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by scrumper 10y ago
> Stonehenge can only be built near stone. Found this a bit amusing given that the most likely quarry site for Stonehenge's material is a couple hundred miles away from Salisbury Plain, in Wales. (Not a nitpick at all, the restricti
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by scrumper 10y ago
I don't mind HN, you can get all sorts of pleasing patterns of highlight by dragging down nested comment hierarchies. Extra satisfying when you get the darker 'double highlight' and you can make it pop by wiggling your finger
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by scrumper 10y ago
Thanks both for the reply. I'll check docco out.
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by scrumper 10y ago
Slightly OT, but the literate presentation was nice. Any particular tool or technique you used for that? Thanks
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by scrumper 11y ago
I'm curious to what degree Unruh radiation (and the resulting consequences this idea relies on) 'established physics'? By extension, I think this is the most interesting article I've seen to date on the EmDrive: it seems
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Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster(technologyreview.com)
435 points by scrumper 11y ago|239 comments
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by scrumper 11y ago
Owning $300k of stocks is better than owning a single $300k property for the reason you give. The question becomes a lot fuzzier when you overlay your own need for housing on top of it. What I mean is, if I had $300k cash in the bank and I
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by scrumper 11y ago
I'm not sure that addresses the question; likely I'm missing something. Why does it need to send the user's entire codebase over? If it's a question of needing to analyze a given source file to infer types so query resul
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by scrumper 11y ago
That is really interesting! Here's the paper. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.63....
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by scrumper 11y ago
> Clarke and Asimov were great frenemies I didn't know this, but it's pretty funny, you're right. Casts this quote from the linked interview in a much more amusing light: "I have an asteroid named after me. Isaac Asim
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by scrumper 11y ago
They were even used as trig examples in maths lessons! "Here's how a detector van triangulates on a license evader's house..."
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by scrumper 11y ago
Me too, it really resonated in a very unpleasant way. I have a fear, a phobia maybe, of high tension electric cables and transmission towers. A healthy fear perhaps but I have nightmares periodically, I can't lean out the bathroom wind
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by scrumper 11y ago
My mother's recipe has completely ruined US-style mac and cheese for me. I get it, this isn't snobbery: I know it's a phenomenal comfort food and it's a trivially easy, un-refusable kid fuel that I regularly use to silen
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by scrumper 11y ago
Well I'm trying to use sublime for more stuff; my dream is that it turns into a Python-based Emacs, so this is interesting. It's not clear to me how to actually use this port of org-mode though. There don't seem to be any new
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by scrumper 11y ago
Maybe we should redefine it to only mean those that are profitable.
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by scrumper 11y ago
Insurance is surely required to cover the financial exposure on the lease?
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by scrumper 11y ago
Those things aren't really comparable. One is a pre-emptive action taken by government before the commission of a crime, the other is a reactive investigation tool. I also suspect your gun example might actually generate more outrage a
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by scrumper 11y ago
> the mismatch between emphasis on the US President and how much power they actually have is kind of ridiculous. Just to touch on this one point, the situation has its own twisted logic. With this election the concept of the presidency m
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by scrumper 11y ago
"Wall Street" as popularly imagined - the world of big banks like JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs etc. don't invest in anything. Wall Street's role is threefold: - Providing access to capital and dealmaking facilities for compan
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by scrumper 11y ago
I never played MoO so I had no basis for comparison. I should probably rectify that :)
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by scrumper 11y ago
Since we're doing alternatives for Civ-lovers, I really, really enjoyed Galactic Civilizations II. It had the right mix of massive scale, diverse strategy, politics, and an interesting combat mechanic with user-designed units. Endgame
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by scrumper 11y ago
Please can you elaborate a bit on the tattoo link? Sounds interesting.
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by scrumper 11y ago
This is potentially a powerful statement for Russia, though the article doesn't make it clear if the weapons are designed to break up the asteroid or redirect it. If the latter, it's extremely threatening: if you have the capabili
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Trading Across Space and Time: Einstein, HFT and Financial Market Microstructure(tabbforum.com)
1 points by scrumper 11y ago|0 comments
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by scrumper 11y ago
I see, thanks.
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by scrumper 11y ago
That was interesting, and a surprising result. Thanks for sharing. There is a bit of magic: the Epstein Drive, allowing for 1G continuous acceleration 'torch ships'. IIRC if they're gone I don't think it breaks the plot
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by scrumper 11y ago
From the abstract of the paper, energy equivalent to three solar masses were radiated away in gravitational waves. That's a simply incredible amount! Possibly stupid question: Given how far away it was, and that the inverse square law
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by scrumper 11y ago
I agree, I'm also not at all a fan of in-browser apps. The benefits all seem to accrue on the maker's side: faster deployment & distribution, single codebase for multiple platforms, assurance of common versions across the user
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by scrumper 11y ago
There's a huge story arc in the novels, so I think we're safe for a while. I highly recommend the books. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a wonderfully constructed world and they're doing justice to the complex char
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by scrumper 11y ago
Yes that makes sense. Thanks.

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