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by tropo 8y ago
Someday you will be old, unable to accelerate like a car and keep up with traffic, and you will instead wish that you could ride on the sidewalk. Part of the reason why bicycle use is unusual is that very few people can ride well enough to
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by tropo 8y ago
USA's 'Laser M16/M4', now almost 20 years old: http://www.defensereview.com/352003/TIS1.pdf
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by tropo 8y ago
I'm assuming you don't want to waste the conical rear section. If you waste it, then to keep the aircraft balanced you must also waste a section at the front. The steeply sloped rear seems to be trouble for adding a bomb bay there
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by tropo 8y ago
With adaptation, low-pressure-sodium street lamps look white to me. Key to this is having no other source of light as an alternative reference. So if you are going to count adaptation, then all light sources are white. That makes the whole
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by tropo 8y ago
If you're going to count adaptation, then a car's brakelight is white, as is the light (normally considered blue) on a cop car. It's cheating to count adaptation. Assume you just look at it up in the blue sky, using untinted
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by tropo 8y ago
Not that I think giving away stuff is a desirable qualification for the presidency, but... Trump provided his private plane to transport Andrew Ten, who had been refused by commercial airlines due to complicated life-support equipment. Trum
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by tropo 8y ago
The B1 is the obvious choice, except that the upcoming B21 is supposedly a stealth bomber meant to address some limitations of the B2. The fact that the B1 is instead getting retired looks like a hint that the B21 will not in fact be what i
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by tropo 8y ago
Yep, and thinking about that some more, I have to wonder if he might be suffering from early/mild signs of schizophrenia. The assumption of racism is unjustified paranoia. When schizophrenia starts, it is common to assume that people&#
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by tropo 8y ago
It's no surprise that we have a spying problem. That law is exactly backwards of what is required to reduce espionage.
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by tropo 8y ago
We mandated expensive benefits (healthcare for example) for full-time workers. Now those workers must take multiple part-time jobs, with extra commute costs, and of course they still don't get those expensive benefits.
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by tropo 8y ago
A better orbit is retrograde solar, just inside or outside the Earth's orbit. With 183 of them in orbit, one would pass by the Earth every day. With a week or so advance notice, aiming would be easy.
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by tropo 8y ago
That job sounds amazing. Lots of people would take lower pay and/or live out in a miserable location just for the chance to work on something like that. Clearly they didn't really hide anything, because you now know. Perhaps they
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by tropo 8y ago
This is alarmist and mostly wrong. There is enough uranium for two reasons. First, we can recover 95% of the uranium in a fuel rod via reprocessing. Second, supplies change according to market demand, as happened with oil. Remember, we were
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by tropo 8y ago
Things work out nicely in this case, but that Tesla slammed the brakes long before a crash was certain. This is itself a hazard, and in other situations would cause crashes.
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by tropo 8y ago
That "private failure" was forced by a price cap on subway fares that was left unchanged for decades worth of inflation. It was a sneaky way to bypass the US Constitution's prohibition of taking private property without compe
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by tropo 8y ago
Will you be voting to replicate California? This has been a huge complaint for residents of other states, particularly Texas. They see Californians fleeing troubles of their own creation, failing to see the connection between political choi
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by tropo 8y ago
Nearly all trains in the US burn diesel. Subways are an exception.
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by tropo 8y ago
It seems dramatically better. I think the reality is that this is only relative to Google today, not Google long ago. Lots of us have been like the mythical frog in the slowly-heated pot, failing to notice that Google is getting worse. For
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by tropo 8y ago
In the USA we don't do that. Our sardines and anchovies have the head and guts removed, and probably the tail. We do sometimes eat skin and bones. The same goes for canned salmon and herring. We also peel, decapitate, and gut our shrim
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by tropo 8y ago
Oh, there is another way to do this with webbing. The tiling can be recursively generated. (called "inflation" and "deflation") That is, starting from a Penrose tiling, another one with smaller tiles can be generated. Th
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by tropo 8y ago
You could do it with webbing. The installer would have to pop a few tiles off the edge to match things up. Those tiles could then be used to fill in gaps. Depending on webbing size and installer skill, perhaps 80% of the tiles could be left
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by tropo 8y ago
Of course one can fly slower. The 747 is still capable of 0.92 for most variants and 0.9 for the 747-8. Other passenger jets can't do that.
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by tropo 8y ago
I could, but I wouldn't, because those parts taste bad. The poop is particularly awful.
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by tropo 8y ago
The flights aren't so long in the 747 though, because it is faster.
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by tropo 8y ago
We don't eat bugs because nobody has yet developed a machine that can affordably extract the meat. We don't eat cattle whole. When we make burgers, we leave out the skin and poop and horns and teeth. Bugs aren't any different
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by tropo 8y ago
Go has to be better than that. Java beats Python by a factor of 10, and C beats Java by a factor of 10. C is beating Python by a factor of 100. I would expect Go to be a bit faster than Java.
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by tropo 8y ago
"duck and cover" is effective. People who did that in Hiroshima were more likely to survive.
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by tropo 8y ago
I think it can be morally wrong for a wolf to eat a chicken. I don't expect good morals from a wolf, so I'm not surprised if a wolf eats a chicken, but normally the wolf doesn't own the chicken. The chicken belongs to somebod
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by tropo 8y ago
Somehow, I just assumed that it was completely standard to quickly crush the brain with pliers. If not doing that, maybe you'd chop off the head. This keeps the fish from lashing about with sharp spines that might get you with poison o
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by tropo 8y ago
I think you are being dismissive of a solution that you can't datamine. The privacy violation is real, unless you made an app without any kind of network permissions. Hint for those watching: HIPPA doesn't apply to self-gathered s

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