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by srdev 9y ago
Any proof of that?
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by srdev 10y ago
Cooling is not easily available in space actually. Its a pretty difficult problem. There's no air to convect away heat so you rely only on radiative cooling which can't move a lot of heat easily.
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by srdev 10y ago
He sold shares to Russ Hanneman and Reviga bought those shares off of Hanneman.
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by srdev 10y ago
No, hostility in the context of playing the game is fine. Its a PvP game so that wouldn't be a tenable policy. You can go and kill the other team all you want. Poor behavior in the in-game chat or metagame is whats at issue here: s
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by srdev 10y ago
> Are there any best practices guides on this? I'm not aware of any, but we did have quite a lot of procedures meant to mitigate this sort of things when I worked in banking. For one, none of the developers had any sort of access t
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by srdev 11y ago
Well, thats very disappointing.
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by srdev 11y ago
Are you aware of Escape Dynamics? You might want to see what they're trying to do with beamed energy thermal rockets.
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by srdev 11y ago
In scientific discussion, absence of evidence means that we accept the null hypothesis until such time that evidence is found.
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by srdev 11y ago
No more bitcoins, miners get funded by fees instead of the newly-minted coins.
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by srdev 11y ago
Its really understandable why that would piss them off and I sympathize. At the same time, it seems like the only solutions are for me to quit my job and "fuck off", or to live in the suburbs and suck up a > 1 hr commute. Peo
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by srdev 11y ago
> But does your comment mean that sites who make a concerted effort to have as few ads as possible will be fruitless in their efforts? To be totally honest? Probably. I'd be inclined to whitelist sites that curate their ads or ad n
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by srdev 11y ago
I take it as a point that these probably impact behavior just as much as traditional ads. Let me raise a counter-point though. These things have already been done for a while. Is there any evidence that banner ads were preventing this sor
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by srdev 11y ago
My experience is that the blockers have done a very good job of keeping up with these tactics, so I'm not particularly worried on this front. There is still viral marketing and paid PR pieces disguised as legitimate content, however,
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by srdev 11y ago
From my perspective as a user, it doesn't matter. If the ad networks and their customers are unable to enforce standards on their advertisers, then I have no choice but to block them. Making it my responsibility is not an option. Its
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by srdev 11y ago
> Once the adblocker is installed, once web-ads have been poisoned by years of bad practices, ads aren’t coming back. That's really the crux of the matter. Advertisers and the sites using them had a chance to show us that they coul
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by srdev 11y ago
I read the article and I don't think they answered one of my biggest questions: is there a causative link from artistic endeavors to improvement in scienctific endeavors? Learning a musical instrument has been on my todo list for a wh
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by srdev 11y ago
It takes more than a little math. I hang out in stock market chats that have a lot of programmer trying to do just this, and this comic is completely accurate: http://xkcd.com/1570
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by srdev 11y ago
Have they said why your paint job is insufficient? Its hard to imagine that it would require a professional.
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by srdev 11y ago
On the other hand, laptop is a 2011 model and I'm not allowed to upgrade until next year. My desktop has a "huge" 1 TB drive in it that I had to get my manager to approve, because Amazon apparently doesn't work with lar
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by srdev 11y ago
I'm ignorant of the actual law, so this is just a guess. Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources. There's only a handful of really
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by srdev 11y ago
Comparing Bitcoin miners to any supercomputer or server farm is meaningless at best and deceiving at worst. Current Bitcoin miners cannot do anything other than one specific calculation.
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by srdev 11y ago
Its only a feature if there is a sufficient amount of work one is interested in and a good chance that the recruiter can match you to a job. In my experience, there is a lot of garbage because recruiters throw a wide net without considerin
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by srdev 11y ago
It's kind of funny because "catch it with a helicopter" is ULA's plan, with the caveat that they're only catching the engines and not the whole rocket.
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by srdev 11y ago
> Bringing the 1st stage nearly to a stop at some point mid-air should be way easier than landing it on the ground. One thing to note about Falcon 9 is that it's impossible for it to hover since its thrust-to-weight ratio is greater
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by srdev 11y ago
> I know there is a very good reason for this, but it seems like we're sending a lot of satellites to these moons and planets to perform VERY similar missions. Orbit around, take photos and readings. I think you're overly abstr
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by srdev 11y ago
> Technologically this is no longer a tall order. We can stick a consumer video camera & phone in a lunchbox, attach it to a balloon, send it up to the stratosphere, and retrieve it afterwards for only hundreds of dollars, it's
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by srdev 11y ago
You're ignoring the lifting costs. The cost of lifting a payload into space and putting it into orbit is non-trivial compared to the cost of developing the probe. Can you imagine the cost of trying to put 50 probes into Julian orbit?
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by srdev 11y ago
> If we trust the system that pulls the wool over our eyes, should we really trust it? Blanket statements don't really help to determine if a given set of regulation is useful or not. The system has a lot of bad parts and regulator
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by srdev 11y ago
> I'm not going waste my time weighing in on whether we were clever hackers or bozos -- the truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle. No, it doesn't always. The truth is not in the middle here; you guys were being breat
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by srdev 11y ago
Intent absolutely matters, yes. Silk Road was promoted by the staff as primarily a drug marketplace. Ross grew mushrooms to sell on the marketplace. It had links to drugs on its sidebar. They had a doctor to give advice to drug users. It wa

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