werftgh

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by werftgh 16y ago
Mostly against primitive fighters particularly on the Russian front. Assuming similar exaggeration of successes by each sides publicity offices you can probably divide the figures by 2 or 4. Even if all these had been against night heavy bo
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by werftgh 16y ago
Similar to the famous Boston cemetery study. It shows the age at death of people in a cemetery drops linear as you approach the current date. whereas people 100years ago all died in their 60-80s
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by werftgh 16y ago
Places I have lived where more people cycle the drivers have a better attitude. Cambridge, Amsterdam and Vancouver are great to cycle in, London reasonable, smaller industrial cities where cycling is rare = terrible I used to commute on a m
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by werftgh 16y ago
For bombers thats the main cause of aircraft losses, fighters of WWII were pretty ineffective, especially at night. It's difficult to believe a WWII era fighter diving into a stream of bombers, at night, while the multiple gun turrets on 10
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by werftgh 16y ago
Can't remember the name but an experiment by a prof from UCL showed that cars approached him more closely when he was wearing a helmet - but they gave him more space when he was wearing a long blonde wig. So the safest solution is a transve
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by werftgh 16y ago
The astronomer Freeman Dyson was doing similar work for the RAF (I had heard this story attributed to him) Two of his calculations weren't acted on because of illogical users. Very few bombers crashed because of airframe failures as opposed
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by werftgh 16y ago
Same thing with bicycle helmets and seatbelts in cars.
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by werftgh 16y ago
Unfortunately the enemy are rarely cooperative in allowing your aircrash investigators to visit the site and examine crashed aircraft. You could examine enemy bombers that you had shot down but apart from the design and vunerabilites being
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by werftgh 16y ago
Might not be possible, it's not the format or algorithm thats patented - in many cases it's the concept. A patent on compressing an image by only storing some spatial frequencies gets you however you code the DCT.
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by werftgh 16y ago
The point of English is that when they become common enough they become correct.
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by werftgh 16y ago
I think they are now "seeing other people" after Denmark made some comment about expanding glaciers that Greenland took personally !
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by werftgh 16y ago
2:30-3:00 Return to their desks and start looking for new jobs?
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by werftgh 16y ago
Greenland's GDP is <$1Bn and Google is worth $50bn couldn't you have just bought them? You could turn the entire country into a passively cooled data center!
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by werftgh 16y ago
The country has a population of 50,000 I don't know how good their connectivity is but I'm guessing Google has quite a few more users than that. Hopefully the ISP's DNS caches goo.gl and doesn't just send it all to root .gl to handle!
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by werftgh 16y ago
It can also be used by good (or at least inquisitive) people. The back door isn't going to be built into super encrypted military stuff, but a lot of government traffic travels over commercial links, using commercial hardware and software.
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by werftgh 16y ago
" You also know that when you click a goo.gl shortened URL, you’re protected against malware, phishing and spam" So if I send you a goo.gl link to goat.cx does Google stop that? What if you wanted to see goat.cx ?
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by werftgh 16y ago
Just out of interest - do the top level DNSs look at the entire address or is Greenland's main internet supplier going to melt under the load of redirecting everything to Google?