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by spingsprong 12y ago
Did you look at your own graph?! Demand is reduced almost by half at night.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
"Wind power is not generated on a calm day, nor solar power at night, so conventional power plants must be kept on standby—but are not included in the levelised cost of renewables." Solar not generating power at night is a good th
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Unfortunately killed, while putting his head inside a crocodile's mouth,
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Hitting a small very fast thing, with a small very fast thing, is hard.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Nobody is going to make a malevolent universe controlling AI on purpose. If a massively powerful and knowledgeable AI was created by accident, it would have nothing to gain by being malevolent. And both those points don't matter anyway
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by spingsprong 12y ago
If it's not working, that's a pretty bad sign for the US ballistic missile defense system. I'm assuming it's easier to hit a Mach 3 Grad than a Mach 20 ICBM
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by spingsprong 12y ago
It probably would have failed. The Gulf War Patriot was designed to shoot down Mach 2 jets, not Mach 5 Scuds. Detonating slightly late against an aircraft is actually a good thing, since it makes the Patriot explode near the aircraft's
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by spingsprong 12y ago
"10 million words recorded during just under 200,000 trials" So an average of 50 words per trial? I would have expected a higher number.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/assembly_language_manual.html Descriptions of instructions, opcodes, number encoding, etc
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Firefox 30.0, Radeon HD4870
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Can anyone seriously think of a reason why Ukraine, the Rebels or Russia would have downed that passenger plane on purpose? Because I can't. Whoever shot it down, obviously thought it was a military aircraft. They made a mistake. If it
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by spingsprong 12y ago
It crashes my browser.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I think the Russians get a bit twitchy when we start firing off ICBMs. Also, they cost about seven million dollars each and one use only.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Yes, in 1983 the Soviet Union shot down a passenger plane. And in 2001 Ukraine shot down a passenger plane. And in 1988 the USA shot down a passenger plane. You don't have to submit each one to this site. Can't we just save time a
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by spingsprong 12y ago
From 2001
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Doesn't work for me
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Where'd you get those numbers?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I'm just asking, but is there any chance the connection is the reverse? Stress and anxiety can cause digestive symptoms.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Interesting, but I'm more curious about the robot with the pen.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
And I was talking about incredibly primitive countermeasures.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
The final section on the wikipedia page for "Iron Dome", has a few citations questioning the effectiveness of the system. I have no idea how accurate those sources are. Even if those criticisms are incorrect, there are still blind
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Their top claim seems to be that organic food is higher in anti-oxidants. Unfortunately, the idea that anti-oxidants are good for you has always been scientifically shaky, and as more studies have been done, it's increasingly looking l
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by spingsprong 12y ago
These bullets are not going to be used from a machine gun. It would make zero sense. They're for long range sniping.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Drones don't use 50cal machine guns. What they use is missiles and bombs, and they've been guided for decades.
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Woman grows a nose on her spine after stem cell treatment goes awry(extremetech.com)
3 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 12y ago
It's not surprising. Life is water with a bunch of chemicals floating about in it. If you raise it to high temperature, those chemicals break apart or combine together to form new chemicals, some of which are harmful. Smoked meat, burn
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Roughly map the topology of the ground in the background of a photo, then use clever algorithms to match that topology with real world maps of terrain. Automatically match iconic buildings to those in a database. Have a list of features tha
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Because of the inevitable photolocationfinder dot com that will immediately come into existence if they ever succeed. Then everyone who hates someone or likes someone way too much, will only need a couple of photos from twitter or wherever,
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BMW factor workers given "super thumbs"(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 12y ago
"Yahoo is hosting a contest to build the system best capable of identifying where a photo or video was taken without using geographic coordinates." Does this strike anyone else as being a bad idea?

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