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by cc438 9y ago
It exists for the sole purpose of benefiting its investors and whoever may be behind any investment fronts used to push that currency. I wonder who they might be?
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by cc438 10y ago
I fully agree with your take on this being an exercise in throwing money at a problem until it goes away. He probably didn't even need to go as far as diving headfirst into the world of fussy custom firmware to solve this issue either,
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by cc438 10y ago
> Building "a" car isn't that hard. Tesla deserves plenty of accolades just for getting to the point where they are producing multiple models of vehicle that conform to or exceed modern standards of quality . However, Tthe
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by cc438 10y ago
Land utilization is the issue. The largest solar farms in the US requires an order of magnitude more land to produce the same amount of power as a relatively average nuclear plant. The largest solar farm in the US, the Topaz Solar Farm in C
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by cc438 10y ago
>"Also interestingly, part of his motivation is explicitly monetary: he wants his life savings to go to his family, not a nursing home." That sentiment may seem strange to most people but I think it's more than just a logi
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by cc438 10y ago
The way I read it, the point was that "another first virus" wasn't likely to be designed as a benign proof of concept by a tinkerer who meant no harm. The author's view is that the Morris Worm was a happy accident in tha
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by cc438 10y ago
3 Things: 1. "Driver-less cars have vastly shorter stopping distances at all speeds" I can understand your expectation of reduced stopping distances due to the near-0 reaction time made possible by sufficient computing power. Howe
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by cc438 10y ago
Amazon isn't manufacturing these products either. They're just cutting out the middleman and going straight to the source in exactly the same manner as grocery stores do with their private labels.
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by cc438 10y ago
The reason AmazonBasic's offerings tend to dominate their respective markets isn't because they are the cheapest option. They dominate because they are the cheapest option which you can trust to work and continue working for whate
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by cc438 10y ago
I think the consumer can only gain from such entries into the market. AmazonBasic products are often just a standardization of a simple product in a market with too many options. Consumers trust Amazon to deliver on their promises and when
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by cc438 10y ago
Just to add to those two other points, the 360 was Microsoft's leading platform for developing countries and countries with heavy import restrictions. For example, Brazil's incredibly protective trade policies requires electronics
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by cc438 10y ago
I might be out of touch with the latest news regarding Magic Leap but this is the first time I've seen a "live" demo of the technology. Those demo shots were filmed through an actual, working display according to the disclaim
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by cc438 11y ago
The later iterations on the concept were vastly superior to the original Eee and Eee clones. Netbooks in the $500 range typically had dual core Atoms (a big deal since the CPU was the weakest link), 10.1" screens that had a resolution
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by cc438 11y ago
That number is nowhere near accurate as we learned during the South Carolina floods back in October. The state estimates there are between 10,000 and 20,000 unregulated dams in South Carolina alone: http://www.thestate.com/n
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by cc438 11y ago
The threat posed by small dams and their short designed life expectancy was demonstrated in dramatic fashion earlier this year. The historic flooding that impacted South Carolina's midlands earlier this year was driven by a cascade of
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by cc438 11y ago
That supply chain exists for the Whole Foods in my area at least.
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by cc438 11y ago
Did you miss the next sentence? "(T)aste is more dependent on the variety of tomato than on the way it is grown." The grocery store tomato is not the same varietal as the heirloom tomato grown in small scale gardens.
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by cc438 11y ago
These populations aren't mentally incompetent, they use chimneys. The issue is that chimney's aren't 100% efficient and only remove the pollution from the home, not the surrounding environment. The pollution becomes pervasive
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by cc438 11y ago
Some of that is Google's fault but I place most of the blame on the businesses themselves. I'd understand it if most of the local businesses that forgo an online presence were all 1-4 person, family operations where they're a
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by cc438 11y ago
The issue of radio spectrum is glossed over in a short bullet-point summary at the end of the article while I believe it deserves to be the article's thesis. The limitations imposed by the radio spectrum and its availability are at the
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by cc438 11y ago
"this completely ignores other scenarios where people want to be hit with hot/cold and don't care what the actual temp is, or that the temp doesn't measure the sun hitting you on your bare arm constantly making you feel
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by cc438 11y ago
The basic design of the A4 engine in the V-2 was a sound concept. The reliability of wartime production was held back by the deteriorating conditions and post-war testting was held back by the aging of the captured components. The US and UK
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by cc438 11y ago
I know of one plane so crazy that it has to make this list even though it never left the drawing board, the Lippisch P.13A. We all know the Nazis had crazy ideas, we know that had overambitious ideas, this is one of those crazy AND overambi
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by cc438 11y ago
NASA has the brains to design a better odometer but navigating by stars and GPS makes more sense. Also, remember the +/-3% next time you're comparing a used cars. Worrying about 5-6,000 miles on a car with 100,000 is pointless sin
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by cc438 11y ago
There's a company named Gelid that makes computer heatsinks and fans, they touted their German engineering so I just assumed it was a German word or family name. Know it makes more sense, neat!
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by cc438 11y ago
Gyroscopes accumulate error with time, they make sense for an application with a short range but they're useless over long periods of time without a reference standard to crosscheck and recalibrate. That's one part of The Martian
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by cc438 11y ago
So how does this work with the way Facebook delivers content? I understand the advantages of disc storage for a service like Amazon Glacier as the customer expectations are set for significant time and bandwidth constraints but Facebook is
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by cc438 11y ago
Anti-radiation missiles exist but Air-to-Air missiles aren't widely used. A fighter's radar system is designed to cover a "narrow" area in front of the aircraft. If the fighter turns or if the pilot narrows the radar&#x2
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by cc438 11y ago
MANPADS are an issue but the A-10 was designed with their deployment in mind. The most important feature of a MANPAD system is it's ability to be carried by 1-2 soldiers. That places an upper bound on the weight of a system which limit
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by cc438 11y ago
AA missiles start with a huge energy disadvantage. They start with a velocity and altitude of 0 so they need an engine powerful enough to catch the fighter and enough fuel to reach it's altitude. More power means more weight, more weig

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