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by rory096 14y ago
There's also full TSA security at rallies for presidential/VP candidates. Clearly the problem isn't solvable by treating people worse until they won't bear it- the parties' core bases seem to have no problem with being cleared by TSA just t
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by rory096 14y ago
If the quality is too low, though, the benefits to communication from seeing your partner's facial features synchronized with their voice disappear, and people won't bother using it. If software identified the user's face in live video and
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by rory096 14y ago
Which may be a good thing. What if Facebook harvests enough data that the "spam" we get is low in quantity and with very high probability it's something we actually want , as that price requires? If ultra-targeted advertising becomes viabl
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by rory096 14y ago
To be clear, Fed action isn't spending. Look at page 32. It's all in the form of interest paying loans (and $10 trillion went to other central banks, not even private institutions). Much of it is to provide liquidity to banks already eligib
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by rory096 14y ago
Stratolaunch (funded by Paul Allen & Burt Rutan) is partnering with SpaceX to build an air-launched Falcon 9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratolaunch_Systems Why would a saucer or other shape make more sense than proven fixed-wing a
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by rory096 14y ago
The grandparent's link says "Each credit can be redeemed for any JustFab style on the site." Seems to me that they're saying if you're a member but didn't make your decision for your free (sunk cost) product by the 6th, they charge you and
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by rory096 14y ago
Only if you have 10 possible positions you can place each finger in. The grandparent describes a method by which each finger denotes one binary digit. He even mentioned how it could be increased using knuckles to achieve higher bases.
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by rory096 14y ago
Phoenix was also 7 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ucH1PT4LQ Maybe the retrorockets/sky crane in Phoenix/Curiosity (respectively) add a few seconds.
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by rory096 14y ago
Musk said during the press conference today that they're targeting thruster landings (in any atmosphere!) within 3 years, or more like 4-5 if they encounter difficulties.
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by rory096 14y ago
To be fair, the OP shouldn't be able to expect a 100% working email service. But to expect that the provider not be actively causing it to fail seems reasonable.
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by rory096 14y ago
It seems to me that a fleet of driverless information-gathering cars would be a natural component of a world with driverless cars. Primarily they'd be used for continuously mapping roads for any potentially useful information or dangers, eg
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by rory096 14y ago
>Imagine if Google's stock price would decline significantly in the period of next year or two - wouldn't that spell doom and gloom in people's eyes? Would you stop Googling things because you read a news story about their stock price d
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by rory096 14y ago
>Just to pick a nit. To date Facebook's P/E is high because Facebook said so. Facebook's value has never been set by an open market until about 3 or 4 hours ago. Not an open market, no, but a market nonetheless. Anytime a company takes
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by rory096 14y ago
That's true. Like the US, France has a presidential lame duck period. Hollande doesn't take office until May 15.
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by rory096 14y ago
Except the point with the 5am bit was that the cats no longer directly associate the author with food (and vice versa), so the cats don't sit on his face at all; they'll just get angry at the feeders.
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by rory096 15y ago
And ultimately Altavista and Dogpile are irrelevant, because neither existed just a few years before Google. Web search is revolutionary; search engines before Google were just halting steps on the way. That is, the contention isn't that Go
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by rory096 15y ago
Sounds like each specified a percentage of the pool they deserved, and the percentages added up to >300.
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by rory096 15y ago
Maybe so, but I'm struggling to imagine a scenario where that comes true. As we generally think of them now, they're for the suburban commuter to replace their current car. As such, they can't be limited much, lest only a tiny elite be able
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by rory096 15y ago
>And, of course, there's no guarantee that any savings in operation would be passed on to the consumer (see electronic publishing). In this case it's likely that they would be. Book publishing is a rather unique case in that it's a mill
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by rory096 15y ago
Businesses can only sue for up to $5,000 in (CA) small claims court. $40,000 would have to go to real court, lawyers and all.

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