draggnar

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by draggnar 5y ago
Also, has anyone studied the debris? If we go to hundreds of millions of little satellites, that is a significant mass. what is that debris made of, is it reactive, what happens to it?
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by draggnar 7y ago
Wouldn’t you typically have to also use Nem-ID to log in to some new service? Nem-ID is a central login system, where you get mailed a physical printout of keys that act as two-factor authentication across financial and other services (at l
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by draggnar 7y ago
Are voltage gated calcium channels not within this frequency? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/
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by draggnar 8y ago
It's right there in the word. Eu-topia: "Not place". A place that does not exist. Trying to create utopia is futile because by definition it will never exist.
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by draggnar 8y ago
By long term do you mean less than two years? He could have come back after two years of boring leadership.
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by draggnar 8y ago
To me Duolingo is a fun side activity while learning a language, good to reinforce vocabulary, but I wish the exercises had just a bit of context. So much of language is with full expressions. When we learn words, we don't learn them i
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by draggnar 8y ago
Or a boat autopilot.
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by draggnar 8y ago
I'm very happy to pay them, just like a utility.
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by draggnar 9y ago
That's a fantastic idea.
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by draggnar 9y ago
Twice! Higher up is an article on the Beverly Clock.
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by draggnar 9y ago
If you are using WhatsApp, make sure you deactivate your account if you change phone numbers. I recently got a new phone number and when I logged in, I assumed a non-deactivated profile previously attached to my new number.
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by draggnar 10y ago
I disagree, what they've done is externalized many of the risks (battery fires, unforeseen supplier bottlenecks, etc) and maintained focus on building cars that people want right now. They haven't been able to keep Tesla from ente
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by draggnar 10y ago
Actually I think it's one word: China. Companies are competing on a global scale.
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by draggnar 10y ago
But in terms of particulate emissions it is very significant. Upwards of 60% of total sulphur emissions and accounts for over 60,000 deaths per year. At room temperature you can walk across the surface of the fuel. It is nasty stuff and the
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by draggnar 11y ago
No, it seems like the mix moves against the airflow, so they'll inject it and collect it upstream. He refers to a trick from the chemical industry. It seems like with the massive temperature difference, the mix will move (expand?) to t
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by draggnar 12y ago
Alvin Toffler wrote a book about this in a much broader context, also called the Third Wave.
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by draggnar 13y ago
Perhaps this means the other shoe will fall. Will local regulations making it easy for municipalities or other actors to set up their own ISPs?
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by draggnar 13y ago
The outgoing chairman of the FCC was interviewed recently [1] and alluded to new ad hoc networks created by cell phone users, to be used in times of emergencies where networks get overloaded. [1] http://www.charlierose.com/v
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by draggnar 13y ago
Today I believe we stand on the edge of a new age of synthesis. In all intellectual fields, from the hard sciences to sociology, psychology, and economics—especially economics—we are likely to see a return to large-scale thinking, to genera
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by draggnar 13y ago
Credibility shot for doing whatever it takes to get ahead? In America? If she lied, which is debatable, I would have more respect for her. This isn't a meritocracy. On your second point, going for the most efficient outcome isn't necessaril
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by draggnar 13y ago
The campaigns do have that much to spend, and the available advertising dollars makes incentives for media companies to fulfill that demand. Profit is made by getting more eyeballs watching, just like a sport. This past election had nearly
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by draggnar 14y ago
Your question reminds me of the article yesterday that suggested an "x prize for everything" [0]. I have heard many people say that the really hard part is the goal setting and determining which problems to solve, which you include in your
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by draggnar 14y ago
it's a jobs program
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by draggnar 14y ago
Copyright doesn't apply to genetic code though. Is this the fundamental question they will be arguing at the supreme court?
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by draggnar 14y ago
The first thing I do when I go to your site is look to see if there is a city guide for a place I've been to, but none are available and I am just prompted to sign up for a newsletter, which is clearly not what I want. The daily destination
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by draggnar 14y ago
I also use Nocturne for mac ( http://www.blacktree.com ) at night when I am reading something in bed. It turns the screen basically red and black, and is useless for anything besides text. Watching videos is impossible, so I just finish wha
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by draggnar 14y ago
cool idea. customers want to support companies they like, and the best testimonials seem to be videos.
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by draggnar 14y ago
Why not combine both? This proposal recently won a design contest, the tech already exists from maglev systems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLokWkUdHM
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by draggnar 14y ago
the sweep feature in particular is very well done.
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by draggnar 14y ago
they should put an email capture to remind me to come back tomorrow

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