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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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It never hurts to be careful, especially when one is dealing with weapons.
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Along those lines, I was wondering what additional countermeasures were added, to ensure the boats are not more easily captured than a manned boat. And is there a "kill switch" in the event …
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I use both github (I recently finished a PhD and so had access to the education discount) and free bitbucket (a budding collaboration hosts their private code there). I am the sole user for most of my…
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I guess that is a case of the 80 character HN limit making it a little difficult to write a useful but accurate title.
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> The question is whether people think that there is a better experience out there. You might consider rewording your poll. As it reads, it more seems as though you're asking if people would r…
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Mars could be a laboratory for learning to do these things. As a species, we might feel more comfortable trying exotic methods of controlling the climate on Mars than we might here on Earth. Though I …
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In case anyone else is curious, the "elephant cage" mentioned is a Wullenweber antenna[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber …
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The title (currently "The Quiet Zone: No wifi or cell phone service for 13,000 sq. miles") is inaccurate. There is cell phone service in a large part of that area. The radio quiet zone means…
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Why do you say that? The techincal goals of this mission are fairly modest, and do not seem to bush the boundaries of launch technologry or involve technology that would be useful for human survival i…
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> Einstien won his Nobel for work on the photoelectric effect, not relativity, though obviously the latter mattered more. The photoelectric effect led to quantum mechanics and the associated scienc…
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The browser add-on is nice – it adds an icon to the location bar with the overall site rating and makes the info readily accessible by clicking on that icon. It is nice to have a quick assessment of t…
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Here's a review of sorts: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/6/531.full And one study: http://www.ias.sdsmt.edu/staff/sundareshwa…
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You are taking "dangerous" to mean "total number of people killed", while an equally reasonable definition is "likelikhood of dying if you contract it". It all depends on…
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> Flu has long been thought to be mainly transmitted through droplets, which fall to the ground quickly, rather than being dispensed in the air, being able to travel large distances (which would be…
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Is it true? I have been told (by an ecologist) that it can use up nutrients and overwhelm a stream, killing a lot of the original inhabitants. Apparently its "invasive behavior" is an intere…
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Most of the radioactivity danger from nuclear weapons and reactors relates to the byproducts of the fission process, rather than to the original fissile material.
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I really liked ttytter. I got to where I preferred it over any graphical clients – the information density was so much higher in the console. Sadly it has not been updated in a while (and I have since…
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If you include "look", you can gamma ray bursts[0] to the list. As summarized in the wikipedia article, gamma ray bursts were originally discovered by the Vela satellites, which were looking…
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> Different currencies. The owners of Quora are being paid in US dollars, the content creators in both attention and reputation. I think this is spot-on. I answered questions on quora for a while, …
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The original was on HN a few weeks ago too, but apparently did not get much traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297995 …
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Good point, thank you. Going back to @theGimp's comment, it is probably safe to assume that nation-states that might want to decrypt this would have some form of access to that circuitry (either …
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> There could be truth in that number depending on what encryption algorithms are used. Some take significantly longer than others to apply. The computational burden likely cannot be too high, as …
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> Locking out intrusion is a huge value proposal for cellular manufacturers. Is it though? The implementation can be tricky to get right, building it in takes resources, and (perhaps until recently…
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> I've never really understood the whole "alcoholic vs. sobriety" thing. Is it not possible to "learn" to drink less? I believe that it is both addictive and alters one…