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by tanzam75 12y ago
> Siberia starts from Novosibirsk, it's about 2k miles to East from Samara. Omsk is in Siberia and it's only 1000 miles away from Samara. Anyway, Los Angeles is not in Oregon, Moscow is not in Germany, and Samara is not in Si
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> They were stored in Samara, Russia. Maps say that is in Siberia. Samara is not in Siberia. It is in the Volga Federal District, which is west of the Urals and therefore in European Russia. In fact, Samara is 1000 miles away from Sib
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> One if the major things .NET had in it's favor was MSR to actually figure out generics. MS Corp viewed it as an academic and experimental feature and would never have gotten it implemented on their own. From what I've heard,
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Storage is very tough to work out. You pay for all this capacity, but you only get to make money a couple of times a day. Dam a river and you can generate power 24 hours a day. Build a pumped-storage facility, and you'll be lucky to
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by tanzam75 12y ago
That's a very narrow way of looking at the problem. It isn't as simple as that. Our electric infrastructure is sized for the peak load. All the power plants, the transmission lines, the substations, the transformers, etc. To th
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> The main disincentive to invest in the grid is the fact that it is a monopoly and like all monopolies the owner's incentives are to slash investment and milk the monopoly under ALL circumstances. Quite the opposite, in fact. In
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> There actually is, however, some value in having different units for methane vs electricity, since you have to run methane through a suboptimal furnace to harness its energy. Granted, modern gas-powered furnaces are usually more than
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by tanzam75 12y ago
That's non-metric thinking. In the metric system, you could simply use the cubic meter. A hectare is 10000 square meters. A centimeter is 0.01 meters. Thus, if 1 centimeter of rain falls on a 1 hectare field, then that's simply
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by tanzam75 12y ago
It is also illegal for a domestic company to price below cost, if that company is a monopoly . Under the anti-trust laws, this is known as abusive pricing. However, it is legal for a non-monopoly to price below cost. The assumption is
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> I don't remember why, but a few months ago it popped into my head: You know, when I was a kid in Harlingen, there was clover everywhere. We'd pick a bit out of lawns as we roamed the neighborhood and chew on it. It's be
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> The Supreme Court is wrong- the reason cable companies are treated as a 'public' performance of a work is that their distribution medium is shared . No. What makes a cable company "public performance" is that the c
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by tanzam75 12y ago
The developer of Paint.NET works for Microsoft. Thus, he does not "make a living only out of Paint.NET." Of course, that does not say whether or not he could live off Paint.NET if he wanted to.
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Wacom released the SD tablet in 1987. Their patent on inductively-powered styluses should have expired by now. (Back then, US patents were valid for 17 years from issue date, but the backlog was also much shorter.) I know that N-trig used
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Exactly. For center of population, as for center of mass, position matters. The farther you are from the center of population, the greater your weight. One Floridian might contribute the same southward pull as ten Virginians. The bottom l
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Fun fact: Nova Albion is named after Britain because it was claimed by the English privateer Francis Drake during his circumnavigation of the world. Another fun fact: Drake's circumnavigation was only the second one on record, after th
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Brazil produces almost four times as much beef as Argentina. However, Brazil has almost five times the population, so the Argentines are still ahead on a per-capita basis. In any case, the Brazilians are not about to run out of beef any tim
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by tanzam75 12y ago
The AVE 103 may be based on the Velaro, but the AVE 100, 102, and 112 are based on the TGV, which has non-powered passenger cars. The point is that non-powered passenger cars do not automatically indicate a "primitive" rail system
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by tanzam75 12y ago
While Switzerland has opted to go all-EMU for its passenger trains, that's not true of every country. For example, the only powered axles on the French TGV are at the front and rear of the train. All the axles in-between are unpowered
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> It doesn't make any sense to talk about static vs kinetic friction for the cars because they have roller bearings. Well, modern trains don't have cabooses either. So the scenario wouldn't even come up. But suppose tha
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> It also reflects practical realities: if a legislature overwhelmingly supports a change, any roadblocks or restrictions will most likely be ineffective in the long term. Exactly. In the worst case, if an obstructionist minority of s
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by tanzam75 12y ago
The politics of the SRBs are absolutely disgusting and date back to the original choice of Thiokol in the 1970s. Thiokol won the contract for the space shuttle SRBs because James Fletcher was the head of NASA. Fletcher had previously been
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by tanzam75 12y ago
As clever as that may be, it is still a workaround for a problem that shouldn't even exist. Astronauts on Soyuz and Shenzhou do not have any problem with vibrations making the screen unreadable. That's because they don't hav
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by tanzam75 12y ago
I didn't say that your father lived in the US. I was pointing out that "pays for the treatment" does not exclude the US, as Florin_Andrei seems to think. I understand you're having a visceral reaction to the out-of-po
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Including the US, for now. Under Obamacare, there is a $6,350 annual out-of-pocket maximum. There is also cost-sharing for people with low incomes. However, Obamacare is guaranteed to remain in effect only so long as the Democrats retai
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Under Obamacare, your annual out-of-pocket maximum would be $6,350. You still have to pay the Obamacare premium on top of that. But the end result is that you would only have to pay about 10% of the $92,000 annual list price of Gleevec. N
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by tanzam75 12y ago
It does not matter that it is not a warship. Sovereign wrecks are owned by the sovereign entity, whether or not they are armed. The problem is that the Santa Maria was not owned by Spain. It was owned by Juan de la Cosa, a private citiz
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Actually, the Alibaba that is being listed does not have an underlying business. The stock represents ownership of a Cayman Islands variable interest entity that has a contractual claim on the actual Alibaba's profits. This is not a n
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by tanzam75 12y ago
The Chinese are developing an engine, the YF-100, based on the Russian RD-120. It's a staged combustion engine with an oxygen-rich preburner -- very similar technology to the RD-180. The YF-100 has already gone through a full-length t
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by tanzam75 12y ago
No, the USPS is not constitutionally mandated to deliver to your house. The Post Office Department did not begin delivering mail to city addresses until 1863. Rural Free Delivery did not begin until 1893. Before free delivery, you went to
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by tanzam75 12y ago
In other words, enterprise support contracts are making Microsoft money -- not costing it money. Consumers and small businesses aren't nearly as willing to open their wallets for support. The best customer is one who pays the annual

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