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by rpenm 12y ago
Communist leaders face political discipline - ie. dissatisfied people may strike/riot/rebel, and your competitors within the political establishment will take advantage of your failures.
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by rpenm 12y ago
Try 1/2 inch sheet steel instead of a baking stone. More thermal mass, better conduction and more wear-resistant (won't crack from thermal stress). Cast iron is a cheaper alternative.
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by rpenm 12y ago
More lost causes on Change.org
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by rpenm 12y ago
Most crackers are script kiddies, using exploits or code developed by someone else. So most crackers are not hackers in the Stallman sense.
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by rpenm 12y ago
I like a nice through mortise.
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by rpenm 12y ago
Customers should be able to choose between overage fees and throttling when they exceed their monthly limit.
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by rpenm 13y ago
If the elevator carries the magnets, the magnetic field relative to the phone is constant, thus no induced current and no fried components.
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President’s Panel on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Full Report(whitehouse.gov)
5 points by rpenm 13y ago|0 comments
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by rpenm 13y ago
The latter often describes civil disobedience.
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by rpenm 13y ago
A policy decision most Americans normally have no say in. It would never have come to public debate before the revelations.
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by rpenm 13y ago
I think we should be more worried that this is a systemic problem and not a single bad actor. There is something wrong with a system that is so vulnerable to this type of manipulation.
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by rpenm 13y ago
Autonomous wheeled delivery would seem to accomplish Amazon's goals with the benefit of reduced cost per lb-mile. Vertical thrust air transport is very inefficient compared to ground transport - more energy is spent maintaining altitu
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by rpenm 13y ago
"Public interest" usually distinguishes journalism from other media. Granted, this is a nebulous concept. But it is hard to make the case that revenge porn serves the public interest. It targets the powerless in order to domina
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by rpenm 13y ago
The moment of inertia for a uniform rod pivoting on end is (1/3) M L^2 where M is mass and L is length. Assuming mass scales with length, inertia should be proportional to the third power. Where am I wrong?
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by rpenm 13y ago
There is a perverse incentive here. If commenters can push an article off the front page by flaming, the flamewar detector would actually encourage flaming.
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by rpenm 13y ago
Just like a calculator watch, the form factor is too small to interact with. And the analog bandwidth is too low. And I can't think of any actual use cases for this product. But yeah, the little kid in me wants one.
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by rpenm 13y ago
Seems like a portable, precision FFT analyzer would be more useful. The ability to measure frequency response, harmonics, cancellation, distortion, noise, etc. make an engineer's job so much easier. Frequency information is far more i