swamp40

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1. 781.▲
   by swamp40 13y ago

   Those wires are going to cramp some people's style, though.
2. 782.▲
   by swamp40 13y ago

   Here's a legitimate question: What scares you more, the NSA snooping or Russia's re-invigorated interest in ICBM's?
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   Moscow Conducts Large-Scale Nuclear Attack Drill: 4 long-range missiles launched(freebeacon.com)

   1 points by swamp40 13y ago|3 comments
4. 784.▲
   by swamp40 13y ago

   > This is why you don't ask engineers for business advice. Too funny! And true. "Show HN" is brutal.
5. 785.▲
   by swamp40 13y ago

   So 99 more arrests like this, hold onto everything, and the currency is dead?
6. 786.▲
   by swamp40 13y ago

   From the discussion board: Winners will receive American Express gift cards payable in US Dollars.
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   Tiny Sensors Put The Squeeze on Light (DARPA)(darpa.mil)

   2 points by swamp40 13y ago|0 comments
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   by swamp40 13y ago

   I'm not sure how prevalent your example is these days. I have plenty of recent experience bringing kids to pediatricians, and they do not hand out antibiotics like popcorn. They do lots of rapid in-office tests that detect strep, flu
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   Universe's most distant galaxy discovered(phys.org)

   2 points by swamp40 13y ago|0 comments
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    > tools of last resort only to be used in emergencies, with great hesitation, and only when absolutely necessary. Really? And whose lives are you willing to play that game with? Your 8 y.o son, who just broke his arm and has new swe
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    I think that's a debatable topic. Some say it is just a pure geometric effect of curved space (and thus instantaneous), not a force of nature that propagates.
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Quick facts: - Two of the rare oarfish washed up on California shores this week. - An old Japanese legend says oarfish beachings are a sign of an impending earthquake.
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    Is there a link between oarfish and earthquakes?(10news.com)

    1 points by swamp40 13y ago|1 comments
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    You guys are a tough sell. The EIA says the same thing: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059988428 It's a race between the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia - but it's not any kind of propaganda.
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Here's the original source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11233767.htm
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Never thought I'd see this headline. So why is gas 48 cents a gallon in Saudi Arabia, and $3.52 average here in the US?
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    United States Becomes World's Number-One Oil Supplier(breitbart.com)

    12 points by swamp40 13y ago|13 comments
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Their homepage is pretty cool. Imagine if every element box was a website or picture.
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    I disagree with the author's conclusions that fabs are immune from terrorist acts because a) fabs are too large, and b) terrorists are basically dysfunctional. I can think of several relatively simple methods to take a large building o
20. 800.▲
    by swamp40 13y ago

    > I now understand that Steve was learning how to gain power by insinuating negative self-images onto others. That is a very powerful statement.
21. 801.▲
    by swamp40 13y ago

    So I don't really get why you'd want to use a $2.50 chip to half-ass implement the functionality of a $3 chip. (You can't bond, you can just advertise, and you can't do the necessary CRC.) The code's not that much d
22. 802.▲
    by swamp40 13y ago

    > Error establishing a database connection I guess they teach Cloudflare in week three...
23. 803.▲
    by swamp40 13y ago

    There will certainly be a driverless racing circuit one day. Soon, if Google's automatic cars ever become available. It will probably start out as an underground thing.
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    I think you are probably right. Your theory is getting some press, too: http://www.f1sa.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Regarding the mysterious hidden traction control that no one can find. How about a modified wireless air pressure sensor inside the tires that also reported tire slippage? Then perhaps that slippage info gets received by electronics built i
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    I'm not sure social satire is your forté. Maybe try again with the NAACP or UNCF websites? Or, maybe you could: a) put away your childish things b) accept the world for what it is c) ask yourself what you could do to make this wor
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Here's another classic. A 55 gallon drum full of personal lubricant: http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-...
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    You can't typically write just 1 byte into flash - you have to write in pages of say 4KB. And writing to flash is painfully slow . So it's most efficient (current-wise) to store up 4KB worth of data in RAM and then write it all
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Aren't they worried that people will inject open-source vulnerabilities for free, then have Google to pay them when they are "found" and "fixed"?
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    by swamp40 13y ago

    Google's going to pay for GCC toolchain improvements? Good for them. But a normal company would go broke doing these kinds of things.