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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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> Probably, you could have just patched the address with an easily removable piece of tape and that would definitely trigger a human attention, and delivery would go where it should Fair point. And…
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Post people know how to read, but I think now most nail sorting/routing is done with computers and OCR. I sometimes get mail addressed to people who used to live at my address but have long since…
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That’s true, but not unique to sidewalks. Much of the same arguments likely apply to bike lanes.
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> Cyclists are much more likely to be hit by cars when riding on the sidewalks, Is this actually true? I haven't seen data one way or the other, so I'd be interested to know. I can see re…
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> commenting so I can find this again. If you upvote the GP's coment, you can find it that way too. If you go to your account page (by clicking your username in the upper right on the page), t…
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> What if they took the JWST design ($10 billion in development costs!) and made 10 or 100 more copies? How much would each additional copy cost to build and launch? There's presumably a way t…
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> Hubble and Kepler and James Webb are plenty fine for me. Those facilities have resulted in lots of discoveries. But Kepler wouldn't have been such a success without lots of follow-up observa…
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> Once launch costs are down to $50/kg or so, whatever loss we have in earthbound astronomy can be more than compensated by large telescopes in orbit and on the far side of the moon. I don…
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> Normally this means no copying from Google Maps or Google's satellite or street-level imagery. Just to note for general use that the standard web-editor for OSM pulls in Bing satellite image…
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The Mauna Kea site is a better one, in terms of observing conditions. It's higher, drier, has fewer cloudy nights, better atmospheric turbulence conditions, etc.
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Pleasantly surprising to see. In all the universities I've experienced recently, the trend is strongly in the opposite direction. One of the admins' bio on the MIT instance states that they&…
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> ditto for anyone else in the public sphere currently publishing status updates via walled garden platforms (elected officials, agencies, educational institutions, et cetera) I like this idea. But…
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About 2 weeks ago there was some discussion on the Nature "News and Views" piece discussing this result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909056 …
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> Either way, it wont suddenly turn "on" overnight. These things ramp up and down instantly on cosmological scales, which means many thousands/millions of years in our world. Some s…
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> Cosmology involves distances that are so great that it seems like it's pouring a whole bunch of smart people's efforts down the drain in an ultimately futile waste of brain power that w…
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2600: The Hacker Quarterly[0]. I probably end up reading only about half the article and the quality varies widely. But the magazine covers a wide range of topics and I always learn something or hear …
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Here's a link for those who are interested in reading it: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s... This was archived from http:/&…