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by hexagonal 14y ago
Sodium Acetate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_acetate
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by hexagonal 14y ago
</div><div class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class=""> I like the generated HTML. There also appear to be a couple blank 300x150 PNGs encoded as data URIs in the source?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
You're already wiser than Walter Bright. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061222
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by hexagonal 14y ago
That'd work for a bare piece of wire, but a resistor is covered with enamel.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The Shuttle's return payload was 14,400kg. HST is 11,100kg.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Yeah, the Shuttle never flew a polar orbit, nor did it ever land at Vandenberg. Fun fact: the only reason the Air Force had a say in the Shuttle's design is because the Shuttle was supposed to be a fast-turnaround spaceplane with enough lau
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by hexagonal 14y ago
It's neither ISO 8601, or the Chinese standard.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The government uses Sunni law as the basis of its criminal and civil regulations. Some religious tolerance is granted. Foreign nationals are free to affiliate with their faiths other than Islam, e.g. Christianity, Hinduism, Si
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Weird timestamp on some of the pictures: DD/MM/YYYY? The image management by the molder is interesting: they're named Western Tool and Mold, and make a big deal about being run by an American; but of course they're based in Hong Kong.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Previous threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Machine time for something this big is very expensive: that's why it's used for making molds, which is a fabrication technology that scales up very easily; unlike CNC machining, which doesn't scale at all. Additionally, surface finish with
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Wow, makeleaps.jp is completely down. A bunch of traffic to a blog post managed to take down the business' entire site. Hmm.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Urlteam Defunct URL shorteners: tr.im xs.md 4url.cc litturl.com chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving gonext.org - not resolving ix.it - Not resolving jij
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by hexagonal 14y ago
1.) Screw link shorteners. When they go bankrupt, which they do frequently, they leave behind millions of completely useless URLs. 2.) Antagonizing your userbase seems like an unwise move in a market where changing providers is so trivial
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by hexagonal 14y ago
How much power do the gyros consume? And, of course, if you're using them for regenerative breaking, then they'll have less headroom to counter tilting forces. If you saturate them with regen load then they won't provide any stabilizing for
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by hexagonal 14y ago
A fully enclosed two-wheeler could be every bit as safe as a car. Sure... if it also weighed as much as a car. Crash safety is a function of frame toughness and vehicle mass-- the heavier the car, the less G's it pulls when decele
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by hexagonal 14y ago
When a mutation occurs, there are four possibilities for the mutant... I'd nitpick this slightly, since there's a slight anthropocentric bias here. You could say there's three types of mutations: genes that do not affect evolutio
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by hexagonal 14y ago
I never saw it. It must have been blocked by NoScript.
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Why are the cooling towers on nuclear power plants funny shaped?(howtospotapsychopath.com)
86 points by hexagonal 14y ago|14 comments
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Orbital solar power, since its introduction nearly 15 years ago, has grown considerably.** Various new stations are now in place, able to provide continuous power to Earth. Extremely doubtful. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-m
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by hexagonal 14y ago
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facebook-and-the-500-... The reason lies on the technical shores of the federal securities laws. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 sets forth certain requirements for companies to registe
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by hexagonal 14y ago
Not really "excess". You put 10kw of electricity in, you get 10kw of heat out.
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by hexagonal 14y ago
So he's doing an AMA every two months?
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by hexagonal 14y ago
The magnet can only make the target closer to it, and has a fairly short range. So to lift your phone into your hand, it would have to be positioned over your phone, and within six inches of it.
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My old account, with 2150 karma, is useless. So I made a new one.
2 points by hexagonal 14y ago|2 comments