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by phon 12y ago
I believe that they could have quickly confirmed the ship's identity by measuring the chrysanthemum seal that is mounted on its prow and checking to see if it's dimensions match those of the one found on her sister ship Yamato. (M
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by phon 13y ago
A few hours before their second date, my father dropped the tray containing his final project in statistical programming down a stairwell. My mother stayed up all night helping him sort and resort all of the punch cards and get everything
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by phon 13y ago
This practice was not unique to the City of Chicago. The city of Naples was rebuilt at great expense after the a terrible cholera epidemic in 1884 carried off a large number of victims. In response the government funded major effort to rai
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by phon 14y ago
I believe Iron Dome is designed to deal with what would be traditionally termed short range weapons like mortars and light-rockets. These weapons are light weight, can be fabricated in comparatively primitive conditions and can be deployed
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by phon 14y ago
This gets even more attractive when you factor in the possibility of taking an overnight train and booking a sleeper berth. When I worked in Beijing, trips to Shanghai were greatly improved by booking sleeper berths and catching a night exp
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by phon 14y ago
If someone cites some of your programming work 50 years after you finished working on it then you must have done something right. From what I have heard from my father and others, editing punch cards was hell itself. The fact that TECO man
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by phon 14y ago
I live and work in Manhattan. The blasting on the second avenue subway project is so regular that I recently caught myself unconsciously timing my work day by the shaking of the building.
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by phon 14y ago
In running similar events in the past, I have found adding a single checkbox to the sign up form labeled 'Please include my name and contact information in the official attendee list' is both simple and effective.
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by phon 14y ago
Perhaps this feature or one like it could be incorporated in to a future colony by sealing up the hole and artificially stabilizing the interior structure? I know similar ideas have been floated in the past for the conversion of lunar lava
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by phon 14y ago
Sure thing. Frist, the NPT is part of a larger system of treaties, alliances and agreements that grew during the Cold War and its aftermath. 'Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era' (2003) by Thomas Graham and Da
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by phon 14y ago
It should be noted that nuclear weapons weapons were used twice during a war that is almost universally thought of as 'conventional'. Furthermore, they were used against a state that arguably had ceased to act as a rational entity quite so
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by phon 14y ago
wget http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt ; grep "democracy" const.txt | wc -l The United States is a Federal Republic that has become progressively more democratic over time. As originally set out in the United States Constitution (ra
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by phon 14y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with the Thorium fission cycle, the first five minutes of this Creative Commons film give a good overview with a more detailed exploration of the topic later in the film: http://thoriumremix.com/2011/
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by phon 15y ago
Although I find this development far from unexpected, one cannot feel a pang of sadness to see an institution as celebrated the Encyclopedia Britannica going ever so gently into the good night. Even today, I remember using the venerable (19