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by shpxnvz 14y ago
All very good points. I don't really follow wildcat cartridge development, but the .416 does look like it fills a gap.
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
That's cool stuff. Seems like it could be useful if it could be miniaturized. ETA: The binocluar device in the last link is pretty close, if they can extend the range from 300m and drop the price tag from $150K!
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
Right, yet in real life we see effective use of those rounds out to double that 1200 yard range. And, of course, accuracy is only one part of effectiveness. Stopping power is also important, especially in the military role, and varies grea
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
This system in no way triples the effective range of these rifles. The "error budget" analysis in the Army Research Laboratory report is purely estimated; it's not based on real world observations. Unless I'm reading it wrong, the error b
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
I shoot service rifle at 600 yards on a range with wind flags at 100 yard intervals. It's not uncommon at that range for the wind to be blowing in opposite directions at each interval. At that range you can make an accurate read on the w
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> On the other hand with the Mindstorms set you have these precision milled parts... From the video it looks like the regular old injection-molded plastic Lego bricks - are there new milled parts being used in the EV3 kit?
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
SEEKING WORK, remote or Baltimore, MD area I've got 10+ years working in webapp development. Experience in Scala, Groovy and Java, some Python and PHP as well as HTML, CSS, JS. I love web work but am open to anything interesting. Email add
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Well, to be honest I don't think I was particularly clear in my comment. You're right that you can eat fast food for $2-$3 dollars per meal, and maybe people do elsewhere - I'm just going by my personal experience which is that people he
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
People's revealed preference is that they value watching TV more than they do saving money on food by trading the time it requires to do so. In other words, the 'cost ceiling' (I just made up that term :) ) of watching TV is higher than th
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. I suppose I figured that, at least in this community, people would tend to view cooking as a creative endeavor not unlike hacking, rather than some menial repetitive task. Different strokes.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Linux is only free if your time has no value. Americans average 2.7 hours of TV per day now (1). Exactly what monetary value do you assign to that time that makes it worth more than the same time spent cooking? 1. http://www.bls.gov/new
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
I don't know how people do it -- I mean, I can cook and sometimes it is delicious, but it's nothing worst than waisting 2 hours on something and then at the end to find out that I blew the dish for some reason. Don't you ever spend a coup
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
The economy isn't doing well at all, and people are flocking to the cheapest alternatives. Fast food is absolutely not the cheapest alternative. We cook about 95% of our meals, using roughly half organic ingredients, and seldom exceed $2
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
That sort of thing is not going to work much longer. Now that the 2nd has been incorporated against the states via McDonald, bans like that are outright illegal. I expect the first time a public servant is held personally liable for damag
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Keeping is not just allowed, its our natural right. Wearing is, as well, but it's waiting on another SCOTUS decision for affirmation.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
I'd guess that both were derived from Medgar Evers: You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Pilot rest time is regulated by the FAA in the U.S., regardless of salary. The regulations specify minimum rest-opportunity time prior to flight duty, as well as maximum hours of flight duty per day, per week and per month. Does the U.K. h
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
If my bank gets hacked, sucks for them. Who do you thinks ends up paying for it? The cost will certainly be passed on to the banks customers.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
I'm curious if you have a link to decent evidence of this. From both personal experience and per city data I've found, police response times are universally pretty dismal but I would be interested to see the same data broken down by neighb
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
I'd imagine that depends on which government you're talking about. Seems like selling the info to a foreign government could be treading into "espionage" territory.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Police don't really "protect" anyone, their job is to cleanup the mess and investigate after the fact.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the correction to the data. I think the Wikipedia article could use an edit to note the discrepancy.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
It's little things like not having all my stuff taken from me by armed thugs and not getting murdered that are important to me. In my country (the U.S.) neither the federal nor state governments have any obligation to protect me from crim
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
Still SEEKING WORK, remote or Baltimore, MD area I've got around 10 years working in webapp development. Experience in Scala, Groovy and Java, some Python and PHP as well as HTML, CSS, JS. I love web work but am open to anything interesting
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
While it may in fact be true that we evolved to able to sit, the sentence you quoted is in no way evidence of it. A link to supporting evidence, or even a well reasoned argument, would go along way towards backing up your claim.
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
I don't recall any mention of the specific methods used in California, but in this case the officer took the phone when he arrested the person, so presumably the police had quite a long time to muck about with it. Here is one of the origin
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by shpxnvz 15y ago
If they need your iPhone address book they can get a search warrant. While I agree that's our right as protected by the 4th, some states have determined that only probable cause is required to confiscate and search cell phones (e.g. Calif
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
And while I also recognize that correlation is not causation, I find this sort of correlation useful in predicting whether or not my future actions would be viewed as "sanctioned" or "not sanctioned" by law enforcement authorities. It's c
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
It sounds interesting, but I'm curious what being the Chipotle of registrars actually means?
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by shpxnvz 16y ago
Or a Chinese farmer for that matter (though this one deals with protein rather than sugar): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China-Oxford-Cornell_Study_on_D...

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