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by washedup 12y ago
Spacecraft system failure (air, water, temperature control, navigation)
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by washedup 12y ago
Running out of food/water
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by washedup 12y ago
Perpetual falling
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Damage caused by other orbiting objects (junk, meteoroids)
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Re-entry (high velocities, heat)
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by washedup 12y ago
HFT is a very small subset of finance. I doubt it will drive the whole industry to irrelevance. It will only drive itself to irrelevance.
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by washedup 12y ago
Liquidity directly relates to the number of participants (or quotes) in a market place. Let's think about a simple market, where the price of a good can go from 1 to 10 dollars. One person is looking to sell the good for $8, while anot
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by washedup 12y ago
The author, Loren Thompson, is a key individual at the The Lexington Institute; which, according to Wikipedia, “has been called the ‘defense industry’s pay-to-play ad agency’, reflecting the fact that it receives substantial funding from mi
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SpaceX vs. The Air Force(forbes.com)
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I wonder where and how they are putting together a team to design and build the hardware and coordinate with launch companies. This will be a huge contract for whichever company wins the launch bid.
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by washedup 12y ago
Thanks for this! I am a big fan of this company. Application submitted.
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Flatland(en.wikipedia.org)
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Financial Markets Are Always and Forever Cyclical(awealthofcommonsense.com)
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by washedup 13y ago
It reads as if English may not be her first language which could be causing some confusion.
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by washedup 13y ago
Thanks for pointing me to the Minsky podcast, giving it a listen now.
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by washedup 13y ago
What financial crises/trends do aggregate models predict? Unfortunately, current economic theory resides in a grey area of ideology because of how poorly it explains and predicts such things. Assumptions can often be made in any ideolo
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by washedup 13y ago
No model is perfect. If it is a better model than the current one (which is the argument), it should be used as a replacement. Economic systems came from biological systems. As a result, they share some fundamental characteristics and the &
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by washedup 13y ago
It's not a "woe of Capitalism", just an inherent property of an economy. In fact, it's an inherent property of all life. Economic cycles and life/death cycles in species have a lot in common. The dynamic nature of s
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by washedup 13y ago
Great read. I look forward to the day when Economic graduate programs are taught from a more biological/psychological perspective than through aggregate supply/demand and equilibria models. The real issue here is that macroeconomi
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by washedup 13y ago
It's not well sourced, but this Wikipedia about the Shuttle Launch Complex at Vandenberg provides further details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenberg_AFB_Space_Launch_Com...
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by washedup 13y ago
There are many launches from Vandenberg AFB, but most of these launches will travel south over the Pacific. It is generally used for placing payloads in Polar orbits. They never launch over land for fear or casualties if something goes wron
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by washedup 13y ago
The launch trajectories they follow when launching from Cape Canaveral don't allow them to buy land for the First Stage further down from the launch site. Many launches occur at Cape Canaveral because they allow for a safe trajectory o
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by washedup 13y ago
Life itself is a greedy algorithm.
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by washedup 13y ago
Yes, markets should be allowed to fail. It is part of a very natural and successful process that has brought us to where we are. The same goes for governments. It's a trial and error process that goes back to the beginning of life. The
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by washedup 13y ago
Here is a summary of the apply family of functions: http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/a-brief-introducti... These are very simple functions and I generally try to use them before moving on to plyr. Th
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by washedup 13y ago
Don't make me your strawman. That's not what I am saying at all. I just think all life is special.
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by washedup 13y ago
Ah good point. For now the plastic must provide something analogous to breeding grounds or points of community. Little plastic planetoids floating through the watery abyss. Either way, there does exist plastic-eating (or breaking down) bact
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by washedup 13y ago
Life is life. Some of it is good for humans, some of it is bad: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682478/welcome-to-the-plastisphe...
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by washedup 13y ago
The most amazing thing about these garbage patches are the large amounts of bacteria that are feeding off the plastics. http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682478/welcome-to-the-plastisphe... Life, uh, finds a way.
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by washedup 13y ago
Not only that, but Reuters data services are questionable as well.

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