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by tolien 7y ago
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by tolien 7y ago
F-15s have pulled well over 10g without killing the pilot, however it damaged the airframe beyond repair. An aircraft that could routinely pull high-G manoeuvres would have to be reinforced to the detriment of its weight (and thus its size&
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by tolien 7y ago
That was my first thought too — Apple has the money and seem to have pivoted the Apple Watch into a health and fitness device. Acquiring the company or licensing the technology seems like an obvious win.
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by tolien 7y ago
The YF-23 and X-32 were losing competitors in a program that went ahead, though. The entire concept of high altitude supersonic nuclear bombers died, and with it the idea that you’d need/be able to intercept them. The UK offered Canada
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by tolien 7y ago
The XF-103 was an interceptor intended to do Mach 3 [1], the XF-108 likewise [2]. Both managed a single mockup each. The XB-70 [3] and B-58 [4] was intended to be the other end of the stick, a bomber which could carry nuclear weapons and fl
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My Quantified Media Diet(medium.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
There’s more here: http://www.wisconsinappeals.net/on-point-by-the-wisconsin-st... > Because the state offered credible testimony — specifically believed by the trial court — that third parties had unfettered access to t
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Boeing CEO Muilenburg out after 737 failure(ft.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
You see the same about notebook computers with soldered RAM/storage - hand-wavey arguments about socketed hardware coming loose. Like with most of the half-truths you find on the internet, it seems plausible but without evidence such a
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by tolien 7y ago
Previously covered by the NY Times [1], calling out rushed production and parts left inside aircraft, including that Qatar Airways stopped accepting aircraft from Charleston because of delays and required rework. John Barnett, the whistlebl
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Scientists find a way to target the protein behind Huntington’s disease(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
That’s a fair point! A better comparison might be with something like Blackwater, i.e unaccountable thugs with guns, or with a combat environment where there are no civilians to get in the way.
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by tolien 7y ago
> I'd love to see more training for the police officers to help in situations, but I don't see tax payers wanting to pay for it I don’t think it’s more training they need, but different training (so rather than more money, it’s
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by tolien 7y ago
> The boy, who was home alone when the gunman entered, was able to get out of the house safely. Not to mention the safety issues of firing tear gas into the building, blowing out the windows and driving an APC into it if he wasn’t alread
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by tolien 7y ago
> the jacket B'Elanna Torres wore at some point (VOY) That was added to hide Roxanne Dawson's pregnancy, which I guess sort-of addresses the point about the standard jumpsuit uniforms not being the most flattering.
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A House budget committee has likely killed the 2024 Moon landing(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
That’s my understanding too. The key is that this process of baselining takes time, which you don’t have either when there’s half a dozen 50MT Russian warheads coming your way (TFA refers to the missile sites being a nuclear “sponge”, i.e.
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by tolien 7y ago
The article refers to this as a “Doomsday Navigator” too but that was the word I dropped to meet the character limit for submissions.
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A Navigator for America's Deadliest Cold War ICBM(thedrive.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
Both replies have (assuming good faith) misinterpreted what you’ve said, so to flesh out: Vote Leave said that the remain campaign’s claims about the consequences of a vote to leave the EU (and, indeed, its implementation) were “Project Fea
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by tolien 7y ago
If you take the huge concrete brick (some use water as ballast) out of a washing machine, they’re not that heavy. It shouldn’t be a great surprise that a washing machine without clothes or water inside has a lot of empty space in it.
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by tolien 7y ago
> all PC motherboards Gonna need a citation on the Xeon-W board with PCIe 4.0 support. Apple aren’t using Ryzen and definitely not Ryzen 3. If they were they’d be waiting for Threadripper - even current TR doesn’t support PCIe 4.
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by tolien 7y ago
The new Mac Pro tower has an internal USB-A port, explicitly for this reason [1]. 1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/04/apples-new-mac-pr...
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by tolien 7y ago
The Atomic Weapons Establishment was doing Minimum Viable Product before it was cool to build MVPs! More seriously, most of the reason they cobbled this together was because the US suddenly cut off access to research after WW2 (because of t
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by tolien 7y ago
It was a known issue that setting explosives on fire makes them...quite unhappy (hence why nowadays the detonators mostly use insensitive explosives [1]). In the context of a partial/asymmetrical detonation around a warhead - they trie
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by tolien 7y ago
This FOIA response [1] reckons that there was a test where the false-negative rate was 20%, but there's also this report [2] of a 30% false negative rate at the Notting Hill carnival. So to continue your example, out of 100 known wante
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by tolien 7y ago
Your assumption that the system throws away everything but the images of flagged people and number plates, and expires even those after some period of time, flies completely in the face of reality (e.g. the New York State Police were keepin
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by tolien 7y ago
Coverage of this on ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/crops-under-solar-pa...
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Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus(nature.com)
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by tolien 7y ago
Mike Bostock's got some examples of charts that update without redrawing the whole thing (for example [1]) - you update the bound data and the bars/points/whatever to be removed/added fall out "magically". The

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