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by tjmc 17y ago
Lucky we don't have to wait for EEStor ultracapacitors to power it eh John?
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by tjmc 17y ago
Hmm what takes more time? An 800 word blog post or adding an "Outside US" option to the select control for "State"?
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by tjmc 17y ago
A hell of a lot higher than a person's height. Gravitational force is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from a body. The classic gravity analogy is billiard balls sitting on a stretched sheet of plastic. The force of gravi
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by tjmc 17y ago
Gold!
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by tjmc 17y ago
According to Wikipedia, the terms "moon" and "satellite" are basically interchangeable. There's some use of the term "moonlet" for very small bodies but there isn't a defined size you have to reach to be officially a moon (unlike a planet t
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by tjmc 17y ago
Evidently reading the question is hard too as everyone here and on the site has missed it: "If a pen is dropped on a moon" Not the M oon. The moon in question could be Phobos, Titan, Europa etc
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by tjmc 17y ago
How quaint. Meanwhile the rest of the civilized world will continue to use EFT as they've done for the last decade.
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Could you please list those rational reasons? Surely trains only make sense when they get you from A to B faster than driving to airport A, flying to airport B and then driving to B. You could be delayed at the airports for a full day and s
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by tjmc 17y ago
Agreed. PG's encouragement of civil tone and discouragement of Slashdot's oh so tired in-jokes ("In Soviet Russia" et al) brought me here long ago.
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by tjmc 17y ago
Thanks for the tip! Do you know if it works in Chrome?
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by tjmc 17y ago
I'd prefer a "blacklist" field in prefs where you could add strings for stories that you don't want to see. Probably wouldn't help HN's caching strategy though...
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...we can conveniently blame him entirely for his current predicament.
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by tjmc 17y ago
There's another option. He was worth 6 figures if he was making sales of, say, twice his salary. If fewer companies are buying, there are fewer 6 figure salespeople that Oracle can keep. Doesn't mean he was never worth his former salary. Do
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by tjmc 17y ago
I'm getting the same errors. Site doesn't load at all for me.
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by tjmc 17y ago
What is it with Jobs lately? Having a near-death experience and then deciding to be more of an asshole must be the true embodiment of "Think Different". Edit: Perhaps he actually died last year and they got him to the pet cemetery before
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by tjmc 17y ago
Question for mods - why was bbot's reply here and elsewhere on this thread killed? Both times he's simply raised the very valid point that fuel cells don't run backwards. There are some woefully uninformed comments on this thread already. A
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by tjmc 17y ago
Hilarious article. I'm always a bit disappointed by how little overlap there is between the chemistry and hacker communities though. cf. comments like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149075
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by tjmc 17y ago
What more important to him though - growing as big as Google or creating something so good that his company might get that big? The way he frames his goal is a classic "tell" regarding his focus.
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by tjmc 17y ago
I'm always wary of founders that say "we want to be the next [ large company name ]". It immediately identifies them as followers rather than leaders and shows their focus is on making money or achieving status above solving problems for cu
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by tjmc 17y ago
It gets worse. Australia has a preferential voting system where you rank the candidates from first choice to last. It's not too bad a system if there's a small number of candidates, but the senate has dozens. So the alternative to numbering
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by tjmc 17y ago
It's a few things. Both the communications minister and the PM are, despite being in the Labor Party, actually quite religious and conservative. There is a very strong wowser attitude from this government in particular which has resulted in
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by tjmc 17y ago
I think what's lacking in Ballmer is passion: http://www.flickr.com/photos/airport-lounge/2093699327/ My impression of the man is he's just a sales guy - interested in making money, but lacking any vision or genuine enthusiasm for technol
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by tjmc 17y ago
The Federal Court summary is here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/24.html The judge's grasp of the issues came as a pleasant surprise to me. He summarizes the entire judgement in para 21: "In summary, in this proceeding,
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by tjmc 17y ago
Out of interest Dani, is it possible to use a relatively benign lithium salt solution rather than pure lithium to do the tritium recovery? As for the geothermal alternative, unfortunately it seems drilling holes to geothermal depths isn't e
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by tjmc 17y ago
Well chosen response. Guess I deserve the down mods of the grey t-shirt and commie star brigade!
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by tjmc 17y ago
"Apple fanboy" is kind of the generic term. I think "fawning sycophant" and "groveling lick-spittle" describe Gruber better.
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by tjmc 17y ago
Agreed. Another overlooked option is you can easily get people to physically sign things on it. That's a potential tipping point for a huge number of forms that are still on paper.
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I think that's the key point - this is a great "computer for dummies". A machine your grandparents could use. I don't need an iPad in the same way I don't need a car with built-in radar to help me reverse. But there are plenty of people who
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by tjmc 17y ago
What happened to Martin Eberhard at Tesla could be a case study for this post.
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by tjmc 17y ago
Agreed. Legally, GA aircraft under visual flight rules must have at least 30 mins reserve so currently this thing wouldn't be allowed to fly! Battery powered aircraft aren't completely impractical though. This Chinese electric 2 seater has

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