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150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video](youtube.com)
217 points by themgt 7y ago|69 comments
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by themgt 7y ago
The proposal sounds technically interesting, but there seems to be growing skepticism of SLS even within NASA. Everyone from Blue Origin, Arianespace/ESA, China etc are working on reusable rockets while SLS is over budget, behind sched
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by themgt 7y ago
Back in the early 2000s Apple was getting crushed because Moto/IBM's PowerPC couldn't keep up with the 880lb gorilla Intel. Who could have predicted even a few years ago Apple would wind up in a similar situation, yet this ti
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Dark Centers of Chromosomes Reveal Ancient DNA(ucdavis.edu)
1 points by themgt 7y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 7y ago
The report is incredibly damning. Just to use one example, Korey Wise is in the NYT, described as: Wise, 16, wasn’t a suspect, but he agreed to go with his friend for moral support. He ended up being charged as well No description of why
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by themgt 7y ago
My layman's impression from paying some attention to psych/neuroscience is that there's an increased amount of scrutiny/skepticism towards this type of study which (afaict) fails to take into account potential genetic co
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Notes from Elixirconf.eu 2019(zorbash.com)
4 points by themgt 7y ago|0 comments
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737MAX: Trim Cutout can be difficult to recover(satcom.guru)
13 points by themgt 8y ago|4 comments
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by themgt 8y ago
I'm taking a wait-and-see approach in general, but I do find Yang one of the most interesting candidates so far. Just to respond to this specific point, Yang wrote recently on Twitter [1]: There are lessons and principles that governm
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by themgt 8y ago
> Do they get any benefit from vaping? Yes, almost certainly. Nicotine is effectively a nootropic, having "significant positive effects on aspects of fine motor abilities, alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working m
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by themgt 8y ago
Because the previous times it wasn't being hyped in mainstream news and culture. The point where the guy on the elevator is taking about [bubble] is the point at which [bubble] is about to burst for real, because you've just about
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by themgt 8y ago
This article/issue is about non-white applicants (Asian Americans) who are being discriminated against in the admissions process. And not just at Harvard but other elite schools, med schools, etc. It's bizarre how many comments
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Waymo’s Big Ambitions Slowed by Tech Trouble(twitter.com)
1 points by themgt 8y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 8y ago
I can definitely recommend rhodiola rosea, the main topic of this paper. The effects are pretty noticeable as sort of a general non-inebriating calmness & shift towards more positive emotions. It doesn't seem to have any negative s
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by themgt 8y ago
Frightening thought: if (at least some cases of) Alzheimer's really is something akin to "Type III Diabetes", the planet and especially the USA can expect absolutely skyrocketing numbers as today's obese adults age. [1]
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by themgt 8y ago
Musk just tweeted out: "7000 cars, 7 days" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1013519243030253570
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by themgt 8y ago
What I don't understand is why you can buy a usb<->lightning cable for like $5 at any gas station, but afaict all lightning-based headphones are stupid expensive. Couldn't some company just start selling $10 lightning headph
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by themgt 9y ago
We were scraping data for a client for public events like music shows, business special days/etc, and that's been severely shut down and apparently on hold to approve any new apps. Again this is just getting like the date/loc
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by themgt 9y ago
Before you downvote op for an admittedly over-broad opinion you truly need to experience the USA model of overprescription, drug ads on billboards and all over TV shows targeted by demographic, all sorts of IP shenanigans to extend IP/
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by themgt 9y ago
A Google search for "American inventors": https://i.imgur.com/qw5kfQp.png A Google search for "American women scientists": https://i.imgur.com/o6mxG56.png Can the media stop doing this t
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by themgt 9y ago
Yep, also this HDR image of the scene at night: https://imgur.com/gallery/XQrAB Really hope the cops didn't just look at the low-dynamic range dashcam video and decide it's case-closed here. I would not want
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by themgt 9y ago
Ehh, apologies, that one reference was wrong. I don't think the others or conclusion is?
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by themgt 9y ago
Niger's populations has doubled from 11 to 22 million over just the last 10 years. The population today is about 10x the 2.5 million it was in 1950, and the growth rate is higher now that it was decades ago - near an all-time high it
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by themgt 9y ago
Shocker, Noah Smith pens yet another of his "whig history" takes. The reality is just a few short years ago the UN updated its population estimates for the end of the century from less than 9 billion to a more likely 11 billion, a
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by themgt 9y ago
The fact that more new particles have not emerged at energy levels the LHC can produce is a discovery--if I'm understanding the blog post correctly[1], it's the beginnings of a disproof of naturalness in supersymmmetry. It's
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by themgt 9y ago
Perry Preschool results still look much less impressive at the age 40 followup (e.g. 36% of those w/ the intervention had been arrested 5 times vs. 55% of the control group). I think almost anyone who's seriously looked at this to
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by themgt 9y ago
Highly recommend anyone interested in this topic check out some direct-from-horses-mouth media from EFF/Ramaphosa/Malema https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289 https://ww
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by themgt 9y ago
White settlers drove the advanced Cahokia civilization from the major city they built for themselves and then made up a bunch of nonsense about other ancient people building the city to justify the ethnic cleansing! Truly awful. What year d
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Stone Tools Found in India Upend Tale of Human Migration Out of Africa(news.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by themgt 9y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 9y ago
You can read John Hawks, quoted in this post's linked NYT article, with his own take on recent findings[1], echoing many of the points made by Razib Khan. Even Chris Stringer, one of most vocal & staunch advocates for a simple Out

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