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by bmiranda 8y ago
Even in Japan it's cheaper to fly between Osaka and Tokyo than take the train. The train is a lot more convenient, though. There are only a few corridors where high speed rail makes sense. Northeast US. Texas Central Railway is even tr
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by bmiranda 8y ago
For a moment I thought it was going to be another chat app. Instead it's... something? A one sentence description at the beginning of the page wouldn't hurt...
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by bmiranda 8y ago
Landscape pictures can serve as a reminder of what you were doing, a sort of diary. Sure, you could find professional photos, but they won't be as rooted in your memory. By looking at an old photo you remember where you were, what you
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by bmiranda 8y ago
MOND does work a lot better than Lambda Cold Dark Matter (L-CDM)... but only for explaining the rotation of galaxies. It can explain this rotation almost perfectly given only the mass distribution: no tuning is required. Dark matter, on the
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by bmiranda 8y ago
Although there are teething issues, for US allies the unit the F-35 is attractive due to a unit cost which is lower than any of its competitors (such as the Eurofighter Typhoon). For domestic use, the F-35B STOVL jet used by the Marines is
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by bmiranda 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that while electric turbopumps are a lot better that pressure-fed designs, for larger engines they aren't as effective as using pre-burners (due to the weight of the batteries). It does make the design much s
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by bmiranda 9y ago
I think this article misses the point of Georgism: that the land tax replaces all other taxes. In other words, while land belongs to the government (people), individuals are entitled to the entire product of their labor (as well as returns
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by bmiranda 9y ago
Not having fast FP64 is a design decision. Space isn't free, and FP64 takes up a lot of space that could be used on delivering higher FP32 perf, which is more important for video games.
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by bmiranda 9y ago
Well, he's not Gavin Newsom, so good luck if this is true!
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by bmiranda 9y ago
What should the US do than? Spend our tax dollars on foreign handouts? If US companies want to invest in SE Asia there is nothing stopping them.
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by bmiranda 9y ago
Google's hardware is for inference, not training.
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by bmiranda 9y ago
815 mm^2 die size! That's at the reticle limit of TSMC, a truly absurd chip.
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by bmiranda 10y ago
A bit suspicious right before the US election, maybe it's under attack. We'll find out soon enough.
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by bmiranda 11y ago
Railroads in the US are privately owned, for the most part.
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by bmiranda 11y ago
Cargo dragon doesn't have a pad abort system. Dragon 2 would be able to escape just fine, though. Cargo dragon could _technically_ survive if didn't get blown up too much.
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by bmiranda 12y ago
I took the class (6.828) last semester at MIT, and the labs do a great job of handling a lot of the annoying x86 stuff so that you can focus on the more interesting parts of writing an OS. I know this because for the final project my partne
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by bmiranda 12y ago
Also don't forget Japan's Akatsuki space probe which will will attempt to insert itself in orbit around Venus in November. It "missed" in 2010 due to an engine failure and had to wait 5 years for another attempt: http:&
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by bmiranda 13y ago
Rinon, you are correct. The Supreme Court (perhaps foolishly) decided that private to private transfer of land is permissible under eminent domain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
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by bmiranda 13y ago
The only thing I found annoying was his pet peeve about "the internet being down". I might tell someone that to get the idea across. Of course, I could say that "I was unable to establish a TCP/IP connection with the web
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by bmiranda 13y ago
It's disheartening that despite the continual stream of information pouring in about the NSA the average citizen remains comparatively indifferent and the media and most representatives seem to be supportive of the NSA's activitie
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by bmiranda 14y ago
http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N7/hoax.html
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by bmiranda 14y ago
This is an example of a how to do a great OSS website: http://git-scm.com/ Granted, it is a bit easier to make a succinct website for something like Git rather than the entire Python project.
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by bmiranda 14y ago
Historic prices in USD for those interested: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25
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by bmiranda 14y ago
Just checked MtGox, Bitcoin is now trading at $46... it was around $35 this time yesterday. Things seem to be getting out of hand.
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by bmiranda 14y ago
The price of Bitcoin is currently hovering around 37 USD. I remember when Bitcoin was $2.00 after the first crash, I never expected it to rebound so quickly. Announcements such as Namecheap's lend credence to the current price, but I would
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by bmiranda 14y ago
In my first game we were both confused about which snake we were and ended up hitting the wall at the same time.
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by bmiranda 14y ago
For me personally, most of the stress does come from being challenged academically.The professors pull no punches, and some of the classes are downright exhausting. Although I appreciate being challenged, it can be disheartening whenever I