spingsprong

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by spingsprong 12y ago
Have you ever had personal experience of working for some time at a commercial station?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Not specifically, but noScript + flashblock ends up blocking many adverts.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
No, it really isn't. It's about getting viewers, selling newspapers, and getting clicks. And the best way to achieve that is by using strong emotion, usually negative. Fear, hatred, disgust, anger. I'm not sure how a democrac
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by spingsprong 12y ago
It crashes my browser
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by spingsprong 12y ago
There's a lot more to an earthquake than its magnitude on the Richter scale. Their destructiveness can be increased by many factors, such as the type of ground that buildings are on and the depth of the earthquake.
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Mouse memories 'flipped' from fearful to cheerful(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 12y ago
With any new industry there's bound to be bugs in the system. Most other industries have laws regulating them going back decades or even over a century. You're not gonna get it perfect from day 1.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Politicians often don't have a clue about many subjects, but that's not necessarily too bad a thing. Politicians should be generalists not specialists. What they should do is surround themselves with experts is specific fields, an
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The Chairless Chair exoskeleton lets you sit down anywhere, anytime(extremetech.com)
2 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 12y ago
And this is why we landed on the moon. Seriously. The Manhattan project involved 130,000 people at its peak and lasted four years, and it leaked. The Apollo program involved 400,000 people at its peak and lasted eleven years.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
The Japanese by contrast never developed truly effective airborne radar during WW2, so actually did select the pilots with the best night vision to fly their night fighters.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
That percentage will probably be even worse than that, since windows aren't at the best angle or position for solar panels.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I've often wondered how fail safe these things are. If you're lifting 200kg and the system fails, is that 200kg load suddenly being put onto your body?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
What happens if somebody wants to join, but the Leads refuse? If a small minority of Leads can prevent people they don't like from joining, it seems like it risks reinforcing bigotry and intolerance.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I've been more annoyed by websites removing features than adding them.
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Third person driving with a drone(youtube.com)
2 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 12y ago
"They're claiming to see a force one thousandth as big as the Chinese - probably because they are doing the experiment one thousand times more accurately. And still, some people are excited about this. " I think he's sl
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Please be true, please be true! How big is a two megawatt nuclear power source anyway? A quick search showed nuclear power plants are in the hundreds to low thousands of megawatt range, and RTGs are in the tens to hundreds of watt range. I
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by spingsprong 12y ago
One factor that makes Methane not quite as bad as it could be, is it has an atmospheric half-life around 10% of CO2's So if a lot of Methane does get released into the atmosphere, in a couple of decades most of it will have broken down
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Rumania vs Romania http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=rumania.romania
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Out of interest, what if Ireland says they must not hand over the info, and the US says they must?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I find that downvote really funny.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I didn't make any argument
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Chinese censorship exists to protect the state. EU right to be forgotten protects the individual. That's a pretty huge difference.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Just out of interest, what would happen if US courts say they must hand over information, and European courts say they must not?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Couldn't you just as easily reverse that and say, bots have 360 degree vision, superior concentration and reaction times, I hope they're not going to waive that for the humans, even if they do have the ability to recognise potenti
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Would this produce a new volcano? Or would the magma just freeze as it travels through the relatively cool hole?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
A couple of photos of what a smokescreen covering a city looks like http://449th.org/ploesti.php It's for a German city, but it is the same idea.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Iron Dome calculates the probable impact point of rockets fired at Israel, and only intercepts rockets that are going towards inhabited areas.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Because thorium reactors don't exist?

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