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by wycx 11y ago
I listen as I drive to and from work (25-30 mins each way) and over lunch (~40 mins). For a little while this year I had a <10 min commute, which was too short to start listening, and thus I missed my longer commute. I did Melbourne-Canb
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All consumed as audiobooks. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America - Colin Woodard ; I learned much about early US history. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - Jon Krakauer Find
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by wycx 11y ago
7" 4:3 monochrome CRT screens; membrane keyboard covers; 286 in a desktop case on its side on the floor, gummed up with spilled soda...
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Seabed-Mining Robots Will Dig for Gold in Hydrothermal Vents(spectrum.ieee.org)
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At least in Australia, the tin mine scenario would go like this: an exploration company would peg an exploration lease-the monopoly right to explore for minerals on that land. They pay the (state) government for the privilege. when an eco
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...plus regulatory capture and anti-competitive behavior.
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by wycx 11y ago
Does the legislation specifically state artificial scarcity will be enforced, or just that supply will be regulated by the govt?
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by wycx 11y ago
Was that 100k to the NSW govt, or 100k on the secondary market? I am not sure the govt should compensate beyond the initial sale price. Everything else is speculative inflation.
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I guess pipe collecting was big back in the day: http://www.aiga.org/uploadedImages/AIGA/Content/Tools_and_Re...
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For those interested in new models, may I suggest the work of Steve Keen, one of the economists who did predict the financial crisis. I have been following Steve's work since the mid-2000s, and it is a more convincing framework for thi
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by wycx 11y ago
I would like to point out to those unfamiliar with Canberra, that if you live in one of the older suburbs with overhead powerlines (and not even on the radar for NBN), you can get Transact, which will supply dead stable 60 mbit VDSL2 fibre
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by wycx 11y ago
It is a little unfair to imply there is no effort to upstream support for Allwinner SoCs: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
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Hopefully not to stern to leave out Capt'n Crunch and frozen milk.
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What wavelengths are typically used for LIDAR?
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon ...and the entertaining tangent story involving Van Eck Phreaking and vintage furniture.
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Also this story by the author: http://theanthill.org/my-father
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http://www.ab.ust.hk/hseo/tips/ch/ch005.htm A fatality from a small <250 mL spill of HF solution.
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by wycx 11y ago
Is there any evidence at all that he was forced into this? Are there anecdotes of Malcolm arguing for an all-fibre NBN in the party room, only to be smacked down and forced into MTM?
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by wycx 11y ago
I don't know why you are getting down voted. I came here to make more or less the same comment: Australia has not slid of the face of the earth due to download quotas. Last month internode increased my quota from 250 to 1000 Gb at no a
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by wycx 11y ago
I could not find a video online, but some may remember the post race press conference when Eddie Irvine (driving for Jaguar) thanked the guy at the factory that wrote the launch control software for his great start.
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by wycx 11y ago
In addition, I suggest "In the Kingdom of Ice" by Hampton Sides, about a US expedition to the Arctic in the late 1870s. Those guys had really, really bad luck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Kingdom_of_I
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Microwaves and lasers: http://www.swarmfarm.com/
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by wycx 11y ago
How can you put magnesium in as MgO and ever expect it to be available? MgO: good for making furniture for a 1400°C furnace, not so good as a source of magnesium. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766
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by wycx 11y ago
I am happy since moving from Mendeley to Zotero. I like that I can store my pdfs on dropbox, and use Zotero on many different PCs. Mendeley's insistence on absolute paths to the database prohibited this. Zotero's use of Google Sch
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by wycx 11y ago
Agilent could choose to ship products without that functionality, but they make a business decision that it is cheaper to make many models with the same hardware, and differentiate them only by unlock codes/different firmware. If you b
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How do you fund R&D in such a market?
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Could this have been alleviated somewhat by changes to the tax system? The increase in price that occurred as a result of the new loans is an excellent example of unearned economic rent, i.e. the owners of the now inflated real estate did n
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Convair B-36?
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Indeed. A method of making glass via a containerless processing system that I am aware of, is aerodynamic levitation, wherein a ball of starting material is suspended in a stream of gas, such as Ar, and heated by lasers. This method is used
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specifically, NOT a glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc

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