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by seppel 8y ago
> range of a few kilometres and an operational ceiling of several hundred feet The ceiling altitude is a software limit, which is applied relative to the take-off altitude. The physical limit of, e.g., a Mavic Pro is somewhere around 5km
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by seppel 8y ago
The earth core is still heated heavily by radioactive decay.
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by seppel 8y ago
Is that the same reason why reddit is so slow in Firefox?
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by seppel 8y ago
> It's just that dividends reduce the price of the stock directly Dividends reduce the price of the stock directly because there is an active market. Once the dividend is paid out, the stock price is decreased by the dividend beca
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by seppel 8y ago
Back in 1998, Apache, PHP, Mysql and Netscape 4 did fit into 16 MB of RAM :)
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by seppel 8y ago
If everyone invests passive, you could make a ton of money by buying companies which are worth more than their stock or just give you an extremely high dividend.
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by seppel 8y ago
> nothing is real until it is observed. What do the terms "real" and "observed" mean in this sentence?
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by seppel 8y ago
I don't disagree. But calling the "decimal time" a failure is just unfair, given that they rest of the program was a huge success getting rid of what we would call today "legacy" (of course in hindsight. When else?)
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by seppel 8y ago
> the French Revolution decimal time The French were 99% successful with their decimals everywhere (everything except time) in 99% of all countries (everywhere except the US and some freak dictatorships). > The same kinds of "gra
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by seppel 8y ago
You need to accelerate the fuel as well. And for a reaction engine, you need to carry reaction mass that you accelerate. And at some point you want to decelerate again. Would be interesting to see whether this is at least theoretically feas
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by seppel 8y ago
1kg matter at 0.1c has a kinetic energy of 4.5x10^14 J It is certainly very expensive to spend this amount of energy. But is it also extremely challenging to even extract this out of an engine that has to accelerate itself. 1kg matter at 0.
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by seppel 8y ago
It's not only increased performance. Since you can precompute a dictionary with zstd, you'll (most likely) get much better compression. Or you can at least stick to smaller block sizes.
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by seppel 8y ago
> What if tether is the tether holder Why should they print more tether if they are already holding them?
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by seppel 8y ago
> So they issue 11million unbacked USDT and use it to buy bitcoin. Who is selling them BTC for USDT apart from a few daytraders? Where is the sink of 2.8 billion USDT?
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by seppel 8y ago
> investors don’t hesitate to hold a few USDT now and then But it is not "now and then". It is 2.8 billion all the time! Maybe they are hold by different people at different times. Yet, they have to be held somewhere by someone
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by seppel 8y ago
But you can easily buy BTC using USDT and then sell the BTC somewhere for real USD. Where are the reports of people stuck with USDT?
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by seppel 8y ago
Exactly, I'm wondering the same. Somebody bought 2.8 billion USDT and it is unclear who and why (to me).
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by seppel 8y ago
> So far they've created 2.8 BILLION USDT Who bought all these USDT? Who is holding them? Why would you hold them?
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by seppel 9y ago
> Autopilot has never been a term for autonomous, just as its used in aviation. Autopilots used in modern commercial airplanes are autonomous. You don't have to watch them, they will do their job. The airplane is either controlled b
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by seppel 9y ago
Yeah, I meant in more in shadow account way. They know who should be there but isn't (at least if you have friends and at least one of your friends gives them access to the phone contacts).
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by seppel 9y ago
> Needless to say, I don't have an account there. You'd be surprised.
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by seppel 9y ago
The airline has to first name a price before I enter my credit card number.
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by seppel 9y ago
My personal theory is that there are currently a lot of people waiting for the stock market to crash. Which is why it might not going to crash anytime soon (see the dips beginning of the year).
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by seppel 9y ago
The underlying map data is the "real world", so there certainly is a mapping between the google and waze map data, even if the mapping is non-trivial :) There are thing like OpenLR, which were invented exactly to solve these kinds
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by seppel 9y ago
There are probably cooler things that you can do for 24 million stolen dollars than dominate the etherum network. Actually, using the hashpower to wash the stolen money by legitimate mining sounds cool enough. What can kind of cool stuff ca
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by seppel 9y ago
> In fact I am struggling to think of an application of groups to mathematics where geometry does not come into play. Number theory is another example, finding roots of polynomials was already mentioned. > Even the abstract classifica
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by seppel 9y ago
> Group theory originated in a very visual and geometric ways studying the symmetries of various objects Did it? As far as I know, group theory started as method to describe the possible permutations of roots of polynomials, so it was ve
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by seppel 9y ago
I asked this before and I still don't understand it: Who is holding the Tethers? I can see that "someone" wants to artificially increase the BTC price by buying BTC using USDT. But for this scheme to work, someone needs to se
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by seppel 9y ago
> and then print a bunch of unbacked USDT and use them to buy BTC. But who is buying and HOLDING the USDT? Sorry that I repeat myself but this is the whole point I want to understand. Yes, somebody is selling USDT for BTC, I get that. It
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by seppel 9y ago
> It's also possible that There's are being used fraudulently to pump BTC. My point is: How can you pump BTC with USDT? You need somebody to buy your USDT if you want to sell USDT. In fact, you need somebody to buy an enormous

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