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by russell 12y ago
Remember the original Fry's in Sunnyvale? It was pretty much a cross between a 7-Eleven and a components store and not much bigger. I remember thinking to myself, that it was certainly a strange place. Then they built the big Sunnyv
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by russell 12y ago
>>> Rockets are certainly capable of accelerating a mass to a significant fraction of the speed of light. Well, yes and no. The speed of a rocket is limited by the specific impulse of its engines. That means that hydrogen-oxygen
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by russell 12y ago
Here's a review with more details, godawful site though. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2470486,00.asp?kc=PCRSS... I just might jump for it to replace my aging 2008 vintage laptop, skimpy storage though.
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by russell 12y ago
Indeed. I started taking large doses (10,000IU per day) when I read an article about a doctor at Atascadero State Hospital who got marked improvement in his violent patients when he gave them vitamin D injections. Better not too low, I sa
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by russell 12y ago
I went all the way through to the summary, the main article is behind a paywall. The amount used in the studies was around 800IU. If you go outside in the summer in your swimming trunks or bikini for 15 minutes or so your body will genera
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by russell 12y ago
The title is completely bogus. The chart is of private donations as far as I can tell, NIH expenditures are completely different. I havent tried to tally the figures across the various diseasecategories, but heart disease is huge, aids i
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by russell 12y ago
My partner grew up in the Midwest. Even having gone through a 6.5 earthquake, she says that she still prefers earthquakes to tornadoes, although her first few earthquakes scared the bejesus out of her. Now, just like all Californians, the
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by russell 12y ago
I lived through the Loma Prieta earthquake 6.9 and the San Simeon earthquake 6.5. Both times my house was about a dozen miles from the epicenter. We suffered no damage at all, not even things falling off the shelves. At the time of the L
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by russell 12y ago
No. In even a modest(hah!)structure like Larry Niven's Ringworld the tensile strength required to hold it together exceeds that of any known material. Sorry I'm too lazy to dig up the specific reference, but I'll give you a
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by russell 12y ago
Except that electricity is fungible. Electricity encoded with data is not.
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by russell 12y ago
I did see a launch north over my town, about 80 miles north of Vandenberg. It looked like the path was over the ocean all the way. The first stage was still burning, so it was pretty spectacular. Edit: oops. This was supposed to be a repl
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by russell 12y ago
This kind of thing bothers me. I think it makes it easier for the US, or any other government for that matter, to drop a few dozen of these into any kind of local conflict without any debate in Congress or among the public. They are cheap
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by russell 12y ago
T buckshot is .20-caliber while 00 is .32-caliber.
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by russell 12y ago
I have had excellent experience with Amazon. In reading the reviews of a couple of high end monitors that I am considering, I see that Amazon will give a refund even when the seller will not. I imagine Amazon hammers them back into line.
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by russell 12y ago
Back around 81 or 82 I was a principal in a software that marketed a software implementation if IEEE 754 and associated libraries, developed by Rick James, formerly of CDC, and Bill Gibbons, formerly of HP. It had a small market among comp
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by russell 12y ago
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" was the only book that everyone in my family ever read, me, my wife and my three kids. "Mr. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythic
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by russell 13y ago
All three schools will give you a top flight engineering education. As a Harvard grad you will have world wide creds and wont be pegged as pure tech nerd. I am a Harvard grad, albeit nearly half a century ago and have resided in Silicon V
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by russell 13y ago
Good idea. While they're at it get rid of those passenger side convex mirrors, "objects are closer than they appear." One of the functions of a rear view mirror is to tell you where objects are behind you when you are chang
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by russell 13y ago
In the days of mechanical line printers CR by itself allowed overprinting for special effects like underlining and bold.
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by russell 13y ago
And faster too. For older processors without hardware divide, much much faster.
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by russell 13y ago
OK, I bought your stinking book. I learned calculus using Apostol in 1962, so it had better be good. Apostol was stinking hard, so yours had better be easy to understand. :-) I'm not sure what I need it for. My children are all adul
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by russell 13y ago
Sounds like a great business to me, better than I've managed to do by myself. Sign me up.
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by russell 13y ago
Hey Zach, advice to you from an industry elder. From your comments, I would put you in your late 30s, young enough to be scrappy but experienced enough to be on a founding team. The only reason for doing is to gain industry domain experien
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by russell 13y ago
Good post. If you are starting out, it's well worth listening to guys who tried hard and didnt quite get the brass ring. One trap that Zack and I both fell into is consulting. He had a lot of small contracts for a modest income, whil
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by russell 13y ago
It is not surprising that older risk takers lead the younger and risk adverse. I dont think that per se is ageism. They have accumulated the capital and connections to make a startup work. YC counters that somewhat. It's not necess
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by russell 13y ago
Risk aversion should not be an issue in your twenties. Packing a crew of developers into a house or apartment cant be any worse than living in a dorm. Even in your thirties failures can be managed with the help of a supportive spouse (wha
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by russell 13y ago
Safer than gasoline. It just burns with a pretty blue flame.
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by russell 13y ago
Actually the problem is quite a bit simpler. You only have to simulate the observable universe, not the part that is outside our light cone, which is probably most of it. And the observable part makes it simpler still. You dont need to s
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by russell 13y ago
Decomposition of plant matter in the Carboniferous period wasnt hindered by the lack of microbes of fungi, rather the plant matter was covered by shallow seas and swamps. It was the water that inhibited the breakdown. You can see the same
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by russell 13y ago
I believe that the theory of evolution by sexual selection is far more important. Same guy, a refinement on his original theory. In that case optimization can take many different forms. Parents arraigning marriages of children or reveren

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