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by venning 9y ago
The original announcement from 2006: https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests... It's interesting to see how their expectations appear to have lined up well eleven years later.
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by venning 9y ago
I wouldn't normally leave a reply like this, but I would like to say that your comment took me by surprise. In my personal community, I'm used to knee-jerk responses to the military that feel both hostile and uninformed. Your re
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by venning 9y ago
> What happens if private company ABC Inc. Is using your software, and then they are contracted by the military to perform work This would likely fall under normal contract negotiation due diligence. You don't accept a contract t
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by venning 9y ago
As a former DoD contractor and someone who has spent the majority of his life around the US military [1], I have three points: 1) The majority of the DoD struggles to get permission to use open source software. There are plenty of develo
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by venning 9y ago
Honest question: is there any evidence that refined sugar has a deleterious effect on brain function? I can find this: [1], but I'm not sure how to interpret it. Yes, weed and sugar are both addictive, but it is my understanding that
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by venning 9y ago
> see geology pre plate tectonics for an example of mainstream science being in short supply of doubt Did you mean to say not in short supply of doubt? I thought this was something with little certainty. Or are you saying that little
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A Controlled Experiment in Paying People Not to Chop Down Trees(nytimes.com)
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by venning 9y ago
Okay, I gotcha with the [1, 1]. I'm still curious about using it. The GitHub example [1] works as described, but I can't get a result from the 'he' example. Is it saying no match was found by returning an empty array?
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by venning 9y ago
I'm sorry, I'm still a bit confused. If it "refers to the index in the data", how is it referring to both "Hey" and "Hello"? Running the following doesn't seem to work for me: var Wade = req
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by venning 9y ago
> In the end, we will be left with a results array like: [1, 1] Is that supposed to be [0, 1]? If not, how does that correlate to ["Hey", "Hello"] ?
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by venning 9y ago
That's a good question, but probably impossible to answer due to the US's peculiarity. From Wikipedia's list [1], it appears that the US is one of only a handful of countries with employer contribution. All of the others co
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by venning 9y ago
It may also minimize the impact all of that moving air has on everything else in the station. Without gravity, fans blowing your things around could get annoying.
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by venning 9y ago
Not sure about the movement-momentum question. Thinking about it, the bicycle would only rotate about the center unless it had something to react against, as was pointed out by others.
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by venning 9y ago
You're right. I was thinking about that, but I really don't know. This is pretty far out of my expertise. averagewall made a good point [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796338
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by venning 9y ago
Imagine holding up a bicycle in the air from the midpoint. Now spin both wheels in opposite directions. No movement. Now apply one brake. Now you have movement. Now do that in three dimensions with precision and you have this thing.
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by venning 9y ago
From a related video: the reaction wheels spin up while keeping total angular momentum at zero, then apply a rapid (magnetic) brake to transfer the momentum to the body (from the wheels). I'm assuming if you do that precisely enough (
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by venning 9y ago
Don't know if you check these 5 days later, but you never reverted this change.
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by venning 9y ago
Doesn't help you on mobile.
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by venning 9y ago
Another way of interpreting the results: - 76.87% of subjects accepted a 25% tax rate intended for redistribution. - 44.80% of subjects accepted a 50% tax rate intended for redistribution. It's hard to infer much beyond that. Perhaps t
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by venning 9y ago
See "Step 3": https://debug.com/how/
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by venning 9y ago
I'm assuming that Symantec makes money off of selling SSL certs which, again I'm assuming, they will make less of as Let's Encrypt begins to gain "conquest" domains over "greenfield" domains (those that di
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by venning 9y ago
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians
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by venning 9y ago
> an important distinction That it is a distinction is important to me. Having difficult discussions is made more difficult if we obscure facts or conflate terms. > more acceptable I applied no normative judgement.
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by venning 9y ago
Just so no one is misled: "original inhabitants" does not mean "indigenous peoples" with respect to the BIOT. The islands were not populated prior to late-18th Century European colonization. The depopulation was of pos
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by venning 9y ago
(Not affiliated with Pinboard or even a user.) If your problems occurred 1.5 months ago, the "huge impending work" was likely Pinboard buying Delicious [1] and subsequently being inundated with Delicious users attempting to onboa
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by venning 9y ago
The submission URL should probably be changed to https://keychest.net/content/letsencrypt_numbers_to_know The current link is just a poor summary of the data on that page.
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by venning 9y ago
Two things about this incident have always struck me: How incredibly calmly New York City handled what movies tell me should be a riot-worthy moment; and how I have never met someone who wasn't living in the Northeast at the time who
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by venning 9y ago
The cheapest per request is $0. There is a free tier where, presumably, the long tail lives.
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by venning 9y ago
The Westermarck effect attempts to explain why that is not a simple mental adjustment. It's a theory, but it states "people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to sex
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by venning 9y ago
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