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by russell 15y ago
The obligatory comment from the old guy: My first computer, an IBM 7094, had 32k of 36 bit words, about 200K characters. The memory cost about $1M and was the size of a refrigerator.
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Charlie Stross: World building 404: The unknown unknowns(antipope.org)
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by russell 15y ago
I agree with your call for transparency. In California statewide self funded candidates, millionaires like Whitman or Huffington, tend to fail. The same is true of blatant corporate initiatives.
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What systems we live with today were designed for a world of the past?(quora.com)
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Record-busting motorbike will be jet engine on wheels(newscientist.com)
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High Street Blues(antipope.org)
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by russell 15y ago
He uses lots of words to say dont badmouth past employers, be on time, be confident, and be friendly.
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Changes to Come: 9 Past Predictions for Funky 70s Tech(gajitz.com)
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by russell 15y ago
The second article, posted by cat, seems to indicate that DCA works: 4 out 5 patients had their life span extended. What is curious is that follow-up (expensive) double blind tests were not performed. Was it because there was no money to
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by russell 15y ago
If you can accelerate an asteroid up to .5c, you have harnessed energy resources to power the earth for a gazillion years. You would be so rich that you dont need to be a warlord. You could become ... a banker. Actually, at .5c from the K
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by russell 15y ago
Tang was a joke. I believe the color video camera for was specially made by RCA, but the workhorse still camera was an off-the-shelf Hasselblad. I had thought that the Space Pen was an existing commercial product. Apparently I was only hal
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by russell 15y ago
From the masthead: "An Orthosphere Blog. Ortho-sphere = orthodox sphere = reactionary Christians (Christian = 'Mere Christianity' of all denominations)" That was enough for me.
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by russell 15y ago
Apollo was way bigger than the LHC, $200B (today's dollars) vs $7B. The engineering of the LHC is impressive, but a lot of it is scaling such as bigger semiconducting magnets. With Apollo everything was unknown, huge rockets, space suits,
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by russell 15y ago
Would anyone care to give some context for this?
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by russell 15y ago
I still have my reservation on Pan Am from the 1964 worlds fair.
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by russell 15y ago
My guess is that the CCDs of the time weren't up to the resolution that film could provide.
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by russell 15y ago
A lot of information was in the public media as much as a decade ago: the satellite designations, the film recovery method, the approximate resolution.
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by russell 15y ago
Hopefully you got the domains as soon as you got the ideas, otherwise they are probably gone by now. EDIT: they all seem to be gone.
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by russell 15y ago
Charlie Stross, top SF author and HNer, has a series of articles describing the publishing process: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m... . He argues that printing and distributing books is only a small part of t
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by russell 15y ago
Looks like a very good service. I've already found better deals for a couple of the medications that I am taking, and one where a 90 day supply is little more than a 30 day supply. You have been bookmarked. Thanks.
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Chinese 'water army' hijacks online product reviews(newscientist.com)
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by russell 15y ago
These are scary times. There are widespread attacks on our democratic institutions and on our economy. All three branches of government are participating. Congress pushes SOPA. The administration refuses to prosecute the bankers. The S
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by russell 15y ago
I thought these were essentially the same bill; killing it in one house killed it. The depth of the analysis of the two bills in Wikipedia is so different that I cant tell. It appears that whether Protect IP is voted on is up to Harry Rei
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by russell 15y ago
Do you remember the Johnny Cash song "I've Been Everywhere... Chicago, Reno, Fargo"? Sometimes I think my resume reads like that. After I added those lines, I got a 25-30% increase in responses.
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by russell 15y ago
I use a similar approach. I spent 20 years as a consultant, so I did a lot of interviews. I would send out lots of emails. I didnt do many tailored emails, but I did a carefully tailored cover letter designed to be amusing to the HR ladi
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by russell 15y ago
Money. Money buys legislators. Money buys institutionalized corruption. The Supreme court says that organizations can make unlimited campaign contributions, yet individuals are limited. Until we take money out of politics, it will only
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by russell 15y ago
No I dont think so. $50 is too expensive. Most of my power bricks are for devices that consume more than 22 watts. My cell phone does have a usb charger. The transformer has a footprint less than the size of a US outlet. Too expensive,
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by russell 15y ago
I think you have the wrong picture of the scale of the investment required to fund Columbus. It was common for businessmen to fund voyages to known places. Columbus had a more difficult time because of the unknown. He actually had a pret
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by russell 15y ago
It is enlightening to compare the function of the airplane as the first stage of a rocket with the first stage of the Saturn V rocket. The S-IC weighed 5 million pounds and it got the assembly to an altitude of 200,000 feet and a speed of 6
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by russell 15y ago
So what has Fermilab found at 140 Gev? It was originally described as a Higgs canidate. Or is it a supersymmmetry particle? http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/04/07/fermilab... I saw an article (but lost it :( ) that speculat

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