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by sjburt 8y ago
If so, storing a season's worth of heat might not be so feasible. A home in northern Europe needs about 30,000 MJ, so that would be 53,000 kg of norbornadeine. If the system absorbs energy during the day and releases energy at night, i
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by sjburt 8y ago
Calling it a failure/setback is pretty harsh and misleading. Getting off the pad at all is a major success for the first launch of a new launch vehicle.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Yes.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Not that this isn't an interesting story, but the headline is dubious. The origins of Burning Man had far more to do with the SF Suicide Club and the Cacaphony Society than what was going on in LA. The first burns were arguably Cacopho
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by sjburt 8y ago
I believe the y-axis on that graph (assuming you refer to the last graph) is the number of parking tickets, not the dollar amount of fines. So more like $50 to $100 million in parking fines per year.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I'm guessing that that ploy would work once or twice before you got pushed off the platform anyway. Same goes for a client that regularly claims the work is incomplete.
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by sjburt 8y ago
What does it have to with Elon? The owner is Iridium Communications and the satellites are produced by Thales. They're being launched on Falcon 9 but they could have been launched on anything.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Obviously, I don't know the details of 1970s/1980s plasma products, but I think it's probably fair to assume that they were screening for pathogens they knew about at the time. I think in retrospect it's easy to say that
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by sjburt 8y ago
This occurred before HIV was isolated and identified as the cause of AIDS. There was concern earlier on that there seemed to be a correlation between the platelets products and AIDS cases but they had very little data.
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by sjburt 8y ago
These things seem obvious but are often not feasible for certain types of games (eg FPS) due to either latency or just the rate of events the server would have to resolve. This is why you're often stuck having to trust the client and i
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by sjburt 8y ago
It's a poor drawing. They look like doors that open inward. Doors that open outward would be need to be set more deeply into the door frame.
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by sjburt 8y ago
The Humanity Star was visible only for short periods of time at dusk and dawn (which are not astronomical observing hours) and was, at brightest, approximately magnitude 2. Less bright than many stars and planets, as well as many existing s
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by sjburt 8y ago
Not publishing the story wouldn't have saved Murdoch's $125m. The story just reflected the truth of the matter, which was that the company had nothing and never did.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Phabricator has a very particular workflows. If you use that workflow, it is really fast to use; you can do almost everything from the command line except the actual code review/approval. And it is pretty good about encouraging that yo
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by sjburt 8y ago
Really, you just need to find a published source for your claim. He would have suffered the same challenge trying to have his Brittanica entry changed.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Is it even illegal? And if it is, is obtaining recourse through the courts the kind of thing that cryptocurrency users want to make a habit of?
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by sjburt 8y ago
I don't think the bonus was the issue so much as the career path. He left Toshiba after being "promoted" into a position where he had no subordinates and no budget.
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by sjburt 8y ago
It's interesting that the low oil pressure cutoff (designed to prevent engine damage from running without lubrication) is amongst the things that ultimately doomed the vessel.
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by sjburt 8y ago
Is there a reason they need to get their vitamin A from rice, a crop that demands precise cultivation practices, and not cheaper and more convenient vitamin pills?
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by sjburt 8y ago
I don't think anyone is trying to run a poop-sharing business that the city can go after.
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by sjburt 8y ago
I thought when they were "flying teakettle" they were using water as a reaction mass, and the Epstein drive was an unexplained reactionless drive? At least in the books, haven't seen the TV show. Iirc, there's some menti
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by sjburt 8y ago
They don't pay a fixed price per stream; they just take some portion of revenue and pay the artists in proportion to the number of streams each artist had. So it's a way to give more money to Beyonce/Kanye and less to other a
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by sjburt 8y ago
There's also the idea of getting to a point where you know you could retire, at which point any job do you do take is financially unnecessary.
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by sjburt 9y ago
Likely a factor of financial means as well. There's a lot of spare-no-expense weekend warrior types in the Masters ranks, whereas the younger open racers tend to be scrappier. Also, it's probably somewhat of a "who cares anyw
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by sjburt 9y ago
It's worth watching, it will look like a large meteor that breaks into pieces and takes several minutes to cross the sky. Also it is likely that some large pieces like pressure tanks will survive reentry.
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by sjburt 9y ago
It's also entirely possible that Jobs would have run Apple into the ground in the mid 80s. Apple III and Lisa were expensive, unmitigated failures, and the Mac arrived as Jobs was leaving. Would Jobs have gone along with the high-price
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by sjburt 9y ago
It's the normal data cost. EG the Landsat data is stored in S3, so it's free to EC2 (in the same region), and somewhere around $0.09/gb to the public internet. However, the idea is not that you download it all (there's p
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by sjburt 9y ago
In 1962 they would have had multi-channel magentic tape (analog) recording. The first flight data recorders date to the early 1940s. Fitting it in ejection seat might be another challenge but I'm sure they would have developed somethin
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by sjburt 9y ago
Then your employees aren't commoditized, replaceable sources of programming work who you can hire and fire at the whim of the budget cycle.
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by sjburt 9y ago
If you have an FB account, your FB friends who use Instagram will see prompts to invite you to Instagram.

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