hexagonal

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Life insurance viatical settlements: Funds that bet on people dying(nytimes.com)
2 points by hexagonal 14y ago|0 comments
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Huh, Curiosity uses the same Bill Nye calibration target/sundial as the Spirit/Opportunity rovers. http://www.astrobio.net/interview/625/interview-with-bill-ny... (Hopefully this massive browser-crushing 10,000x5,904 jpeg will shut up the
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Next time you submit a link, consider using the .com version, rather than the .se one-- most people have their NoScript/RequestPolicy rulesets set up for generic TLDs, which break on national ones.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Blogspam. OP is http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/mark-kitto-youll-...
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by hexagonal 14y ago
So maybe you, rich old white man, should avoid contributing irrelevant noise to this discussion? The problem is statistical. There just aren't enough jobs, an irreconcilable jobs gap. While it's nice that you had the incredible luck to pi
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Graduated from college in 95... which makes you, at a minimum, 39 years old, right?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
You're 32 years late on that idea: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Not 2.4. 24. You're 22 and a half version numbers short. Emacs is more than 30 years old, remember.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Not really within the remit of Dewalt, whose branding is "big manly construction equipment", and this is more of a fine-woodworking/hobbyist product. (The pros will still use their big CNC table routers, which don't require human interventi
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Prediction: The router will be cheap, the special plywood with the calibration stickers will be very expensive.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Actually, the MastCams on Curiosity are bayer-pattern color sensors.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
It's the one that found water ice on Mars.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Remember, it's got a 14 year lifetime because the half-life of Pu-241 is 14.1 years. At the end of that time, half of its mass will be gone, and it'll be producing half as much heat. It won't produce a steady 2KW for 14 years and then bing
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Another response: http://c1qfxugcgy0.tumblr.com/post/28976190142/oops [Wired's rebuttal is] kinda annoying. Ryan Singel, old white guy, repeats Quinn Norton’s gender (female) five separate times (she is a girl) because Sogohian,
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Right now the most popular archive.org torrent is a collection of My Little Pony porn from /r/clopclop.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
It creates liquidity, which makes it easier to buy and sell shares when you want to buy and sell them. Unfortunately, the only time you really want liquidity is during a crisis, which is when all the HFT firms exit the market, since they'
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Blogspam. OP is http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-th...
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The first meaning: if you’ve conceived something in your mind, decide to do it, and are willing to put in the work – nothing can stop you. Pfft. What if I conceive to build a perpetual motion machine, or conceive to disprove S
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by hexagonal 14y ago
"Humans are the security hole that can never be patched." Social engineering will always work.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Blogspam. OP is http://kyrobeshay.com/post/28647196980/being-social-is-about... Of course, the original post is only one paragraph longer than the boingboing excerpt.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
I looked up "data grid": A Data Grid is an architecture or set of services that enable individuals or groups of users the ability to access, modify and transfer extremely large amounts of geographically distributed data for resear
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Bah, Mars. I'd rather live on the Moon. Less gravity, closer to Earth. Both places require pressure suits, but the Moon is a hard vacuum, which means you can do the usual vacuum industry tricks, while Mars has just enough atomosphere to rul
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The section on American internet access is pretty old. (ISDN?)
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Could be the title. Wait a week, resubmit it with a different one.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
411 days ago, "The Failure Of Second Life": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2574795
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Flagged.
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Enterprise quality arithmetics(dis.4chan.org)
1 points by hexagonal 14y ago|0 comments
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Bubble. No way are all those kids going to be real programmers.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
What's the point of a paywall if you put all the relevant information in the "teaser"?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
No. China has a defense. A last resort defense. Because they have this defense, the US will not attack China. That's just how it is. Attacking China is suicide because of China's nuclear capabilities. Technically, China's a

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