NeverEnough

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by NeverEnough 11y ago
I'm on mobile and didn't watch the video, but a commercial airliner travels something like 500mph, 8 lbs of drone is pretty damaging at that speed. I know they take significant precautions against eg birds.
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by NeverEnough 11y ago
Don't endangered species contribute some portion of new pharmaceuticals each year? Didn't we just finish unraveling the complex dynamics of a bee's flight, which our previous models couldn't explain? My impression was a
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Golden_age "In 1900, 40% of American automobiles were powered by steam, 38% by electricity, and 22% by gasoline.[19]"
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
that's an interesting thought. it could be done monthly or quarterly as well.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
engineers don't normally build whatever they think the best thing to build would be. they build what someone pays them to build, with some exceptions. The author wants all artists to be like Elon Musk, in how freely they can pursue th
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
education is still really valuable, if one chooses the right field. Employment rates and salaries for geologists, metallurgical engineers, pharmacists, one can go from poverty to well off in the span of a single generation with the right co
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
mars and venus are the first step. we aren't going to jump out of the solar system on our first try. we will be lucky if we don't have a lot of failures in that endeavor, even after the experience and materials we gain from the
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
life on earth isn't sustainable anyway. how can you not be aware of that? the sun is dying. if humans don't 'develop' enough before then, it is unlikely that any of earth's legacy will be preserved.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
this is so interesting! games have a long way to go before becoming as interesting as ecology.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
there isn't any reason to suspect that a small company doing one thing better will walk all over AAA, that's hyperbole. AAA's culture is good enough and their other large advantages give them their market share.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
would you disagree with the idea that there are a lot of good ways of describing something, that are true for many cases but very wrong for others?
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
I believe they mean good as in a consumer good, not a moral good. that is, how should this good be taxed, is it something essential like food that should carry a low tax rate?
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
that it wasn't a significant factor, at least
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gears-... the analog computers used for that were really cool, check out some of the videos
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
Is it hysteria to suggest that what men in a male dominated field think is appropriate might have statistical significance in the representation of women?
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
it is that he found it an appropriate shirt to wear. as an extreme comparison, if it was a woman dominated field and they commonly wore shirts depicting scantily clad men with bulging pants, I think it would impact my desire to enter that f
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
color works just fine I know that sometimes, images are first sent in black and white to save on data, color is sent later. Hubble apparently only does black and white. color images can be obtained using a technique involving two of its bl
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
Is it really that easy to draw a distinction between the various ways of compelling people to vote a certain way?
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
yeah just like when it came out that the NSA was reading the emails of Germany's prime minister.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
certainly we would expect that people in good physical health are less likely to retire, that those in poor health are more likely to.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
he is suggesting it as an explanation for retirement contributing to premature death in men more than in women, not the difference in life expectancy in general.
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by NeverEnough 12y ago
are you arguing that given a study that turned out to be false, a layman should be able to spot the error in methodology? I don't think that's the case at all. It isn't a black and white issue, and I certainly don't fee