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by hexagonal 14y ago
China hasn't agreed to any arms inspections, so the size of their nuclear arsenal is pretty vague. (Inspections are typically the result of bilateral arms reductions-- China doesn't have enough nukes to require reducing them, so there's no
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Are there any specs for these specs?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984932 Basically, he was too mean in a comment thread. The submissions on HN typically run media hot (X is doomed, Y is for idiots, Z is braindead
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Introducing jimboPad(jsomers.net)
4 points by hexagonal 14y ago|0 comments
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Flagged for being SEO horseshit.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754725
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by hexagonal 14y ago
What browser/user-agent are you using? They might be doing something wacky with non en-US traffic.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Double blogspam: three-paragraph summary of a five-paragraph summary of a six-paragraph Economist article.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Typo in title. Here -> There
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Blogspam. Rewrite of http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230382220457747...
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Like Singularityhub or phys.org or sciencedaily, TRN's SOP is to credulously repeat the claims of dubious papers, and give them massively misleading titles. Bullshit TRN articles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4057225 http://new
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by hexagonal 14y ago
TRN article, flagged.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
I downvoted some contrarian anecdotes once, and my "downvote" button was disabled.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
For example, if a close friend goes on and on about how the Ford he bought was a piece of crap, detailing how the transmission failed at 30k miles and the rear-view mirror fell off, you’ll be wary about buying a Ford in the fu
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The MQ-1 has a wingspan of two dozen feet, and a service ceiling of 26,000 feet. (ten thousand feet lower than a 747) It's also got a pretty tinny piston engine, with a fairly distinctive sound. Think more "cessna with missiles" than "RC pl
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by hexagonal 14y ago
That certainly would have been an interesting take on the material, which some believe is essentially unfilmable. Seriously? Snow Crash was supposed to be a comic book, that's why the intro is so strongly visual. The Street, the
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Rumored spec list: 24.7MP full frame sensor Weight: 760g (850g with battery and memory cards), the D800 weights 900g 3.2" LCD with 921K dot with ambient sensor control HDMI output Video compression: H264/MPEG-4 Ful
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Note the year. Apple had only recently switched to Intel.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
https://www.pcworld.com/article/182218/apple_wins_court_vict... A federal judge has dealt a crushing blow to Mac clone maker Psystar by ruling that the Florida company violated Apple's copyright as well as the Digital Millennium
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Your answer to "Apple doesn't make a decent desktop computer" is "hack OS X's DRM to install it on unlocked hardware"?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Blogspam. Article is just a summary of http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Displ...
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by hexagonal 14y ago
(Production of desalinated water costs 2.1 times more than fresh groundwater and 70 percent more than surface water, according to El Paso Water Utilities.) Copyediting fail. How about "110% and 70% more"?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Hrmf. The second half is complaining about FAA regulations of avionics, which annoys me. About a decade ago, I remember reading a fiction book about a pilot, who, among other things was unhappy that TCAS (radar system on a plane to keep it
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Glyphosate's ("Roundup") patent expired in 2000. This isn't really like the software industry, where there's lock-in effects. Unless you screw up, glyphosate still kills plants.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4078483
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by hexagonal 14y ago
NASA's paying for Falcon 9 development by proxy. And the Antares launch system, and the shuttle-derived SLS.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Well, the software. IIRC, the Armadillo flight electronics use a Crossbow IMU, (which must be very accurate, endure a whole lot of vibration, and drift very little) which is $100k.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Oh gosh, you're right.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Yeah, Carmack has a rocket company: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The term of art you're looking for is "specific heat". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat The relevant number for water at 25C is 4.184 joules per gram. But this isn't a strict apples to apples comparison: if you heat and cool ze

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