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The Political Machine Behind the Apollo Program(palladiummag.com)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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A Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace(gizmodo.com)
1 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Is this a thought experiment, or does the FCC really do this? It's hard for me to imagine that they have an army of radio engineers to go looking at all signals, figuring out which ones are "undecipherable", physically identi
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Yes, it's true. You can see this for yourself if you turn the can upside down while you press down the button on the top. Then, it will spray liquid solvent out, which will immediately vaporize, and therefore rapidly chill anything i
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by siberianbear 6y ago
The first keyboard he referred to was the original IBM "clicky" keyboard (aka Buckling Spring keyboard) which is still available new. The right to manufacture it has been sold to a company called Unicomp. [1] They've ditche
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Lemonade, the Insurance Startup Backed by SoftBank, Files to Go Public(barrons.com)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England(longreads.com)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
The question I really wanted answered was "how much is he asking for it?" I did a lot of searches on various search engines but couldn't find the answer. I guess it falls into that "if you have to ask, you can't a
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by siberianbear 6y ago
You would think there should be some sort of reward in the form of saved time from going to the supermarket at an unpopular time. But my closest supermarket changes the staffing levels at checkout to coincide with the level of shoppers. S
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by siberianbear 6y ago
They've having some growing pain. It's normal in a company growing at Coinbase's pace.
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by siberianbear 6y ago
If the police ignore hooliganism on the streets, it just invites more hooliganism. If the police brutally put down hooliganism, it also invites more hooliganism. Probably, the right solution involves better policing of police, and throwing
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Google Docs isn't a great example. In WordPerfect's case, WordPerfect was the product and there was an incentive to make it great. Google Docs isn't the product. It's free. You're the product. And it only need
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by siberianbear 6y ago
I'm no expert on the subject, but probably the use of phone numbers (and confirmation by SMS) is helpful to limit the number of bots.
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by siberianbear 6y ago
That can't be right, because salt water freezes at a point a few degrees below fresh water. Now, 0F is defined where fresh water freezes.
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by siberianbear 6y ago
If you do this yourself and feel comfortable, good for you. But I wouldn't widely suggest people lever up 2x using margin. It's dangerous advice. In a severe down market you can be wiped out with a margin call and forced to sell
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by siberianbear 6y ago
One man's racism is another man's free speech. Just like one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Facebook and the other SV tech companies have a clear political bias that often seems like selective and dire
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by siberianbear 6y ago
That wasn't really a "blur", though. A swirl like that is just moving pixels around. If know how the algorithm works, you can reverse it. Probably, it was done with a common program like Adobe Photoshop or Gimp or somethin
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World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood Outbreak Is Not a Model for Covid-19(aier.org)
2 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
One of the things I've realized in life is the best teachers are people who were not very good at something and then became very good at it through sheer practice and grit. People who are naturally gifted at something because they can&
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by siberianbear 6y ago
I remember learning about "FDISK /mbr" from a DEC support tech support line. I rescued several hard disks with that command that other people had deemed "broken".
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Miami’s fight against rising seas(bbc.com)
3 points by siberianbear 6y ago|0 comments
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by siberianbear 6y ago
I was very active in the university recruiting effort at large Silicon Valley for many years. I went to tons of university career fairs. This statement is wholly true. At the undergraduate, the majority of students were US citizens (but
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by siberianbear 6y ago
Here's what a "Whale Fail" is [1]. In 1970, a whale died near Portland, Oregon and washed up on the beach. The local authorities decided to blow it up using explosives, with awful and unexpected results. [1] https:/&#
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by siberianbear 6y ago
My interpretation of "The Lord of the Flies" didn't have anything to do with islands or shipwrecks. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the raw cruelty that teenagers in a group, such as the ones you or I went to hig
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by siberianbear 6y ago
There's something that I'm not getting in all this: given the R0 for this virus, the situation isn't going to disappear until about 70% of the population has developed immunity. The purpose of all these isolation and social d
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by siberianbear 7y ago
That's an interesting response. It seems to me that the flame level on this site is quite low in response to somewhere like Reddit. People argue here, of course, but usually it's in an informational sort of way and rarely devolv
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by siberianbear 7y ago
Thanks for the pointer to that tool, it worked for me and will probably help me get past a lot more paywalls.
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by siberianbear 7y ago
Don't feel too ashamed. I also learned a lot from this article and I've been using Linux/Unix boxes for even longer than you.
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Internet Loses One of Its Biggest, Best Advocates: EFF Special Counsel Jim Tyre(eff.org)
2 points by siberianbear 7y ago|0 comments
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Types of highway interchanges and their efficiency ratings(twitter.com)
1 points by siberianbear 7y ago|0 comments

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