tomatotomato37

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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
Problem with an impactor (besides any trailing analytical probes being sandblasted by ejecta) is that its a permanent expirement that can screw up any future passive observational experiments That being said, if we do eventually find anothe
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
Exactly. I don't know the use of comparing a European GT car with a badge tax versus riding in the back of someone's accord. A more useful comparison would be to use the model of the average Uber driver
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
Eh, I'm not so sure. One of the biggest appeals of our current WMDs is they can take out the enemy's WMDs in addition to infrastructure. An attack that paralyzes an entire nation's computer network and sends self-driving cars
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
I always doubted the reactionless drive aspect of this, but has anymore research gone into the apparent spacetime warping effect that one NASA group discovered? Even if it can't do anything more than disort light more effectively than
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
I hate this binary choice between all or nothing Your personal info, username, account settings, marketing anayltics, etc. are definitley you're data and you should be free to have them deleted. The two year old IPs in a server log sit
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
Some more math, adding a 1 cent component (not counting one time costs of R&D and tooling) to every new car sold in the u.s. (~17.5 million) would equal out to 175,000; which equates to a spending of $87500 per death prevented, a reason
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
I don't understand why these articles always mention the ability of a company to monitor what websites you're on as a new thing, considering that's essentially been built in to the average network setup since the 80s; ditto w
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by tomatotomato37 8y ago
Storage density has gone up so much that its cheaper to get a consumer drive with ~100GB than a specialty drive with 5GB. Even then a full harddrive seems excessive. I have the feeling that these aren't true harddrives and more likely