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by russell 17y ago
It does seem to have the disadvantage that it's one-shot and you burn up your generator.
692.
by russell 17y ago
HA! Last year my SO and I went to her daughter's wedding. Ont the way back the TSA goons spilled perfume into her luggage. She is extremely allergic to perfume and other odors. She wad bed-ridden for a week and took a month to return to
693.
by russell 17y ago
From thefreedictionary.com: "A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes." That sure sounds like what the original article was talking about. Some quibbles with
694.
by russell 17y ago
So stupid it hardly warrants comment. So if there is no one famous on your flight, it doesnt fly? OTOH if your first passenger is a world famous terrorist, the problem solves itself. You have a plane full of terrorists; just shoot it dow
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by russell 17y ago
No known practical application, but hey, it was just discovered. Besides, new physics is just plain interesting. The discussion of chirality in proteins was an analogy that just added to the confusion if you didnt know a little organic ch
696.
by russell 17y ago
HN! /. <blush/>, Charlie Stross, Lambda the Ultimate, New Scientist, Huffington Post, Fantastic Fiction (well weekly).
697.
by russell 17y ago
My point is that there are enough laws that a determined prosecutor can get you on something even if he cant on the big crime. Perhaps Capone is not a good example because he committed a lot of crimes that we all think deserve jail time.
698.
by russell 17y ago
It's the Al Capone gambit. Capone was not jailed for his criminal activities, but for not reporting the income from them. Martha Stewart went to jail, not for insider trading, but for lying about it. My guess is that this particular piec
699.
by russell 17y ago
I think it's more a matter of strong moderation. HN is a strongly self-policing site and it works very well here. Drive by commenting doesnt make it. Another site with a high signal to noise ratio is Charlie Stross's http://www.antipope.
700.
by russell 17y ago
Googling gives 2028, which means that any short term royalty-free license is just bait and switch.
701.
by russell 17y ago
The answer is very simple. Invest in companies that pay dividends, like telcos, electrical utilities, steel mills, railroads and other giants of the the 20th century. Note that you wont get any stock appreciation to speak of. Tech compan
702.
by russell 17y ago
Part of Coronado.
703.
by russell 17y ago
Russ Swift does it without geometry and uses much less space. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpXf0cmJ64 (Sorry I couldnt find it in English.) The new world record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Eqn_BiQus (Watch it with the sound of
704.
by russell 17y ago
Jacob, I think you are reading more into it than he said. As far as I can see, he said, if you find it online give a link to it. He didn't even go so far as to ask for a citation if it's not on line.
705.
by russell 17y ago
111 suggests time while most of the others dont. 36 is interesting, but probably doesnt work.
706.
by russell 17y ago
Try reading more articles. Eventually you will get the request for registration.
707.
by russell 17y ago
You forgot consultant.
708.
by russell 17y ago
I think it was a reasonable discussion, it just had some faulty conclusions. Using binary trees for overflow buckets is silly. They may be O(N), but the O can be much larger if you keep them balanced. A much better strategy for dealing w
709.
by russell 17y ago
If you are self-employed you can deduct your insurance as a business expense, Schedule C.
710.
by russell 17y ago
Bumping Earth from asteroid costs way more. I applaud the Russians for taking this seriously. It moght be worth the $80B just to practice.
711.
by russell 17y ago
Corporate coding standards aside, I dont think over commenting is really an issue. I see the opposite trend 10's of thousands of lines of Java with no comments at all. Instead the use of meaningful names. So I see 30 to 50 characters met
712.
by russell 17y ago
I am doing solo part time development (1 day/week) on a very large orphaned enterprise system. The builds are done using maven. The build takes about 15 minutes because maven is going off to various sites looking for no longer supported v
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Ladies Home Journal (1900) Predictions for 2000(yorktownhistory.org)
48 points by russell 17y ago|30 comments
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by russell 17y ago
It's not so much reliability as spotty coverage. I can make calls only from my living room and not at all from many areas of town. There have been proposals for a new tower to give better coverage, but they have been shot down by all the
715.
by russell 17y ago
You cant have fighter jet reaction times when people are walking around inside the planes. Also you have clear air turbulence, wind shear and all kinds of nasties up there.
716.
by russell 17y ago
Color me skeptical. Geese and pelicans fly within a few wingspans of each other and at relatively low speeds. I am not sure I would want to fly in a flock of jumbos a few hundred feet apart at mach .85. Mythbusters did a show on the bene
717.
by russell 17y ago
More security theater that inconveniences everyone and fails to catch the next act or creative stupidity: blow up the plane 70 minutes out. I have some, but not a great deal of experience with explosives and I dont believe what you can put
718.
by russell 17y ago
Replication is important because initial results are often wrong because of misinterpretation of the results, experimental error, or experimenter bias. Others in the field want to make sure their work is on strong ground.
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by russell 17y ago
I am not an astrophysicist or even a physicist, so bear with me. What happens in the far future really depends on what theory you look at. Is dark energy accelerating the expansion of the universe? If so, there will be a point where all
720.
by russell 17y ago
We dont know the details yet. It could be that older people are subsidized by the government. The real issue is that many people cant get insurance at all, like my SO. I would be willing to buy her insurance at the going rate, but it can

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