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by vpribish 9y ago
plug for project rho! They have some discussion of sci-fi military organization (and nine thousand other things, seriously, it's the TV Tropes of sci-fi) http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/military.
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by vpribish 9y ago
That was remarkably well done. Actually a great use of a celebrity reporter! thanks for sharing it.
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by vpribish 9y ago
clickbait may get attention but does it change minds? I count a clickbait headline against the publisher and author.
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by vpribish 9y ago
our brave total surveillance future does have this silver lining!
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by vpribish 9y ago
are you serious? like - really? because we already do solar powered, mass-industrial-scale, genetically engineered, hyper-optimized paper feedstock production in forests .
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by vpribish 10y ago
nat geo is a sad shadow of its former self, more of a buzz-feed/reader's digest of nostalgic, creaky, clickbait
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by vpribish 10y ago
I love it! Now if we can put everyone to work as extras in all that entertainment... Clearly we need to encourage automation in the real economy and ban it in entertainment. This tool does what it says: the conversation goes up a notch b
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by vpribish 10y ago
I found a solution to the 3rd example problem on Automation and Unemployment : http://bit.ly/2nbHqX3
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by vpribish 10y ago
it's not the Bernoulli effect, but it is a pressure difference (from the 3rd law, as you say)
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by vpribish 10y ago
Very small rocks
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by vpribish 10y ago
... and the force of that lift on the plane has an equal and opposite on the air. A Heavier plane disturbs the air more.
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by vpribish 10y ago
https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=braille+reader&tbm=shop there are quite a lot of them to choose from
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by vpribish 10y ago
Thank you, toomuchtodo. This did seem like the sort of thing that just had to have already been done.
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by vpribish 10y ago
Anyone want to chime in with a way to simply grab them all?
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by vpribish 10y ago
crude oil is $50/bbl it has not been refined yet - the heavy fuel oil that ships use is a relatively undesirable leftover from refining crude into gasoline, diesel, and kerosene. oh, fun fact: you get more than 1bbl of refined produ
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by vpribish 10y ago
That's just what they want you to think. Wheels within wheels, man.
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by vpribish 10y ago
unless it really is just bad welds and this is a great way to sow discord and paranoia. psy war > cyber war > actual war.
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by vpribish 10y ago
This dude seems to have been more of a lazy dissident than part of the regime. username checks out in any case.
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by vpribish 10y ago
That article is really hard to find - no luck! It was written by Bob Drummond for Bloomberg Feb 27, 2006. He is still active and was writing a lot of articles on naked shorting at the time. fwiw
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by vpribish 10y ago
Levine is such fun to read! The solution to the problem he ends up with seems pretty easy to me - this is just counterparty risk: When you lend your shares (or let them be lent on on your behalf) there are counterparty risks. You charge int
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by vpribish 10y ago
voting rights are certainly tracked - there absolutely are a known number of shares and owners of them. Now, because of trading activity, settlement, lending, failing-to-deliver those shares might not yet be recorded as belonging to the pe
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by vpribish 10y ago
Here's the official word on it : https://www.sec.gov/answers/gopriv.htm The part that is usually not explained is that there are state-by-state, and company-by-company, mechanisms to compel the left-over minority
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by vpribish 10y ago
clort, Thanks for raising this issue - there is an informative discussion in the responses. You might not want to be so fired up about fraud being the explanation for a thing you don't understand very well. Ignorance is perfectly fi
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by vpribish 10y ago
practically speaking - short selling helps the market find the right price for the security. this is a vitally important feature of markets. philosophically, shorting is an emergent feature from basic property rights. I have a thing, you
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by vpribish 10y ago
yes - if someone wants to borrow, shouldn't the lender demand a fee? At many brokers there is a program to route a portion of that interest back to the client. also - the interest rate is often negative : ie the lender PAYS THE BORROW
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by vpribish 10y ago
multi-user UI, sharing/access control already there, versioning of data, backups. those are all really nice to have
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by vpribish 10y ago
hear hear! this was my experience too. I was ready to switch to using gsheets as my entire application UI layer when the scaling problems and desyncing started hitting me. still fantastic for quick-and-dirty tools and prototypes though.
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by vpribish 10y ago
Can someone explain their distance units to me? I'd read "km s-1" as kilometers per second. which can't be right and isn't just a typo as the magnitude is way to small for "km". "It was suggested a
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by vpribish 10y ago
I went through 3 charges in 13 months - two had the band delaminate and split, one bricked during a firmware upgrade. Warranty replacement was fine in that first 12 months, just a week or two to get the replacement. The final one they just
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by vpribish 10y ago
your tax dollars at work (doing some excellent work) : https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/ this is new and a little lightweight (don't sign up for their email, it's got some really insulting promotion

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